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Fiat 500e review: Do electric cars get any cuter than this?

(Pocket-lint) – When it comes to small cars, there’s one model that’s always really stood out: the Fiat 500. Relaunched in 2007 – and revised in 2015 – the Fiat 500 has secured its position as something of an icon. Alongside the Mini, it’s perhaps one of the most distinctive and commonly sighted small cars… Read more

Nvidia Reveals GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: A 3090 With Half the VRAM

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) After months of rumors and speculation, Nvidia has finally revealed the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, the long-awaited heir to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. Forget the earlier 20GB VRAM rumors; the 3080 Ti is basically an RTX 3090 with half the VRAM. With specifications and performance so close to the… Read more

Intel at Computex 2021: New Tiger Lake Processors, Beast Canyon NUC, 5G Chips

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel kicked off Computex 2021 by adding two new flagship 11th-Gen Tiger Lake U-series chips to its stable, including a new Core i7 model that’s the first laptop chip for the thin-and-light segment that boasts a 5.0 GHz boost speed. As you would expect, Intel also provided plenty of benchmarks… Read more

How to Fix IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Errors in Windows 10

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) One of the more common Windows stop codes is named IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. This cryptic-seeming name refers to an Interruption ReQuest Line (IRQL) that PCs use to signal events in urgent need of attention or response. In fact, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (sometimes referred to as just “IRQL”) is typically a memory related error that… Read more

Pimoroni Pico LiPo Review: Pico Pinout with Plenty of Extras

Our Verdict This is the Raspberry Pi Pico on steroids. The power of the RP2040 with the extra conveniences that make creating projects a breeze. For + Identical Pico pinout + Battery charging + Stemma QT / Qwiic connector + Large flash memory + USB C Against – Costs much more than a Pico There… Read more

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti’s Final Specs May Have Just Been Leaked

Home News GeForce RTX 3080 (Image credit: Nvidia) After months of build-up, we finally see a GPU-Z validation (courtesy of Matthew Smith) for Nvidia’s looming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card. Barring any last-second surprises, the information from the validation entry should be the final specifications for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. If you haven’t… Read more

Google is now embroiled in a full class-action lawsuit over whether it underpaid women

Four women who used to work for Google have won class-action status for their gender equity lawsuit against the search engine company, allowing them to represent some 10,800 women, Bloomberg reports. The lawsuit alleges that Google pays men more than women for the same work, in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act, and that Google… Read more

Epic Optimizes Unreal Engine 5 Compilation For AMD’s Threadripper CPUs

Home News (Image credit: AMD) In a recent blog post by AMD, the company announced that Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 5, which is now in early access mode and will power a new generation of games, is now fully optimized for compilation work with Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. Epic Games VP Nick Penwarden notes that using… Read more

Razer adds Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti GPU options to pre-built systems

Nvidia has yet to officially announce the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, but that hasn’t stopped listings popping up from some partners. Over the weekend, both unannounced GPUs appeared on Razer’s website as an option for pre-built PC orders. The listings, spotted and shared by @harukaze5719, show that Razer began letting customers choose an… Read more

Wow, investors actually just gave Turntable.fm $7.5 million

Turntable.fm, the social platform that lets people collaboratively build and perform DJ sets, has raised $7.5 million in venture capital funding, according to a Medium post by CEO Billy Chasen. Turntable.fm was revived by Chasen as a response to the pandemic, after it shut down in 2013. But it’s not the only version of Turntable… Read more

Cooler Master Builds World’s Thinnest Vapor Chamber

Home News (Image credit: Cooler Master) Cooler Master, in partnership with Murata, is developing the world’s smallest vapor chamber cooler, which is just a little thicker than human hair. In other words, that’s just 200 micrometers tall. This vapor chamber is planned to be a full replacement for standard heat pipe air coolers in devices… Read more

Electric vehicle startups hit speed bumps after raising tons of cash

Electric vehicle startups have raised an absurd amount of money in the last year by merging with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. That money — billions of dollars, collectively — was supposed to be enough to help each of them start fighting for space in a market dominated by Tesla. But many of these… Read more

Microsoft teases a ‘next generation of Windows’ announcement ‘very soon’

Microsoft isn’t talking about its big Windows plans at Build 2021 this week, and that’s because the company is preparing to detail what’s next for its PC operating system separately. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella teased this announcement during his Build keynote this morning, revealing he has been testing “the next generation of Windows” in recent… Read more

Hot summer days are even hotter for many Americans of color

In cities across the US, people of color are enduring hotter summer temperatures than their white counterparts, new research shows. It’s another sign that the consequences of rising temperatures will hit vulnerable communities harder than others. A person of color, on average, lives in a census tract that’s more than a full degree Celsius (nearly… Read more

Et Tu, RAM? Computer Memory Price Hikes Are Coming

Home News (Image credit: Micron) High demand for PCs and, importantly, desktop PCs has already resulted in increased graphics card, PSU, HDD, and SSD pricing, but apparently, now DRAM is getting even more expensive, too. According to a new report from Taiwan, memory prices are set for double-digit growth in the coming months. Contract memory… Read more