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A new Insider Preview Build for Windows 11 reveals new features, such as touch gestures and a revamped task manager. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 was released to the Dev Channel yesterday, February 16th. Since Windows 11 released to the public, more and more people have begun adopting it and leaving... Read more...
The first desktop Arc Alchemist graphics cards will arrive in time for summer, barring any last minute snags. Intel confirmed as much ahead of an investor meeting scheduled for this evening, saying desktop add-in cards based on Alchemist will ship in the second quarter, followed by professional models for workstations... Read more...
Video games from the 1980s and 1990s have become collector’s items but it is increasingly difficult to find them. It is therefore quite exciting whenever a collection of these gems appear. A video game reseller recently discovered a stash of sealed SNES, Genesis, Saturn, 3DO and Sega CD games from the 1990s. Many of... Read more...
Are you thinking about selling off your kit of Crucial Ballistix DDR4 memory? You may want to reconsider before parting ways with what just became a piece of computing history. If you're into electronic collectibles, that is. Either way, it's the end of an era as Micron has made the decision to discontinue all... Read more...
IBM has been accused of referring to older employers as "dinobabies" and calling for their "extinction" in a lawsuit by former employees. The new information was revealed as previously sealed documents were made public by a Federal District Court on February 11, 2022. When one thinks of International Business... Read more...
The launch of the Truth Social media platform may be closer than was originally thought. Donald Trump Jr., the son of former president Donald Trump, posted a screenshot of his father’s first post on Truth Social. The post stated, “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!” Liz Willis, VP of operations... Read more...
How many quarters in a row can NVIDIA set record highs in revenues? At least one more, is apparently the answer. After smashing earnings during its fiscal third quarter with a then-record $7.1 billion, NVIDIA ended its fiscal year with another monster quarter, reporting a new high of $7.64 billion, which is a massive... Read more...
Have you ever noticed that basically all extant mid-range and high-end graphics cards support four display outs? Why has that become the standard? Who knows. It does seem to be the accepted configuration for the last few generations of GeForce and Radeon cards, though. Vendors building graphics cards based on Intel's... Read more...
As we approach the practical physical limits of silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing, researchers have been frantically searching for the next advancement that will allow us to continue producing faster and faster chips. Some folks are looking at exotic materials, some folks are counting on advancements in layout... Read more...
Back in 2009, Google published the source code for Chromium OS, the open-source operating system project that underlies Chrome OS. However, while Chromium OS has remained open source, Google has never released a compiled build of the operating system ready for installation. The company has instead focused on releasing... Read more...
Epson has a new flagship laser projector, the Pro Cinema 4K Pro-UHD LS12000, and as its name implies it's capable of throwing a 4K image. What may not be as obvious, however, is exactly how it goes about delivering 4K content or what other features it boasts, including ones that gamers will find desirable. Like dual... Read more...
As gamers still struggle to get their hands on a next-gen console, Sony is giving them a chance to win a PS5. But it isn't as simple as liking a tweet. No, you will have to participate in a scavenger hunt for hidden codes to gain entries. Sony may have taken a page from Intel with its latest giveaway in having... Read more...
Unlike Vegas, what happens on your smartphone may not always stay on your smartphone. App tracking is key to the booming advertising business, and it's why your online habits tend to manifest in ads targeted to your interest. That business model isn't going away entirely, but it is evolving with Apple and now Google... Read more...
Nintendo has been making a lot of headlines lately. Some of them are positive, like finally adding a new installment to the Wii Sports series. Other times, not so much, like litigation against homebrew tools and YouTube playlists. Well, the headlines for Nintendo this week are rather depressing. The eShop for the... Read more...
SK Hynix announced it has developed its first PIM (processing in memory) solution, which it plans to show off at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the same venue where Intel will talk about its Bonanza Mine crypto mining accelerator. These have nothing to do with one another, except... Read more...
NVIDIA has been making major inroads in the intelligent vehicle category with its DRIVE platform, and auto makers are taking notice. That includes Jaguar Land Rover, a Tata Motors subsidiary, which announced a multi-year strategic partnership with NVIDIA to build all future luxury Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles around... Read more...
Noise-canceling headphones have become increasingly popular over the last few years, especially as more people work from home. One of the downsides to these kinds of headphones is that it can be a little too easy to ignore the outside world. There may be a happy medium between immersing yourself in work and returning... Read more...
NASA has received the first image from its Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) since its launch in December of last year. The spectacular image shows the remains of a star that exploded in the 17th century, and it looks like a purple fireball hovering in space. IXPE launched on December 9th of last year with... Read more...
The storyline of Destiny 2's Season of the Lost has concluded. We finally know the purpose of the mysterious bridge and a little about the fate of Osiris and Savathûn. Unfortunately, not everyone has been able to enjoy the season’s final mission. Many Destiny 2 players have complained of bugs that have prevented them... Read more...
AMD this week completed its $35 billion takeover of Xilinx, a powerhouse in the field programmable gate array (FPGA) semiconductor space. In doing so, AMD not only expanded its reach into more market segments, it also propelled its market cap to a new heights and, for the first time ever, put Intel's market cap in the... Read more...
Have you played Splatoon or Splatoon 2? Those games have nothing to do with Fortnite; don't get excited for an Inkling skin (as cute as that would be). However, those games are widely lauded for their excellent integration of gyro aiming in a third-person shooter. For those unfamiliar, gyro aiming lets you move the... Read more...
The GeForce RTX 3050 8GB, as we (and everyone else) reviewed it, is based on the GA106-150 GPU. That's a cut-down version of the very same GA106 GPU used in the RTX 3060 and the professional-grade RTX A2000. If that's the case, then why does it come with a PCIe 4.0 x8 interface instead of the x16 interface that those... Read more...
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