An analysis of dead EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 cards that failed while playing Amazon’s New World game indicate a rare soldering issue limited to a small batch of cards is responsible, a company spokesman told PCWorld. EVGA said it received about two dozen dead GeForce RTX 3090 cards believed to have failed from playing the…
Well that didn’t take long. Mere hours after announcing Windows 11’s October 5 release date, the company is booting Windows Insider preview PCs with unsupported hardware out of Windows 11 testing. The move isn’t a surprise. Microsoft allowed Windows Insiders who have been testing Windows 11 to continue to do so even after revealing surprisingly…
Adam Patrick Murray/IDG Intel’s ultra-fast Core i7-1195G7 chip just reared its head in MSI’s Prestige 14 Evo, but that’s not the most exciting feature of the ultra-slim laptop—it’s the USB port. Really. Sure, Intel’s 5GHz Core i7-1195G7 is technically faster than the previous 4.8GHz Core i7-1185G7 by about 200MHz, which works out to about 4…
You likely know iBuyPower as a system integrator—a company that offers customizable prebuilt PCs using off the shelf parts. But the company also has a history of producing interesting standalone computer cases, namely the Snowblind series, which had a transparent LCD screen in place of a standard tempered glass side panel. This time, the company…
Zombies? Or PATHETIC GARBAGE HUMAN SLAVES? — This time, Denuvo doesn’t appear to be the culprit… entirely. Sam Machkovech – Jul 12, 2021 11:57 pm UTC Resident Evil 8: Village’s retail PC version, as accessed from Steam, suffers from sporadic midcombat stutters, as the top-left “performance graph” indicates. This week’s cracked version has, at least…
Braking Point — Get ready for the return of Devon Butler, the most hated man in racing. Jonathan M. Gitlin – Jul 12, 2021 9:50 pm UTC As the name suggests, F1 2021 is this year’s official Formula 1 racing sim. A big new addition to F1 2021 is Braking Point, a narrative story where…
Keep it cool — Quantum processors are mostly used via cloud services; QuantWare will ship you one. John Timmer – Jul 12, 2021 9:22 pm UTC Early in its history, computing was dominated by time-sharing systems. These systems were powerful machines (for their time, at least) that multiple users connected to in order to perform…
In a nutshell: MSCHF (pronounced “mischief”), the American art collective that launches new “drops” every second and fourth Monday of the month, has unveiled its latest work which pokes fun at failed startups. The Dead Startup Toys are just that – toy versions of iconic failed startups. Five individual toys make up the collection as…
In context: Getting dressed every morning is a routine task that most of us don’t think about. However, for those with physical disabilities, the process is often much trickier and may even require the assistance of a second person — or perhaps a robot, if MIT’s CSAIL department has anything to say about it. As…
Gaming laptops have never been as powerful, thin and lightweight as they are today. Packing the best GPUs and CPUs combined with high refresh rates and high-resolution displays, good keyboards, tons of storage, and all the memory you could need, many of these modern mobile PCs can rival their desktop counterparts in many instances. If…
