If you’ve been considering buying an SSD or upgrading your existing drive, now would be a good time to do it. A new report from an industry research firm projects that SSD prices are about to rise quite a bit as the NAND flash world seeks to recoup its losses …
Read More »Oak Ridge National Laboratory Creates 100 kW Wireless EV Charger
Engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) in Tennessee have brought us one step closer to electric vehicles that charge themselves without any tedious plugging and unplugging. The researchers recently expanded a laboratory proof-of-concept wireless charging system to the real world using a modified Hyundai Kona EV. The wireless charging …
Read More »Microsoft Is Letting Users Control How Much RAM Edge Uses in Test Build
Web browsers sucking up precious resources from our computers is not a new phenomenon. Still, now Microsoft has one weird trick to fix a situation that has bedeviled PC users for ages. In the latest test build of its Edge browser, the company is letting users set a hard limit …
Read More »Get Great Documentaries for Life for Only $180, Through April 2
High-quality nonfiction films can feel tough to come by when scouring the ever-growing mountain of streaming apps out there. That’s part of why documentary lovers are increasingly subscribing to one service that is solely devoted to docs, and it’s extremely well-curated at the same time. Curiosity Stream offers users on-demand access …
Read More »AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs Are Out of Stock Thanks to Crypto Mining
We all remember when the pandemic joined forces with a cryptocurrency boom to make GPUs impossible to buy. Those were dark days, but crypto eventually crashed, GPU prices returned to normal, and we figured that was the end. Not so, as crypto prices are skyrocketing again, but miners are buying …
Read More »Snapdragon X Elite Dethrones Intel Meteor Lake in Pre-Launch Tests
Intel announced its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite SoC in late 2023, and it’s promising to shake up the Windows processor landscape in 2024 by being a serious competitor to mobile chips from both AMD and Intel. The Qualcomm SoC will be targeting the ultra-thin laptop market when it debuts later …
Read More »Internet-Connected Vehicles Are Sharing Your Driving Habits With Insurers
If you have a car and a matching auto insurance policy, you’ve probably been offered the opportunity to lower your rate using telematics. Using a smartphone app or a separate device that plugs into your vehicle’s ODB-II port, these programs monitor your driving habits for several weeks at a time. …
Read More »Intel to Receive $3.5 Billion to Make Chips for the Military
When the $52 billion CHIPS Act passed in 2022, it was assumed Intel would be getting a sizable chunk of those funds to assist with its US-based expansion plans. It was recently reported that the company would receive up to $10 billion as part of that deal. New reporting states …
Read More »The Best Gaming Monitor Deals for March 2024
t’s a great time to pick up a new gaming monitor, as prices are low across the spectrum from just about every major manufacturer. Some of the biggest news in the space includes curved monitors starting to hit the budget bracket and refresh rates skyrocketing to match the output from …
Read More »Rumor: Intel to Use TSMC for Some Arrow Lake Compute Tiles
Intel is expected to make a sizable node jump later this year when it launches its next-generation desktop platform, Arrow Lake. Its existing Raptor Lake CPUs use Intel 7 (formerly 10nm). Arrow Lake will use Intel 20A, which is a whole different kettle of fish, as it’s the company’s first …
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