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ASRock Preps Crypto Mining H510 Motherboard For $279.99

Home News H510 Pro BTC+ (Image credit: ASRock) ASRock (via momomo_us) has carved up a new motherboard for cryptocurrency miners. The H510 Pro BTC+, which arrives with the LGA1200 socket and H510 chipset, is ready to power your mining operations with the latest Comet Lake or Rocket Lake processors. The H510 PRO BTC+ measures 50.1… Read more

EK’s New RTX 3090, RTX 3080 Waterblocks Are Partially Made Out Of Walnuts

You have to hand it to EK. The watercooling specialist really knows how to think out of the box. The brand just announced its new EK Lignum lineup of products that are partially manufactured out of walnuts (Juglans Nigra). The waterblock itself is based on the company’s EK-Quantum Vector RE RTX 3080/3090 design that’s tailored… Read more

Intel Considering German Fab Near Munich

Home News (Image credit: Intel) A minister of the German state of Bavaria has confirmed that the state is in discussions with Intel about building a local fab, Reuters reported today. Economy Minister Hubert Aiwanger did not detail how the negotiations were proceeding but indicated that Bavaria offered Intel at least one possible location. Pat… Read more

We may have our first look at Ring’s Car Cam

We may have gotten our first look at Ring’s dashcam, courtesy of The Tape Drive, which posted an image of a Ring-branded camera that looks like it’s made to fit on a car’s dashboard. Based on a support article which Zats Not Funny discovered (and claims may have been published inadvertently) Ring’s Car Cam will… Read more

Apple iPad Pro 12.9 (2021)

Our Verdict It might be aimed primarily at creative types, but the new iPad Pro 12.9 is also the best tablet there’s ever been if portable cinema is your thing For Stunning picture quality Great sound with headphones Hugely powerful Against Expensive for a tablet At this stage, each new iPad feels like an incremental… Read more

Earth has been trapping heat at an alarming new rate, study finds

The amount of heat trapped by Earth’s land, ocean, and atmosphere doubled over the course of just 14 years, a new study shows. To figure out how much heat the earth was trapping, researchers looked at NASA satellite measurements that tracked how much of the Sun’s energy was entering Earth’s atmosphere and how much was… Read more

TSMC to Start Risk Production Using 4nm Node in Q3

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is on track to start risk production of chips using its N4 (4 nm) fabrication technology in the third quarter, according to TSMC and DigiTimes’ sources in the semiconductor supply chain. The new node will enable chipmakers to slightly shrink the N5 design and further optimize power consumption… Read more

Pimoroni’s New Pico Display Takes It to the Max

Home News (Image credit: Phil Howard / Pimoroni) It seems that Pimoroni are working on a follow up to the Pico Display pack. This larger unit was teased via Pimoroni’s software Lead Phil Howard in a series of tweets that show his progress testing the display on a Raspberry Pi Pico. The display is still… Read more

Sonos Arc review: Dolby Atmos soundbar delivers big sound

(Pocket-lint) – Sonos is not one for racing new products out for the sake of it. Its Playbar, for example, ruled the roost for seven years, being its only full-fledged soundbar in that time. The Sonos Beam arrived in the meantime, but was more meant for smaller TVs and rooms, giving you a better alternative… Read more

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly pitching wider tunnels that could transport freight

The Boring Company has been pitching potential clients on a much wider tunnel than any it has built so far, Bloomberg reported, which could be used to transport freight. Since its inception in 2016, the Elon Musk-helmed tunneling startup has been focused on tunnels that would transport passengers, with a goal to “solve the problem… Read more

Vergecast: Windows 11 leaks, RCS encryption, and this week in antitrust policy

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. In this episode, the show is split into three sections. First, Nilay and Dieter talk to Verge senior editor Tom Warren about this… Read more

Montech Air 100 Review: A Case and 4 RGB Fans for $70?

Our Verdict Montech’s Air 100 offers a tidy Micro-ATX package with lots of RGB, but it could use a bit more refinement. For + Great Looks + Compact Size + Includes 4 A-RGB Fans + Affordable Against – A few unsightly details – No PWM support – No intake air filtration – Tight cable management… Read more

Homemade Synth as Easy as Pi

Home News (Image credit: Simon Martin/Raspberry Pi Foundation) Guitars are 3,000 years old and the piano dates back to 1700, so musical instruments are facing a serious crisis of modernity. Why not, then, create your own, new, musical instrument, and show Mozart what for? This is precisely what design engineer Simon Martin has done, by… Read more

TeamGroup’s DDR5 Modules to Arrive Late June: Specs & Price Revealed

Home News (Image credit: TeamGroup) TeamGroup said on Friday that it would start sales of its DDR5-4800 memory modules in late June, early July in a bid to address demand from enthusiasts who plan to adopt Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake processors as soon as they become available later this year. The initial modules from Team… Read more

New Benchmarks Show Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 Is a Legit Budget 1080p Gaming GPU

Home News Asus DG1-4G (Image credit: ETA PRIME/YouTube) A new review of Intel’s Iris Xe DG1 graphics card has popped up, putting Intel’s new discrete GPU through its paces and showing that it is surprisingly capable. While the Xe DG1 is far from being one of the best graphics cards on the market, the review… Read more