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Updated 2025-04-22 17:30
Get $50 off Alienware's high-end Pro wireless gaming keyboard
Save $50 off of Alienware's Pro wireless esports-inspired gaming keyboard.
HighPoint's new SSD adaptor hits 56 GB/s, stores 2 petabytes of data — the world's first PCIe Gen 5 x16 add-in card debuts at $1,999
HighPoint announces the world's first PCIe Gen 5 NVMe add-in card, supporting up to eight PCIe Gen 5 x 4 M.2 drives with RAID support.
Ultra-rare NES Gold Nintendo World Championships cartridge auction sits at $77,000 — one of only 26 ever made
A mega-rare gaming cartridge that was never sold but was instead given away to the winners of a sweepstakes in Nintendo Power Magazine is up for auction.
Lenovo to launch Yoga Portal AI 3.7-liter mini PC overseas — powered by 14th Gen Intel desktop CPUs, it looks just like the ThinkCentre Neo Ultra
Lenovo plans to launch a familiar-looking Intel 14th Gen mini PC overseas as the Yoga Portal AI, with an AI-powered 8MP camera to help with content creation. It looks very similar to the existing ThinkCentre Neo Ultra, though exact specifications aren't known just yet.
AMD's older Zen 4 gaming flagship pounds Zen 5 in new gaming benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7800X3D was up to 23% faster than Ryzen 9 9900X
One of the first 3rd party reviews of the Ryzen 9 9900X has revealed that AMD's previous generation, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, is still the best CPU for gaming, beating the 9900X by up to 23%.
Chinese cloud giant releases homegrown operating system for Chinese server CPUs — TencentOS Server V3 supports Huawei Kunpeng, Sugon Hygon, and Phytium FeiTeng chips
Tencent Cloud introduces an operating system that supports CPUs from Huawei, Phytium, and Sugon.
JEDEC's new standards will double DDR5 bandwidth, enable faster memory for laptops — DDR5 MRDIMM and LPDDR6 standards for next-generation servers and laptops being ratified
JEDEC plans to introduce multiplexed memory to double the bandwidth of current DDR5 RDIMMs on servers and data centers. It's also working on adding LPDDR6 to CAMM2 for laptops.
AMD President Victor Peng retires — SVP of AI group Vamsi Boppana will lead AMD's AI business
Executive responsible for AMD's FPGA, embedded, and compute GPUs retires from AMD.
Thunderbolt 4 dock fused into a $350 display mount — Sabrent's port-rich hybrid flaunts 65W USB power delivery, Ethernet, and more
Sabrent has launched the DS-T4WA Thunderbolt 4 docking station with monitor desk mount functionality. The storage-related accessories specialist must see some mileage in this particular niche, and the DS-T4WA combines a feature-packed hub at the base with a gas-lift mount supporting monitors up to 32 inches and 10kg.
AMD says its EPYC processors are up to twice as fast as Nvidia's Arm-powered Grace CPU Superchip across multiple benchmarks
AMD's EPYC outperforms Nvidia's Grace CPU in all major server benchmarks, according to tests conducted by AMD.
Adata Legend 970 Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD doubles capacity and removes SATA power cable cooler requirement
The Legend 970 Pro offers double the maximum capacity of the vanilla 970 SSD, while giving a small bump in sequential read and write speeds.
Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks
The DHS built NEO after two FBI agents were killed and three more hurt by a gunman who monitored them using his wireless doorbell camera.
Shipments of advanced processors to Russia reportedly drop 20% — Hong Kong remains a key hub for smuggling
Despite massive efforts, Russia can still access advanced chips from American companies.
How to run x86 Windows games on your Mac
Using emulation tools or Apple's Game Porting Toolkit, you can use your Mac to play Windows games designed for AMD or Intel processors, though they may be buggy.
Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August [Updated]
Intel announced that elevated voltages are the culprit behind the crashing errors with its overclockable processors.
CrowdStrike issues go beyond Windows: company's security software has reportedly been causing Linux kernel panics since at least April
CrowdStrike's issues are not limited to Windows machines, it turns out.
Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate
A retro gaming enthusiast YouTube channel has overclocked an ancient CRT monitor to a whopping 700Hz using nothing more than the Nvidia Control Panel.
Nvidia preparing a China-focused variant of its B200 Blackwell AI GPU to comply with US export regulations
Nvidia is reportedly preparing a China-focused variant of its Blackwell B200 AI GPU, dubbed the B20. This will inevitably require some serious alterations and modifications to comply with U.S. export restrictions, which effectively cap performance at around 600 TFLOPS FP8 - the standard B200 is about 7.5 times that fast.
Logitech's excellent G502 Hero gaming mouse now only $35 — 25K DPI on a budget
Accurate and affordable, Logitech's G502 Hero gaming mouse is a steal at only $35.
Elon Musk fires up ‘the most powerful AI cluster in the world’ to create the 'world's most powerful AI' by December — system uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric
Tech baron Elon Musk has taken to Twitter/X to boast of starting up the most powerful AI training cluster in the world." Today, xAI's Memphis Supercluster began AI training using 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected with a single RDMA fabric.
Asus ROG Ally X available for $799 — Best Buy ships Asus' new handheld gaming device by July 26
Best Buy has started selling the ROG Ally X despite the device not being available yet in Asus' in-house online retail store.
Intel's new desktop CPU and chipset names spotted in leaked photo — Core Ultra Arrow Lake chips will land on Z890 chipset
A leak has confirmed that Intel will utilize the Core Ultra moniker for its next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs and that Z890 will be the name of Intel's next-gen flagship chipset.
Indie dev reverse-engineers Asus proprietary XG eGPU connector to work with unsupported devices — open-source GPU docking station embraces ROG Ally and ROG Flow
Asus' XG eGPU interface gets reverse-engineered, open-sourced, and applied to an older eGPU dock as a proof of concept.
Filament Welding: How to join pieces of filaments into a single roll easily
Join pieces of filaments together and create a continuous strand to use for 3D printing.
An interview with AMD's Mike Clark, the Father of Zen — 'Zen Daddy' says 3nm Zen 5 is coming fast; also talks compact cores for desktop chips
We interviewed Mike Clark, AMD's Corporate Fellow Silicon Design Engineer, during the company's recent Tech Day, where it unveiled the Zen 5 microarchitecture that powers the company's Ryzen 9000 and Ryzen AI 300 processors.
Beefy Meteor Lake CPU powers new mini-PC — OneXPlayer M1 features Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, up to 32GB RAM, and OCuLink
Handheld console, eGPU, and laptop maker One-Netbook is venturing into the mini-PC space with the OneXPlayer M1.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series launch pushed back to early 2025 according to prominent leaker
A prominent hardware leaker has some bad news for enthusiasts impatiently waiting for Nvidia's next generation of consumer graphics cards. 'I think we won't see RTX 50 until CES,' wrote Kopite7kimi earlier today. Sprinkle liberally with the usual skepticism, naturally.
Microsoft's EU agreement means it will be hard to avoid CrowdStrike-like calamities in the future
Last week's CrowdStrike crash was caused by the app's kernel level access to Windows. However, Microsoft cannot legally stop companies from that level of access because of an agreement it made with the European Commission in 2009.
RTX 3050 vs Arc A750 GPU faceoff — Intel Alchemist goes head to head with Nvidia's budget Ampere
The Nvidia RTX 3050 takes on the Intel Arc A750 in another budget GPU matchup, with both cards offering 8GB of VRAM. However, the two cards have very different ways of putting power to the pavement. We compare the GPUs on performance, price, features, power consumption, and more in this budget faceoff before declaring the overall winner.
AMD Ryzen 9000 processors prices listed by French retailer — European Ryzen 9 9900X price at nearly $750
PC21.fr lists the retail prices for the Ryzen 5 9600X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and the Ryzen 9 9900X.
Intel cancels fab investment in Italy and R&D facility in France — chipmaker remains committed to other European expansions
Intel refocuses its European efforts to Ireland, Germany, and Poland.
Microsoft defends Game Pass price changes, tells FTC that adjustment offers multiplayer for less
Microsoft has responded to FTC criticism of its planned price increases and changes to the Game Pass subscription service, saying its new entry-level product offers more value, not less.
Leaked RDNA 4 features suggest AMD drive to catch up in Ray Tracing — doubled RT intersect engine could come to PS5 Pro
Leaked features document points toward boosted RT performance on RDNA 4 and likely PS5 Pro as well.
First surgery scheduled for graphene chip designed for next-gen brain implants — non-metallic chip could used for brain stimulation in the future
Inbrain Neuroelectronics is testing a graphene chip to use as a brain-computer interface to replace metallic electrodes.
New Chinese drone can fly as long as the sun shines — solar-powered device with 200mm wingspan weighs record-breaking 4.21g
Beijing scientists have developed what they claim is the world's smallest and lightest solar-powered drone. One of the key milestones this 4.21g device with its 200mm wingspan has achieved is being able to fly non-stop during daylight.
Nvidia's business model 'may fall apart' if corporations can't make AI pay, says SK Group boss
SK Group Chairperson Chey Tae-won says that Nvidia may lose its place among the top corporations globally if AI technologies fail to guarantee profits in a couple of years. However, Nvidia's competitors pose a bigger threat if they develop chips that could perform just as well but at a lesser cost.
Microsoft releases CrowdStrike Recovery Tool — admits 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by the BSOD issue
Microsoft released an official recovery tool that will help developers and system administrators roll out the fix for CrowdStrike affected computers much faster.
Asus ProArt FF04 chassis from Xikii accommodates an enthusiast CPU and GPU in under 10 liters
Xikii Industries ProArt FF04 custom 9.8 liter PC chassis made solely for Asus graphics card users has gone up for pre-order at jd.com for an astounding 3,799 Chinese yuan, or roughly US$522.
Nvidia could lose up to $12 billion in revenue if US bans new China-oriented GPU — analysts believe the H20 will get the banhammer soon
Rumored U.S. govt's plan, if implemented, will cost Nvidia some $12 billion.
Intel sneaks out nine 14th-Gen CPUs without E-cores — odd flagship Core i9-14901KE is the first overclockable chip for the embedded market
Intel has released a new lineup of 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh processors featuring P-cores and no E-cores. Unfortunately, the lineup is inaccessible to mainstream customers and is being made exclusive to OEM customers for embedded solutions.
'Russia’s Google’ exits the country — Yandex plans to rebuild with Nvidia GPUs now that it's free from sanctions
After nearly two years of negotiations, the Russian-founded tech and search giant Yandex is rebranding in the EU under a new name.
Windows 11 runs on the iPhone 15 Pro — Tiny11 and UTM SE used to create a 'terribly slow' pocket PC
A Twitter user has shown a slim Windows 11 build, Tiny11 Core, emulated on an iPhone.
Netgear Orbi 770 mesh router review: Cheaper Wi-Fi 7 mesh, but still not affordable
Netgear heard your cries over the ultra-high cost of the Orbi 970, but the new Orbi 770 isn't exactly affordable either.
The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU is now only $174 at Newegg
Right now at Newegg, you can purchase the AMD Ryzen 5 7600x processor for one of its lowest prices-$174 instead of its listed price of $205.
Intel XeSS receives some minor improvements — tech still lacks a native Frame Generation feature
Intel XeSS SDK gets updated to version 1.3.1.
Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips — chipmaker blames common software and hardware issues
Intel's official statement highlights the reported instability issues on mobile 13th and 14th Generation processors.
Benchmark dev says Snapdragon X CPU is off to a good start — 6.5% of Geekbench 6 benchmarks in the past month run on Snapdragon X devices
Geekbench reports that out of the over 80,000 tests performed by Geekbench 6 on Windows devices, over 5,300 were on a Snapdragon X-powered device.
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS
Southwest Airlines was able to keep operating even when all other airlines were crippled by the CrowdStrike update because their systems use Windows 3.1, a 32-year-old operating system that no longer receives updates.
12-core Zen 5 CPU beat Intel's 20-core chip and Apple's M3 Max in PassMark — Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 glides past the Core i7-14700HX and M3 Max
AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has debuted in PassMark. It features the same performance as Apple's M3 Max processors and outperforms some of Intel's Core i7 Raptor Lake Refresh HX-series CPUs.
How to 3D Print QR Codes
Creating and 3D printing QR codes is a satisfying experience. Learn how you can generate and prepare it for 3D printing in this guide.
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