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Microsoft Appears to Be Dropping Windows 10 Support by 2025

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) If evidence for Windows 11 hasn’t been apparent enough this week, Microsoft has officially listed an end of life date for Windows 10 Home and Pro. A Microsoft documentation officially states that support will end on October 14th, 2025. The company will continue to support at least one Windows 10… Read more

Adafruit Release USB Key Sized RP2040 Board

Home News (Image credit: Adafruit) Adafruit have announced a new RP2040 based board, and this one is a little different to those that have come before it. The Trinkey QT2040 is based upon the QT Py RP2040 but it has no GPIO pins, instead it has a Stemma QT / Qwiic connector and a dedicated… Read more

Fractal Design Ion Gold 850W Power Supply Review

Our Verdict The Fractal Design Ion Gold 850W is on the cheaper end, uses a modern platform and has functional protection features, but its overall performance is not as high as in competing offerings. For + Full power at 47 degrees Celsius + Good price given its specs + Quiet enough operation + Good ripple… Read more

11 of the best vinyl documentaries to buy, rent or watch for free

Home Features (Image credit: Vinyl Moon) If you have a deep-felt appreciation for vinyl, then why not share it with the rest of the world? That was just the sentiment of the many filmmakers and collectors who made the documentaries about the coveted record that are listed below. From a look into the private record… Read more

13 of the best Record Store Day releases for 2021

Home Features (Image credit: Rough Trade) The first drop of Record Store Day 2021 records arrives on Saturday 12th June. It’s that time of year when record shops stock all manner of rarities, reissues, special editions and exclusives produced especially for the big day itself. For us vinyl anoraks, it’s like Christmas, but without the… Read more

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X is about to make xCloud gaming much faster

Microsoft is making some significant upgrades to its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) service in the next few weeks. The Xbox cloud streaming service will be moving to Xbox Series X hardware on the server side, bringing dramatic improvements to load times and frame rates. Microsoft is also moving xCloud on the web out of beta,… Read more

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Crypto Mining: Weak in Ethereum, Productive in Other Cryptos

Home News GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (Image credit: Nvidia) The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti wasted no time in assaulting the upper echelons of our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. Is it one of the best graphics cards? Probably, if you can find one in stock (it goes on sale June 10). But how does it fare as… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Review: More Bandwidth, More Power, More Money

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti continues the Ampere architecture rollout, which powers the GPUs behind many of the best graphics cards. Last week Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, a card that we felt increased the price too much relative to the next step down. RTX 3070… Read more

Cooler Master MM720 Review: Respawn

Our Verdict The Cooler Master MM720 is a unique gaming mouse that improves on its predecessor, the Spawn, with a case, sensor and cable that compete with other high-end mice. For + Unique design with ring finger support + Pure PTFE feet + Very lightweight, flexible cord Against – Side buttons can be hard to… Read more

Microsoft is getting back into physical retail — sort of

Microsoft is returning to selling products at brick-and-mortar stores, kind of. The software giant will start selling products at its “Experience Centers” in London, New York City, and Sydney next month. Select Microsoft products will be available on July 1st, but the global chip shortage will impact what’s available to buy. Xbox Series X /… Read more

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Review: Fast and Furry-ous

Our Verdict Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart takes great advantage of the PlayStation 5’s SSD and offers creative third-person combat, but a second playable character doesn’t do much to change the formula. For + Fast level changes enabled by SSD + Grinding levels are particularly fun + Creative weapons for hectic combat + Plenty of… Read more

Loki is a chance for Disney Plus to escape the shadow of Marvel blockbusters

Loki, the one-time Marvel villain played for over a decade now by Tom Hiddleston, is on the verge of starring in his own series. Instead of playing the scene-stealing antagonist — or, later, grudging sidekick — to Chris Hemsworth’s square-jawed Thor, the God of Mischief is finally going to get to be fully in the… Read more

Dell sued over Alienware laptop’s ‘unprecedented upgradeability’ claims

Dell is being sued in California over its claims that its Alienware Area-51m R1 laptop would offer “unprecedented upgradeability,” Tom’s Hardware reports. Alienware customer Robert Felter is accusing the company of running a “false and misleading” marketing campaign, in which it promised that the laptop’s core components, including the CPU and GPU, could be swapped… Read more

Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect Review: Built-in Wi-Fi and BLE

Our Verdict Great hardware with lots of power in a tiny package. The price may put some off but if you need Wi-Fi and the RP2040 then this is the board for you, but for how long? For + Small form factor + Lots of analog inputs + Built-in Wi-Fi and BLE + Built-in microphone,… Read more

How to Fix CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED Errors in Windows

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED is one of the few Windows BSODs (Blue Screens of Death) that anyone can provoke at will. If you kill the process named svchost.exe in Windows 10 (right-click in Task Manager, and pick “End process tree” from the pop-up menu), it will immediately cause the machine to crash… Read more