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It’s also quite easy to get inside the DS3612xs and install a 10GbE network card, requiring the removal of two case screws. Unlike the TS-879 Pro, the DS3612xs accepts cards with a low-profile bracket and doesn’t need its own custom bracket, which helps improve compatibility. While it’s apparent from the outside that the DS3612xs is around 40% larger than the TS-879 Pro, the difference is even more obvious when you get inside....

Linus from Linus Tech Tips describes the Steam Deck as arguably the most innovative gaming PC in the last 20 years. It starts with the inputs, and while there are plenty of them, it may be difficult for those with smaller hands to reach everything comfortably without readjusting your grip. As for the buttons, sticks and touch pads themselves, Linus said everything is on par quality-wise with controllers that ship alongside top-tier consoles....

When Redditor gregschlom’s 9-year-old microwave started to have problems with its buttons, he decided to replace them. You can’t just get microwave touchpad buttons off the shelf though, so he went for something better: Kalih box black mechanical keyboard switches. Gregschlom hardwired the switches to replace the buttons for 30-second cook, one-minute cook, settings, and cancel. When someone shared gregschlom’s photo on Twitter, Kalih even took notice. Despite how good pressing the switches feels, gregschlom said his wife wants to replace the microwave, which they’ve had to repair four times over the years....

While private organizations are monetizing machine learning (ML) models to chew countless images and sell the result to their customers, the US and the EU have something different in mind. Washington and Brussels have just announced a new agreement to work together on common artificial intelligence models, employing ML algorithms across a wide range of fields. As reported by Reuters, previous AI agreements between the United States and the European Union were limited to single issues and specific areas such as privacy....

Shortly after that publication, Logitech reached out to us for a tour of their audio headquarters in Camas, Washington. Having identified the scarcity of quality wireless gaming headsets, Logitech spent the last 18 months designing what it believes to be the best sounding, most well-featured headset on the market, gaming or otherwise. In fact, Logitech is so confident in the Artemis Spectrum, it bravely (foolishly?) threw its creation to a small pack of skeptical tech journalists in hopes they’d go home impressed....

Liu shared his thoughts on a possible Chinese invasion in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. He said that, like all wars, there would be “no winners” if such a conflict did occur, with China, Taiwan, and the West all losing. Liu added that the scenario would have consequences beyond the semiconductor industry, resulting in the “destruction of the world’s rules-based order.” In June, a high-ranking government economist said China should seize TSMC if the west ever imposed sanctions on the country like those faced by Russia....

Sources have told MyDrivers that TSMC could lower the prices of 3nm chips to entice more manufacturing partners. The cut would apply to all of the company’s 3nm processes, not just the inaugural N3. Last November, DigiTimes reported that TSMC planned to charge $20,000 per 3nm wafer – a 25 percent hike over 5nm because of the extensive EUV lithography process involved in manufacturing. Apple accepted the price increase to secure 3nm chips for its upcoming iPhone 15, but it seems other companies like AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and MediaTek backed off for the time being....

A virtual reality game based on Splinter Cell was announced during a Facebook Connect event in September 2020. The game was being led by Ubisoft’s Red Storm Entertainment studio and was set to be an Oculus VR exclusive. A trailer for the game reportedly garnered a ton of dislikes but since Google started hiding public dislike counts shortly after its debut, we have no way of knowing how many dislikes it has received to date....

We’ve already had plenty of leaks regarding AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 desktop CPUs, but now we get to hear more about the alleged specs of its Zen 4-based mobile lineup, courtesy of YouTube channel Red Gaming Tech. Rumors indicate that AMD’s Dragon Range series will use desktop-class CPUs transferred into a thinner BGA package, similarly to Intel’s Alder Lake-HX lineup. As a result, Dragon Range will feature up to 16 cores on the highest-end SKU, boost speeds of at least 5 GHz, and only two RDNA2 compute units....

There are some seriously good looking and very demanding games in that list. Crysis 3 only used 2.4GB of VRAM and yet both the GTX 960 and R9 380 struggled to deliver playable performance using the best graphics settings at 1080p. A similar story was found when testing with The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Interestingly, Dying Light consumed up to 3.5GBs of VRAM when there was enough at its disposal and yet there was no performance difference between 2GB and 4GB graphics cards....

As employees walked into work, the reporter asked if they knew why they weren’t getting paid. For a few 38 staffers, this was news. They weren’t getting paid? Really? Was this some sort of mistake? A clerical error? The end of the world? What the hell was going on? Within the next week, Schilling would tell his staff they didn’t have to come into work anymore, and by the end of May, 38 Studios would be gone....

I shut down my desktop PC with the purpose of connecting new hardware and on the way out I was prompted to “update and shutdown”. Sure, why not. I went on to install a secondary SSD for maintenance purposes and apparently that was enough for my system to refuse booting right after. I tried to backtrack to no avail. Because I had disconnected a few devices, it took me a while to narrow things down to my boot SSD, and for a second I even thought the SSD had gone forever kaput....

Newegg has ten RTX 4090 cards listed, including models from MSI, Gigabyte, and Asus. The prices start at $1,599 for the Gigabyte Windforce and reach $1,999 for the Asus ROG OC Edition. One of the cards, the $1,749 MSI Suprim, has an AIO hybrid cooling solution in the form of a 240mm radiator and a pair of Silent Gale P12 120m fans. The most expensive of the bunch, Asus’ factory-overclocked, triple-fan ROG OC, recommends a 1,000W PSU—Nvidia recommends a minimum 850W for its upcoming flagship....

Sony has made no secret about its objections to Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, mostly over fears that the Call of Duty series will eventually become an Xbox/PC exclusive. The Redmond firm has repeatedly claimed this won’t happen—Spencer once said the series would remain on PlayStation “as long as there’s a PlayStation out there”—and Microsoft recently confirmed it offered a 10-year deal to keep the franchise on PlayStation and other platforms, including the Nintendo Switch; a proposal that Microsoft reportedly called “misleading” diversion tactics....

Last fall, I reviewed the Xbox One and found it to be an interesting, ambitious console that wasn’t quite ready for prime time. At launch, was the Xbox One a must-own console? The Kotaku verdict at the time: Not yet. To sum it up: I wrote that review after spending an exhausting week and a half testing a couple of Microsoft-issued Xbox Ones to the best of my ability. Now, after six months more time using it, I have a significantly more refined view....

Myth #1 4K TVs Are Expensive While this statement may have been true just a few years ago, these days 4K TVs are very affordable. In fact, this past Black Friday, prices on 4K TVs were nearly as low as their 1080p counterparts. So even though we’re still waiting for 4K content to become commonplace, there isn’t any reason not to get a 4K TV in anticipation of when that time comes....

Much the same is seen when testing with the new CINEBENCH R11.5 benchmark program, which again fails to show any real performance differences between these four H55 motherboards.

The File Explorer doesn’t make file tagging easy either, which can push you to create many sub-folders just to keep your files organized (and that action also requires more clicks than it should). Other basic options such as checkboxes for files and restoring the previous window at startup are so inconvenient to turn on that you may have not even heard about them. Luckily, many alternative Windows file managers are available for free, or at least to try....

Hitman’s results are interesting. Whereas the the GTX 780 has previously been found to land somewhere between the GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 970, it’s now pretty much on par with the 1050 Ti, making it one of the slowest GPUs tested. Of course this is an AMD-sponsored title, but the R9 390 was still 74% faster. The R9 390 is now 82% faster at 1440p and again the GTX 780 is only able to match the GTX 1050 Ti....

The modern-day netbook was introduced by Asus in 2007 with the Eee PC. This new class of computing device arrived on the brink of a global financial crisis and quickly carved out a niche for itself as an affordable alternative to traditional notebooks. At their peak, netbooks accounted for 20 percent of notebook global sales but their success - at least, as Windows machines - would be short-lived. Manufacturers began churning out sub-$400 netbooks at a rapid pace, loading new systems with incrementally faster hardware in an attempt to address criticism that they were painfully slow....