In a development that must have Disney’s, if not Stark Industries’, lawyers on standby, British robotics guru and part-time Iron Man cosplayer James Bruton is building a prosthetic arm that uses machine learning and a Raspberry Pi Zero W to move on its own. What could possibly go wrong? Bruton wasn’t keen on embedding electrodes…
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At Newegg, the Gigabyte G5 with RTX 3050 is cheaper than ever after a $250 price cut — taking it down to just $899. If you’re on the lookout for your first gaming laptop, this is an ideal option with a lower end version of the latest RTX 30-series graphics, 11th Gen Intel and enough…
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When NVIDIA announced its plans to take over the British semiconductor designer Arm Ltd., the deal has raised a lot of eyebrows of regulators from across the world. Today, according to the latest report from Bloomberg, Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm could be potentially blocked by the UK government. Back in October of 2020, Nvidia announced…
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The Twitter account known as 3dfxofficial is at it again, tweeting almost certain nonsense with just enough verisimilitude to make us want to believe it. Having previously claimed that fondly remembered ‘90s graphics card manufacturer 3dfx would be returning, with a date of August 5th, its latest digital missive claims it will not only be…
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AMD announced three new workstation GPUs called the W6000X series that will be designed exclusively for Apple’s Mac Pro. As such, these won’t be among the best graphics cards, unless perhaps we’re talking about the best GPUs for Apple. The lineup consists of the W6900X, W6800X, and the W6800X Duo featuring AMD’s latest RDNA 2…
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New rules proposed by U.S. lawmakers affecting the regulation of cryptocurrencies, establishment of stablecoins, and taxation of digital assets could help secure at least some of the funds required for a $1 trillion infrastructure bill introduced on Monday. The new rules were laid out in two separate bills. The first was the Digital Asset Market…
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PYMNTS and BitPay revealed in a study that many U.S. consumers would be happy to pay for things with cryptocurrency, especially if doing so would make transactions more private, but they can’t quite figure out how to acquire crypto coins in the first place. It’s worth noting that BitPay is devoted to cryptocurrency payments, but…
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Intel has been preparing the launch of its next-generation Xe series of GPUs, codenamed DG2 (discrete graphics 2). It builds off the foundation laid by the Intel DG1, hopefully with significantly improved performance so it can compete with the best graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia. The supposed lineup for the Xe-HPG configurations will range…
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Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built into the kernel. Before you rush to tear the hard drive from your PC and hook it up to your Pi, there’s a catch: you’ll need a Compute Module 4 instead of the standard 4B or 400 models. And for now you can’t boot from it. YouTuber…
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It’s taken a few months, but Sony has finally enabled the SSD upgrade in the PlayStation 5 and drive requirements have been confirmed. Here are the best options worth your hard-earned money. The option to add an M.2 SSD to your PS5 is only available for beta users at the moment, but given the reaction…
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