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- December 8
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- The Best SSD for the Steam Deck in 2023: Fast NVMe Drives for Gaming on the Go
- Best SSDs 2023: From Budget SATA to Blazing-Fast NVMe
- Best Gaming PCs of 2023
- Phison reveals specs for new USB 4, PCIe Gen 5 SSD hardware -- more details at CES 2024
- Intel releases new Arc drivers optimized for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, several DX11 games
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155H delivers mixed performance in leaked tests: fast integrated graphics, slow CPU results
- HP ad campaign claims its printers are ‘made to be less hated’ following years of anti-consumer behavior
- AMD claims all Radeon RX 7000 RDNA 3 GPUs deliver 100+ FPS with FSR 3 in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
- Google admits the Gemini AI demo hands-on video was staged
- Save $50 on the SteelSeries Apex 7 Ghost mechanical gaming keyboard
- Best Hard Drives 2023: Our top HDD picks for desktop PCs, NAS, and more
- Leaks point to Bambu Lab A1, a bigger 'bed slinger' 3D printer
- Mingda Magician Pro2 Review: Big, Quiet Prints
- New attack SLAMs into existing and future AMD, Intel and Arm CPUs
- Lenovo sneaked out a mysterious Radeon RX 6600 LE GPU in GeekPro 2023 desktop
- Lian Li O11 Vision Review: Through Tempered Glass, Darkly
- China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions
- December 7
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- ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards are on sale on Newegg
- Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections
- Prep for Christmas With This $399 Xbox Series X Games Console
- Nvidia lists RTX 5880 Ada GPU, presumably a downgraded replacement for the RTX 6000 Ada in China
- TSMC and Arizona labor unions come to agreement, fab construction back on track
- Walletripper: $1,300 Threadripper 7000 motherboard costs almost as much as the cheapest 12-core Pro chip
- Corsair Vengeance i7500 Review: Fast and Furious
- Intel 144-core Sierra Forest CPU benchmark shows strong performance, but still falls behind AMD's Bergamo
- Linux gets its own Blue Screen of Death, and it seems more helpful than the one on Windows
- TSMC leads healthy growth in foundry industry for Q3 2023
- Leaks suggest Nvidia's RTX 4090D will lack overclocking and be TDP-Capped
- Minisforum announces $559 AR900i Mini ITX motherboard with Intel Core 13900HX and four M.2 2280 slots
- This Raspberry Pi Pico umbrella puts on a light show while keeping you dry
- 2TB Silicon Power UD90 2230 SSD Review: Power to the Portables
- December 6
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- Researchers store multiple bits of data in diamond defects by encoding across different light frequencies, achieving a data density of 25GB per square inch
- LogoFAIL exploit bypasses hardware and software security measures and is nearly impossible to detect or remove
- Nvidia reportedly releasing a new and weaker RTX 3050 6GB to replace the already anemic 8GB variant
- Acer announces Nitro V 16, first AMD Ryzen 8040 series gaming laptop, just ahead of Intel’s Meteor Lake Launch
- The refresh that wasn’t — AMD announces ‘Hawk Point’ Ryzen 8040 Series, teases Strix Point
- AMD unveils Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU, claims up to 1.6X lead over Nvidia’s competing GPUs
- Lenovo's new PCIe 5 SSD hits 12.4 GB/s speeds, starts at $210 for 1TB
- AMD RX 7000-series' high idle power draw finally appears to be fixed with the latest 23.12.1 drivers
- Google launches Gemini, its 'newest and most capable AI model' — and a full-frontal assault on OpenAI's GPT-4
- AMD Advancing AI Event Live Blog: Instinct MI300 Launch, Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" Expected
- AMD finally adds hardware accelerated GPU scheduling support to some of its GPUs — three years after the feature first debuted in Windows
- Best Motherboards 2023 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset
- Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2023
- Inland Gaming MK Pro 75% Barebone Edition Review: Solid Custom Starter Kit
- be quiet! Pure Base 500DX mid-tower PC case is now just $84
- Nvidia CEO sees Intel and Huawei as 'formidable competitors' in AI chipmaking race
- This Raspberry Pi robot dog waters thirsty plants using AI
- Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro V and Dark Rock Elite Review: Kings of Quiet Cooling
- China's 'Big Fund' is investing $1 billion in another domestic foundry, to advance sub-10nm chip manufacturing
- Microsoft to offer Windows 10 subscription plan for customers who want to keep getting updates after October 2025 — for both businesses and individuals
- December 5
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- Round out your gaming rig with ASUS ROG mice, keyboards, headphones and more
- Linksys Velop Pro 6E (MX6200) Review: A mesh system with room to grow
- Best Laser Cutters and Engravers 2023
- SSD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2023: We've tested over 100 different SSDs over the past few years, and here's how they stack up.
- How about an RTX 4060-Powered Lenovo Legion Slim 5 gaming laptop for under $1000?
- Intel 5th Gen Xeon 'Emerald Rapids' pushes up to 64 cores, 320MB L3 cache — new CPUs claim up to 1.4X higher performance than Sapphire Rapids
- Fastest 3D Printers Benchmarked: Top Printers Ranked By Output Time
- NAND flash market halts year-long decline at last with Q3 revenue increase, Q4 expected to see 20% increase in revenue — goodbye cheap SSDs
- Best 3D Printers 2023: FDM, Resin and Sub-$250 Models
- The Best PS5 SSDs in 2023: Speedy NVMe storage for your console
- How To Reduce Raspberry Pi 5, 4 Standby Power Consumption
- Best Raspberry Pi Projects: December 2023
- MaxSun launches MegaGamer Nvidia RTX 4070 with five fans
- Best Ultrawide Gaming Monitors 2023
- Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus 3D Printer Review: Galaxy-Sized Prints at the Speed of Light
- Survey finds 40% of university students in Japan don’t know the copy-and-paste shortcut keys
- Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables
- The five worst AMD GPUs of all time: So bad we can't forget them
- Linux kernel support is being improved for PowKiddy X55, a cheap ARM gaming handheld
- Intel calls AMD's chips 'Snake Oil' for putting antiquated Zen 2 architecture in modern Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs, but Intel also uses similar marketing tactics
- First Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer drops early — arrives in 2025 for PS5 and Xbox, no mention of PC version
- December 4
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- How to Avoid Layer Separation in Your 3D Prints
- Ryzen 7 7800X3D gets a $100 price cut — beats pricier 7950X3D and 14900K in gaming, now just $349
- Lian Li's Lancool III PC Case drops to a low of $119
- Asus lists RTX 4070 GPU with a blower design, making it possible to build a budget multi-GPU machine for AI and deep learning
- GPU market sees impressive recovery as desktop graphics cards sales rocket up 37% — JPR says 'the post-Covid black death is over'
- Raspberry Pi Pico W captains toy boat via Wi-Fi, with Wukong2040
- Windows update renames every installed printer HP LaserJet Ultra M106, changes icons, and forces install of HP Smart app
- Bitcoin comes roaring back as it hits 2023 high, but AI remains the largest threat to GPU pricing - gaming GPUs are safe from miners for now
- US govt warns that sanctions swerving GPUs will fall under their 'control the very next day'
- Nvidia reaches an RTX milestone, with over 500 games and applications that use DLSS, ray tracing, and AI features
- Glowforge Aura Review: The Crafter’s Laser
- December 3
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- Makers Build Underwater 3D Printer That Runs in Aquarium, Public Pool
- CPU Monitor Uses Physical Dials and LEDs to Show Usage
- Overclocker hits 1000+ fps in Counter Strike 2 - Intel 14900k CPU, RTX 4090 GPU, and liquid nitrogen deliver frame-ripping performance
- Samsung to be among first with Meteor Lake laptop - tipped to launch Galaxy Book 4 on Dec 15
- Silicon Power US75 (2TB) Review: A Practical Choice for the Everyday Gamer
- Apple reveals the labs that produced the Apple Silicon line of custom CPUs
- Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages
- Crucial T500 2TB SSD Drops to $119 at Newegg
- December 2
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- Orange Pi teams up with Huawei to create a SBC for AI development — Huawei Ascend chip delivers 8/20 TOPS of AI performance
- Modder creates an awesome modular kinetic PC case — 3D-printed gears, wood, and acrylic combine to generate mesmerizing continual movements
- AMD makes CPU and GPU comeback in latest Steam Hardware Survey — Red Team regains lost ground from Nvidia and Intel
- Meteor Lake laptop retailer listings show competitive pricing — Intel’s next-gen CPUs compete with AMD Zen 4 at all price points
- How to Convert FBX files to OBJ for 3D Printing
- Mode Sonnet Custom Mechanical Keyboard Review: Refined Elegance
- Nvidia RTX 4090 pricing is too damn high, while most other GPUs have held steady or declined in past 6 months — market analysis
- December 1
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- Mod doubles the ROG Ally's RAM from 16GB to 32GB, increases speed from 6400 to 7500 MTs
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet slots into your M.2 port, costs only $86
- AMD RX 7000 GPU scams persist at Amazon, and it's not just Sapphire — be sure to double-check the seller
- Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmarks
- AMD's Radeon RX 6650 XT hits a new lowest-ever price - perfect for 1080p gaming on a budget
- Alphacool's new APEX RAM X4 puts addressable RGBs on a custom cooling memory block
- Windows 12 will launch in June 2024 with a slew of AI PCs, according to Taiwan’s Commercial Times
- 32-bit Mac holdouts will find games like 'Half-Life 2' and 'Metro 2033' unplayable soon, as Valve ceases Steam support for older versions of macOS
- Faster, cheaper storage is heading to the Raspberry Pi 5 with Pimoroni's NVMe Base
- Rockstar Games 'Grand Theft Auto 6' tease says trailer will arrive December 5th
- The PC market is finally growing again, with 2024 projected to see an 8% uptick in shipments
- Cyberpunk 2077 gets triple the framerate using an unholy combination of Nvidia and AMD tech — Nvidia DLSS Frame Generation plus AMD Fluid Motion Frames delivers impressive benchmark results, but less than ideal real-world utility
- Blacklisted Chinese GPU developer secures $280 million in funding - Biren gets cash infusion from Guangzhou government-backed investors
- Does thermal paste expire? 20-year-old TIM tested - no degradation seen, but poor compared to modern products
- ASRock Z790 Nova Motherboard Review: Stylish New SKU With Six M.2 Sockets
- Best Raspberry Pi Pico Accessories and Add-Ons 2023
- Best Stemma QT, Grove Add-Ons for Raspberry Pi and Arduino
- Best RP2040 Boards 2023
- Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2023: Expansion Boards for Every Project
- The Best Raspberry Pi Cases 2023
- Best Soldering Irons and Stations
- Best Raspberry Pi Accessories of 2023
- Best microSD Cards for Raspberry Pi 2023
- New Chinese GPU arrives to challenge Nvidia's AI dominance but falls woefully short - Loongson unveils LG200 GPGPU, up to 1 Tflops of performance per node