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AMD confirms it’s powering the gaming rig inside Tesla’s Model S and Model X

Remember when Elon Musk claimed you’d be able to play The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 on a 10 teraflop gaming rig he’s stuffing into the new Tesla Model S and X? AMD is officially providing the guts — during its Computex 2021 keynote, the chipmaker just revealed that the new Tesla infotainment system consists… Read more

Watch AMD’s Computex 2021 Keynote Live Here at 7pm PT, 10pm ET Tonight

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex 2021 “AMD Accelerating – The High-Performance Computing Ecosystem” keynote tonight, May 31, 2021. Due to the global pandemic, Computex is an all-virtual event, but the activities, such as the AMD keynote, are scheduled to occur on Taipei time. As… Read more

Intel Demos Alder Lake Mobile Laptop, Chips Sampling to Customers

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel briefly demoed an Alder Lake laptop at Computex 2021 and confirmed that the company already has mobile versions of its new hybrid chips shipping to its customers and partners. Ultimately the demo was little more than Intel showing the laptop playing back a video, but it is an important… Read more

Intel’s latest 11th Gen processor brings 5.0GHz speeds to thin and light laptops

Intel made a splash earlier in May with the launch of its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake H-series processors for more powerful laptops, but at Computex 2021, the company is also announcing a pair of new U-series chips — one of which marks the first 5.0GHz clock speed for the company’s U-series lineup of lower… 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

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

Venmo leaked Joe Biden’s friends, but you can now keep yours a secret

Venmo has added new privacy controls for friend lists following a jaw-dropping incident where BuzzFeed News was able to track down President Joe Biden’s Venmo account because of the app’s leaky privacy protocols. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered earlier on Friday that Venmo was working on the new controls. “We’re consistently evolving and strengthening… Read more

WhatsApp reverses course, now won’t limit functionality if you don’t accept its new privacy policy

Earlier this month, Facebook-owned WhatsApp said that users would lose functionality over time if they didn’t accept its new privacy policy by May 15th. In a reversal, Facebook now says that plan has changed, and users who don’t accept the updated policy actually won’t see limited functionality (via TNW). “Given recent discussions with various authorities… Read more

HBO’s The Last of Us is the rare show letting a video game actor reprise her role

Merle Dandridge, an actor who’s had a long career in television and theater, will be reprising her role of Marlene in HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation, according to Variety and Deadline. Dandridge’s casting is particularly notable because actors in video games are rarely presented with the opportunity to play their characters in live action… Read more

Nvidia’s Gaming, Datacenter GPU Sales Set Records as Mining Craze Continues

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Gaming is big business at Nvidia right now, with its most recent financial quarter closing at a record $5.66 billion high mostly due to its GeForce GPU sales. Demand (partially driven by mining) for the cards has been so high that it continually outstrips supply, even with Nvidia amping up… Read more

Go read this investigation into the real death toll from the Texas freeze

Hundreds more people died in Texas during the February deep freeze and blackouts than the state’s official count shows, according to an investigation by BuzzFeed News. The outages left millions of people without power as indoor temperatures dropped to deadly lows. Texas has so far acknowledged 151 winter storm-related deaths. BuzzFeed News, on the other… Read more

Enhanced Raspberry Pi GPIO Support Added to Ubuntu 21.04

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The dev team for Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi shared a blog post this week detailing key new features in the latest update for Ubuntu 21.04. The most recent version of Ubuntu is confirmed to officially include enhanced GPIO support on the Raspberry Pi via a new Python library…. Read more

HyperX Alloy Origins 60 Review

Introduction We recently took a look at the HyperX Alloy Origins Core, partly as a break from all the 60% form factor keyboards and to see how the company’s Aqua tactile switches were. I mentioned then that the keyboard was not the newest release, and that the Alloy Origins 60 was quite new at the… Read more

TSMC: No Plans to Halt Ops as Second Employee Confirmed with COVID-19

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week confirmed that a second worker has tested positive for the COVID-19 disease, but stressed that this would not affect its operations. As reported by Taiwan News. The company has completed disinfection of employee’s workspace, disinfected public areas, traced any contacts that the worker may have… Read more