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NZXT N7 Z590 Motherboard Review: Unique Style, and Capable

Our Verdict NZXT’s N7 Z590 is a full-featured Z590 motherboard that includes two M.2 sockets, Intel-based Wi-Fi 6E, capable power delivery, premium audio, and more. It’s a well-rounded mid-ranger for Intel’s Z590 platform, though for a similar price, there are other options with more and better parts. For + Wi-Fi 6E/2.5 GbE Networking + Improved… Read more

Norton Added Ethereum Mining Capabilities to Its Antivirus Software

Home News (Image credit: NortonLifeLock) NortonLifeLock announced yesterday that it’s adding Ethereum mining to its Norton 360 antivirus software with an upcoming feature, Norton Crypto, that “select Norton 360 customers in Norton’s early adopter program” are invited to test. Let’s make this clear from the start: Enthusiasts will probably be better off learning how to… Read more

Raspberry Pi RP2040 Stamp Gets New Arduino Inspired Carrier Board

Home News (Image credit: Arturo182) Makers have been eager to integrate the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip into boards of their own since the Pico was first revealed. The recent release of the RP2040 for general sale is going to fuel further maker projects, and we cannot wait to see what is on the horizon. One… Read more

Seeed reServer: Compact and Powerful Edge Computing

Home News (Image credit: Seeed) Seeed today announced the first member of its reServer System today. The reServer x86 series is designed for edge computing and IoT applications. The systems come powered by an 11th-Gen Intel processor, and higher-spec models feature Intel Iris Xe graphics. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Seeed) Image 2 of… Read more

The Twitter Blue subscription service starts rolling out Thursday

Twitter has officially announced Twitter Blue, a paid subscription service that offers access to new features like undoing tweets and viewing threads in an easier to digest “Reader Mode.” Starting Thursday, it will roll out first in Canada and Australia, where the subscription will cost $3.49 CAD or $4.49 AUD per month, respectively. We already… Read more

Microsoft looks ready to launch Windows 11

Microsoft has been teasing a “next generation” of Windows for months now, but new hints suggest the company isn’t just preparing an update to its existing Windows 10 software, but a new, numbered version of the operating system: Windows 11. The software giant announced a new Windows event for June 24th yesterday, promising to show… Read more

How to watch Netflix’s Geeked Week

Netflix is holding its first “Geeked” virtual event starting on June 7th, an entire week dedicated to genre stories across film and TV. That means sci-fi and fantasy, and shows based on comic books and video games. The company says that more than 50 projects will be featured, including big names like The Witcher, Sandman,… Read more

Samsung Unveils ZNS SSD: QLC V-NAND for Datacenter-Grade Endurance & Performance

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung has introduced its first Zones Namespaces (ZNS) solid-state drives that combine high performance, long endurance, relatively low price enabled by the company’s QLC V-NAND, and improved quality of service (QoS) for datacenters. To use Samsung’s new PM1731a ZNS SSDs, datacenters will have to deploy new storage systems and software. ZNS SSDs work… Read more

NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years

The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday. The two missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, were among four competing proposals under the latest round of NASA’s Discovery Program, which manages smaller planetary exploration missions… Read more

The Olympics’ vision of gaming looks very different from the biggest esports

The Olympics is currently hosting its first-ever virtual sporting event series, the Olympic Virtual Series, where competitors can play in virtual versions of five different physical sports: motorsport, cycling, baseball, sailing, and rowing. The cycling competition, for example, takes place in Zwift, which lets you pair your bike and a bike trainer with your computer,… Read more

Huawei Watch 3 vs Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro: What’s changed?

(Pocket-lint) – Huawei’s latest watch has been announced, and is the first to launch officially running HarmonyOS, the new cross-category operating system designed to make multiple devices seamlessly connect with each other. The manufacturer has built some great fitness tracking watches of late, including the previous flagship watch: the Watch GT 2 Pro. So, what’s… Read more

Huawei announces HarmonyOS update for its smartphones

Huawei has announced that its HarmonyOS operating system is coming to its smartphones via a forthcoming update. Huawei’s consumer business CEO Richard Yu says the company is updating around 100 of its devices globally to the new operating system, which also includes tablets like the MatePad Pro. In theory, it’s a big change from its… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti review: more 4K for more of your wallet

Nvidia goes back to 4K for more than $1K Last year’s Nvidia RTX 3080 was the first GPU to make 4K gaming finally feasible. It was a card that delivered impressive performance at 4K, especially for its retail price of $699 — far less than the 2080 Ti cost a generation earlier. That was before… Read more

Apple Watch, Fitbit users with heart conditions get more medical procedures

People with irregular heartbeats who use wearable devices like Apple Watches and Fitbits aren’t overwhelming doctors with worried calls about their hearts, a new study shows. But they are more likely to be treated with a heart procedure called an ablation, the analysis found. The small study is one of the first to show how… Read more

Intel’s Raja Koduri Shows Off Xe-HPG Gaming GPU with 512 EUs

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s graphics chief Raja Koduri published the first ‘official’ image of Intel’s upcoming gaming graphics processor based on the Xe-HPG architecture. Koduri also confirmed that at least one of the company’s DG2 GPUs will feature 512 EUs. “Xe-HPG (DG2) real candy – very productive time at the Folsom lab couple… Read more