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Hands On With AMD’s New Radeon Pro W5500 Workstation GPU Value-priced is not a term typically used to describe workstation GPUs that can support visualization and VR applications. Usually, 3D-focused GPUs come to market based on impressive performance claims and a price point to match. That was certainly the case …

Videoconferencing apps saw a record 62M downloads during one week in March Work-from-home policies, social distancing and government lockdowns have increased the demand for video conferencing apps, for both business and personal use. According to a new report from App Annie, out on Monday, business conferencing apps have been experiencing …

At a Glance: Western Digital My Passport 5TB Review Western Digital’s My Passport series of external HDDs are among the most widely used models on the market today. Compared with external SSDs, these offer substantially more storage space at a far more affordable cost, but they aren’t necessarily the best-priced …

Folding@Home Crushes Exascale Barrier, Now Faster Than Dozens of Supercomputers Four hundred and seventy petaflops? Pfft. Small potatoes, these days. The Folding@Home biomedical distributed computing project has announced it now has over an exaflop of processing power as of March 25, after hitting 470 petaflops just four days ago. Estimates …

Microsoft Might Kill the Classic Control Panel Soon, Will Hopefully Fix Settings First Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft has shipped two methods of changing system settings. In the beginning, the new Settings menu was a joke. Over the last eight years, it’s slowly become more functional and has subsumed more …

No, Hackers Didn’t Just Steal the ‘Source Code’ to AMD’s Big Navi or Xbox Series X GPUs Two days ago, we covered news from AMD that the company had suffered an IP breach. We now know more about what was taken from the company and how serious the theft is …

Plex Is Making Live TV Support Free for Three Months Plex started as a way to manage your personal media collection, and it still does that. Over the years, it has added additional features like free online streaming content and live broadcast TV support. The latter is part of the …

OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro Leak With Stunning Green Color, 5G Support A lot of tech companies are pulling back in the wake of coronavirus, but it seems that OnePlus won’t be among them. New leaks suggest the company’s OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro smartphones are still launching soon, and …

Surface Laptop 3 Review: Can Ice Lake Freeze Out a Core i7-7700HQ From 2016? Note: While the ExtremeTech publishing system only allows us to list one author per story, sometime-ET author Jessica Hall also spent significant time with the Surface Laptop 3 and contributed her own experiences, thoughts, and evaluation …

Jupe is a new startup aiming to address hospital room shortfalls with modular, mobile space We’re already entering into a healthcare crisis due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and creative solutions to address shortfalls in supplies, protective equipment and more are being developed to help where possible. A new startup …