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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

Getting hospitals ready for the next pandemic

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The more hospitals cooperate, the better they’ll fare in an emergency As surges of COVID-19 cases spread throughout the United States over the past year, hospitals overwhelmed with patients quickly ran out of everything: masks, gloves, beds, space, doctors, nurses. Hospital workers in New York City, one of… Read more

ASRock Z590 PG Velocita Review: Network Speed, Ample USB

Our Verdict ASRock’s Z590 PG Velocita is a full-featured Z590 motherboard that includes three M.2 sockets, Killer based networking (including Wi-Fi 6E), capable power delivery, premium audio, and more. It’s a well-rounded mid-ranger for Intel’s Z590 platform. For Killer based 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E Networking 10 USB ports on rearIO Capable power delivery Against… Read more

Urbanista is the latest company to take a swing at solar-powered headphones

Urbanista’s new wireless noise-canceling Los Angeles headphones have a solar panel integrated into the length of the headband, allowing them to draw power from both indoor and outdoor light, Wired reports. Although its built-in 750mAh battery can be charged traditionally via USB-C and offers up to a respectable 50 hours of battery life, the real… Read more

Graphics Card Power Consumption and Efficiency Tested

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) How much power do the best graphics cards use? It’s an important question, and while the performance we show in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy is useful, one of the true measures of a GPU is how efficient it is. To determine GPU power efficiency, we need to know both performance… Read more

MSI MEG Z590 Ace Review: New Ace in Town

Home News (Image credit: MSI) While we still don’t have an Intel Rocket Lake-S Core i9-11900K CPU to use for testing, Intel Z590 boards have been rolling in. So while we await benchmark results, we’ll be walking in detail through the features of these brand-new boards. First up on our bench was the ASRock Z590… Read more

The House’s three big ideas to take on tech power

Last year, House Judiciary Committee lawmakers topped off a yearslong investigation into anti-competitive behavior in the tech industry by bringing in some of the most powerful chief executives in the market. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai headlined one of the biggest must-watch hearings… Read more

Best Mining GPUs Benchmarked and Ranked

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) What’s the best mining GPU, and is it worth getting into the whole cryptocurrency craze? Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are making headlines again; prices and mining profitability are way up compared to the last couple of years. Everyone who didn’t start mining last time is kicking themselves for their… Read more

Intel Files Suit Over Ex-Employee Who Allegedly Walked Away With Confidential Xeon Files

Home News (Image credit: Photoshop) An ex-employee of Intel allegedly walked away with 3,900 documents pertaining to confidential data from the company. Intel has filed a lawsuit and wants $75,000 as payment for potential damage from the stolen documents. The former employee in question is Dr. Varun Gupta, who left Intel last year to join… Read more

Malicious code loopholes in VLC player plugged

In the current version of the VLC Player, the developers have closed several security holes. (Image: Tatiana Popova / Shutterstock.com) The media player VLC Player has been released in a secured version. Users should update the application quickly. If attacks are successful, in the worst case scenario attackers could execute malicious code. In a security… Read more

Phison’s PS5021-E21T Controller to Enable 5000 MBps Entry-Level SSDs

Home News (Image credit: Phison) Phison has announced its new controller for entry-level SSDs featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. The new PS5021-E21T controller supports the latest types of 3D NAND memory with a 1600 MT/s interface and promises to offer a sequential read speed of up to 5000 MBps. Meanwhile, the chip is made using an… Read more

rC3: How the Corona Warning App is protected against hacker attacks

Thomas Klingbeil, senior developer at SAP, gave insights into the backend architecture of the Corona Warning App (CWA) at the remote Chaos Communication Congress (rC3). It basically consists of a CWA server with the diagnostic keys, a verification server and another server for transmitting the test results from the laboratory. The app and the infrastructure… Read more

Diablo Immortal plays like, well, Diablo on your phone

Diablo Immortal didn’t make a great first impression. It was announced at Blizzcon in 2018 when most fans were expecting the next mainline Diablo title, not a free-to-play spinoff for smartphones. Since then, Blizzard has been very quiet about Immortal (though Diablo IV was eventually announced). That’s starting to change. Ahead of a technical alpha… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 Memory Tested: How Much RAM Do You Need?

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) We’ve been pounding on Cyberpunk 2077 benchmarks with our GPU testing and CPU thread fixes. But what about memory? Does your PC’s memory configuration matter? Of course, the answer is yes, but we wanted to see just how much it matters. We’ve run a handful of benchmarks on… Read more