If you find light text on a dark background easier on your eyes — like many of us do — you’ll want to use your operating system’s dark mode. Fortunately, it’s really easy to enable dark mode in Windows 11, which will influence the look and feel of both your apps and the system taskbar.…
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Like most Canadians, I watch a little bit of hockey, and I’ve recently been looking for a way to express my joy automatically when my team scores a goal. With an old truck horn, an air solenoid, a compressor, and a Raspberry Pi (a Raspberry Pi Zero W will work), we can create an automatic…
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EVGA has done it again, this time with Seasonic’s help. The SuperNOVA 1000 G6 is one of the best of the Gold 1000W category, posing some serious competition to the Corsair RM1000x (2021). Noise output is kept low, although it’s only 1 dBA less than Corsair’s top RMx unit, so the difference is barely noticeable.…
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A Bilibili forum user (via La Frite David) has shared an alleged prototype of a high-end Z690 motherboard for Intel’s forthcoming 12th Generation Alder Lake processors. The leak offers a first look of the new LGA1700 socket that’s expected to house at least two generation (Alder Lake and Raptor Lake) of Intel processors. The manufacturer…
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Samsung said this week that it would adjust pricing of its semiconductor wafers in a bid to finance expansion of its S5 fab near Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Just like its industry peers, Samsung Foundry has issues meeting demand for its services, so investing in an advanced production facility is set to ensure that it will…
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On Thursday, AMD finally announced details of its RDNA 2 card for the midrange price bracket. AMD positions the AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT as the best graphics card for gaming at 1080p. There’s no AMD-designed reference board — the above image is a 3D render for marketing purposes — which means custom designs from…
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Asus today announced its new ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme motherboard for AMD Ryzen owners. The passively-cooled X570 motherboard arrives to round off ROG’s extensive X570 portfolio and compete with today’s best motherboards. Doing justice to its name, the ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme is an E-ATX motherboard with a power delivery subsystem that conforms to a…
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SilentMobius, the maker behind the cool, Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera-powered microscope we featured last summer, has updated the project. Kicking things up a notch, the DIY microscope now features a keypad and some more tricks up its sleeve. According to SilentMobius, the unit was constructed from spare hardware, including extruded metal and custom…
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AMD appears to be working on an accelerated processing unit (APU) with a built-in graphics processor codenamed “Cyan Skillfish” and based on the first-generation RDNA architecture (Navi 1x). The APU will likely target various consumer, as well as embedded applications that can take advantage of a relatively modern GPU architecture. AMD engineers have submitted driver code that…
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AMD today filed its latest listing with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), and inside we see the AMD 4700S desktop kit. This could mean that the kit, which is suspected to feature the same SoC as the PlayStation 5 (PS5) and is currently only available to OEMs and in China, could soon be available as…
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