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TeamGroup T-Force Dark Z FPS DDR4-4000 C16 2x8GB Review: Performance Over Eye Candy

Our Verdict The Dark Z FPS DDR4-4000 C16 is a great alternative for Zen 3 CPU owners who want a kit that’s faster than the sweet spot but don’t want to break the piggy bank. For + Quick out of the box + RGB-less design + Room for overclocking Against – Costs more than similarly-specced… Read more

Acer Laptops Get RTX 3000, Tiger Lake H-Series

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Acer’s bringing Intel’s new high-powered 11th Gen Tiger Lake chips to its gaming laptops, alongside new mobile RTX 3000 GPU options and a new design for one laptop in particular. New, more budget-friendly RTX 3000 gaming desktops are also joining those mobile options, giving gamers who haven’t been able to… Read more

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 C18 2x8GB Review: Short On Height, High On AMD Performance

Our Verdict The Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 C18 is a great memory kit for AMD owners that don’t have the luxury of a lot of clearance space under their CPU air coolers. For + Great performance on AMD platforms + Competitive pricing + Only 44.8mm tall Against – Disappointing overclocking headroom – Poor performance… Read more

Frontier Supercomputer to Get World’s Fastest Storage: 75 TB/s, 15 Billion IOPS, 700 PetaBytes

Home News (Image credit: OLCF) The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has announced the first details about the Orion storage subsystem of its upcoming Frontier exascale supercomputer set to go online in late 2021. Being the industry’s first 1.5 ExaFLOPS supercomputer, Frontier will need a very fast storage subsystem. It looks like it is set to get… Read more

NASA’s future Moon rocket completes critical hot-fire test

NASA test-fired the core stage of its massive Space Launch System rocket in Mississippi on Thursday. The team appeared to clinch its second attempt at a hot-fire run after cutting short an initial firing in January. Pending a review of the test’s data, engineers are aiming to ship the rocket stage to Florida ahead of… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3600 C18 2x8GB Review: Unexpected Strong Performer

Our Verdict Gigabyte’s Aorus RGB Memory DDR4-3600 C18 is a very nice memory kit that’s thwarted by a high price tag and limited availability. For Excellent performance Faster than the similarly-specced competition Against Too expensive Little room for overclocking Lighting requires proprietary software In today’s world, computer hardware vendors have to venture into new markets… Read more

“Sunspot” and “Raindrop”: More malware in the SolarWinds attack chain discovered

Since the end of last year, security researchers, companies and authorities have been intensively analyzing supply chain attack tactics on SolarWinds Orion software that criminal hackers successfully used to compromise networks of large companies and authorities. Over the past few weeks, the analyzes have uncovered other malware families that were used in the course of… Read more

Rocket drive for new NASA moon mission switches off prematurely during test

The rocket engine of the Space Launch System (SLS) was tested over the weekend as part of the preparations for NASA’s Artemis I lunar mission. Instead of simulating the complete rocket launch of eight minutes, the four RS – 25 rocket drives switched off after only a little more than a minute. NASA has not… Read more

NASA SLS test does not go as expected, problems with one of the engines

NASA SLS conducted in the evening ( Italian time) yesterday a hot fire test but it did not go as expected! Instead of taking about 8 minutes, the test was stopped after just over a minute due to a problem with an RS engine – 25. by Mattia Speroni published 17 January 2021 , at… Read more

Critical NASA rocket test ends early with a shutdown

A critical NASA rocket test ended with a shutdown on Saturday, a little over a minute into what was planned to be an eight-minute test. This trial run was a vital checkpoint for NASA’s much-delayed Space Launch System. The SLS is set to play a key role in the agency’s Artemis program which aims to… Read more

Watch NASA test fire its massive new rocket

Four huge rocket engines will roar to life on Saturday, in a crucial test for NASA’s powerful next-generation rocket. This long-awaited trial run won’t leave the ground, but it will be so powerful that officials have warned that it may be heard up to 60 miles away. Saturday’s test is the last step in series… Read more

CES: Microsoft: Together against “massive attacks” like SolarWinds

Microsoft President Brad Smith has called on the tech industry to work together to secure critical infrastructures against cyber attacks. The recent Solar Winds attacks against Microsoft and numerous other companies are “an indiscriminate, massive attack on the global supply chain that we must protect together,” said Smith in his recorded keynote at the digital… Read more

Solar winds: Burglars sell Windows source code and FireEye attack tools

Criminals broke into companies such as FireEye, Microsoft and many US authorities via a back door in the SolarWinds Orion network management software. Now they are supposedly selling their loot on a website called SolarLeaks: 600. 000 US dollars for Windows source code, 500. 000 for source code of Cisco products; and the handcrafted attack… Read more

Qualcomm to Acquire CPU Designer Nuvia: Focuses on High-Performance Processors

Home News (Image credit: Nuvia) Qualcomm on Wednesday said that it had agreed to acquire Nuvia, a small yet ambitious microprocessor startup. The takeover of Nuvia will get Qualcomm a high-performance CPU design along with a proven CPU and system architecture design team, something that could give a strong boost to the company’s mobile and… Read more

heise + | Nine gaming keyboards with fast and durable precision keys in the test

We took a close look at the high-quality keyboards with interfaces optimized for speed and tested them for key technology and volume. Of Michael Link Rudolf Opitz Nine gaming keyboards with fast and durable precision keys in the test What is ghosting? In the Hit keys buttons and switches One-on-one meetings Conclusion and test table… Read more