Amazon Prime Day is happening on Monday, June 21 and Tuesday, June 22, which means you can expect a truck load of deals across gaming PCs, laptops, hardware, accessories and tech in general. And we know it can be easy to get lost in the sea of content our incredibly talented team writes over these…
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Some thought that it was an April Fool’s joke that went too far but the relationship between the hot console and the chilled beer repository is a complex one, and the comparisons just won’t go away. So imagine our excitement when we saw the Xbox Twitter account confirm that Microsoft is working on a fully…
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Twitter user Kepler has discovered a new AMD patent that details moving tasks (threads) between different types of cores in a heterogeneous processor. In other words, the patent lays the groundwork for a microarchitecture that resembles Arm’s big.LITTLE design that uses clusters of ‘big’ high-performance cores paired with ‘little’ efficiency cores. AMD files over a…
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Bitcoin is about to get a significant upgrade. A proposal called Taproot finally received the 90% approval rating it needed to start the Speedy Trial phase before officially joining the Bitcoin Core software at the heart of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell proposed Taproot in January 2018 in a bid to make Bitcoin…
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(Image credit: Shutterstock, Future) The Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X rivalry is a heated battle for supremacy at the ~$400 price point. These two chips jockey for positioning on our CPU Benchmark hierarchy to score a spot on the list of Best CPUs, but they both come with their own eccentricities. With…
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It’s hard to believe that Bop It, the popular handheld game from the ’90s, is over 20 years old. Many new features have been added to the device over the years, but this Raspberry Pi project adds a few more that we haven’t quite seen before. The best Raspberry Pi projects are ones you can…
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The number of keystrokes we record in a day is huge. From messaging apps to coding or writing that next novel, the sheer number of key presses is hard to calculate. But what if we could save a little time and our aching joints by creating a shortcut keypad? Pimoroni’s Keybow 2040 is a 16-key…
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Colorful has started a promotion campaign for its upcoming top-of-the-range graphics card, the iGame GeForce RTX Kudan, but the secrecy didn’t last long — the company accidentally leaked its new design in its own blacked-out teaser image. Traditionally Colorful only makes a handful of boards for its Kudan products. They’re built for extreme performance and…
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Today’s best Akasa Maze Pro and deals Akasa are no strangers to unusual Raspberry Pi cases. Their previous case, the all aluminum Gem Pro, featured a unique “gem” pattern and provided impressive passive cooling for $32. Akasa’s latest case, the $33 Maze Pro is a smaller. less “in your face” case with an unusual maze…
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Bitcoin miners should probably start thinking about leaving China sooner than later. Reuters said Friday that two provinces, Qinghai and Xinjiang, banned cryptocurrency mining this week due to the country’s broader crackdown on the practice. Reuters said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology office in Qinghai “ordered a ban on new cryptomining projects…
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