Google is axing cached webpages from search results, tells everyone to use Internet Archive instead By Christopher Harper published 2 February 24 An official statement from Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan laments the change, but directly shouts out Internet Archive as an alternative.
Super long-range Wi-Fi works at a range of 1.8 miles — HaLow standard aces a real-world test despite high interference By Christopher Harper published 31 January 24 HaLow, a previously-announced Long-Range Wi-Fi standard, is benchmarked with real hardware from Morse Micro, achieving an effective range of 1.8 miles in a video call.
Samsung to demo higher-bandwidth GDDR7 VRAM next month at ISSCC By Christopher Harper published 29 January 24 The International Solid-State Circuits Conference will be host to many major industry players, including Samsung and SK hynix showing off new versions of GDDR7.
Samsung opens next-gen 3D DRAM research lab in the United States By Christopher Harper published 29 January 24 Samsung opens a new, Silicon Valley-based research lab for developing the next generation of 3D DRAM.
Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language By Christopher Harper published 28 January 24 YouTuber successfully built a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel, featuring a custom Instruction Set Architecture, 128 KB RAM, and a 128x128 16-color display.
Gigabyte launches new white RTX 40 series GPUs — Eagle Ice series introduces the white theme for RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 families By Christopher Harper published 27 January 24 Gigabyte launches a new series of "Eagle Ice" GPUs for RTX 40 graphics cards, a successor to its previous series of "Eagle" GPUs. All the Eagle Ice cards are white with a triple-fan cooler design.
Entry-level GPU RAID card enables mind-bending storage speeds — 80 GB/s of throughput from eight SSDs with SupremeRAID SR-1001 By Christopher Harper published 27 January 24 Graid Technology highlights the entry-level version of its RAID GPU technology, targeted at home servers and gaming PCs instead of the usual enterprise and cloud users.
This bulky mouse is a full computer with a screen, creator boasts its the best gaming mouse available By Christopher Harper published 27 January 24 Talk about a whole other definition of "gaming mouse."
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets with TSMC in Taiwan, discusses AI chip shortage concerns over dinner By Christopher Harper published 26 January 24 Nvidia founder Jensen Huang travels to Taiwan to have dinner with TSMC and discuss ongoing AI chip manufacturing concerns, as well as a humorous sidenote on his dancing ability.
Hard drive density advances face diminishing returns — 30TB+ drives gain just 6.6% capacity with SMR: Report By Christopher Harper published 26 January 24 SMR provides about 6.6% higher capacity than CMR at 30+ TB, compared to roughly 16% higher at 24+ TB.
AMD is ending support for its Link game streaming application: Here are some alternatives By Christopher Harper published 25 January 24 AMD Link, the in-home and online game streaming option from your AMD GPU-powered PC, has been discontinued. AMD mentions but does not list alternatives, thus we opted to fill in the gap.
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees amid industry-wide cuts By Christopher Harper published 25 January 24 Mere months after acquiring Activision Blizzard in October 2023, Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees
Intel's combined Arc desktop and integrated Arc graphics driver boosts DirectX 11 games performance, and a few DirectX 12 games too By Christopher Harper published 25 January 24 Intel's latest Arc Graphics driver for desktop GPUs and their iGPUs are bundled into one package for this January 24, 2024 update. Legacy Intel iGPU drivers are also included.
Redditor shows off insanely massive passively-cooled RTX 3080 prototype By Christopher Harper published 24 January 24 Redditor Everynametaken9 posted an attempt at a passively-cooled RTX 3080 FE, complete with photos of several modded-on coolers, while asking the Nvidia subreddit for advice.
Palworld got a working Pokemon conversion mod, and Nintendo's lawyers struck immediately By Christopher Harper published 24 January 24 A Pokémon conversion mod announcement video for Palworld replacing the playable character and capturable Pals with Pokémon characters received Nintendo takedown in under a day.
Game Boy Advance games can be recreated from the sound they make when they die, modder demonstrates By Christopher Harper published 23 January 24 YouTuber TheZZAZZGlitch has proven that unique per-game GBA crash sounds contain all the data needed to create a bootable copy of the crashing game.
Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers By Christopher Harper published 22 January 24 Patching in new DRM years after launch seems unlikely to impact pirates, but actively harms legitimate users who play on Steam Deck or mod games they paid for.
Researchers demonstrate liquid metal RAM, bringing us closer to flexible, implantable hardware – and to our Terminator 2 nightmares By Christopher Harper published 22 January 24 FlexRAM is currently limited in speed and durability, but breakthrough bodes well for the future of flexible tech.
The era of Nintendo Switch Flash Carts has arrived, potentially opening a new door for piracy By Christopher Harper published 22 January 24 The first Nintendo Switch flash cart from MIG-Switch has arrived, but brings with it concerns for legitimate gamers buying used Switch titles in the future.
"Pokemon with guns" game Palworld sells 5 million copies, tops Steam most played in a single weekend By Christopher Harper published 22 January 24 The game's "Pal" designs have been accused of plagiarism
Nvidia's fabled Nintendo 3DS prototype has been leaked — Rare Gaming Dump reveals the MG20 By Christopher Harper published 21 January 24 Nvidia's MG20 hardware may have been the true predecessor to Nvidia Tegra.
Intel's Granite Rapids listed with huge L3 cache upgrade to tackle AMD EPYC - software development emulator spills the details By Christopher Harper published 21 January 24 Compared to the 320MB L3 Cache of Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids is expected to boast 480MB L3 Cache, or a solid 1.5x increase
New memory card uses DNA to store your data — Biomemory's card costs $1,100 to store one kilobyte of data By Christopher Harper published 21 January 24 All that for a drop of kilobyte
YouTube hasn't stepped up its anti-ad-blocking activity, you're using too many ad-blockers By Christopher Harper published 17 January 24 A viral Reddit video shows YouTube preventing page loading entirely for users with ad-blockers, but it turns out that might be because users are trying to use more than one ad-blocker.
New Windows 11 Insider build autostarts Copilot AI assistant and enables USB 4 80Gbps support By Christopher Harper published 15 January 24 Released on January 11th, 2024, the latest Windows 11 Insider Build provides support for USB4 80 Gbps, autostart functionality on AI Copilot, and minor fixes to Task Manager and Windows Share.
