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Flipping through The Manual: Layover brews, cowboy cauldrons, denim bike saddles

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.

The Best U.S. airports for craft beer snobs

The Best U.S. airports for craft beer snobs
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Two decades after the stateside microbrew explosion, U.S. airports are finally opening their terminals to legitimate craft beer bars.

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Mother’s Day gift guide: Outdoor moms

Mother's Day gift guide: Outdoor moms
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Whether you’re looking for a gift for the mom who is still knocking out fifty days on skis in her retirement or crushing miles trail running while the kids are at school, we’ve got the perfect set of gifts for every outdoor mom. Now your only problem will be to keep up.

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Trekking: The Cambium C17 Saddle is denim for your bike

Trekking: The Cambium C17 Saddle is denim for your bike
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Levi’s and Brooks England have been around for longer than you’ve been alive. Their most recent collaboration, the limited edition Cambium C17 denim saddle, uses recycled jeans and jackets to retrofit your bicycle with a seat straight out of the ’70s.

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Bruichladdich and Helen Levi present ceramic whisky vessels

Bruichladdich and Helen Levi present ceramic whisky vessels
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If you’d like to experiment with a new way to enjoy scotch, you might try a handmade ceramic vessel. Ceramicist Helen Levi and Hebridean distiller Bruichladdich have collaborated on these vessels to help enhance your scotch-tasting experience.

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Adidas Stan Smiths – in style since ’73

Adidas Stan Smiths - in style since '73
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In the last few years, the Stan Smith has become a staple of sneakerheads and classic casual wear enthusiasts alike.

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Cowboy Cauldron Co: Fire it up like a rancher

Cowboy Cauldron Co: Fire it up like a rancher
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If it’s time to up your backyard barbecue game, you’ll definitely want one of these cauldrons.

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We finally know the price of Asus’ most powerful gaming NUC
The Asus ROG NUC on a desk surrounded by three monitors.

The first Asus ROG NUC (Next Unit of Computing) model is just around the corner. The small form factor PC is now up for pre-order at a German retailer, and although it's powerful enough to rival some of the best laptops, it costs more than many comparable models -- and you'll still have to pay extra for a monitor.

Asus' first take on Intel's portable PC contains a lot of compute power in a small chassis. Although there are a few configurations of the PC, the one that was spotted up for sale ahead of time comes with Intel's latest Meteor Lake-H CPU, the Core Ultra 9 185H, which sports 16 cores and 22 threads and can be boosted to run at up to 5.1GHz, all with a thermal design power (TDP) of 45 watts. However, Asus allows overclocking, meaning that the CPU can run at up to 65 watts instead.

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YouTube tells creators to start labeling ‘realistic’ AI content
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YouTube is taking steps to try to help viewers better understand if what they’re watching has been created, whether completely or in part, by generative AI.

“Generative AI is transforming the ways creators express themselves -- from storyboarding ideas to experimenting with tools that enhance the creative process,” YouTube said in a message shared on Monday. “But viewers increasingly want more transparency about whether the content they’re seeing is altered or synthetic.”

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AMD is making the CPU more and more obsolete in gaming
A demo of AMD GPU work graphs featuring in-game scenery including a castle and a town.

At GDC 2024, AMD just expanded on Microsoft's recently announced Work Graphs API, and a quick demo shows just how powerful the new tech can be for gaming performance. AMD's iteration moves draw calls and mesh nodes from the CPU to the GPU, cutting back on the time it takes to execute these tasks. As a result, AMD found that there was a massive performance improvement -- rendering time saw a 64% boost -- when using Work Graphs with mesh shaders.

Microsoft introduced Work Graphs as a way to streamline processes both in gaming and in productivity, all by giving the GPU the power to schedule and execute tasks without first communicating with the CPU. It's built into the Direct3D 12 API and it can reduce bottlenecks and improve gaming performance in 3D games.

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