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Community Ports Raspberry Pi Pico Setup Script To Windows

Home News (Image credit: Future) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a $4 powerhouse of a microcontroller, and the range of projects created in such a short space of time is amazing. There are two officially supported languages for the Pico – MicroPython and C. While MicroPython is aimed at beginners and hobbyists, C is where… Read more

Chrome 88 update includes important security fix for zero-day vulnerability

It’s more important than usual to update to the latest version of Chrome. Version 88.0.4324.150 of Google’s browser released on Thursday fixes a vulnerability which the search giant says is actively being exploited in the wild. The update is rolling out now across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Google isn’t providing specific details about the CVE-2021-21148… Read more

Linux on Apple M1 Project Reveals New Details About M1 System Architecture

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Corellium, a software company specializing in virtualization solutions, has managed to port Linux to an Apple M1-based PC and even succeeded in making almost all the system peripherals work. In the process, Corellium discovered several interesting details about Apple’s M1 processor and the system architecture. A couple of weeks ago,… Read more

Intel 12th-Gen Alder Lake Release Date, Benchmarks, Specifications, and All We Know

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel’s 12th-Gen Alder Lake chip will bring the company’s hybrid architecture, which combines a mix of larger high-performance cores paired with smaller high-efficiency cores, to desktop x86 PCs for the first time. That represents a massive strategic shift as Intel looks to regain the uncontested performance lead against AMD’s Ryzen… Read more

How To Manipulate PDF Files in Linux With PDFtk

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) One would think that being called a “swiss army knife” would be the highest compliment a tool or utility could aspire to. Yet, the expression is oddly insufficient when describing PDFtk, an incredibly versatile utility that can be used to manipulate PDF files in myriad ways. According to its… Read more

ArduCAM Demos Raspberry Pi Pico Video Streaming and Person Detection

Home News (Image credit: ArduCAM) The $4 Raspberry Pi Pico just keeps on giving! The latest project as reported by Hackaday sees the team behind the popular ArduCAM create a library enabling the Raspberry Pi Pico to work with an SPI camera for video streaming and person detection. Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: ArduCAM)… Read more

AMD vs Nvidia: Which Is More Popular Among Linux Users?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Linux might only make up a very small portion of the operating system market share (about 1-2% depending on who you ask), but it’s a dedicated minority, filled with loyalists who are willing to stick with the OS despite compatibility issues thanks to its heavy customizability and open-source nature…. Read more

GeForce Now Adds Support for Chrome and M1-Based Macs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s cloud-based gaming service, GeForce Now, has just received a new update that features new support for Google Chrome’s web-browser and support for Apple’s M1 based Macs (through the native macOS app). With the addition of Google Chrome, now any device or computer capable of running Chrome should be capable… Read more

Apple Wants More Macs in Businesses: Can It Take on Intel vPro, AMD Ryzen Pro?

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Having posted its all-time quarter record revenue of $111.4 billion this week, Apple is looking for ways to expand. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, sees selling Macs to businesses as one of the main growth opportunities for Apple, especially with the Apple M1 chip and its successors in tow. But with Intel appealing… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico vs Arduino: Which Board is Better?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived, there was a sharp distinction between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems. The Pi is a Linux computer that boots up into a full operating system and the Arduino is a microcontroller that just runs one program at a time. With the arrival… Read more

AMD’s RDNA2 ‘Duty Cycle Scaling’ Shuts Down GPU to Meet TDP

Home News (Image credit: AMD) Modern CPU and GPU architectures support numerous features to temporarily boost performance or reduce power consumption. Some of these capabilities are advertised, others are not. AMD’s RDNA2 GPUs appear to support the so-called Duty Cycle Scaling (DCS) , according to a Linux patch discovered by Phoronix. DCS can momentarily turn off graphics… Read more

Plex is launching a game subscription service filled with Atari games

Plex, well known as a service for streaming movies, music, and TV shows from your own computer, is now adding another thing you can stream: video games (via Protocol). Plex announced the new service, called Plex Arcade, on its blog and also launched a website for it. The service will cost $3 a month if… Read more

The original Celeste now has a sequel you can play in your browser

Celeste was one of the most acclaimed games of 2018, but what you may not have known is that the tightly designed platformer was an expanded version of a smaller project developed in four days at a game jam. Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry created the original Celeste for the Pico-8 platform, and now that… Read more

NAS QNAP under attack, dovecat sneaks and mines cryptocurrencies. How to protect yourself

QNAP has alerted users of its NAS from a new threat called dovecat that uses the device’s resources to mine cryptocurrencies. Weak password-protected systems hit: here’s how to protect yourself. by Manolo De Agostini published 22 January 2021 , at 00: 21 in Security channel Qnap QNAP has published a security bulletin in which it… Read more

Beeper: 15 messaging apps in one service! It's the bet of the former CEO of Pebble (at $ 10 a month)

One service with 15 messaging applications. It is not a dream but the new platform of the former CEO of Pebble. It’s called Feeber and gathers all messaging services (even iMessage) in one place. The price? 10 $ per month. by Bruno Mucciarelli published 22 January 2021 , at 10: 41 in the web channel… Read more