Amazon has denied a report that claimed it would start accepting Bitcoin payments soon, and in the process, it might have slowed the cryptocurrency’s rebound. UK newspaper City A.M. reported Monday that Amazon planned to accept Bitcoin payments “by the end of the year.” The report’s anonymous source also said “Ethereum, Cardano and Bitcoin Cash…
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Readers of a certain age may remember the SMART Response XE, a handheld computer released for educational purposes in around 2009 but since discontinued. Currently available very cheaply as a result (we’ve seen the opportunity to buy a box of 32 units for less than $300) they are becoming good targets for experimental hacks. Ingenious…
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Sometimes the fight for energy efficiency and low power consumption takes rather ugly forms. High-performance desktop gaming PCs obviously consume a lot of power and their relative power efficiency is lower when compared to that of small form-factor systems. Which is why Dell can no longer ship some of its Alienware gaming desktops to California,…
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AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution (FSR) is a type of rendering technique that looks to boost framerates in games and enable quality high-resolution gaming. It’s also a rival to Nvidia’s DLSS, though the two differ quite a bit in how they function. FSR works by rendering frames at a lower resolution and then using an…
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Keeping your graphics card cool is a sure way to both increase its longevity and potential maximum performance; and if you’ve been wanting to add watercooling to your RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 graphics cards, Alphacool has you covered with a drop-in, all-in-one watercooling solution in the form of the Eiswolf 2. The Eiswolf 2…
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German case, PSU and Cooling mainstay be quiet! have introduced a new budget-friendly quad-heatpipe cooler for system builders with intermediate TDP requirements. The Shadow Rock Slim 2 features a single 135mm Silent Wings fan and large heatsink, offering up an attractive option for those seeking a premium CPU heatpipe cooler for modest to moderate PC…
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If there’s one thing that Chia has done since its inception (apart from driving up prices of hard drives) is giving birth to a number of DIY projects that aim to increase power efficiency of farming. But then again, if one is going through a personal computing project, why not make it as interesting as…
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YuuKi_AnS (via MacRumors), a hardware blogger with access to rare and unreleased server hardware as well as a good track record, has indicated that Apple may use Intel’s Xeon W-3300-series ‘Ice Lake-SP’ CPUs for its next-generation Apple Mac Pro. He is not alone with this information. It turns out that we now have claims from three sources…
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Mini LED backlights were once a premium reserved for professional monitors. With LEDs that are half the size of those of standard LED monitors, a Mini LED backlight can offer a greater number of dimming zones, offering greater contrast that’s just a step below OLED but without the risk of burn-in. The Samsung Odyssey Neo…
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Intel Meteor Lake (Image credit: Intel) Intel dropped a couple of bombs today on the Intel Accelerated webcast. In addition to sharing its product roadmap through 2025 and a new naming scheme for nodes, the chipmaker also unveiled the designs for its future Alder Lake, Meteor Lake, Sapphire Rapids and Granite Rapids processors. Meteor Lake,…
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