From here, you can access the release mechanisms to open the motherboard, power supply, optical drive and hard drive housings. In our opinion, the mechanisms are a little flimsy and don’t demonstrate the kind of quality we’d expect from an $800 case. We’re not sure how they would stand up to heavy use. While the optical drives, motherboard tray and power supply all use the same fragile mechanism, the 3....
Current SSD prices range from about $50 to $100 per terabyte. So when a security researcher, going by Ray [REDACTED] on Twitter, saw the advertised 30TB SSD on online retailer AliExpress for about $30, he was immediately suspicious. As a quick and easy project to teach his son how to analyze hardware, Ray bought a unit and tore it down to see what it was. After opening up the generic SDD housing, Ray was not surprised to find it contained two SD cards held firm with hot glue....
The Dead Space remake rebuilds the game from the ground up, offering improved visual fidelity thanks to the switch from the RenderWare engine to the newer Frostbite engine. Limb dismemberment of the Necromorphs, a major element in the previous games, has also been overhauled to appear more realistic. The Dead Space remake’s Steam page has now been updated with the minimum and recommended PC specs. It’s good news if you’re happy to stick with the former: minimum specs ask for only an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel Core i5 8600 CPU combined with an RX 5700 or GTX 1070 graphics card....
Brian Moore set out to restore the authenticity of LOL by creating a verifying device that plugs into a keyboard and PC. Using a microphone attached to a collar, the LOL Verifier checks to make sure you actually laughed before writing a reply. Users who chuckle away will be able to write the acronym and see a green light, a verified tick, and a timestamp. Trying to write LOL without laughing will result in a red light and the words automatically being replaced with something else—in this case, “that’s funny....
More specifically, there are plenty of Z390 motherboards on offer but as we found out, there are few good options in each category. The selection is narrowed down by what is the worst motherboard range ever from Asus, and overpriced boards with budget VRMs seem to be the name of the game, something we hope doesn’t become a trend. Asrock and MSI have a few good hits mixed in with some not so great options, while Gigabyte is pretty solid from top to bottom....
The Eclipse and Cue are simply too small to be comfortable for any extended period. The arch of the Arc Touch makes it much more comfortable as your hand remains in a natural position when using it, much like a traditional desktop mouse would. This unique arch ability also draws a lot of attention from onlookers. The other two mice are nice and unique in their own right, but it’s my opinion that the Arc Touch is the best looking of the three....
Bloomberg sources say that TSMC will begin manufacturing on a 4nm process in Arizona in 2024. The decision marks an upgrade from the 5nm wafers the company previously planned to make there. The silicon fabricator’s biggest customer — Apple — allegedly coaxed the chip manufacturer into the decision. The Cupertino tech titan usually gets first dibs on TSMC’s semiconductors for products like the iPhone. The iPhone 14 runs on the Taiwanese manufacturer’s 4nm silicon....
The Washington Post and CNN both report that the accusations come via complaints filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Justice from Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, who goes by the nickname “Mudge.” Zatko alleges in the complaints that he “witnessed senior executive engaging in deceitful and/or misleading communications affecting Board members, users and shareholders” on multiple occasions in 2021 and that CEO Parag Agrawal asked him to provide false and misleading documents....
The incident took place on July 19 during the Moscow Chess Open that ran in the capital city from July 13 to July 21. The child, whose name has been reported as Christopher, was competing in the under-nines category and just had one of his pieces taken by the robot. According to Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, the boy responded before the robot had completed its move....
WD has included a host of storage technologies in what it says are the world’s first 22TB CMR-based and 26TB SMR-based HDDs. The latter, denser model is able to store 2.6 terabytes of data per platter, while the former CMR version can store 2.2 terabytes on each of its 10 stacked platters. In addition to outright capacity, these helium drives also utilize WD’s ArmorCache technology that aims to combine the performance benefits of write cache enable with the data protection of write cache disable state....
That accessibility comes from the pains of the past. Formerly, games might have required a specific IP address for a server, requiring coordination with your friends to join the same server. That address came from somewhere on the internet like a message board. In comparison to what we have today, it was cumbersome and not exactly user friendly. In the mid-90s an app called GameSpy hit the scene which made browsing for servers and connecting with players a far more intuitive process....
This week, The Register reported on a drone attack that happened over the summer. The compromised private investment firm kept the incident quiet but agreed to speak on it to security researchers under a nondisclosure agreement. Network administrators discovered the company’s internal Confluence page was exhibiting strange behavior within the local area network. Confluence is a web-based remote collaboration software developed by Atlassian. While investigating the incident, security personnel discovered two drones on the roof of the building....
AMD AM3+ Test System Specs - AMD FX-8150 (3.60GHz) - x2 4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-14900 (CAS 8-9-8-24) - Asrock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional (AMD 990FX) - OCZ ZX Series 1250w - Crucial m4 256GB (SATA 6Gb/s) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 SOC (1536MB) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 285.62 Intel LGA1155 Test System Specs - Intel Core i7-2600K - x2 4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-14900 (CAS 8-9-8-24) - Gigabyte G1....
EtherRock is a collection of 100 NFTs, each slightly different from the other. They’re similar to many collections, but unlike, say, Bored Ape Yacht Club, the variations between images of the clipart rock cover nothing more than their shade of color. Vice reports that Twitter user Dino Dealer listed his valuable EtherRock NFT for sale, but instead of pricing it at 444 ETH, which is just over $1 million, he accidentally put it up for 444 Wei....
Even DX12 can’t help overcome the Core 2 Quad’s inadequate performance in Gears of War 4. Here the overclocked configuration was only good for an average of 33fps with frame dips as low as 20fps when using the GTX 1060. In comparison, the Pentium G3470 was 45% faster averaging 48fps while the Core i3-6100 was almost 130% faster. As you would expect, boosting the GPU-horse power does little to help the Q6600 system and again we see the same unplayable performance....
I received the highest-end Alienware 15 to review, and the combination of an Intel Core i7-4710HQ CPU, Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M and a 3840 x 2160 IPS display makes for an excellent gaming experience. Not only do you get a crisp, high-resolution image in supported games, but there’s plenty of power to render to over eight million pixels. While you mightn’t be able to play at the highest quality settings at 4K in titles like Crysis 3 or Dragon Age: Inquisition, no game I tested was completely unplayable at native resolution....
If this sounds like something that would be useful in your day to day computing endeavors, here’s a quick list of free utilities that will increase your efficiency and cut down on the time you spend going back and forth copying and pasting. This cloud-based clipboard manager intercepts copy and cut operations and automatically uploads your clipboard’s contents to their Internet server, making it available for pasting anywhere anytime. iClippy offers a bunch of different ways to copy data from your PC, including a screen capture utility or using a scanner....
The full catalog is being made available ad-free but only for shuffle play. That means you can add any song or album from the catalog to a custom playlist (or listen to a curated playlist) but you can’t choose the order in which tracks play. Up to this point, Prime members have only had access to around two million tracks as part of their subscription. Image credit: Sebastian Ervi
The free IMDb What to Watch app on Fire TV turns the often arduous task of discovering and deciding what to watch into three mini-games, which will recommend movies and TV shows across multiple streaming services. The first game, Quick Draw, is the most basic and fastest way to decide what to watch. It shuffles through virtual playing cards and draws three movie/TV options for users to pick from. Whether people will just repeatedly hit the ‘deal card’ button until they find something that piques their interest remains to be seen....
