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Vilnius, Lithuania built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected

Weary of pandemic travel restrictions and aching to get out and see new people? The city of Vilnius, Lithuania has interesting solution: A real-time “portal” to another city. They really went all-in on the idea and the design; it looks quite a bit like something out of the erstwhile sci-fi movie/show Stargate. The city installed… 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

Google reportedly made it difficult for smartphone users to find privacy settings

Unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against Google show that company executives and engineers were aware that the search giant had made it hard for smartphone users to keep location information private, Insider reported. The documents suggest that Google collected location data even after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy settings difficult for… 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

Google reportedly made it difficult for smartphone users to find privacy settings

Unredacted documents in Arizona’s lawsuit against Google show that company executives and engineers were aware that the search giant had made it hard for smartphone users to keep location information private, Insider reported. The documents suggest that Google collected location data even after users had turned off location sharing, and made privacy settings difficult for… Read more

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured amazing images of clouds on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of clouds on Mars— as described in its blog post: “wispy puffs filled with ice crystals that scattered light from the setting sun, some of them shimmering with color.” According to NASA clouds are rare in the thin atmosphere of Mars, but usually form at its equator during its… 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 Fix IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Errors in Windows 10

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) One of the more common Windows stop codes is named IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. This cryptic-seeming name refers to an Interruption ReQuest Line (IRQL) that PCs use to signal events in urgent need of attention or response. In fact, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (sometimes referred to as just “IRQL”) is typically a memory related error that… 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

Elon Musk tweets Tesla Model S Plaid delivery to be delayed until June 10th

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that deliveries of the automaker’s Model S Plaid would be delayed until June 10th because the car needs “one more week of tweak.” “This car feels like a spaceship,” tweeted Musk, who is also CEO of SpaceX. “Words cannot describe the limbic resonance.” The company has been teasing the… Read more

Nvidia Recycles RTX 3080 FE Cooler For Upcoming RTX 3080 Ti FE

Home News GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition (Image credit: VideoCardz) VideoCardz has shared alleged images of Nvidia’s approaching GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card. The new Ampere offering looks like a carbon copy of the already released GeForce RTX 3080. Nvidia didn’t go much with the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition…. Read more

Sabrent’s Plotripper Chia Plotting SSD Will Outlive Many Of Us

Home News Sabrent Plotripper Pro (Image credit: Sabrent) Sabrent has prepared a new line of SSDs that’s designed for hardcore Chia coin (XCH) plotting. The details are still pretty slim, but the Plotripper SSDs should make any Chia farmer very happy. Plotting Chia can kill even the best SSDs in a matter of weeks, depending… Read more