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Google antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox

State antitrust watchdogs are targeting Google’s plans to phase out third-party tracking cookies, building on a major lawsuit filed last year. The group of 15 attorneys general, led by Texas, updated its complaint about Google yesterday to include a more detailed case against the search giant, including new claims about Google’s strategic use of the… Read more

Nvidia Cops to Uncapping Crypto Performance on RTX 3060

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Nvidia’s now taken full culpability for accidentally removing its own RTX 3060 anti-mining lock, according to a statement the company made to The Verge earlier today. This follows a recent RTX 3060 beta driver release that seemed to inadvertently unlock the card’s full crypto mining potential, despite claims that multiple… Read more

Archivists are trying to chronicle Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ unforgettable first year

The challenge of documenting a virtual world “The serendipity of the time [Animal Crossing: New Horizons] came out is ridiculous,” says Lex Roberts, curator of the UK National Videogame Museum’s Animal Crossing Diaries. The project aims to capture “the cultural phenomenon that followed the release of Animal Crossing … in March 2020, just as the… Read more

You Probably Don’t Need the MSI Liberator Gaming Foot Pedal, Right?

Home News (Image credit: MSI) So this is a thing. MSI appears to be crowdfunding a product, the Liberator gaming pedal, with XFastest reporting that the peripheral is expected to debut on March 16. Pretty much everything about this needs to be seen to be believed. Take the most recent post on the product’s Facebook… Read more

Microsoft Teams is down

Microsoft Teams is currently down worldwide. Microsoft says it’s attempting to bring the service back online after “a recent change to an authentication system” took some Microsoft 365 services down. “We’re rolling back the update to mitigate impact,” says Microsoft’s 365 status account, but the roll back is “taking longer than expected.” The issues started… Read more

AMD Unveils EPYC ‘Milan’ 7003 CPUs, Zen 3 Comes to 64-Core Server Chips

Home News (Image credit: AMD ) AMD unveiled its EPYC 7003 ‘Milan’ processors today, claiming that the chips, which bring the company’s powerful Zen 3 architecture to the server market for the first time, take the lead as the world’s fastest server processor with its flagship 64-core 128-thread EPYC 7763. Like the rest of the… Read more

10 of the best books about hi-fi and audio

Home Features (Image credit: Rega) We’re glad people still enjoy reading about hi-fi; it’s what keeps us in a job, after all. There have been plenty of insightful words committed to paper about our industry and the technologies, brands and history that define it, so we’ve listed some of our favourites in a hope that… Read more

The best games you can play right now on Xbox Game Pass

(Pocket-lint) – Xbox Game Pass has been a huge change to the way we pay for games over the last couple of years – it’s the ace in Microsoft’s sleeve, and can be absolutely astounding value if you want to play through loads of great games. What is Xbox Game Pass, what games do you… Read more

GPU Pricing Index: Tracking eBay Sadness

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Our GPU pricing index tracks all the best graphics cards and pretty much everything else in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Yes, they’re still sold out at retail, which means the fastest way to buy one is to pay extreme pricing on eBay. Sadly, after a drop in Ethereum mining… Read more

Bitwarden adds secure text and file transfer to its arsenal

Many current password managers allow you to share your passwords with family members or other individuals or groups. (You do use a password manager, don’t you?) Managers such as Bitwarden and 1Password have specific methods by which you can share passwords or groups of passwords, making it easier for a family to, say, access a… Read more

Here’s where you can buy a PS5

Update March 12th, 2021 3:55PM ET: Best Buy currently has both the PS5 Digital Edition and PS5 consoles in stock and available for purchase. But you can only request a pickup at your local store and cannot have the console shipped to your home address. The PlayStation 5 has been quite challenging to find ever… Read more

A secretive metaverse creator bought the $69 million Beeple NFT

MetaKovan, the pseudonymous founder of MetaPurse, is the buyer behind the $69 million winning bid for a Beeple NFT at Christie’s yesterday. It was the third-highest sale price ever for a work from a living artist. “When you think of high-valued NFTs, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat,” MetaKovan said in… Read more

Chinese Loongson 16-Core MIPS 12nm CPU for 256-Core Servers to Launch Shortly

Home News (Image credit: HKEPC) Executives of Loongson Technology, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said at a recent conference that the next-gen Loongson 5000-series processors were on track to be released this year. The new MIPS64-compatible CPUs are aimed at client PCs as well as multiprocessor servers. Interestingly, the new chips may… Read more

Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos

Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. Today, Facebook announced a new initiative that it hopes will give it an edge in this consequential work: training its AI on… Read more

Taiwan Drought Threatens Single Board Computer Production

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) It is true to say that 2020 wasn’t a great year, period. There have been both CPU and GPU shortages in the electronics world, but a recent drought in Taiwan could affect all sectors, including the many single board computers (SBC) such as the Raspberry Pi. TSMC has been asked… Read more