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Patrick Slade, who worked on the project as a PhD student, said they went with a Raspberry Pi due to its affordability and the fact that it can run multiple code threads simultaneously. Writing in Python also makes the validation process easier, Slade added. Key to a quality adaptive device is individualization, and that’s where Stanford’s creation differs from others. The team spent years using exoskeleton emulators to train their machine learning model, and the investment paid off....

The last several notebooks I’ve reviewed have included some form of SSD as the primary drive, a trend that thankfully continues with the Blade Pro. Our review sample included a spacious 512GB SSD alongside a 1TB hard drive for storage purposes. As a result, the system booted up in just 13 seconds and felt zippy when installing games, launching applications and surfing the web. Razer’s decision to use a large 17....

As you all know by now, after much anticipation ray tracing in Battlefield V was a bit of a disaster at launch. The implementation was plagued by technical issues including poor reflection resolution, things being incorrectly reflected, and loads of noise. On top of this, enabling ray tracing on even the lowest settings cut the game’s frame rate in half or even into a third depending on the GPU and resolution at hand....

Riot Games in a series of tweets said their development environment was compromised via a social engineering attack last week. The developer asked for patience as they work through the matter and continue their investigation, but the incident is already leaving its mark on the company’s roadmap. Riot Games said the breach has temporarily affected their ability to release content. In other words, they expect it to slow the rollout of patches across multiple games....

Update (01/21): A Roku spokesperson reached out to TechSpot to let us know the ad seen by the user was a bug. Roku has resolved the issue and affirmed that it is not running ads during live television broadcasts. The original story follows below: It appears that streaming TV provider Roku may be testing pop-up ads with live broadcast customers. Over the weekend, a user on the r/cordcutters subreddit reported that Roku served him an ad overlay during a live NFL game....

The RTX 4090 owner (name redacted) filed the lawsuit on November 11 in California federal court. It claims that Nvidia sold its current Lovelace flagship cards with “defective and dangerous power cable plug and socket(s), which has rendered consumers’ cards inoperable and poses a serious electrical and fire hazard for each and every purchaser.” Genova, who bought his RTX 4090 from Best Buy for $1,599.99, points to a Reddit thread that shows at least 26 other users who have experienced the same melting issue....

The warning came during a United Nations working group meeting on reducing space threats last week. Konstantin Vorontsov, a member of the Russian delegation, said that the country “would like to underline an extremely dangerous trend that goes beyond the harmless use of outer space technologies and has become apparent during the events in Ukraine. Namely, the United States and its allies use the elements of civilian, including commercial, infrastructure in outer space for military purposes....

Copying large files on the Samsung SSD 850 Pro is extremely fast with a throughput of 364MB/s, 34MB/s faster than the previous champion, the SSD 840 Pro. Enabling RAPID mode improved performance by another 12% to 409MB/s. The program copy performance was just as impressive as the SSD 850 Pro managed to sustain a throughput of 260MB/s, making it 28% faster than the SSD 840 Pro. Unfortunately, we found RAPID mode was of no benefit here....

The Galaxy A5 uses one of the nicest designs I’ve ever seen in a Samsung smartphone. It’s thin, light and well built, using a premium selection of materials that looks clean and fantastic from most angles. Place the A5 next to a Galaxy S5 and the cheaper handset far outshines the more expensive, which goes to show how far Samsung’s designs have come in a short period of time....

The design of the Alpha is certainly very nice, and a significant upgrade over the plastic mess Samsung has dished up over the past few years. The part-metal body is slim, light and portable, and thanks to the perfectly-sized 4.7-inch display, the device is easy to use with one hand or two. It also looks quite attractive, which is something that I haven’t been able to say about too many of Samsung’s previous flagships....

This review focuses on the larger of the two devices, the Samsung Galaxy S9+. Most of the hardware inside the S9+ is the same as the S9, with the exception of the larger 6.2-inch display (versus 5.8" on the S9), the dual rear camera solution, and a larger battery. As with previous Galaxy S handsets, there are two variants of the S9+ for different markets. The United States, Japan and China get a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 inside, while the rest of the world gets Samsung’s latest Exynos 9810....

Moreover, the Extreme II held its own when running PCMark 7 and this was again the case when testing with the recently released PCMark 8, which leads us to conclude that SanDisk’s latest offering is on an even playing field with the Vertex 450 when it comes to performance. Naturally, such is also the case with pricing, as both drives are currently fetching about $230 at online retailers. While you get a little more storage with the Vertex 450, we think reliability is the biggest consideration and OCZ’s record here is mixed....

Like the RV05, the RVX01 is limited to a standard ATX power supply and Silverstone specifies that there is a total of 225mm of room for the PSU. That said, we only used a 160mm long power supply and connecting the modular cables with the power supply installed in the RVX01 was already a real challenge. That being the case we don’t recommend going much over 160mm long for the PSU, even if Silverstone recommends a maximum PSU length of 180mm....

Bloomberg writes that SK Hynix recorded a 56% increase in second-quarter profit yesterday, beating analysts’ estimates. But there was bad news alongside the healthy financial report. Company executives said demand from its major growth areas of PCs, smartphones, and servers was slowing. Industry analyst IDC earlier this month reported that PC shipments fell in Q2 for the second straight quarter, by 15.3% year-on-year. Smartphone shipments are experiencing a similar decline this year....

Plaintiffs Adonis Real and Adam Titcher filed the suit in California district court on Friday. It alleges a conspiracy in which highly influential celebrities were discreetly paid to promote the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs to “artificially inflated and distorted prices.” It’s claimed that these misleading promotions did not disclose the celebrities’ alleged payments. “Defendants’ promotional campaign was wildly successful, generating billions of dollars in sales and re-sales,” wrote the plaintiffs’ lawyers, and “at no point did any of the defendants register these securities with the SEC....

Snap is developing a paid subscription service that will reportedly grant members early access to features and other amenities. Snap spokesperson Liz Markman confirmed to The Verge that Snapchat Plus is in the early internal testing phase, adding that they are excited about the potential to share exclusive, experimental and pre-release features with subscribers and learn how they can best serve their community. A Twitter post from leaker Alessandro Paluzzi highlights additional Snapchat Plus features including the ability to pin a friend as your #1 BFF, access to exclusive Snapchat icons, the ability to display a badge in your profile and an option to see your friends’ whereabouts over the past 24 hours (so long as they agree to share their location with you), among others....

Highlights include titles from popular franchises like No Man’s Sky, Resident Evil Village and Horizon Call of the Mountain. There’s also a free PS VR2 update for Gran Turismo 7 due out on launch day. Developer Polyphony Digital said GT7 will take full advantage of the headset’s next-gen features including eye tracking and foveated rendering. Two-player split-screen races will not support VR, we’re told, but all other race modes including online competition will....

Object-tracking focus is a neat addition, and while there are some issues with the camera app - a poor manual mode and lack of 4K recording - image quality is good enough to impress. As you’d hope from the name, the performance of this handset is another highlight. The Snapdragon 820 is a very fast piece of silicon, and paired with a 1080p display it provides class leading performance. You also get a decent array of hardware, including worldwide LTE support, a fast fingerprint sensor, high-res audio, and NFC, though no USB-C....

At this resolution the GeForce GTX 460 delivered the same gaming experience as the more expensive Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards. Neither Crossfire nor SLI provided any advantages in terms of performance. This should rectify once an updated driver is out. At this resolution using the ultra preset the GeForce 9800 GT was just able to deliver playable performance, playable in the sense that there was no noticeable lag....

When we benchmark, the NAS device in question is connected directly to a Netgear GS108T v2 switch while our test PC is the most high-end desktop on-hand with an SSD to read and write the data. The Synology DS1515 showed excellent consumption figures with a maximum draw of just 36 watts. This is comparable to the DS415+ and older DS413, while the QNAP TS-653 Pro reached 41 watts along with the Asustor AS-304T....