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Save $160 when you purchase two WD Red Pro 20TB HDDs for $599 — that's just $15 per TB
Update your NAS storage with 40TB of WD Red Pro HDDs for just $599.
Palworld got a working Pokemon conversion mod, and Nintendo's lawyers struck immediately
A Pokemon conversion mod announcement video for Palworld replacing the playable character and capturable Pals with Pokemon characters received Nintendo takedown in under a day.
Nvidia adds AI-powered SDR to HDR video enhancement to its latest drivers — RTX Video HDR now available for all RTX owners
Nvidia's latest driver update adds RTX Video HDR, which takes SDR videos and makes them look like they were made with HDR colors.
ASML triples order bookings in Q4 2023 thanks to demand for EUV tools
Driven by pre-orders for advanced wafer fab equipment, ASML's orders bookings increased to $10 billion in Q4 2023.
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB graphics card round-up — all AIB partner versions of the new GPU
AMD's add-in board partners have begun to unveil their own RX 7600 XT designs, and we've put together a list of all these new cards for you to see.
Sam Altman is talking to TSMC about AI chip venture
OpenAI's Sam Altman is in talks with Middle Eastern investors and TSMC over AI chip venture.
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT review: double the memory and higher clocks, still Navi 33
We tested Sapphire's AMD RX 7600 XT Pulse graphics card, which doubles the memory and boosts the clocks and power limits compared to the vanilla 7600, but still utilizes the same Navi 33 GPU. Performance has improved, but there are better alternatives at this price.
Gradiant tapped to build water treatment plant for mystery fab in Germany
Gradiant is building a water treatment facility for an undisclosed fab in Germany - likely made by either TSMC or Intel.
How to emulate an original Apple Macintosh in your browser
As the Apple Macintosh celebrates its 40th birthday we show you how to emulate the classic machine via your browser. For good measure we also emulate the last of the PowerPC era Macs.
Logitech warns profits will be hit by Red Sea crisis – it is among the first tech firms to confirm impacts
Peripherals giant Logitech has confirmed that the Red Sea crisis is having a significant impact on its business activities. Attacks on Red Sea shipping have spurred Logitech to decide on a longer, safer, slower, shipping route for products destined for the European market - but it will affect profits.
Adafruit designs Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 floppy drive emulator
Adafruit has designed a floppy drive PCB that uses an RP2040 with the ability to emulate a real floppy drive.
OpenWRT aims to finalize its $100 OpenWRT One open source router design and specification.
Twenty years after releasing its first open-source router firmware, OpenWrt is drafting plans for its first open-source router based on Banana Pi.
MSI apologizes for slower RTX 4070 Ti Supers and delivers BIOS fixes
MSI has been quick to release an updated BIOS for its new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16G Ventus 3X graphics card, and the rest of the new family. An issue with the new Ventus 3X meant that it might fall up to 5% behind the pack of reference spec RTX 4070 Ti Super cards in gaming tests.
40 years in, the Mac is part of a vibrant PC ecosystem
The Mac is 40 years old, and Apple's computer has continued to prove itself to be an important part of a vibrant PC ecosystem, maintaining key differences from other Apple products to do so.
AMD's next-gen Zen 5 APUs appear — Strix Point and Strix Halo listed in ROCm Code with RDNA 3.5 GPU
AMD's Strix Point and Strix Point Halo APUs with RDNA 3.5 GPU listed in ROCm code.
Retro laptop powered by the Intel 8088 processor updated to v2.0 with Cirrus Logic VGA graphics — Book 8088 adds COM and LTP ports, too
The Book 8088 retro laptop has received a significant update in the graphics department, with Cirrus Logic VGA graphics on board. The makers added COM and LPT ports too.
AMD Fluid Motion Frames comes out of preview, claims up to 97% more FPS at 1080p in first full Radeon driver release
AMD Fluid Motion Frames is out of beta and is now a fully fledged feature for RDNA 2 and 3 graphics.
China warns that it may "react" to "hegemonic" treatment by the U.S. in 'Chip War'
China's ambassador in the Netherlands calls for enhanced dialogue between China and the European Union.
Game Boy Advance games can be recreated from the sound they make when they die, modder demonstrates
YouTuber TheZZAZZGlitch has proven that unique per-game GBA crash sounds contain all the data needed to create a bootable copy of the crashing game.
Get this RTX 4060 laptop gaming from Lenovo for under $1000
Back on sale, Best Buy has one of Lenovo's gaming laptop SKUs reduced in price to under $1000.
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU roundup: several white models and a few sub-10-inch cards for compact PCs
We've put together a roundup of all RTX 4070 Ti Super models that we've seen so far from Nvidia's various AIB partners.
HP CEO justifies blocking third-party ink cartridges by claiming they can inject malware
HP CEO Enrique Lores gave an interview to CNBC where he was asked about the firmware bricking printers with third-party inks. The CEO said they're protecting their IP, but continued saying that third-party cartridges can inject viruses.
Samsung’s Hybrid 990 EVO SSD announced — world's first hybrid PCIe 4.0 x4 and 5.0 x2 SSD
Samsung announced the EVO, the world's first hybrid PCIe SSD with a PCIe 4.0 x4 and x2 PCIe 5.0 interface.
Creality Announces K1C 3D Printer's Launch Date, Pricing and Full Specs: New Flagship is a Beast
Creality spiffs up the K1 with cameras, air filter and more.
Framework Laptop 16 review: the Franken-notebook
The Framework Laptop 16 is the most customizable laptop we've ever seen with upgradeable graphics and a variety of input modules, but you could get more performance for the price in most gaming laptops.
120 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and more PCIe 5.0 lanes coming to Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, Barlow Ridge controller debuts
A leak of internal Intel documents details that Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs will support Thunderbolt 5.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: More VRAM and bandwidth, slightly higher performance
We've tested the Asus RTX 4070 Ti Super TUF Gaming, a 'reference' model card with stock clocks, to see how the new Nvidia GPU with 33% more memory and bandwidth fares. The change to the AD103 GPU with additional shader cores results in the expected uplift, but the memory upgrades don't seem to matter as much in most games.
Intel Clearwater Forest Xeon chips appear in Linux patch - reveals CPU uses Atom Darkmont cores but no word on core count
Intel Clearwater Forest processors have made their first appearance in a Linux kernel patch and we see that they are set to make use of Atom Darkmont cores.
Leaked Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks are impressive — CPU performance slightly behind Ryzen 7000 non-X SKUs
Leaked Geekbench 6 benchmark results indicate that Ryzen 8000G APUs will be a touch slower than their non-X counterparts.
TSMC's average wafer price jumped 22% in one year — nearly all semiconductor industry growth now comes from more expensive products, not higher production volumes
The average selling price of TSMC's 300-mm wafers increased in Q3 due to rising shipments of 3nm chips to alpha customers, such as Apple.
Heads roll at MSI China after games deletion joke backlash – Asus enjoys trolling opportunity
MSI Gaming's social media team in China recently posted a joke about a neglected girl deleting her boyfriend's games, but the backlash was so strong that it replaced the team and had to make multiple apologies.
Chinese company develops transmission electron microscope for chipmaking industry
China's Bioland Laboratory develops transmission electron microscope.
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RTX Remix, the tool being used to create Half-Life 2 RTX, enters open beta today — now anyone can remaster old DirectX 8 or 9 games
Nvidia's RTX Remix application is now available for everyone to use as the tool goes into its open beta phase. Everyone will now have a chance to create their own remasters of classic games full of new textures/assets and ray traced lighting.
Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers
Capcom has recently started patching certain titles in its catalog with "Enigma" DRM. Unfortunately, this is also rendering certain Steam Deck Verified Games unplayable, and sabotages the vibrant Capcom games modding scene.
Compact and powerful Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with RTX 4060 graphics gets a $550 price drop
Dropping a whopping $550 at Best Buy, the 2023 version of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is on sale for $1,049.
This may be the only RTX 4070 Super GPU without a 16-pin connector, but it won't come cheap — Maxsun's RTX 4070 Super iCraft uses two regular 8-pin PCIe power connectors
Maxsun's GeForce RTX 4070 Super iCraft graphics card features two 8-pin PCIe power connectors instead of the 16-pin power connector.
Researchers demonstrate liquid metal RAM, bringing us closer to flexible, implantable hardware – and to our Terminator 2 nightmares
Researchers from Tsinghua University in China have successfully introduced a fully-flexible liquid RAM, dubbed "FlexRAM". The future possibilities this raises include massive improvements in wearables, implants, and robotics.
China's chipmaking tool imports climb to $40 billion as the country chases semiconductor manufacturing self-sufficiency
China's semiconductor tool imports increased by 14% to $40 billion as the country tries to become its own chipmaker.
Raspberry Pi Powers ReBoi Game Boy Color Drop-in Kit
James Sargent has created a Raspberry Pi-powered drop-in kit for the Game Boy Color that uses two Pis and a custom PCB.
New Oklahoma data center can withstand 310 MPH winds and tornadoes — facility spans 65,000 square feet, promises 100% uptime
Tonaquint has begun redesigning a recently acquired EdgeX facility at Oklahoma City to withstand tornados while maintaining 100% uptime, serving several important workloads for multiple clients in the region.
The era of Nintendo Switch Flash Carts has arrived, potentially opening a new door for piracy
The first Nintendo Switch flash cart from MIG-Switch has arrived, but brings with it concerns for legitimate gamers buying used Switch titles in the future.
"Pokemon with guns" game Palworld sells 5 million copies, tops Steam most played in a single weekend
Palworld launched on January 19th, and became Steam's Most Played Game within the span of three days despite (or perhaps encouraged by) a simultaneous launch on Xbox and PC Game Pass. The game's rise hasn't come without controversy, though, for very Nintendo-shaped reasons.
Nvidia's laptop GPUs appear in desktop PC graphics cards in China — upping the power limits unleashes more gaming performance, but these cards come with risks
Mobile GPUs show up on desktop graphics cards once again in China, but these cards come with plenty of risks.
AMD's customers begin receiving the first Instinct MI300X AI GPUs — the company's toughest competitor to Nvidia's AI dominance is now shipping
LaminiAI receives AMD's first eight-way AMD Instinct MI300X systems and puts them to the test.
Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal
An RTX 4090 was sent to a repairer, but it turned out that beneath the exterior this was a 'fried' RTX 4080 PCB.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs might come without hyperthreaded cores — leak points to 24 CPU cores, DDR5-6400 support, and a new 800-series chipset
An alleged Intel document points to the core count of socketed Arrow Lake-S processors.
Nvidia's fabled Nintendo 3DS prototype has been leaked — Rare Gaming Dump reveals the MG20
Nvidia's MG20 Nintendo 3DS prototype was revealed in the Nintendo "Gigaleak". While Nintendo wouldn't officially opt for Nvidia hardware until the Switch, RGD's investigation points toward Nvidia's MG20 planting the seeds for Tegra.
Score a 4TB SSD for only five cents per GB — KingSpec 4TB PCIe 4.0 SSD now $181
The KingSpec XG7000 4TB SSD is available at Newegg for one of its lowest prices to date, just $181 instead of the usual $299.
Windows 11 squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick — Tiny11 maker NTDEV takes Windows install image challenge to the extreme
Tiny11 maker NTDEV demos his skills by making the smallest Windows 11 image ever, distilling it to below 100MB. Since this offers just text-only mode, many of its GUI functions have been stripped. It is the bare minimum install to have a functional operating system.
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