Flipping through The Manual: A packable whitewater raft, suit buying made simple

By Digital Trends Staff May 9, 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.

Trekking: The Alpackalypse is a raft you can carry to whitewater

Trekking: The Alpackalypse is a raft you can carry to whitewater — Image used with permission by copyright holder

It’s not everyday you come across an inflatable raft capable that can tackle Class V rapids and pack down into a 17 x 11-inch cylinder. Thankfully, the Alpackalypse can, while providing the welcome spaciousness and maneuverability of a hard-shell kayak.

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6 tips to simplify the suit-buying process

6 tips to simplify the suit-buying process — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Owning a nice suit is a must for any man. Tony Spear of Este’s Men’s Clothing has a few simple tips on how to buy a suit without feeling taken advantage of.

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How to make the perfect Manhattan

How to make the perfect Manhattan — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Mr. Tim Cooper, one of the partners and Beverage Director at New York’s Sweetwater Social, has put together a step-by-step process that goes into making a classic Manhattan.

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The Manual’s top ten best shaving creams

The Manual’s top ten best shaving creams — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Are you tired of using the same ol’ shaving cream? We suggest you take a look at this list of the best shaving creams out there.

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Solving the Triple F Dilemma with Trim menswear

Solving the Triple F Dilemma with Trim menswear — Image used with permission by copyright holder

The Kickstarter success Trim menswear not only makes a functional line of dress shirts, but ones which tout an incredible fit and are extremely fashionable.

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Pro tips on how to serve & enjoy Champagne

Pro tips on how to serve & enjoy Champagne — Image used with permission by copyright holder

We had dinner with Moët & Chandon winemaker Elise Losfelt where she shared her pro tips on how to serve and enjoy champagne.

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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.