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Razer Kraken V3 X Review: Light Weight, Heavy Sound

Our Verdict The Razer Kraken V3 X will keep you satisfied with an excellent microphone and solid rich audio reproduction. For + Lightweight + Solid audio reproduction and thump + Great, microphone + Succulently soft ear cups Against – ll-plastic design Designed to compete with the best gaming headsets, without breaking the bank, Razer’s Kraken… Read more

THX Onyx

Our Verdict THX’s debut product is nicely made and well-featured, but it lets itself down in the sound department For Neat, versatile design MQA support Adds power, clarity and cleanliness Against Sonically basic Outclassed by cheaper rivals Next time you’re in a cinema, take a moment to appreciate THX. After all, the US firm will… Read more

Intel Demos Alder Lake Mobile Laptop, Chips Sampling to Customers

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel briefly demoed an Alder Lake laptop at Computex 2021 and confirmed that the company already has mobile versions of its new hybrid chips shipping to its customers and partners. Ultimately the demo was little more than Intel showing the laptop playing back a video, but it is an important… Read more

Intel at Computex 2021: New Tiger Lake Processors, Beast Canyon NUC, 5G Chips

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel kicked off Computex 2021 by adding two new flagship 11th-Gen Tiger Lake U-series chips to its stable, including a new Core i7 model that’s the first laptop chip for the thin-and-light segment that boasts a 5.0 GHz boost speed. As you would expect, Intel also provided plenty of benchmarks… Read more

Intel’s latest 11th Gen processor brings 5.0GHz speeds to thin and light laptops

Intel made a splash earlier in May with the launch of its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake H-series processors for more powerful laptops, but at Computex 2021, the company is also announcing a pair of new U-series chips — one of which marks the first 5.0GHz clock speed for the company’s U-series lineup of lower… Read more

Watch Intel’s Computex 2021 Keynote Live Here at 10pm ET, 7pm PT

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s EVP Michelle Johnston Holthaus will take to the stage tonight, May 30, 2021, to present Intel’s ‘Innovation Unleashed’ keynote for Computex 2021 before the show officially kicks off Monday. Due to the pandemic, Computex 2021 is an all-virtual experience, so you can pull up a seat and see the… Read more

Flamethrowing Raspberry Pi Roomba Project Balances Danger and Fun

Home News (Image credit: Alfredo Sequeida) With many Raspberry Pi projects, it’s common to wonder why makers would choose to use a Raspberry Pi, but today we’re asking Alfredo Sequieda why he has done this project at all. In a hilarious yet dangerous burst of creativity, Sequieda has created a Raspberry Pi-powered flamethrowing Roomba. This… Read more

New Trailers: The Tomorrow War, Eternals, Infinite, Werewolves Within, and more

So tonight is the finale for Mare of Easttown and there are so many threads that need to be tied up that I legitimately don’t know how they’ll answer all the open questions. I have a theory of who the killer is, and I don’t think it’s the same person who fathered Erin’s baby. Will… Read more

How to Track Satellite Fly-Bys with Raspberry Pi

With SpaceX’s Starlink being made available in my area, I became curious about just how many satellites were overhead at any given time. Fortunately, the US Space Command tracks and makes available data for tracking the live positions of objects in orbit. We can download this data, and use a Raspberry Pi and some speakers… Read more

Intel’s Xe-HPG DG2 Graphics Card Pictured: Big, Green and Power Hungry

Home News (Image credit: Intel) YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead has published what it claims to be one of the first images of Intel’s upcoming enthusiast-grade DG2-series graphics card based on the Xe-HPG architecture (possibly codenamed ‘Niagara Falls’). The board does look like a graphics card, but it doesn’t have any Intel logotypes (they might… Read more

Multiple GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Models Listed for More Than $2,000

Home News MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Suprim X 12G (Image credit: VideoCardz) LambdaTek (via momomo_us), a retailer in the United Kingdom, has given us a first look at the pricing for custom GeForce RTX 3080 Ti models. The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is probably one of Nvidia’s worst-kept secrets in recent years, and the… Read more

PC Makers Intensify Chip Stockpiling to Fight Shortages

Home News (Image credit: Dell) PC sales in Q1 2021 tallied 83.981 million units, up 55.2% year-over-year, and all of the leading PC makers reported huge revenue gains for the first quarter. However, meeting the extraordinary demand was a big challenge for suppliers as pretty much every PC component suffers from ongoing shortages. Both Dell… Read more

Fitbit may soon be adding snoring detection to its devices

Fitbit may soon add snoring and noise detection to its devices, a move that will likely please the spouses and partners of the snoring population and be of interest to people for whom snoring is a sign of a possible health condition. According to a report in 9to5 Google, which decompiled the latest version of… Read more

How To Build A Simple Raspberry Pi Pico Robot

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Building robots is an awesome way to learn electronics and programming. We have the excitement of making something move, along with learning life-long coding skills that will help us create many different projects. Robots are made using two disciplines. The first is the engineering of building a chassis and… Read more

The future of COVID-19 immunity looks good

Our COVID-19 vaccines have passed their first tests with flying colors. They work unbelievably well, and they’re helping to slow the spread of disease in countries where they’re widely available. Now, scientists are turning to the next key question: how long will they work that well? In people who were sick with COVID-19 and then… Read more