Friday, 2 April 2021

Intel's Not Great Flagship CPU, Mining Hardware Ranked

Hardware

Intel Core i9-11900K Review: Not a Great Flagship CPU

Usually it's the flagship CPU grabbing the headlines, but frankly, the Core i9-11900K at a list price of $540, simply doesn't stand a chance. But because you'll want to know where it stands, here we are.

Crypto Mining

Best mining GPUs in 2021, an optimist's guide

If you're looking to do some mining of your own, choosing the right hardware for the task won't be easy, and it's not just because of the...

Industry Moves

Intel 2.0's customer dilemma: the foundry move

The big news this past week came in the form of Intel's announcement of its new strategy, doubling down on its fab and foundries. We wrote about...

Big Tech

Biden blasts Amazon for not paying federal taxes

During an address in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, yesterday, Biden mentioned Amazon twice when unveiling his infrastructure spending plan, which increases the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21%....

Hardware

Arm announces 'Armv9' their next generation processor architecture

That's about to change, though. The semiconductor firm has officially unveiled Armv9, heralding a new era of processor architecture that seeks to meet growing computational demand in...

Cheaters

"World's biggest" video game cheating operation taken down

Cheating has been part of gaming for as long as games have existed. Cheating on single player games usually doesn't affect others and can even be seen...

Security

iPhone user loses $600,000 after downloading scam Bitcoin app from Apple's store

The story began last month when Phillipe Christodoulou wanted to check his Bitcoin balance. He decided to do a search for "Trezor," the company that makes the...

Fools' Day

Testing the Nvidia RTX 4090 and winning April Fools' Day

As YouTube channel Captains Workspace recounts, Nvidia recently announced its new 4000-series GPU and the first card out the gate is the comically massive RTX 4090. The...

The Web

Superhuman: The Future of Email or a Monumental Waste of Money?

For the past two months, I've been using Superhuman, an invite-only email client Silicon Valley startup owners swear by. With a wait list that's 250,000 users long, it's touted it as "Gmail, if it'd been built today, not a decade ago."

Latest Steam survey: RTX 3070 is the month's top performer, AMD edges closer to 30% CPU share

Steam's survey, which is optional among users, can give us a good idea of gamers' hardware-buying habits.

Micron chief warns of price hikes as 'severe' DRAM shortages worsen

As reported by The Register, Micron chief Sanjay Mehrotra told investors during an earnings conference call: "As a result of the strong demand and limited supply, the...

World Backup Day is here - is your data secure?

You could always take your hardware to a data recovery expert and see what (if anything) they can extract, but in this case, it's better to be...

Asus is reportedly increasing the price of its graphics cards, again

Back in January, Asus blamed the increasing costs of components, operations, and logistical activities, along with the "continuation of import tariffs," for its actions. The firm said...

Apple patent describes all-glass, touch-sensitive keyboards for MacBooks

Spotted by Patently Apple (via 9to5Mac), the keyboard has the advantage of being configurable depending on what app is being used. You could, for example, turn the...

No Man's Sky Expeditions update adds multiplayer voyages to hub worlds

No Man's Sky Expeditions (patch 3.3) is an interesting new way to play, focusing on multiplayer coop. Usually, players start on a planet alone. Gameplay is mainly...

MSI OC Team sets new DDR4 overclocking world record at 7,156 MHz

The record entry posted on HWBOT and verified on CPU-Z Validator shows Kovan was only using an 8GB HyperX Predator DDR4-4600 module. Other system specifications include the...

Research shows Android handsets share 20 times more telemetry data than iPhones

By now, it's no secret that companies like Google and Apple collect telemetry information from mobile devices and software that you use. Still, there is a difference...

Back to the office: Cisco wants to make hybrid work actually work

Cisco's concept for hybrid work, which was just updated at its Cisco Live conference this week, isn't really dependent on things like how companies choose to reconfigure...

Learn what you need to become a CompTIA certified IT professional

The 2021 CompTIA Certification Prep Super Bundle is an exhaustive certification course that will introduce you to everything you need to know to get started in IT,...

Biden administration wants every American to have access to broadband

Similar to what the federal government did back in 1936 by "bringing electricity to nearly every home and farm in America," Joe Biden will try to do...

Microsoft wins $21.8 billion contract to build HoloLens-based AR helmets for US Army

Microsoft began prototyping the system in 2018 after being awarded a $480 million contract. The new deal involves creating finalized production versions for soldiers.

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