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- August 31
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- Why the F Not? YouTuber 3D Prints Giant Mechanical Switch
- Cyberhack Hides Malicious Code in Your Graphics Card's VRAM
- Malware Attacks From Fake PC Games Numbered Over 5.8 Million in Past Year
- This Musical Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck Plays at Live Concerts
- This AMD and Intel Vending Machine Is Literally a CPU Gamble
- Ultra Mobile Raspberry Pi Returns With Latest Upgrades
- Microsoft Says Windows 11 Won't Be Able to Run Android Apps at Launch
- Raspberry Pi 4 Resurrects Motorola 68000 Educational Computer Board
- Researchers Disclose Meltdown-like Vulnerability for AMD Processors (Updated)
- Former Micron Employees Imprisoned for Giving Trade Secrets to China Fab
- First Ransomware to Use Intermittent Encryption Revealed
- Windows 11 Launching October 5
- Ethereum Blockchain Was Split Over Outdated Geth Software Nodes
- How To Customize the Raspberry Pi Splash Screen
- Radeon RX 6900 XTX Reportedly In The Works To Crush GeForce RTX 3090
- August 30
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- Breakfast of Esports Champions? Chinese Hotels Offer In-Room RTX Gaming Rigs
- New AMD Patent Proposes Teleportation to Make Quantum Computing More Efficient
- Dual Threadripper Pro 3995WX Surpasses Two EPYC CPUs to Set New CPU Record
- Apple's M1 Chip Boots NetBSD Operating System
- Intel XTU Update Adds Full Support for Alder Lake Chips
- Microsoft Will Disable Updates on Unsupported Windows 11 Installs
- PS5 Revision Has Smaller Heatsink and Fan, Possibly Higher Temps
- August 29
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- August 27
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- Here are Halo Infinite's System Requirements (Update)
- Fractal Design Issues Fan Hub Replacement for New Torrent PC Case
- Latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Adds Microsoft 365 Widget
- Microsoft Will Let Enthusiasts Install Windows 11 on Non-Compliant PCs, Reports Say
- Microsoft Expands Windows 11 CPU Compatibility List
- Calibrate Your Lasers With This DIY Spectroscope
- China Supreme Court Sides With Mining Operator in Battle Over 485,000 GPUs
- This Raspberry Pi Arcade is a Work of Art
- Sales of Microprocessors to Top $100 Billion in 2021, Says Report
- AMD Adds 17 PCI IDs to Linux Kernel Driver, Teasing a Possible RDNA 2 Refresh
- GPU Shipments Soar in Q2 with 123 Million Units Delivered
- Raspberry Pi Keeps Guinea Pigs Safe with Telegram Bot
- August 26
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- AMD's Zen 3 Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX and 5945WX Pop Up
- Yes, Samsung Is Swapping SSD Parts Too
- AMD 64-Core EPYC 'Milan-X' Listed For More Than $10,000
- 3DMark Adds Sampler Feedback To Testing Suite
- Despite 17K Ampere Card Restock, Gamers Line Up at Best Buy, Leave Empty Handed
- TSMC Price Hikes Confirmed by Crypto Chip Giant
- Press "F" For Graphics: Leak Suggests Intel "F" Lineup Returns For Alder Lake
- Anker's 12-in-1 Thunderbolt 4 Dock: Modern Connectors Meet Old Ports
- Did You Buy a WD SMR Hard Drive? File Your Claim for Cash By Nov 27
- Unreleased Asus VivoBook Laptop Benchmarked With Intel Alder Lake-P Processor
- Bitcoin Hashrate Rebounds After China's Mining Operations Were Shut Down
- Windows and Surface Boss Panos Panay Joins Microsoft Senior Leadership Team
- Intel's Flagship Core i9-12900K 'Alder Lake' Beats AMD Ryzen 9 5950X in Geekbench
- The Tom’s Hardware Show Today: Hacker Details DIY Magnetic Levitation Switches
- Strong Notebook and Data Center Demand Drive NAND Flash Revenue With 10% Growth
- Toshiba Makes Breakthrough Towards the Quantum Internet
- Crossover Flash Memory Device Standard Announced
- Argon Reveals Raspberry Pi Powered EON NAS
- August 25
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- Core i7-12700 'Alder Lake' Geekbenched: Faster Than Rocket Lake
- Western Digital in Advanced Talks to Buy Kioxia
- No More Silicon? Company Develops Glass CPU for Quantum Computing
- This Custom Raspberry Pi PCB is Absurdly Long
- AMD EPYC Milan-X Leaks With 64 Cores, 3D V-Cache Rumored
- After Razer, SteelSeries Software Also Hit by Zero-Day Vulnerability, SteelSeries Responds (Update)
- Loongson Rips MIPS: Uses Old Code for New CPUs
- Kingpin Says EVGA's AMD X570 Dark Is a Monster Overclocker
- You Can Now Try Windows 11 in Your Browser
- Cloud Gaming for Xbox Consoles Arrives Later This Year
- Best Buy Restocks 17,000 Nvidia RTX 30 Series GPUs Tomorrow, August 26
- TSMC Hikes Price of Chip Production: CPU & GPU Costs Set to Rise
- Imagination Technologies Enters the CPU Space With RISC-V Architecture
- Intel Alder Lake Engineering Sample Pictured
- Nvidia and AMD-Powered Polaris Supercomputer: Preparing for Intel's Delayed Aurora
- AMD Continues Frontier Exascale Supercomputer Enablement
- Zotac Unveils Smallest GeForce RTX 3060 and 3070 Ti LHR Cards
- Turing Pi 2 Revealed, Brings Nvidia Jetson to the Party
- Synopsys' AI-Assisted EDA Tools Aim To Cut GPU Design Costs in Half
- New CPU-Z Version Arrives With Alder Lake, DDR5, XMP 3.0 Support
- August 24
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- New Ryzen Chipset Driver Patches Security Vulnerabilities
- RTX 3090/3080 Blower Cards Are Coming Back, in a Limited Fashion
- World's Largest Chip Unlocks Brain-Sized AI Models With Cerebras CS-2
- Esperanto Delivers Kilocore Processor in its Supercomputer-on-a-Chip Design
- Magic ASRock B450 BIOS Brings Zen 3 Support to Asus X370 Motherboard
- Today's Pi Cast: A BMO Robot That Manages Your 3D Prints!
- Nvidia Announces More RTX and DLSS Games at Gamescom 2021
- Worldwide PC Demand to Continue Growing Throughout 2021, IDC Notes
- TSMC Plans to Partly Build U.S. Fab in Taiwan: Report
- Iran's Crypto Miners Will Be Allowed to Resume Operations in September
- Controlled Burn: The Ethereum Chain Is Destroying $12,000 of ETH a Minute
- Intel Plans to Add Overclocking Capabilities to Its Arc GPU Drivers
- Maker Creates An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Carrier Board
- Apple M1 Now Boots Gnome Desktop on Debian Linux
- IBM Embeds Artificial Intelligence Processor Into Mainframe Chips
- Covid Surge in Malaysia Worsens Chip Shortages
- Samsung Demos In-Memory Processing for HBM2, GDDR6, DDR4, and LPDDR5X
- August 23
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- Bug in Razer Software Enables Admin Privileges in Windows 10 (Update)
- WD Blue SN550 SSD Performance Reportedly Cut In Half When SLC Runs Out (Updated)
- 'Porcoolpine' Tiger Lake NUC Has an Aggressive Fanless Design
- New Mac Mini May Get Apple's M1X Processor
- Chipsee Turns Raspberry Pi CM4 Into an All-in-One PC
- Raspberry Pi-Based Simpsons TV Plays 11 Seasons of Episodes
- This All-In-One Liquid Cooler Has a 1440p Screen and an HDMI Input
- AMD Zen 4 Processors Could Offer Integrated Graphics Across More SKUs
- AMD Oberon PlayStation 5 SoC Die Delidded and Pictured
- Chip Manufacturers Stockpile Record Amount of Raw Materials to End Shortage
- Hundreds of Raspberry Pis Used in Marvel’s Black Widow
- $600M Crypto Hacker Returns Final $141 Million
- AMD Unveils More Ryzen 3D Packaging and V-Cache Details at Hot Chips
- China's Biggest Automotive Chip Maker IPO Efforts Suspended by Government Crackdown
- Intel Foundry Services Wins US Defense Contract for Chips with 18A Node
- Zotac Zbox Nano Fits Tiger Lake in Small Form Factor
- August 22
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- August 20
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- Use AMD FSR to Upscale Your Own Images
- This Intel-Based Mini PC Is Completely Fanless
- America's Second Largest Mortgage Lender Plans to Accept Bitcoin
- Powering a Raspberry Pi Zero With USB-C
- Samsung Takes Intel's Throne as Top Semiconductor Manufacturer
- AMD's Upcoming Socket AM5 for Raphael Processors to Lack PCIe 5.0 Support
- UK Regulators Fear Inflated Prices From Nvidia-Arm Acquisition, Launch Deeper Probe
- Liquid, the Self-Proclaimed 'Most Secure' Crypto Exchange, Reveals $90M Theft
- Raspberry Pi 4 Graphics Driver Update Improves 4K Output
- Intel: Semi Industry Will Consolidate, We Are a Willing Buyer
- Tesla Packs 50 Billion Transistors Onto D1 Dojo Chip Designed to Conquer Artificial Intelligence Training
- Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: Increased Demand Despite Shortages
- MSI Launches Hybrid-Cooled GeForce RTX 3080 Sea Hawk X LHR
- Client SSDs: Samsung Retains No.1 Spot, SSDs Outsell HDDs by 2.6x
- August 19
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- Windows 11 Insider Release Spotlights Focus Sessions, ISO Installers
- 25 Years Later: The Original Quake Gets a Remaster for PC and Consoles
- Asus Launches New GeForce GT 730 Like It's 2014 All Over Again
- Raspberry Pi Alternative Banana Pi BPI-M2S Boasts Six Core CPU, 4GB RAM
- Intel Ponte Vecchio and Xe HPC Architecture: Built for Big Data
- Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake Chips, Golden Cove and Gracemont Cores
- GlobalFoundries Confidentially Files for Initial Public Offering
- Nvidia-Arm Acquisition Deal May Slip Beyond Expected Timeframe, Says Nvidia CEO
- Intel Arc 'Alchemist' Discrete GPUs To Support DisplayPort 2.0: Up to 16K Displays
- Wafer-Scale Heterogeneous Chips May Pave the Way Beyond Moore's Law
- Nvidia Posts All-Time High Quarterly Revenue: Gaming, ProViz, Crypto
- August 18
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- Baidu Unveils Kunlun II AI Chip: Rival for Nvidia A100
- Bitcoin Mixing CEO Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges
- Lack of Engineers & Pandemic Slow Production Shift from China to Vietnam
- Lexar Lights Up Gaming PCs With New Hades RGB DDR4 RAM
- Raspberry Pi Marine-Based Network Rig Adds WiFi to Your Boat
- Default Browser Change in Windows 11 Now Takes More Effort
- Plextor Expands Lineup of PCIe 4.0 SSDs: Up to 7000 MB/s
- Air-Cooled AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT Overclocked to 2.8 GHz
- Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.3 Delivers Bug Fixes and Free DLC
- TeamGroup Adds RGB Bling to DDR5-5600 Memory Modules
- MSI Collaborates with EK on New X570 Motherboard
- Intel Winds Down RealSense Camera Biz
- August 17
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- Chinese Semi Shipments Hit Record 31.6 Billion Chips in July
- Intel Is Giving Away an Arc Alchemist Discrete Graphics Card
- Intel Teases Dual-Fan Arc GPU Using 1,000 Drones
- DRAM Prices Are Starting to Fall in the US and Europe
- CTA to Require Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination for CES 2022 Attendees
- AMD's Socket AM5 Will Likely Maintain Compatibility With AM4 Coolers
- Rambus Outs HBM3 Details: 1.075 TBps of Bandwidth, 16 Channels, 16-Hi Stacks
- SK Hynix Adds 2TB Model to P31 Line, Our Favorite Laptop SSD
- A Service That Helped Cybercriminals Launder Money With Crypto Shut Down
- Gigabyte Leak Reveals Zen 3 Threadripper CPUs Codenamed 'Chagall'
- Scientists Set Pi Record with AMD EPYC Server: 62.8 Trillion Digits
- Zen 4 Madness: AMD EPYC Genoa With 96 Cores, 12-Channel DDR5 Memory, and AVX-512
- Noctua Points to Intel's Alder Lake Availability Timeframe
- PNY Readies DDR5-4800 Gaming RAM For Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs
- Linux Kernel Patch Adds DisplayPort 2.0 Support for AMD Graphics
- Gigabyte Power Supply RMA Seemingly For 'Newer Batches'
- August 16
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- PSU Expert Aris Mpitziopoulos Responds to Gigabyte's Exploding PSU Problem
- DIY Silicon: Man Builds Integrated Circuit That's Similar to Intel's 4004 CPU
- This Raspberry Pi Crypto Wallet Manages Your Digital Currency
- EKWB Reveals Second-Generation Thermoelectric Water Block
- Bitcoin's Soaring Price Helps the Crypto Market Cap Rise Above $2 Trillion Again
- Intel Discloses $763,000 Stake in Coinbase Cryptocurrency Exchange
- RTX 3060 Ti LHR Receives a 35% Hashrate Boost in NBMiner
- Intel Arc Announced: 'Alchemist' Discrete Gaming GPUs Land In Q1 2022
- NanoPi R2C: Deceptively Small, Yet Powerful Mini-Router
- Steam Deck Could Support Microsoft's xCloud Gaming Service
- $399 PineNote E-ink Tablet Features Quartz64 SBC
- Millions of Qubits, Billions of Dollars: A Scientific Breakthrough and a Promising Market for Quantum
- Seagate Remains HDD King, But Western Digital is Approaching
- August 15
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- August 13
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- Xbox Series S Teardown Reveals a Well-Designed Interior
- Nvidia's Jetson AI Board Is Ready to Go to Space
- Hacker Who Stole $600M in Cryptocurrency Offered $500K Bounty
- Cryptomining Botnet Alters CPU Settings to Boost Mining Performance
- Pimoroni's Plasma 2040 Wants to Light Up Your Life
- Intel Preps 3nm GPU, Server Chips: Rumor
- Ring and Tear: Doom Hacked on to Desktop Phones
- Arduino Powered Business Card Doubles as a Video Game Console
- AMD's CPU Market Share and Revenue Jump as Apple's M1 Arm Chips Rise in PCs
- TeamGroup Launches PS5-Optimized SSD: Up to 7400 MB/s
- AMD Ryzen 5 5600G Smiles for the Camera
- Radeon RX 570 Revival: Dual-GPU Mining Beast Hits 60 MH/s
- DDR5-4800 Clashes With DDR4-3200 In Alder Lake Benchmarks
- August 12
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- Microsoft Delivers Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22000.132 With Updates to Windows Apps
- AMD Adds RDNA 2-Based Van Gogh Enabling Firmware to Linux
- Another AMD Zen 'Secure Encrypted Virtualization' Vulnerability Demonstrated by Researchers
- Phison Announces Entrance Onto PCIe 5.0 Redriver Market
- Cryptomining Firm Purchases Site With 223,000 GPUs
- Intel Alder Lake-P and M Processor Power Limits Listed
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang to Receive SIA's 2021 Robert N. Noyce Award
- Disable Windows 11 Bloatware With This New System Tool
- $600M Crypto Hacker Compares Themselves to Batman
- Intel and AMD to Dominate Server Market, Arm Not Competitive Until 2023
- Raspberry Pi Hal 9000 Project Listens with Alexa Voice Service
- Start 11 Comes to the Rescue of Windows 11 Menu Haters
- Radeon RX 6600 XT May Be the New De Facto GPU for Mining
- HDD Shipments Set All-Time Capacity Record
- August 11
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- Radeon RX 6600 XTs Available at Micro Center, Hard to Find Elsewhere
- Raspberry Pi Beats Wordscapes with 3D Printer and AI
- Intel Ironically Removes Cannon Lake Graphics Driver That Wasn't Needed Anyway
- Hacker Returns $256M of $600 Million Cryptocurrency Haul (Updated)
- BitMEX Crypto Platform Hit with $100 Million Fine for Breaking Laws
- DDR5/DDR4 Solution for 5nm SoCs Launched
- Intel Poaches Nvidia's RTX, DLSS Pioneer Anton Kaplanyan from Facebook
- Semiconductor Chip Delivery Times Extend to Record 20 Weeks
- NSA Awards Secret $10 Billion Cloud Contract to Amazon, Microsoft Complains
- Norton, Avast Merge Towards an $8 Billion Cybersecurity Giant
- Intel Fails to Reverse $2.18 Billion Patent Infringement Verdict
- August 10
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- Company Reveals All-Russian PCs Using an Arm SoC and Linux
- Windows 11 Can Now Run on Apple's M1 Macs
- Hackers Steal $600 Million in Crypto From DeFi Site Poly Network
- Splunk Details Monero-Mining Malware Targeting Windows Servers on AWS
- Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Rebounded Once Again, Because of Course They Did
- Nvidia Serves Up Low-Profile RTX A2000 GPU for Slim Workstations
- Researchers Develop RISC-V Chip for Quantum-Resistant Encryption
- The Smallest Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Carrier Board, Ever
- Gigabyte AORUS 17G 17YE5 Laptop Appears with Alder Lake Processor and DDR5 Memory
- Gigabyte Gets Hacked, Attackers Steal 112GB of Data Plus AMD and Intel Info
- DRAM Prices Are Expected to Enter a Downfall
- August 9
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- Samsung Heir Gets Out of Jail Amidst Pressure From US for Chip Fab
- New AIB Jumps On AMD's Big Navi Bandwagon With an RX 6600 XT
- SEC Reaches $10 Million Settlement With Poloniex for Regulatory Violations
- Microsoft Brings xCloud Game Streaming to Windows PCs Using Xbox App
- This Raspberry Pi Guitar Pedalboard Is Built to Rock
- Nvidia RTX 30-Series Prices Are Falling Faster Than AMD RX 6000 GPUs in Germany
- Aya Neo Pro Handheld Gaming Console Starts at $1215
- U.S. Infrastructure Bill Facing Delays Due to Fight Over Crypto Regulations
- X-NAND Technology Gets Patented, QLC Flash with SLC Speed
- Xiaomi Launching OLED TVs with Nvidia G-Sync Support
- AMD Ryzen 3 5300G APU Overclocked to 5.5 GHz, Smashing Quad-Core Records
- August 8
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- August 6
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- Intel: Upcoming US Fab Will Be a Small City, to Cost $60 to $120 Billion
- Steam Deck Hands-On: PC Gaming in My Hands
- Intel's Alder Lake CPUs, DG2 GPUs Will Likely Power NUC 12 Mini PC
- White House Backs Crypto Rules Favoring Mining-Based Consensus Mechanisms
- Raspberry Pi Pico Monitors Three Houseplants at Once
- AMD's Ryzen 3D V-Cache Chips Have Been in Development For Years
- AMD Radeon RX 6000 Laptops: All the Models You Can Buy Right Now
- Corsair: DDR5 Modules Will Require Better Cooling
- August 5
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- Adata Unveils SE920 External USB4 SSD: Up to 4000 MB/s
- Microsoft Teases New Windows 11 Snipping Tool, Dark Mode for Word
- Microsoft Releases New Windows 11 Build With Minor Changes
- Adata Shows Off Blisteringly Fast 12,600 MTps DDR5 Modules
- Alder Lake Allegedly Commands 28% Higher Peak Current Than Rocket Lake
- This AMD-Based, Palm-Sized Desktop is Upgradeable Despite its Size
- US Senators Propose a More Nuanced Take on Cryptocurrency Regulations
- Cloud Storage Service Backblaze Unaffected by Chia Crypto Farming
- Mysterious Radeon RX 6800 'Navi 21' Card with 8GB of GDDR6 Spotted
- Here's Why EVGA Charges Scalper Pricing for Advanced GPU RMA Requests
- Ethereum's Latest Hard Fork Drastically Cuts Mining Profitability
- This Raspberry Pi Pico Game Totally Slaps
- Amazon Delays GPU-Breaking Game 'New World' Until September
- AMD's Direct Store Implements a Queue System For RX 6000 Series GPUs
- Where to Buy AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 5 5700G CPUs
- WD Sold $200 Million in Hard Drives for Chia Mining Last Quarter
- Radxa and StarFive Partner to Deliver RISC-V Single Board PC to Consumers
- The Short Lived Return of 3dfx
- August 4
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- Asus Releases First Windows 11 Motherboard BIOS Update
- AMD's FSR Uses Lanczos Tech, Just Like Nvidia's Years-Old Sharpening Filter
- Sony Has Already Secured 22 Million Chips for the PlayStation 5
- SK Hynix to Make Intel's NAND Business a Separate Company
- Colorful Unveils Founders Edition-Like RTX 3070 with 12-Pin Power Connector
- Nvidia's RTX 3090 Has Apparently Sold More Units Than AMD's Entire RX 6000 Series Lineup
- AMD's Ryzen 9 5900HX Zen 3 CPU Powers New NUC-Like PC
- Asus Registers GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Graphics Card, Hinting at a Possible Collaboration of Two Brands
- HDD Reliability Report Lists Three Drives That Never Failed
- Raspberry Pi Cardboard Robot Arm Cuts Costs
- AMD Breaks Share Price Record Five Days in a Row Following Its Stellar Quarter
- Third-Party Tool Allows Any Game to Use AMD FSR
- Microsoft Halts Windows 365 Trials Due to Overwhelming Demand
- Raspberry Pi Powered ‘Auto-Arm’ Learns How To Move
- UK Government Could Block Nvidia's Takeover of Arm
- 3dfx Has Still Not Returned, No Matter What Twitter Says
- August 3
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- AMD Releases Apple Exclusive W6000X Workstation GPUs
- US Attempts to Fund $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill With Crypto Regulations
- Study Says Many People Would Buy Stuff With Cryptocurrency If They Understood It
- Intel Xe-HPG DG2-128EU Graphics Card Shows Up With 2,200 MHz Clock Speed
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Gains Native SATA Support
- HP’s X34 Is a Well-Priced 165Hz Ultrawide Monitor
- McDonald's Cooks Up Secret PS5 Controller With Questionable Aesthetics
- Magnetic Levitation Switches Feel Like Typing on Air
- August 2
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- Windows 365 Generally Available, Starting at $20
- Huawei Installs Arm-based Data Center in Moscow
- Cougar Introduces the Dust 2 Mini-ITX Case
- Colorful's New GeForce RTX 3060 Is a Tiny and Elegant GPU
- Hackers Dump FIFA 21 Code Online After Blackmail Attempt
- Google's Pixel 6 Will Boast 'Tensor' SoC Built for ML and AI
- California Is Tightening Regulations on Monitors, Too, but Don't Panic
- Ethereum Drop Makes GDDR SGRAM Cheaper: Will Graphics Cards Drop too?
- Raspberry Pi WeatherClock Shows What to Expect and When
- Controversial Bitcoin-Mining Power Co. Plans to Replace Landfill With Solar Farm
- AMD and Valve Working on CPU Driver That Could Boost Steam Deck Performance
- 3dfx to Return, Claims Twitter Account With No Evidence
- Microsoft Paint and Photos Get A Fresh New Look With Windows 11 Styling
- Fenix Linux Streams YouTube Fullscreen on Raspberry Pi 4
- Steam Survey: Linux Gaming Market Share Climbs to 1% For First Time in Years
- August 1