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Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush was acquired by Google in 2015 after launching for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and it was soon folded into the company’s larger VR plans, like… Read more

Team Group Announces Worlds First DDR5 SO-DIMM Memory

Home News (Image credit: TeamGroup) Team Group has just made the world’s first DDR5 SO-DIMMs designed for mobile devices, with a frequency of 4800MHz. Team Group is ready to start memory validation of these DDR5 modules with Intel and AMD once both companies begin producing DDR5-supported processors and motherboards. DDR5 will be the next generation… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile ‘Cezanne’ SoC Deep Dive: Zen 3 Powers Into Notebooks

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD whipped the covers off of its Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ mobile chips at CES 2021, but today marks the official launch and AMD has unveiled the deep-dive details of the SoC that brings the Zen 3 architecture to the notebook market for the first time. The new chips will power… Read more

RTX 3080 Mining Rig in a BMW’s Trunk Meant ‘Just to Annoy Gamers’

Home News (Image credit: Simon Byrne) Big-time miner Simon Byrne went the extra mile and made a portable RTX 3080 mining rig that is capable of going 0-60mph in under 4.5 seconds. The vehicle Byrne used is the BMW i8, and in the trunk is a small RTX 3080 farm with six GPUs. Simon uses… Read more

How to Connect an Analog Joystick to Raspberry Pi Pico

There are many reasons you might want to use an analog joystick in your Raspberry Pi Pico project. Perhaps you’re creating a game or maybe you need an input device for navigating. Whatever the case, connecting an analog stick to your Raspberry Pi Pico is really easy and coding for it in MicroPython is also… Read more

Gigabyte’s Z590 Aorus Tachyon Blasts Rocket Lake With 1300A of Power

Home News (Image credit: Overclocking.com) Gigabyte presented nine Intel Z590-based Aorus-branded motherboards at CES earlier this month, but didn’t actually showcase perhaps the most ambitious model in the lineup: The Z590 Aorus Tachyon, which can deliver up to an almost-ridiculous 1300A of power to Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake chips. For reference, most flagship motherboards top out around 1000A. … Read more

How to Use a Motion Sensor with Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico has a number of GPIO pins which we can use as inputs or outputs by simply configuring the pins in our code. In this guide, we shall learn how to work with inputs, in this case a sensor, and outputs in the form of an… Read more

Possible violation of specification: UHD Blu-rays should have regional codes

One of the great advances brought about by the introduction of the Ultra HD Blu-ray was, in addition to the higher resolution and the expanded contrast range, that these discs no longer have a so-called regional code. As a reminder: For video DVD and Blu-ray Disc, it was specified at the time that discs could… Read more

Microservices: Kong Gateway 2.3 gives the gorilla a sandpit

The company Kong has released version 2.3 of the microservices gateway of the same name. The current release changes the default settings for running Lua scripts in favor of security. It also brings some additions to the plug-ins for logging and authentication, among other things. With a view to global use, Route and service names… Read more

Elasticsearch and Open Source: Amazon's AWS strikes back

Amazon announced a fork from Elasticsearch and Kibana after the open source end of the software. Developer and provider Elastic blamed AWS and in particular its Elasticsearch distribution for the license change. It should explicitly not be a fork when it is announced 2019 – and it is now officially a. So far, Elasticsearch has… Read more

Realme Watch 2 full specs and design revealed by FCC

Last week we learned Realme is gearing up to launch the Watch 2 and Watch 2 Pro soon as the smartwatches were mentioned in the source code of Realme Link app. While Realme hasn’t divulged anything about these wearables yet, the Watch 2 has bagged FCC certification, revealing its design and specs in the process…. Read more

Google threatens to remove its search engine from Australia if new law goes into effect

Google is threatening to pull its search engine from an entire country — Australia — if a proposed law goes into effect that would force Google to pay news publishers for their content. “If this version of the Code were to become law it would give us no real choice but to stop making Google… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico: Tutorials, Pinout, Everything You Need to Know

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a radical change from previous Pis, because it’s not a Linux computer, but a a microcontroller board like Arduino . The biggest selling points of the Raspberry Pi Pico are the price, $4 and the new RP2040 chip which provides ample power for embedded… Read more

Samsung rolls back Android 11/One UI 3.0 update for the Galaxy S10 lineup

Earlier this month, Samsung pushed an OTA update to the entire Samsung Galaxy S10 lineup containing Android 11 and the maker’s One UI 3.0. However, the company abruptly stopped the update and is no longer available for the Galaxy S10 phones. Samsung still hasn’t disclosed the reason for rolling back the update, although clearly these… Read more

Nokia phone codenamed “Quiksilver” visits Geekbench

An upcoming Nokia phone powered by the 5G ready Snapdragon 690 chipset appeared in a listing on Geekbench. The device is code-named “Quicksilver” and managed 471 points in the single-core department and 1,500 on the multi-core test. According to speculations, this is the rumored Nokia 6.3/6.4 which appeared in renders two weeks ago. Nokia “Quicksilver”… Read more