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Brandon Hill - Mon, Apr 05, 2021
It has become increasingly difficult to secure even the most basic entry-level current generation graphics from the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 and AMD Radeon RX 6000 families. Even last-generation cards like the GeForce RTX 20 and Radeon RX...
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Nathan Ord - Tue, Mar 30, 2021
Cryptocurrency is slowly but surely growing in popularity with a broader global audience. Now that Elon Musk has begun to accept Bitcoin for Tesla purchases, that trend is only going to continue. As such, PayPal is jumping on the bandwagon...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Mar 18, 2021
If you've been keeping up with the news surrounding the cryptocurrency mining craze, then you know that there are currently two separate "tracks" on the NVIDIA side of the equation. On the one hand, NVIDIA has introduced theCMP HX Seriesof...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Mar 11, 2021
In mid-February, NVIDIA announced that it would unleash a new GPU family called theCrypto Mining Processor(CMP HX). To ease some pressure off GeForce RTX 30 supplies, NVIDIA is pushing the CMP HX family as an excellent option for...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Mar 05, 2021
Back in mid-February, NVIDIA announced itsCrypto Mining Processor (CMP) HXfamily. Now it looks as though AMD may be countering with some headless Radeon GPU action of its own.
The news comes to us from the new AMDGPU kernel patch driver...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Feb 16, 2021
Bitcoin is still on the rise, having yet again hit a new record high, this time topping $50,000 for the first time ever. It achieved the milestone yesterday morning, before dropping back below the thresholdat the time of this writing, it...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 11, 2021
Mastercard is unabashedly planing to embrace cryptocurrency payments, a decision it made after observing people using cards to purchase crypto assets with increased frequency, especially on the heels of Bitcoin's recent surge in value, the...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Feb 06, 2021
Between the bots and scalpers, silicon production shortages, and yes, even cryptocurrency mining (again), gamers are having a tough time buying the latest PC and console hardware. As it applies to the latter, Ethereum is on a sharp rise...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 04, 2021
Dogecoin, a form of cryptocurrency that seemingly began as a gag based on a popular meme featuring Shiba Inu, is rapidly rising in value. How high it ultimately goes remains to be seen, but the joke coin currently has owners of the...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Feb 01, 2021
In the last week, the GameStop fiasco has expanded to several other stocks and now cryptocurrencies. The whole event is becoming something of a meme, which has angered some people higher up the chain. Some companies, such as the...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 19, 2021
Have you looked at the price of Bitcoin lately? The volatile currency ballooned to nearly $40,000 in recent weeks and is now hovering at a little over $37,000. This has prompted renewed interest in cryptocurrency mining (not that it ever...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 07, 2021
Bitcoin continues to reach new heights, climbing to nearly $40,000 at the time of this writing (after reaching $20,000 a month ago), and who knows where it will stop. In the short term, maybe it reaches $50,000 by the end of the month...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 21, 2020
Remember when you could not find a mid-range or high-end graphics card to save your life, because the cryptocurrency miners were hogging them all? Things changed when mining in large part shifted from GPUs to specialized ASIC hardware, the...
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Shane McGlaun - Mon, Apr 20, 2020
Atari has announced a new casino gaming system that it says has no local restrictions because of its use of cryptocurrencies. The gaming company says that its dedicated Atari Casino team has designed the service to provide users with the best online casino experience to date. The casino...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Feb 17, 2020
It's all fun and games until a nasty bit of malware infiltrates your PC and wreaks havoc, right? To quote the late, great Bill Paxton, at that point it's "Game over man! Game over!" Fortunately, common sense computing habits are highly...
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Brittany Goetting - Sat, Jun 22, 2019
The cryptocurrency market is full of peaks and valleys but at the moment, it appears that Bitcoin has hit a peak. Bitcoin surged past $11,000 USD for the first time in a year. The value of Bitcoin has jumped by 13% in the last 24 hours...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 18, 2019
The era of cryptocurrency is not behind us, apparently. One look at Bitcoin's valueit sits at around $9,143 currentlyindicates that there is room for at least one type of digital coin, even after the crypto-bubble burst last year in...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 09, 2019
At a cursory glance, it may seem like cryptocurrency mining is firmly in the rear view mirror, along with all of the unwanted side effects (GPU shortages, browser hijacking, and so forth), but not so fast. Bitcoin and other virtual...
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Shane McGlaun - Fri, Mar 22, 2019
TheBitcoin boom has generally gone bust, and as a result, we just don't hear as much about cryptocurrencyas a major market mover as we used to. The value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies crashed last summer, leaving many...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 01, 2019
A law firm in Los Angeles, California is encouraging investors who lost in excess of $100,000 by pouring money into NVIDIA's stock to contact the agency for participation in a possible class-action lawsuit. It's the position of the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 21, 2018
Facebook might be joining the blockchain party in a potentially big way, by developing its very own cryptocurrency that would enable users to transfer money over WhatsApp, the cross-platform messaging service the company acquired in early...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 23, 2018
HTC is accepting pre-orders for a new flagship phone, though there is a caveat. Users can only purchase the Exodus 1, as it's called with cryptocurrenciesspecifically either Bitcoin or Ethereum, the two most popular blockchain...
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