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According to a study by Russell Funk, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, data suggests that the level of “disruptiveness” in scientific research has gone way down in the 2000s compared to the last half-century. Funk and colleagues focused on citation data taken from 45 million manuscripts and 3.9 million patents that were published between 1976 and 2010. If a study was highly disruptive, the authors said, subsequent research would be less likely to cite the study’s references as they would just cite the study itself....

For those unfamiliar with the service, Droplr offers a quick and easy way to share not just screenshots, but also text snippets and any type of files. Want to share a quick screenshot? Press a hotkey, select an area of the screen to snap, and the resulting image is automatically uploaded along with a short link copied to your clipboard ready to share. For files just drag them to Droplr’s system tray icon and they’ll be uploaded instantly....

Once inside you’ll discover a mess of cables and might be shocked by how small the MM01 is inside. Due to the fact that the anti-splash panels need to be so deep, this leaves very little room inside the case. Of the 597mm that the case spans, just 66% of that space can be used by the internal hardware. That’s still enough room to comfortably house an Extended ATX or massive SSI-EEB (305 × 330mm) motherboard....

At the very top is a clear, “V”-shaped band that houses blue power and activity LEDs. Besides this, there’s not much happening on the front of the Raven 2 Evolution. It’s worth noting that the original Raven design was also quite bland, but it featured more striking lines. It’s not the façade that catches your eye with the Raven 2 Evolution anyway, but the case’s shape. As we mentioned, looking at the front of the case gives you the impression that this is a mid-tower and not a full tower that is capable of housing multiple high-end graphics cards and almost a dozen storage devices....

Star Wars Battlefront is a heavy memory user but this didn’t seem to upset the 3GB GTX 1060. Throughout our test the entire 3GB capacity was allocated and yet the performance came out much the same. Even at 1440p, the 3GB model was just 6% slower with an average of 54fps, which is faster than the RX 480 8GB. The missing SM unit and VRAM didn’t impact the 3GB GTX 1060 in Ashes of the Singularity as we see the exact same DX11 and DX12 performance at 1080p....

Nvidia’s failed $40 billion takeover of Arm made competition authorities happy, but it also led to a restructuring of the latter company ahead of its planned IPO. In other words, Arm is cutting up to 15 percent of its workforce, most of it from the UK and the US, even after receiving $1.25 billion as a result of the deal falling through. That hasn’t stopped other companies from contemplating the possibility of purchasing the British chipmaker....

Beginning June 30, Xbox Cloud Gaming will be available on Samsung’s 2022 smart TVs through an app. The new sets will be compatible with Xbox and PlayStation Bluetooth controllers. Samsung will roll them out in 27 countries — including Argentina and New Zealand, which receive Cloud Gaming on Xbox, PC, and mobile devices starting today. Users will access the service through the Samsung Gaming Hub, where it will join cloud gaming services like Nvidia GeForce Now, Google Stadia, and Utomik....

A meeting of experts from various fields to discuss data transparency in political decision making was going well for the first 30 minutes, but that all went wrong when Giorgio Parisi, a Nobel Prize winners in physics, was introduced on the Zoom call. It was at this point that someone entered the meeting and started streaming a 3D video of Tifa Lockheart enjoying the company of an unidentified male (Cloud?...

In a business segment briefing for shareholders titled PlayStation: The Road to Profitable Transformation, Sony writes about the unprecedented demand for its PlayStation 5—something anyone who’s tried to buy one knows all about. An interesting part of the briefing for PC owners is the section that examines Sony’s growth on the platform. Net sales more than doubled in the most recent financial year, which ended March 31, 2022, to $80 million, which Sony attributes to the PC releases of Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, and God of War....

SpaceX launched the Starlink for RVs service back in May. As the name suggests, it’s designed specifically for RV owners who want to access the internet while in their vehicle. The setup kit is $599, and there’s a $135 monthly charge, which is $25 more than regular Starlink. The big caveat is that it can’t be used while the RV is moving. That limitation isn’t present in the all-new Flat High Performance Starlink for RVs service....

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Motherboard, Processor, Cooler, Memory The 4790K is routinely overclocked by more than 1000MHz, though keep in mind if you plan to overclock the 4790K then an aftermarket CPU cooler will be required. Something like the Silverstone Argon Series AR01 for just $35 works very well and if that cooler isn’t available to you then we also highly recommend the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo. It is worth mentioning that if you don’t plan on overclocking then the cooler upgrade is not required, furthermore we recommend ditching the unlocked K-model for the cheaper Core i5-4460....

The TechSpot PC Buying Guide offers an in-depth list of today’s best desktop PC hardware, spanning five budgets that go from ~$500 for a well-balanced machine capable of medium workloads, up to $3,000+ for the Luxury build. New for 2015, we’ve added a fifth build: The Extreme Machine disregards price-to-performance value altogether and simply includes the biggest and baddest hardware available, period. Whether you’re a first time builder seeking guidance or a seasoned enthusiast, we have you covered....

Motherboard, Processor, Cooler, Memory Even though the extreme build is meant to consist of the most extreme hardware, I can’t in good conscience recommend the Intel Core i7-6950X, at $1650 it is just bonkers. Therefore, we are going with the Intel Core i7-6900K, which is more sensible in relation to the 6950X at $1,100. The 6900K affords 8-cores and 16-threads clocked at up to 4GHz depending on the workload but again these are unlocked cores so they can be pushed higher....

It was inevitable for a service as big as Telegram to launch a subscription tier. While announcing the 700 million monthly active users milestone, the messaging company revealed Telegram Premium and all of the features it will unlock for subscribers. First up is the larger 4GB file upload size, which doubles the limit available to standard users. There will be no restriction/throttling on download speeds, with file downloads now dependent on a user’s bandwidth....

The move follows earlier discussions between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Bank of Thailand (BOT) over the need to regulate such activity by digital asset business operators as it could impact the country’s financial stability and economy, writes the SEC. The SEC added that digital asset business operators, including crypto exchanges, would have 30 days to comply with the new rules from the effective date. In addition to not providing the services, businesses are also barred from encouraging or promoting the use of digital assets to pay for goods or services....

As discussed before, we tend to discuss and recommend only the monitors we’ve tested and know to be good, or monitors that are very similar to products we have tested (use the same panels). It’s always worth going back and checking out the dedicated monitor reviews we produce for more in-depth thoughts on each, but most importantly the recommendations below are the byproduct of our testing results and research. We’ve grouped monitors in five main categories: 1440p, 4K, ultrawide, HDR and 1080p, with a few key recommendations on each, depending on the level of refresh rate you are targeting, display size and budget....

In 2017, the ideal smartphone receives a straightforward upgrade over last year’s model: an increase in on-board storage from 64 GB to 128 GB. You never know what you’re going to chuck on your phone over the course of its life, so it’s best to have a ton of storage available at your fingertips. Like the previous ideal smartphone, this phone would have an Apple-like NVMe controller for extremely fast transfer speeds....

Feel free to take a look at the Palmtop – created by Daniel Norris – in the video above. The idea for the Palmtop came about when Norris was looking at the items he had on his desk (a 7-inch touchscreen, battery cells, and a Corne keyboard PCB) and realized they were actually rather close in size. He figured he could combine these components into one compact machine and that’s precisely what he did....

The average TechSpot reader will think, of course, CPU and GPU cooling, but why does RAM not need fans to keep it cool? Why is there such a huge disparity between the performance of a mobile processor and a desktop processor even though the dies are pretty similar in size? Why have recent performance gains from new generations of chips started to slow down? The answer to all of these has to do with heat and the physics of how digital computers work on the nanoscale....