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Updated 2025-06-27 12:45
AI makes Doom in its own game engine — Google's GameNGen project uses Stable Diffusion to simulate gameplay
A team at Google Research has assembled GameNGen, which they call "the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model." The system generates Doom levels in real-time based on extensive training data and player interaction.
Best Flash Drives 2024: Fast, Roomy, Pocketable USB Storage
Today's best flash drives are faster and speedier than ever. We've tested dozens to find the best.
Intel launches Xeon W-2500 and W-2600 processors for workstations: Up to 60 cores
Intel's Xeon W 'Sapphire Rapids Refresh' CPUs for workstations are here with up to 60 cores, but at up to 385W.
Cooler Master's TIM application is a work of art — firm paints CPU's IHS with a gamut of six CryoFuze 5 thermal paste colors
Cooler Master shows off its gamut of CryoFuze 5 thermal paste colors with a silly painting project.
MSI BIOS comes with a new 105W TDP option for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — user results show 13% multi-core performance improvement
MSI's latest firmware has a new 105W TDP option that boosts the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X TDP from 65W to 105W with a simple toggle.
MSI over-the-top X870E Godlike motherboard for Ryzen 9000 supports 256GB DDR5 RAM, five M.2 SSDs, and two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots
MSI released the blueprint and some specs for its next-gen 800-series AMD motherboard.
This Raspberry Pi keyholder will backup your flash drive data
Thinklearndo has created a Raspberry Pi-powered keychain holder that automatically backs up your data when a flash drive is connected.
GreenGeeks Review: VPS and Shared Hosting
GreenGeeks plants a tree for every plan sold and buys wind energy credits to make up for its data centers' energy consumption. It also has some really good hosting plans.
Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report
Many AI projects fail because of the disconnect between leadership and the data scientists and engineers on the ground.
Corsair RM850x Shift 850W ATX 3.1 Power Supply Review
The Corsair RM850x Shift 850W PSU stands out with its unique left-side modular connector placement, enhancing cable management while delivering excellent efficiency and quiet operation for those willing to settle on a compatible case.
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB delid uncovers 'Dark Silicon' and improved power performance
The D0 SoC runs at a lower temperature, consumes less power and still delivers the full Raspberry Pi 5 experience
Now available to all, Downdate tool silently downgrades Windows security patches
A tool discussed at two recent cybersecurity conferences that can silently downgrade Windows security patches has been released to the public to further research.
Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2, update available now — more users will see Ryzen performance improvements
Microsoft is backporting branch prediction optimizations in Windows 11 24H2 to Windows 11 23H2. With an update, you can get bumps to Zen 3, 4, and 5.
AMD's new Ryzen 9950X and 9900X CPUs are already heavily discounted below MSRP
These processors came out only two weeks ago and are already being heavily discounted.
RISC-V CPU runs The Witcher 3 at 15 FPS — 64-core chip paired with Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU deliver laggy gameplay
A modern AAA game like The Witcher 3 can now run on RISC-V architecture, albeit with minimal performance.
China restrictions on rare earths has caused pricing to double over the past year — critical elements are used in processors, solar cells, and more
China's curbs on exports of gallium and germanium have caused the prices of these metals to increase significantly over the past year. These are critical elements used in processors, solar cells, and more. Both now cost around twice as much as before - current prices are around 115% higher on germanium and 75% higher on gallium.
This pocket-sized Raspberry Pi 5 PC is portable and modular
The team at Soulcircuit has created a Raspberry Pi 5-based portable tablet with various cool modules that can be attached.
Sony PlayStation Accessories app continues inroads into PC gaming — customizes DualSense Edge PS5 controller on Windows
PlayStation's increased push into PC gaming has led to the Accessories app, which lets you customize the. DualSense Edge PS5 controller.
AMD Threadripper 9000 “Shimada Peak” CPU surfaces in shipping manifest — next-gen Zen 5 HEDT chip sports 96 cores and 192 threads
A new Ryzen Threadripper "Shimada Peak" 96-core CPU was spotted in a shipping manifest.
Inspector General points out serious security gaps in how FBI manages storage media
A recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General identified serious security and asset management lapses at an FBI storage facility.
Ryzen CPUs receive a performance bump with the Windows 11 24H2 Release Preview version — impact varies
Many titles receive a performance bump of around 5% to 8%, but some games also suffered from a loss of FPS compared to systems running Windows 11 23H2.
Arbiter Studio Polar 75 Pro Review: Wooting who?
Arbiter Studio's 'Kitsune' Polar 75 Pro feels and sounds fantastic out of the box - like the brand's previous Polar 65, but somehow even better.
Western Digital granted permission to expand HDD production facility in Thailand
Western Digital could expand HDD production in Thailand for the first time in years.
Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month
FinalSpark, the firm behind Neuroplatform, has begun to offer paid 24-7 remote access to its bioprocessors. Academic customers can now access this biocomputing platform, featuring four shared organoids, for $500 per user per month.
TinyBox AI accelerator now available starting at $15k, available in AMD 7900XTX and Nvidia RTX 4090 variants
The TinyBox AI accelerators feature either six 7900XTX or RTX 4090 GPUs and could deliver at least 738 FP16 TFLOPS of computing performance.
Nvidia partner SMC offers containerized data center GPUs which are 28% cheaper and 50% more power efficient
Singapore-based firm Sustainable Metal Cloud uses containerized HyperCubes - data center GPUs that use immersion cooling - to deliver a more power efficient server solution.
Adata SC750 (1TB) flash drive review: Speedy and small
Adata's SC750 delivers true 10Gbps SSD speeds in a compact (but wide) form factor. It's one of the fastest flash drives we've tested, and it will soon be available in capacities up to 2TB.
Japan to begin developing ZetaFLOPS-scale supercomputer in 2025
Japan to start development of Fugaku Next in 2025, aims to achieve Zeta-scale performance for AI.
IBM intros Telum II processor — 5.5GHz chip with onboard DPU claimed to be up to 70% faster
IBM's Telum II processor packs eight CPU cores and a 24 TOPS AI accelerator.
U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales
U.S. government wants to know if its citizens are involved in building 100 PetaFLOPS supercomputer in China.
Elon Musk shows off Cortex AI supercluster — first look at Tesla's 50,000 Nvidia H100s
Elon Musk shared new video footage of the inside of the Cortex supercluster today, the new name for the recent expansion of Tesla's Giga Texas" plant. The X video showcases over 2,000 AI-accelerator servers, a small portion of the expected 70,000.
Meet Flexduino, a DIY Arduino replica that bends and flexes
Rajesh K T with Edison Science Corner has created a totally flexible Arduino replica PCB and shows it off in a video demonstrating that it actually works.
Best Mechanical Keyboards 2024
The best mechanical keyboards we've tested for typing, texting, talking, and not gaming (but some of them will work for gaming, too).
Fly drones hands-free using AeroCommand, a Raspberry Pi-powered AI controller
Gustavs Andersons has created a hands-free drone flying experience called AeroCommand that uses a Raspberry Pi and AI to make piloting more accessible.
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon, my favorite laptop, is on sale for $1361: an epic savings
An X1 Carbon with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD is $900 off.
IBM shutters China R&D facilities, blaming declining infrastructure business — shutdown affects over 1,000 employees
This morning, employees at IBM's China-based research and development department were told in a virtual meeting that the operation was impending closure. The current China-based R&D and testing functions will be moved to other overseas facilities, they were told.
RISC-V CPU arrives on a tablet starting at $149 — DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II features an octa-core CPU and up to 16GB RAM and 128GB eMMC storage
The DC-ROMA RISC-V Pad II tablet uses the same SoC as the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II and could be upgraded with an Android 15 OS.
AMD Radeon RX 8000 GPU emerges in Geekbench benchmarks — Navi 48 GPU with 56 RDNA 4 CUs at 2.1 GHz and 16GB VRAM
Geekbench OpenCL scores have been uploaded for an upcoming "gfx1201" AMD GPU using the Navi 48 architecture, indicating that RDNA 4-based RX 8000 Series GPUs are already being tested.
Nvidia’s stock surge mints new employee millionaires, but many can’t yet enjoy their wealth
More and more Nvidia employees are becoming millionaires or even multimillionaires, but they're still working long, stressful hours that leave no time to enjoy their riches.
Apple may switch to 16GB of memory as default for new M4 series — test machines hint at a transition even on the base model
An Apple insider has noted that a quartet of new base-level Mac computers are being tested, all with at least 16GB of RAM. Upcoming M4 machines are likely to adhere to this minimum.
Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
Linux's market share has jumped by over 40% in a year.
Self-learning AI algorithms improve 3D printing speed and efficiency — biomedical model printing boosted by Washington State University team
A WSU research team built an AI model that allowed them to 3D print human organs that looked and felt like the real thing.
Scientists to use AI and 1.6 million brain scans for earlier and more accurate dementia diagnoses
Researchers in Scotland are hopeful they can use machine learning to detect signs of dementia much earlier than is currently possible.
Microsoft's Windows Control Panel might not get the axe after all — 38-year-old feature could live on as wording about deprecation is removed
A sentence that seemed to confirm the Control Panel's retirement was replaced by a more ambiguous line.
Asus RT-BE88U Wi-Fi 7 router review: Skipping the 6 GHz band
The Asus RT-BE88U skips the 6 GHz band but picks up other Wi-Fi 7 enhancements
Intel hires Morgan Stanley to protect itself against activist investors
Amid the lack of activism, Intel wants to protect itself against activist investors.
Chinese researchers boast of a world record underwater wireless transmission range of 30 kilometers, eclipsing NATO's best tech
China takes a lead in underwater wireless communications.
UC Riverside team develops new superconductor material for quantum computing
This new superconductor could potentially reduce errors in quantum computers.
China's Unisoc launches 'world's first' open architecture RISC-V security chip
Unisoc launches RISC-V security chip, the E450R.
Asus shows off GaN PSUs at Gamescom 2024, touts benefits of increased efficiency, cooler and quieter operation
Asus showed off its ROG THOR and ROG STRIX PSUs that use GaN technology to deliver better cooled and more power efficient PSUs.
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