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The 2nd-gen Asus Zenbook Duo dual-screen laptop made its debut during CES in January, and now it’s available for purchase in North America from retailers including Amazon and the Asus Store (US or Canada) Prices start at $1600 for a model with an…
The 2nd-gen Asus Zenbook Duo dual-screen laptop made its debut during CES in January, and now it’s available for purchase in North America from retailers including Amazon and the Asus Store (US or Canada) Prices start at $1600 for a model with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB […]
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This could revitalize the platform—or demonstrate that things aren’t going well.
Sony's first PlayStation VR for the PlayStation 4 hit stores at the right price at the right time and ended up being one of VR's biggest hits. The PlayStation 5's PlayStation VR2? Not so much, unfortunately. In either an effort to clear unsold inventory, an attempt to revitalize the platform, or both, Sony has announced it's dropping the price of the headset significantly.
Starting in March, the main SKU of the headset will drop from $550 to $400 in the US. Europe, the UK, and Japan will also see price cuts to 550 euros, 400 pounds, and 66,980 yen, respectively, as detailed on the PlayStation Blog. Strangely, the bundle that includes the game Horizon: Call of the Mountain (originally $600) will also drop to the same exact price. That's welcome, but it's also a little bit difficult not to interpret that as a sign that this is an attempt to empty inventory more than anything else.
The headset launched in early 2023 but has suffered from weak software support ever since—a far cry from the first PSVR, which had one of the strongest libraries of its time. It didn't help that unlike the regular PlayStation 5, the PSVR2 was not backward-compatible with games released for its predecessor.
CPUs ready to blast past their limits can be had with a warranty, for a premium.
The integrated heat spreaders put on CPUs at the factory are not the most thermally efficient material you could have on there, but what are you going to do—rip it off at the risk of killing your $500 chip with your clumsy hands?
Yes, that is precisely what enthusiastic overclockers have been doing for years, delidding, or decapping (though the latter term is used less often in overclocking circles), chips through various DIY techniques, allowing them to replace AMD and Intel's common denominator shells with liquid metal or other advanced thermal interface materials.
As you might imagine, it can be nerve-wracking, and things can go wrong in just one second or one degree Celsius. In one overclocking forum thread, a seasoned expert noted that Intel's Core Ultra 200S spreader (IHS) needs to be heated above 165° C for the indium (transfer material) to loosen. But then the glue holding the IHS is also loose at this temperature, and there is only 1.5–2 millimeters of space between IHS and surface-mounted components, so it's easy for that metal IHS to slide off and take out a vital component with it. It's quite the Saturday afternoon hobby.
CDC data is limited but hints it could be one of the more severe seasons.
Doctors around the US have anecdotally reported an uptick of children critically ill with the flu developing severe, life-threatening neurological complications, which can be marked by seizures, delirium, hallucinations, decreased consciousness, lethargy, personality changes, and abnormalities in brain imaging.
It's long been known that the seasonal flu can cause such devastating complications in some children, many with no underlying medical conditions. But doctors have begun to suspect that this year's flu season—the most severe in over 15 years—has taken a yet darker turn for children. On February 14, for instance, health officials in Massachusetts released an advisory for clinicians to be on alert for neurological complications in pediatric flu patients after detecting a "possible increase."
With the anecdata coming in, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed all the data it has on neurological complications from flu this year and seasons dating back to 2010. Unfortunately, existing surveillance systems for flu do not capture neurological complications in pediatric cases overall—but they do capture such detailed clinical data when a child dies of flu.
Small gameplay tweaks make for a completely fresh take on old challenges.
For most modern players, the worst thing about a video game classic like Portal is that you can never play it again for the first time. No matter how much time has passed since your last playthrough, those same old test chambers will feel a bit too familiar if you revisit them today.
Over the years, community mods like Portal Stories: Mel and Portal: Revolution have tried to fix this problem with extensive work on completely new levels and puzzles. Now, though, a much simpler mod is looking to recapture that "first time" feeling simply by adding random gameplay modifiers to Portal's familiar puzzle rooms.
The Portal Randomized demo recently posted on ModDB activates one of eight gameplay modifiers when you enter one of the game's first two test chambers. The results, while still a little rough around the edges, show how much extra longevity can be wrung from simple tweaks to existing gameplay.
There’s a new mini PC available from several retailers (and sold under several different brand names) that features a low-power Intel Alder Lake-N or Twin lake processor with a lot of high-speed wired networking features. Available in the UK as t…
There’s a new mini PC available from several retailers (and sold under several different brand names) that features a low-power Intel Alder Lake-N or Twin lake processor with a lot of high-speed wired networking features. Available in the UK as the CWWK S7 or in the US as the Healuck HL, the computer supports up […]
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Klein, aber kantig: Mit dem Concept EV2 stellt Kia eine Studie für sein bislang kleinstes Elektroauto vor. (Elektroauto, Auto)
Klein, aber kantig: Mit dem Concept EV2 stellt Kia eine Studie für sein bislang kleinstes Elektroauto vor. (Elektroauto, Auto) Microsoft: If US cuts off “friends” from AI chips, China will win AI race.
Microsoft is pushing the Trump administration to change last-minute export controls implemented by Joe Biden on his way out of office that were largely designed to limit access to advanced AI chips so that less surplus could find its way into the hands of China or other foreign adversaries.
Considered critical for US national security, the AI Diffusion rule divides the world into three tiers. At the top are countries that can access US-made AI chips without restrictions, including key chip ally Taiwan and 17 other countries. Access is completely restricted for about 20 countries in the bottom tier, including China, Russia, and North Korea. But stuck in the middle tier are 150 countries that must endure artificial limits on computing supply chains that are kept at least a generation behind US technology accessible by the top tier.
In a Thursday blog, Microsoft President Brad Smith warned that the rule will hurt US businesses by placing heavy restrictions on some of America's "friends"—including countries like Switzerland, Poland, Greece, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. He cautioned that the rule makes "uncertain" their "ability to buy more American AI chips in the future," and this will inevitably force US allies to seek supply chains outside the US. And "it’s obvious where they will be forced to turn" if Trump doesn't intervene, Smith suggested.
Die Natur fixiert CO2 eigentlich am besten und schönsten, aber in gemächlichem Tempo. Ein neuartiges Bakterium ist viel schneller. (Klimakrise, Storage)
Die Natur fixiert CO2 eigentlich am besten und schönsten, aber in gemächlichem Tempo. Ein neuartiges Bakterium ist viel schneller. (Klimakrise, Storage) Mobile Geräte sind fester Bestandteil moderner IT-Infrastrukturen. Wie sich diese mit Microsoft Intune sicher und effizient verwalten lassen, vermittelt dieser Online-Workshop der Golem Karrierewelt. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftware)
Mobile Geräte sind fester Bestandteil moderner IT-Infrastrukturen. Wie sich diese mit Microsoft Intune sicher und effizient verwalten lassen, vermittelt dieser Online-Workshop der Golem Karrierewelt. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftware)