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How to Farm Chia Coin, the New Storage-Based Cryptocurrency

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The new Chia cryptocurrency has already started making waves in the storage industry, as we’ve reported back in April. With Chia trading now live, it looks set to become even more interesting in the coming months. The total netspace for Chia has already eclipsed 2 exabytes, and it’s well… Read more

Galatasaray vs Besiktas live stream: how to watch Turkish Super Lig for free

Home Advice (Image credit: AdamAppel: https://rondea.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/echo/File-3ATurktelekomarenaskgalatasaray.jpg) With just three games left of the Turkish Super Lig, Galatasaray vs Besiktas sticks out as the last remaining hurdle between league leaders Besiktas and the first part of their possible third Turkish domestic double. Make sure you know how to watch a Galatasaray vs Besiktas live stream from… Read more

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Asus Zenfone 8 Flip leak pairs flipping cameras with Snapdragon 888

Asus’s successor to last year’s Zenfone 7 has leaked online, pointing to a return for the phones’ flipping camera array on May 12th. Specs and images of two upcoming devices — the Zenfone 8 and Zenfone 8 Flip — have been published by 91Mobiles, based on information provided by leaker Ishan Agarwal. As its name… Read more

HTC to unveil two new Vive headsets next week

HTC might be manufacturing very few smartphones these days, but the Taiwanese company is still going strong in the VR department. It will hold Vivecon on May 11-12 and at the event we expect to see two new VR headsets. One will be a new standalone device called Vive Focus 3 Business Edition, while the… Read more

Raja Koduri Teases Ponte Vecchio Again as GPU Scores Design Win

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s graphics guru Raja Koduri on Wednesday once again teased his Twitter followers with an animated image of how the company’s Ponte Vecchio compute GPU will be made. He posted the teaser just a day after it was revealed that the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will use Intel’s upcoming Sapphire Rapids CPUs as… Read more

Your Raspberry Pi Pico Could Soon Be Online

Home News (Image credit: Phil Howard @Gadgetoid) The $4 Raspberry Pi Pico may be great value, but it had to lose something in order to keep the price low, and that was WiFi. Sure, we can hack our own solution, but Pimoroni’s upcoming Pico Wireless board, demonstrated by Pimoroni employee Phil Howard (better known as… Read more

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Snap can be sued for fueling a fatal car crash with its speed filter, court rules

Snap can be sued over a Snapchat speed filter that allegedly encouraged reckless driving, despite the generally broad legal protections for social networks. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court revived a case that was dismissed in 2020, reversing an earlier ruling that favored Snap. It concluded that even if users were populating the filter with their… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti keeps leaking ahead of rumored launch later this month

Nvidia appears to be getting ready to launch its RTX 3080 Ti graphics card later this month. Over the past few weeks, RTX 3080 Ti cards have reportedly been spotted on shipping pallets, in retail boxes, and now in the hands of someone. VideoCardz has been at the center of tracking down Nvidia’s rumored RTX… Read more

Chia Coin’s Initially High Prices Could Cause a Storage Shortage

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) After about a month of preparation, following the initial mainnet launch, cryptocurrency Chia coin (XCH) has officially started trading — which means it’s possibly preparing to suck up all of the best SSDs like Ethereum (see how to mine Ethereum) has been gobbling up the best graphics cards. Early… Read more

How to Turn a Rotary Phone into Google Assistant with Raspberry Pi

I have some old telephones lying around – few of them fully functional anymore. I was going to throw out one of them when I realized I could replace the inner wiring with a Raspberry Pi, and have the Google Assistant running on it. While it’s certainly easier to call “hey google” across the room,… Read more

First Benchmark Result of Intel’s Core i9-11950H ‘Tiger Lake-H’ Emerge

Home News (Image credit: Intel) The first benchmark results of Intel’s yet-to-be-announced eight-core Core i9-11950 ‘Tiger Lake-H’ processor for gaming notebooks have been published in Primate Labs’ Geekbench 5 database. The new unit expectedly beats Intel’s own quad-core Core i7-1185G7 CPU both in single and multi-thread workloads, but when it comes to comparison with other… Read more

Facebook acquires the developers of VR military simulator Onward

Facebook’s Oculus division has snatched up yet another popular virtual reality game developer. On Friday, the company announced it has acquired Downpour Interactive, the studio behind the hit multiplayer military simulator Onward. “We’ve seen great success with Onward on the Oculus platform for several years — first on Rift and more recently on Quest,” Mike… Read more

Basecamp implodes as employees flee company, including senior staff

After a controversial blog post in which CEO Jason Fried outlined Basecamp’s new philosophy that prohibited, among other things, “societal and political discussions” on internal forums, company co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson said the company would offer generous severance packages to anyone who disagreed with the new stance. On Friday, it appears a large number of… Read more