What were you doing in 2010? It is hard to believe that was almost 15 years ago, and back in those days, I was an undergraduate engineering student still living in my parents' house. My main computer was powered by the legendary Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 on one of my favorite motherboards of all time, the ASUS Striker II NSE. The CPU was cooled by the Noctua NH-U12P. For memory, I had the G.Skill Ripjaws F3-12800CL7D-8GBRH 2x4GB, which was...
From The Verge: A handful of changes coming to X may be pushing users to its competitor. Bluesky, the decentralized social platform, says it added 500,000 new users in a day this week. The new wave of signups could be related to several controversial changes on X in the last few days.
This week, X...
From PC Mag: The US Department of Commerce is investigating whether Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, chip-maker for firms like Apple and Nvidia, is also selling chips to Huawei. If so, it may be violating federal laws.
A TSMC manufacturing deal with or sales to Huawei could violate the...
From PC World: If your fancy PC case is basically going to be just a giant collection of tempered glass panels, I suppose you might as well fill it up with something worth looking at — like screens on your motherboard, screens on your water block, screens on your RAM…
How about a screen on your...
From The Verge: Philips is introducing four new lighting effects through its Hue app including an underwater option simulating the glimmer of light beneath the waves. The added effects are part of a new app update, spotted by Hueblog, that also introduces the ability to customize the lighting...
From PC Mag: MapleStory game publisher Nexon is fighting Discord in the US court system because Nexon wants the chat platform to hand over more user information so it can tackle what it says is a piracy problem.
An unspecified number of Discord users are violating the US Digital Millennium...
From PC World: Last month, the leaker known as kopite7kimi — known for his accurate predictions — revealed on X (formerly Twitter) the likely final specifications for Nvidia’s next-gen GeForce RTX 5080 and 5090 GPUs. More recently, Wccftech claims to have picked up details on the RTX 5070.
The...
From The Verge: Amazon introduced updated versions of the Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on Wednesday, only a few hours after inadvertently leaking them both. The Paperwhite is getting one of its biggest design refreshes ever, with a larger screen that’s completely flush with the bezels of the device...
From PC Mag: A new rule from the Federal Trade Commission will force companies to make it easy for consumers to cancel their subscription services as it was to sign up.
On Wednesday, the FTC announced it had finalized the Commission’s “click to cancel” rule, with most of the provisions slated to...
From PC World: The big Windows 11 24H2 update has brought all kinds of interesting and useful new features, but it has also removed several apps and features that Microsoft no longer wants to support going forward.
One of those removed features is Windows Mixed Reality (WMR), which first launched...
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