If you like the square, handheld look and feel of a Gameboy in a modern device, you’ll soon have a new option. Available soon for an as-yet-undisclosed price, The A20 from Powkiddy is a portable gaming console inspired by the original Nintendo Game Boy, but powered by the Android operating system. As reported by CNX…
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Thermaltake has built a long-standing reputation among PC builders, especially with its cases. Thw company is also trying its hand at PC-related furniture these days, and the Thermaltake X Fit Real Leather is its second most expensive gaming chair as of writing (topped only by Thermaltake’s CyberChair E500 White Edition). Undoubtedly, the use of real…
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Microsoft appears to have some new Surface devices on the way soon. The company has sent out invites to an online event on Sept 22 for what appears to be new hardware, and possibly more details regarding Windows 11. The accompanying image is of what looks like a Surface Pro with light blue light shooting…
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One of the most frustrating things about the increasing popularity of the Chia cryptocurrency is the rising prices of the high capacity storage needed to mine it. So, when big hard drives fall to pre-chia prices, we pay attention! At Newegg, the 8TB Seagate IronWolf 7,200 RPM HDD just got a huge $50 price cut…
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Just like other high-tech giants, Google is working on its own custom system-on-chips that will power PCs and tablet that run its Chrome operating system. The new SoCs are projected to offer capabilities not available on chips used by Chromebooks today and will likely make such machines more competitive. But the new SoCs won’t arrive…
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Like most tech titans, Cloudflare, one of the backbones of modern internet infrastructure, actively improves its network infrastructure over the years to keep up with the growing number of workloads and internet traffic. As you’d expect, those upgrades entail selecting new CPUs. As shared in a post on the Cloudflare blog, the company says it…
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Microsoft has reportedly started to hit Windows Insider Program members testing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware with a “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” message informing them that they’re no longer allowed to use the operating system. The Verge reported that Microsoft sent affected testers this message: “Your PC does not meet the minimum hardware requirements…
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We’ve seen microcontroller boards used to play Snake or Pong, but Red Dead Redemption 2? That had seemed out of the tiny boards’ reach, until we spotted a remarkable video from Jatin Patel, AKA Teenenggr. In it, Patel hooks up air cylinders to his desk and programs a microcontroller, an Arduino in this case, but…
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Tachyum, a San Jose-based start-up company promising to deliver a “universal” processor for HPC and AI computation, has today posted progress on its work and shared what the current state of the processor is. According to the company press release, the processor has successfully booted the Linux kernel on the emulated design that runs on…
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(Image credit: Niels Broekhuijsen, Tom’s Hardware) If you’ve heard of iBuyPower, you’ll know that the company builds solid gaming PCs, but it also make some sweet enclosures. Very rarely, the company will sell these cases to the public without a system installed in it, and it just so happens that I have one of these…
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