Flipping through The Manual: Classy kicks for summer, dry bags, BBQ accessories

By Digital Trends Staff June 20, 2015

Burned out on apps, keys and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know, to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming and culture. Here are a few of our favorite stories to appear on The Manual lately.

Grainwell makes customized woodworking a breeze

Grainwell makes customized woodworking a breeze — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Started by three sisters from Kentucky, Grainwell specializes in customized woodworking which is perfect as a unique gift or beautiful piece of home decor.

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Micro Guide: Provincetown

Micro Guide: Provincetown — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Here are just a handful of ways to spend the weekend in Massachusetts’ most iconic seaside getaway: Provincetown.

Filson’s Dry Bags: Stylish, rugged, and ready

Filson's Dry Bags: Stylish, rugged, and ready — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Outdoor adventures just got easier with Filson’s Dry Bags. No need to worry about water or sand.

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The Manual Wind: Bell & Ross BR 03-96 Grande Date

The Manual Wind: Bell & Ross BR 03-96 Grande Date — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Forget about elaborate limited editions. Bell & Ross has finally come out with a new true classic in both size and design in its latest piece; The Bell & Ross BR 03-96 Grande Date and BR 03-96 Golden Heritage.

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5 useful BBQ accessories to help you prepare for July 4th

5 useful BBQ accessories to help you prepare for July 4th — Image used with permission by copyright holder

For your reading (and grilling) pleasure, we would like to present a few of our favorite BBQ accessories for this July 4th and beyond.

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On Your Feet: J. Crew and New Balance celebrate the dog days of summer

On Your Feet: J. Crew and New Balance celebrate the dog days of summer — Image used with permission by copyright holder

With dark brown and blue suede over off-white nylon, the New Balance Hilltop Blues 998s from J. Crew are the perfect summer sneaker with a touch of class.

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How Intel and Microsoft are teaming up to take on Apple

An Intel Meteor Lake system-on-a-chip.

It seems like Apple might need to watch out, because Intel and Microsoft are coming for it after the latter two companies reportedly forged a close partnership during the development of Intel Lunar Lake chips. Lunar Lake refers to Intel's upcoming generation of mobile processors that are aimed specifically at the thin and light segment. While the specs are said to be fairly modest, some signs hint that Lunar Lake may have enough of an advantage to pose a threat to some of the best processors.

Today's round of Intel Lunar Lake leaks comes from Igor's Lab. The system-on-a-chip (SoC), pictured above, is Intel's low-power solution made for thin laptops that's said to be coming out later this year. Curiously, the chips weren't manufactured on Intel's own process, but on TSMC's N3B node. This is an interesting development because Intel typically sticks to its own fabs, and it even plans to sell its manufacturing services to rivals like AMD. This time, however, Intel opted for the N3B node for its compute tile.

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How much does an AI supercomputer cost? Try $100 billion

A Microsoft datacenter.

It looks like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Sora, among other projects, are about to get a lot more juice. According to a new report shared by The Information, Microsoft and OpenAI are working on a new data center project, one part of which will be a massive AI supercomputer dubbed "Stargate." Microsoft is said to be footing the bill, and the cost is astronomical as the name of the supercomputer suggests -- the whole project might cost over $100 billion.

Spending over $100 billion on anything is mind-blowing, but when put into perspective, the price truly shows just how big a venture this might be: The Information claims that the new Microsoft and OpenAI joint project might cost a whopping 100 times more than some of the largest data centers currently in operation.

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There’s an unexpected, new competitor in PC gaming

Snapdragon's X Elite PC SoC.

Windows gaming on ARM is becoming a legitimate possibility, and it's not just thanks to the recently unveiled emulation options, but it's chiefly due to the fact that Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite is shaping up to be pretty excellent. Spotted in a recent benchmark, the CPU was seen beating some of the best processors on the current market. Are we finally at a point where it's not always going to be a choice between just Intel and AMD?

The benchmarks were posted by user @techinmul on Twitter, and the results couldn't be more promising for the upcoming Qualcomm processor. The chip was tested in Geekbench 6, and although it's important not to take these results entirely at face value, it's an impressive show of performance that bodes well for upcoming thin and light laptops.