الجمعة، 30 يونيو 2017

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According to one prominent member of the overclocking community, the VRM cooling on X299 motherboards isn't good enough to keep the boards stable -- and no overclocker should buy a board with just one 8-pin CPU power connector.

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Democrats, Republicans, states, and safety activists all want their say. All share the goal of doing more self-driving car testing in the US.

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If you want to understand how to manage and process massive amounts of data for businesses, government agencies, or non-profits, today's course and e-book bundle is right up your alley.

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Researchers have developed a material that could make locomotion a much simpler affair. All this new polymer needs is a beam of light, and it gets going.

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Microsoft is adding a new set of Autopilot deployment tools and security systems to the Fall Creators Update.

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A new survey is claiming that up to 25 percent of the PC market could switch to Apple within the next 6-24 months, but data from independent analysis firms doesn't back up that conclusion.

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الخميس، 29 يونيو 2017

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French data watchdog CNIL has closed its investigation of Microsoft and Windows 10 after updates to the OS cut its telemetry gathering by 50 percent.

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The latest CIA tool revealed online is rather straightforward -- malware that tracks a device's physical location. However, it doesn't need GPS, just Wi-Fi.

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Brain-computer interfaces could be critical to controlling chronic pain in patients, without the long-term side effects of opiate use.

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New treatments for chronic pain could potentially address the ongoing opioid crisis in America via drug delivery implant systems and intrathecal electrical stimulation.

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AMD is refreshing its Pro lineup of desktop CPUs for business-class systems. It's also shared some data on what we can expect from the Ryzen 3 family when those chips debut later this year.

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PornHub has announced a new 'Interactive' video category that will allow the company to sync porn videos with specific sex toys. Yay?

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Early benchmarks on AMD's Vega Frontier Edition are beginning to show up, but it's still early for firm conclusions about the GPU's performance relative to its Nvidia counterparts.

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الأربعاء، 28 يونيو 2017

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Western Digital has announced a pair of major breakthroughs in NAND flash technology. The company is claiming it will commercialize 96-layer 3D NAND next year, and that it has found a way to build NAND that can store up to four bits of data per cell.

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After Microsoft's announcement of new GPU monitoring tools last week, we had some questions about the finer points of the implementation. The company has since responded.

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The 400 series has been stagnating lately, but Qualcomm is about to give the midrange its biggest boost since that first 400 chip came out.

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With more torque (but sometimes less horsepower), diesels are often quicker than gasoline equivalents. They all burn less fuel.

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GPU mining might be all the rage again, but there's an important difference this time around -- now, the GPU manufacturers are looking to cash in on the craze.

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The new wave of malware sweeping across Europe has disrupted automatic monitoring of the Chernobyl disaster area. For now, manual monitoring has been implemented to keep the site under appropriate supervision.

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The agency is close to testing its design for Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST, which could lead to passenger jets that can again reach supersonic speeds.

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الثلاثاء، 27 يونيو 2017

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The highest rate of NotPetya infection appears to be in Ukraine, where multiple government systems have been locked down.

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The SNES Classic Edition doesn't even ship for three months, but eBay scalpers are already selling "guaranteed" systems for enormous mark-ups.

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Inspiron 15

On the lookout for a reasonably priced gaming laptop that can handle new releases? Check out the 15.6-inch Inspiron 15 7000 series from Dell. With a quad-core Kaby Lake processor, a beefy graphics card, a solid-state drive, and plenty of RAM, this affordable laptop can hold its own with most modern games.

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A new paper hypothesizes that there could be a Mars-sized object on the outskirts of the Kuiper Belt. If true, this would be distinct from the hypothesized Planet 9.

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Recent microfluidics research claims diagnostic tests can be performed on a single microliter of blood. Can micro-sample diagnostics avoid going the way of Theranos?

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At 52 mpg, the diesel Cruze manual gets the best highway mileage of any non-hybrid or non-EV. But payback for the diesel premium could be more than a decade.

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GlobalFoundries has released additional details about its upcoming 7nm process, including when it expects to introduce EUV and other critical upgrades. The next few years are going to be very interesting in the foundry world.

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Microsoft suffered a significant hack and data leak over the weekend, but the size and scale of the problem may have been smaller than initially reported.

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الاثنين، 26 يونيو 2017

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This is the new normal.

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Microsoft has made a number of impressive claims about Microsoft Edge's battery life -- but those claims aren't holding up under independent analysis.

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Sega's new Sega Forever game collection ought to be a best-in-class way to experience your favorite Genesis games on modern mobile hardware -- but the quality of the ports is terrible and the games don't run well, even on cutting-edge equipment.

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Google wants to compete with the likes of Samsung and Apple, and the Pixel was an impressive first attempt. So, what's in store for the Pixel 2? A spec leak offers some plausible details.

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Mode 7 freaks, get ready: Nintendo has unveiled the SNES Classic Edition, a miniature version of the beloved SNES in the vein of the NES Classic Edition that everyone wanted and few people were able to actually buy.

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Minding type 2 diabetes at home is a laborious process involving time and calorie management, and sometimes needles. But it might not be all needles much longer.

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The last time I built a gaming board, I tried to keep it a little on the conservative side. This time, I wanted to go all-out and build something visually striking without ending up with a neon stealth fighter.

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Data is useless if you can't properly use it, right? If you want to learn the skills necessary to visualize and analyze data in your field using MATLAB, you can learn how to best tackle the task at hand for just $27.

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IBM and the US Air Force are teaming up to build a massive supercomputer. The new system should be capable of processing data more like the human brain does, while simultaneously pairing that capability with more conventional CPUs.

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A recent flaw discovered in Intel's Hyper-Threading can cause system instabilities or crashes. Debian recommends disabling HT until appropriate UEFI updates are available (and the flaw can affect all operating systems, including Windows).

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الجمعة، 23 يونيو 2017

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Google now says it will end the practice of targeting ads based on email text, but the decision was not made by the Gmail or advertising teams.

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SpaceX has successfully deployed the new BulgariaSat-1 and touched down safely with a reusable rocket.

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Microsoft's Windows 10 S may be more secure than other versions of the OS, but no operating system is perfectly locked down.

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In search of an affordable desktop that has plenty of room for upgrades? Take a look at the XPS 8910 tower PC from Dell. With a sleek modern design, a Skylake CPU, space for three 3.5-inch drives, and support for up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, this PC is up for almost anything.

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A new type of endoscopy could significantly reduce patient discomfort while imaging areas that current techniques simply can't see. The PillCam uses a wireless radio and external SD Card to examine what's inside you and report back what it finds.

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Imagination Technologies is reportedly in talks to sell itself to interested parties. Plans to spin off other parts of the business may have fallen through, but either way, the loss of Apple as a customer could be a fatal blow.

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A recent Supreme Court case may have strengthened Apple's arguments against Qualcomm's royalty structure and product fees.

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A new cache of CIA documents posted on Wikileaks reveals the methods employed by the CIA to hack so-called "air-gapped" machines. As with many exploits, it relies on people being the weak link.

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If you've ever wanted to track GPU usage the same way we can check CPU usage through the Windows 10 Task Manager, it's finally happening.

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الخميس، 22 يونيو 2017

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Cryptocurrency mining is driving GPU prices upwards again, only this time it's hitting both AMD and Nvidia.

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DJI was forced to put safety measures in place on its drone aircraft after a series of stern warnings from government regulators. Now, a Russian company is charging a few hundred dollars to turn those limits off.

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A production halt in Japan costs Honda 1,000 cars; Nissan and Renault were hit earlier by WannaCry.

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