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Every RTX 30-Series Card is in the Monday Newegg Shuffle

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Monday’s Newegg Shuffle comes with every SKU of Nvidia’s best graphics cards from the Ampere line, plus a single AMD GPU and a bunch of motherboards and power supplies that you probably don’t want. The RTX 3060 and RTX 3090 are both here, as well as every option in between,… Read more

Intel To Invest $3.5 Billion In New Mexico Fab Upgrade

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger appeared on 60 Minutes tonight to discuss the ongoing chip shortages in a wide-ranging interview with CBS News correspondent Leslie Stahl. Stahl noted during the program that Intel would announce a $3.5 billion upgrade to its Rio Rancho facility in New Mexico this week. Intel also… Read more

Meze Audio 99 Classics

Our Verdict As delectable as their name suggests, these talented, comfortable wired over-ears are appetising options For Clear, smooth and direct Impressively deep bass Luxury aesthetic Against Not the most energetic Rivals are more transparent Are we just hungry or do Meze Audio’s 99 Classics conjure up images of flatbread, falafel and baba ganoush, washed… Read more

New trailers: Castlevania, West Side Story, Sweet Tooth, Luca, and more

Just started watching season four of The Handmaid’s Tale and I remember why I prefer the weekly release schedule for this show: Bingeing it is utterly draining (Monica Hesse makes this point much more eloquently in her mostly spoiler-free review in the Washington Post). The show has a conundrum: it can’t kill off its main… Read more

GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3090 in Weekend Newegg Shuffle

Home News (Image credit: Newegg) Saturday’s Newegg Shuffle targets the best and the worst, at least in performance, of Nvidia’s Ampere lineup. The RTX 3060 and RTX 3090 are at polar ends of the GPU spectrum, and priced accordingly. Either way, you’re getting one of the best graphics cards — assuming you win the chance… Read more

How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I suggest you find a different community to do experiments… Read more

EU Explores Massive Local Semiconductor Alliance and Fab

Home News (Image credit: GlobalFoundries) In a move that echoes the whole endeavor of the European Union in general, the conglomeration of nations is exploring the idea of a semiconductor alliance as an alternative (or a complement) to a leading-edge fab built by a multinational chip company, according to a Reuters report. The general idea… Read more

If you’re more into hi-fi than music, that’s a problem

Home Features (Image credit: Future / Leben / Fyne Audio / Columbia / Antonio Guillem / Shutterstock) Always give your opinion piece an incendiary or inflammatory headline, and then follow that up with a provocative statement and a hardline stance you’ll spend the rest of the article attempting to climb down from: There is no… Read more

Would you pay $30 a month for a faster web browser that eats less battery?

No matter how much web browsers improve, it feels like they can’t keep pace with everything we want to do. Open one too many tabs on a few-year-old laptop, and your fan starts spinning, your battery life dips, your system starts to slow. A faster or cleaner PC might fix it, but a startup called… Read more

Spotify is okay with Joe Rogan’s anti-vaccine remarks

In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the world’s most popular podcaster suggests that healthy young people don’t need the COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to the advice of health professionals trying to stem a pandemic that’s killed more than 3 million people. Rogan said he believes “for the most part it’s safe to get… Read more

Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013

Eddy Cue pushed to bring iMessage to Android as early as 2013, according to a new deposition made public as part of the Epic case. Currently Apple’s senior VP of software and services, Cue wanted to devote a full team to iMessage support on Android, only to be overruled by other executives. The line of… Read more

MSI launches Modern AM241 and AM271 all-in-one PCs

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Tech News, General Tech MSI has been dabbling in the world of all-in-one PCs for a while now and this week, we’re getting some brand new models. Today, MSI announced the Modern AM241 and Modern AM271 series of all-in-one PCs, featuring Intel 11th Gen processors. The new Modern 24… Read more

Ryzen 9 5900X is $549 in Tuesday Newegg Shuffle

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Tuesday’s Newegg shuffles always seem to have the most options, and today’s shuffle brings with it a sale on one of AMD’s best CPUs plus a wide selection of Nvidia’s best graphics cards. Only the former is up for grabs solo, but you’re still able to sign up for a… Read more

People who are vaccinated don’t need to wear masks during many outdoor activities, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines for people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, outlining the situations where vaccinated people can stop wearing masks. People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after the second dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, and two weeks after the Johnson &… Read more

23 of the best vocal tracks to test your system

The vocal: often the official moment that gets a gig under way, the determiner of the direction your eyebrows go when first listening to a new artist. The vocal has enabled ‘one-man bands’ to play to rooms of thousands of people with only a guitar in their hand or a piano at their fingertips. The… Read more