Last month we took a look at Be Quiet’s Dark Rock Elite, the company’s flagship CPU tower air cooler. The RGB LED-equipped cooler proved flashy in more ways than one, but true to its nature as a flagship product, it also carried a $115 price tag to match. Which is certainly not unearned, but it…
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Synopsys on Tuesday announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ansys in a deal valued at $35 billion. Synopsys specializes primarily on electronic design automation (EDA) tools and hardware intellectual property (IP) development, whereas Ansys develops electronics design analysis, and simulation tools, so the deal will create a chip design software powerhouse…
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The rumors that preceded the launch of the Galaxy S24 were correct. They warned that Samsung would use both the Exynos 2400 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips to power the flagship. Fans had not forgotten the massive Exynos 2200 disappointment that forced Samsung to use a Snapdragon chip inside every Galaxy S23 model.But…
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Nvidia’s RTX 3050 6GB, a rumored new spin on the budget graphics card from Team Green, has been spotted listed online (not for the first time, we might add).German tech site Computerbase noticed that Austrian retailer E-Tec had an RTX 3050 6GB live on its website, but the product listing has since been taken down.…
In a matter of days, we saw not one but a couple of reports detailing Apple’s purported plans for foldable iPhones. That includes a story from a reliable source of Apple rumors. The Information has learned that Apple is working on a couple of foldable iPhone prototypes. These are phones with designs similar to Samsung’s…
With the OLED iPad Pro just around the corner, I can’t stop thinking about the Apple Pencil 3. While this accessory was first rumored (by a sketchy source) to arrive late last year, Apple did, in fact, introduce a new Pencil as a low-cost option for USB-C iPad models.While some people thought this addition only…
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Software giant Microsoft revealed in mid-January 2024 that its systems were successfully infiltrated at the end of 2023 by Russia-backed hacking group Midnight Blizzard, as part of a coordinated and targeted information-gathering exercise. Microsoft confirmed the details of the attack in a statement published online on Friday 19 January 2024, where it revealed the attack…
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Navigation apps like Google Maps only work as intended if the device you’re using does one basic thing well: locate you, the user, accurately. If a navigation app can’t find you, it can lead to all kids of annoying navigation and direction issues.If you experience any location issues with your phone, you might consider calibrating…
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Seagate’s financial reports have been indicating imminent mass production of HAMR HDDs for a few years now, and it looks like the wait for these drives to appear in retail is finally at an end. The Seagate Exos product family is getting a 30TB capacity point, thanks to the use of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)…
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In response to the launch of NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 40 Super video cards, AMD has announced that they are instituting new promotional pricing on a handful of their high-end video cards in order to keep pace with NVIDIA’s new pricing. Kicking off what AMD is terming a special “promotional pricing” program for the quarter,…
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