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Now’s your chance to get a month of Paramount Plus for free

If you’ve been weighing whether to take the plunge on Paramount Plus, now’s your chance to take the streaming service for a test drive for a full 30 days. The service is currently offering a month-long trial period that extends to both its recently launched “essential” plan that’s supported by ads (regularly $5 per month),… Read more

Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and HomeKit camera storage

Apple is amping up iCloud with a new set of features called iCloud Plus. The cloud storage service will now come with access to a VPN, burner email addresses, and unlimited storage for HomeKit-enabled home security cameras. The VPN, called Private Relay, will route your internet traffic through two relays in order to mask who’s… Read more

MagSafe PopSockets are here: we tested to see if they stick

MagSafe PopSockets are finally here, after the famous phone handle company announced they would be coming in January. The PopGrip for MagSafe sells for $30, which is two to three times more expensive than the adhesive versions, but the bigger question that people have been asking since the announcement is whether they’ll be as trustworthy…. Read more

How To Make A Magic 8-Ball With Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Foundation released its Sense HAT add on back in 2015 and yet this board remains one of the best Raspberry Pi HATs, because it still packs a full scientific platform and an 8×8 RGB LED matrix for a little fun in your Raspberry Pi projects. The… Read more

How the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. inspired a wave of real-world Chernobyl tourists

A virtual world leads to IRL excursions By Darmon Richter Apr 29, 2021, 12:32pm EDT Illustration by Alex Castro At the entrance to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, 35 years on from the worst nuclear disaster in history, a yellow souvenir van sells T-shirts, key rings, and glow-in-the-dark “Chernobyl condoms,” all branded with gas… Read more

Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths

Microsoft is starting to submerge its servers in liquid to improve their performance and energy efficiency. A rack of servers is now being used for production loads in what looks like a liquid bath. This immersion process has existed in the industry for a few years now, but Microsoft claims it’s “the first cloud provider… Read more

How to Program Raspberry Pi Pico With the Arduino IDE

Wiring code for your Raspberry Pi Pico can fall into two categories. The easy way for new users is to use a version of Python such as MicroPython or CircuitPython. A more advanced way is to write code in C / C++ which is for more confident users. There is now a third way that… Read more

Samsung Demos 256Gb 3nm MBCFET Chip: Performance, Density Up, Power Down

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung Foundry will be the first maker of semiconductors to start using gate-all-around field-effect transistor (GAAFET)-like structures with its upcoming 3 nm fabrication process. The node is not quite ready for primetime yet, but at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) engineers from Samsung Foundry shared some of the… Read more

Pimoroni Pico Display Review: An IPS screen for your Raspberry Pi Pico

Our Verdict Great fun to use and it can be useful for many projects. The GPIO access could be an issue for some, so plan your build wisely. For Low cost Easy to use Crisp display Against Lose access to GPIO pins When the Raspberry Pi Pico was released, UK retailer Pimoroni were the first… Read more

Reddit bought a five-second Super Bowl spot celebrating GameStock

You could have been forgiven for missing Reddit’s Super Bowl ad tonight — it was only five seconds long. The ad mostly consisted of a text message that would’ve been pretty difficult to read in the moment, claiming that the company spent its “entire marketing budget on five seconds of airtime.” “One thing we learned… Read more

Rotel Michi S5 / P5

Our Verdict With the superb construction, elegant design and perfectly natural sound of the Michi P5 and S5 combo from Rotel, the only question left to ask is ‘how much?’ The pair offer awesomely low noise with huge output and do so in a gorgeous package. For Superb sound Prestige appearance Great built-in DAC Against… Read more

PSA: phones, MagSafe or not, should be kept away from your pacemaker

When it comes to whether MagSafe-enabled iPhones are safe around pacemakers or other implanted medical devices, Apple and medical device makers have the same advice: it should be okay, but it’s best not to risk it. MacRumors spotted an update to one of Apple’s support documents, where the company advises that iPhones should be kept… Read more

Hitman 3 Benchmarks and Performance

Home News (Image credit: IO Interactive) Hitman 3 just launched, and IO Interactive’s latest stealth assassination sandbox game has garnered high ratings from many publications — PC Gamer gives it a 90, for example. But what sort of hardware do you need to run the game properly? We’ve grabbed a copy from the Epic Games… Read more

Liquid Cooling EKWB AIO Elite 360 D-RGB Review

Introduction to the EKWB AIO Elite D-RGB specifications by 360 mm This is not the first time that we tested an all-in-one kit from EKWB , on the other hand, one of the most famous brands of custom systems and with a more varied catalog of exchange blocks, but It is also true that our… Read more

TIM: sanction of almost 1 million euros for the remodeling of the basic plan

The sanction for TIM of 928. 00 0 ?? for having incorrectly remodeled the contract linked to the conditions of the Basic Plan with a cost of 1, 99 ?? per month for some customers in the absence of active offers. Here are the details. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 20 January 2021 , at 11:… Read more