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HP Elite Dragonfly Max Review: A Pricey 5G Follow-Up

Our Verdict The HP Elite Dragonfly Max has a bright display and long battery life, but its performance could be stronger, and it has a very high price, even for a business-class laptop. For + 5G option + Bright Display + Long Battery Life Against – Middling Performance – Expensive even for a business-class computer… Read more

Aqua Computer LEAKSHIELD Review – No More Leaks

Introduction Would you believe our previous Aqua Computer product review was almost four years ago? That CPU block in many ways heralded modern designs with a lower-profile installation and an integrated OLED display, but the VARIO feature to uniquely fit the installation pressure based on your specific CPU IHS is still a novel thing I… Read more

House lawmakers introduce five bipartisan bills to unwind tech monopolies

On Friday, House Democrats introduced five new bills meant to chip away at the power of big tech companies, targeting a variety of practices that antitrust advocates say are stifling competition. These measures are the House Judiciary Committee’s historic, 16-month long investigation into the business tactics of companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. With… Read more

Apple finally supports Windows Precision Touchpad gestures in new Boot Camp update

Apple is finally adding support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update. The new 6.1.15 update includes support for Windows Precision Touchpad, including single tap to click, lower-right corner to right-click, down motion to scroll up, and three or four finger gestures. Various Reddit users noticed the surprise update went live… Read more

Sky Dirt: Backblaze Introduces Cloud-Based Chia Farming

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Chia is heading to the cloud. Backblaze today announced that Chia Coin farmers can upload their plots to its B2 cloud storage platform for $5 per TB per month. A quick primer on Chia: It’s supposed to be more environmentally friendly than Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies because it uses… Read more

Google Uses AI to Design Chips, Creating Machine Learning Ouroboros

Google researchers published a new paper in Nature on Wednesday describing “an edge-based graph convolutional neural network architecture” that learned how to design the physical layout of a semiconductor in a way that allows “chip design to be performed by artificial agents with more experience than any human designer.” Interestingly, Google used AI to design… Read more

Google is using AI to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans can

Google is using machine learning to help design its next generation of machine learning chips. The algorithm’s designs are “comparable or superior” to those created by humans, say Google’s engineers, but can be generated much, much faster. According to the tech giant, work that takes months for humans can be accomplished by AI in under… Read more

HBM3 to Top 665 GBps Bandwidth per Chip, SK Hynix Says

Home News (Image credit: SK Hynix) While high bandwidth memory (HBM) has yet to become a mainstream type of DRAM for graphics cards, it is a memory of choice for bandwidth-hungry datacenter and professional applications. HBM3 is the next step, and this week, SK Hynix revealed plans for its HBM3 offering, bringing us new information on expected… Read more

Adata Attacked by Ragnar Locker Ransomware Group, Data Reportedly Stolen

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Ragnar Locker has claimed another victim. BleepingComputer reported yesterday that the ransomware group forced Adata to take its systems offline in May. Even though Adata says it has since resumed normal operations, the group claims that it was able to steal 1.5TB of data before the company detected its attack…. Read more

The US wants to fix its broken lithium battery supply chain

The US announced plans to build out a domestic supply chain for lithium batteries, which are critical for electric vehicles and renewable energy. Its new goal is to be able to do nearly everything — from mining to manufacturing and recycling batteries — within its borders by the end of the decade. If it fails,… Read more

AMD’s Yellow Carp GPUs Swim Into Linux Drivers

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD has begun to enable driver support for what could possibly be its new GPU based on the RDNA-series architecture and equipped with the company’s next-generation DCN 3.1 display controller. At present, it is unclear whether the new “Yellow Carp” GPUs are high-end, midrange, or low-end graphics solutions, but we… Read more

Samsung Unveils ZNS SSD: QLC V-NAND for Datacenter-Grade Endurance & Performance

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung has introduced its first Zones Namespaces (ZNS) solid-state drives that combine high performance, long endurance, relatively low price enabled by the company’s QLC V-NAND, and improved quality of service (QoS) for datacenters. To use Samsung’s new PM1731a ZNS SSDs, datacenters will have to deploy new storage systems and software. ZNS SSDs work… Read more

The Great Wings Rush

It was March 2020, and restaurants across the country were shutting down, setting up takeout windows, or doing whatever they could to absorb the shock of COVID. But it was Chuck E. Cheese, of all places, that had the foresight and steely clarity to see not just what the new era required, but what it… 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

AMD Zen 4 ‘Raphael’ CPU Renders Show Fascinating Design

Home News AMD Zen 4 CPU (Image credit: ExecutableFix/Twitter) ExecutableFix, the leaker with an excellent track record that brought us the first news of AMD’s Zen 4 chips, has shared some homemade renders of how the processors may look based on his knowledge of the silicon. Because these are unofficial renders, and even the author… Read more