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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

Spotify voices fears over price rises encouraging music piracy

Home News (Image credit: Spotify) Spotify fears raising its monthly subscription above £9.99 ($9.99) could “push users into piracy”, it told MPs at a parliamentary select committee inquiry on Tuesday, despite suggestions from record labels that an increase could help struggling musicians. The chief legal officer for the popular music streaming service, Horacio Gutierrez, claimed that… Read more

UK Parliament Members to Propose Bill to Ban Scalping

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Members of British Parliament led by Scottish politician Douglas Chapman are currently working to introduce a bill that would ban or limit gaming console and computer component scalping, according to new quotes from Wired and IGN. This would be the latest in Chapman’s attempts to undermine scalpers, the first being… Read more

Check Out the Funky PCB On EVGA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Kingpin GPU

Home News (Image credit: EVGA) Designed for extreme overclocking, EVGA’s Kingpin edition graphics cards are arguably among the most complex and impressive pieces of hardware available today. Unfortunately, these cards are only sold to EVGA’s Elite Members, and reviews of KPE products are rare, so very few people get to see these boards up close, making… Read more

EU Parliament: Employees should also be able to switch off cell phones and other devices

After work and on vacation, employees should be able to switch off their work and communication devices such as smartphones or laptops without any negative consequences. This is what the EU Parliament calls for in a report that was adopted by a large majority on Thursday. 472 MPs voted for the initiative, 126 on the… Read more

Eleven year cycle confirmed: solar activity reconstructed for almost 1000 years

The most accurate data on solar activity so far for the past 993 not only confirm “impressively” the eleven-year activity cycle of our star, but also provide clues for two previously unknown radiation outbreaks in the High Middle Ages. This has been determined by an international team of researchers with the collaboration of the Max… Read more

Crypto Wars: EU Commission does not want to weaken encrypted communication

The encryption of message services such as Whatsapp or Telegram should not be weakened according to the will of the EU Commission. The Brussels authority is not planning a proposal for a general ban on encrypted communications, said EU Interior Commissioner Ylva Johansson in a letter to three MEPs. No solution is being considered that… Read more

Advance for online sessions of the Bundestag met with strong criticism

In view of the high number of corona infections, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag is pushing for pure online parliamentary sessions. “Digital work is the order of the day”, said the Bremen CDU member Elisabeth Motschmann of the German press agency in Berlin. Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki rejected this immediately…. Read more

MEPs want a one-hour deletion period for terrorist content

Operators of online platforms in the EU must in future delete “terrorist content” within an hour by order of any authorities from a member state without judicial approval. The lead committee for civil liberties, justice and home affairs of the EU Parliament voted on Monday for the draft of a corresponding regulation. 54 MPs were… Read more

New advertising expense regulation for the home office

Something is happening with the tax treatment of the home working environment. The currently applicable legal situation comes from the pre-Corona era: According to this, income-related costs or operating expenses for the domestic workplace can only be taken into account for tax purposes if the work has taken place in the specially reserved study. But… Read more

EVGA 650W N1 Power Supply Review

Our Verdict The EVGA 650W N1 is a low-performance PSU with incorrect OCP and OPP and weak efficiency. For Full power at 36 degrees Celsius Satisfactory transient response at 12V Low inrush and leakage currents Long hold-up time Efficient 5VSB rail Enough connectors Rifle bearing fan Against 12V OCP and OPP are not configured correctly… Read more

Russia forbids “censorship” on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter

Out of anger about the blocking of the content of Russian state broadcasters, the parliament in Moscow has now banned “censorship” on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other networks. On Wednesday, the State Duma passed an amendment to the law in its third and final reading that makes such bans a criminal offense. There is a… Read more

Existing data: Government coalition wants to use IP addresses to combat illegal work

In the future, customs authorities such as the Customs Criminal Police Office (ZKA) and the offices responsible for prosecuting and punishing administrative offenses under state law should be able to access inventory data such as name, address and e-mail addresses of users in order to take action against undeclared work. You can also query IP… Read more

UK MPs call for legislation to crack down on console and PC component scalping

Matthew Wilson 52 mins ago Featured Tech News, General Tech We’ve had a few big launches ruined by scalpers this year, starting with Nvidia’s RTX 30 series graphics cards and eventually impacting the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 launch. Now it would seem that politicians in the UK want to crack down on these practices. … Read more

Bitcoin reaches new all-time high, surpassing $20,000

Matthew Wilson 2 hours ago Featured Tech News, General Tech A few weeks ago, we learned that Bitcoin was booming once again, with the cryptocurrencies value approaching a new all-time high. Today, the Bitcoin market saw another boost, pushing its value to over $20,000 USD per Bitcoin. This is a new all-time high for Bitcoin,… Read more