(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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Looking rather like a dance mat for tarantulas, this is, in fact, the Blackboard (as featured on Hackster). It has 24 capacitive touchpads and nine LEDs with an embedded Raspberry Pi Pico ready to be used as an interface device for whatever you can imagine. (Image credit: Blackbeat.io) Made in Mexico by Blackbeat, a specialist…
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Semiconductor manufacturing can be a challenging business sometimes. With the difficulty of manufacturing silicon increasing, it is often very hard to stay at the top. However, if you play your cards right, it can be very valuable. According to TrendForce, the semiconductor foundry business has hit another record revenue number with a 6.2% growth Quarter-over-Quarter…
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Western Digital has introduced the industry’s first 20TB hard drives that integrates an iNAND UFS embedded flash drive (EFD) to improve performance, reliability, and capacity. The company’s OptiNAND architecture does not use 3D NAND memory for caching, but to store various metadata to enhance key characteristics of hard drives. Western Digital’s 20TB HDDs with OptiNAND…
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Modern motherboards are fairly resilient, but they’re not impervious to damage. So when your mobo appears unresponsive upon powering your system, it can cause momentary heart palpitations. Some mobos are pretty expensive, and even when they’re not, replacing one is more time consuming than other components. Usually if you’re having problems with your motherboard powering…
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Press F to pay respects to Jaryd Giesen’s 3D printers, because they’ve just had to work overtime to make the YouTuber’s latest project: a giant, 1,000% scale mechanical F key, complete with RGB lighting. The F key’s become a bit of a meme over the past few years, ever since Call of Duty asked us…
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(Image credit: Syafiq Adnan/Shutterstock) Cybercriminals are looking to exploit your graphics cards by hiding malicious code inside of its VRAM. This would stop the code from being detected by antivirus scanners sweeping the PC’s main RAM. Just a few days ago, a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a tool that makes this possible was sold online, Bleeping…
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(Image credit: Shutterstock) There’s no doubt that the pandemic gave gaming a popularity boost over the past year, but that’s also been accompanied by a boost in cyberattacks on gamers. Kaspersky reported this month that the number of malware and unwanted software posing as popular PC games that it detected (and prevented) surpassed 5.8 million…
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We’re no strangers to Raspberry Pi-based cyberdecks. In fact, we’ve seen quite a few over the years, but this is hands down the grooviest one we’ve ever come across. Maker and musician Benjamin Caccia created a Pi-based cyberdeck fitted with a keyboard—but not the kind you’d normally expect. This one features a piano keyboard and…
Details(Image credit: Nullpo_x3100 via Twitter) Retailers in Nagoya, Japan have been going out of their way to find ways to distribute AMD’s Zen CPUs. A Twitter user called Nullpo_x3100 today shared a photograph of a vending machine that’s part of a lottery distribution system for Ryzen chips. The machine showcases a bunch of Ryzen 5…
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