In brief: If you’ve been looking for an easy way to expand the internal storage of your PlayStation 5, Samsung made a unique model of the 980 Pro SSD for Sony’s console. It comes in 1-terabyte and 2-terabyte versions, has a heatsink to help during prolonged gaming sessions, and can easily exceed Sony’s recommended sequential…
Why it matters: Last week, Nvidia’s $54 billion acquisition of chip manufacturer Arm was expedited by offering concessions to EU regulators. Unfortunately for the GPU titan, that hasn’t exactly worked in their favor—its desire to buy the British company hit a stumbling block today as authorities are concerned about how the deal will affect competition…
Rob Schultz / IDG Whether you’re streaming games to Twitch, YouTube, or another platform, your audience needs to hear you clearly over the gameplay. (The same holds true if you’re holding live chat sessions or talking with your viewers as you work on a project.) And unfortunately, microphones built into laptops, webcams, and even headsets…
Kingston One of the biggest technical issues keeping a lot of people off of Windows 11 is that it seems to seriously impact the speed of some types of solid state drives. Some user testing showed the new operating system slowing down NVMe drives dramatically, though this wasn’t a universal problem. Microsoft engineers said they…
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Enlarge / All that’s missing are some batteries. The incredible plunge in the price of photovoltaic systems has made solar power an affordable option for much of the world. And, as long as solar is providing a small fraction of the power on a given grid, there’s little holding back the addition of new photovoltaic…
Pricey, premium prebuilts — Drop drops new ready-to-buy keyboards at steep prices. Scharon Harding – Oct 12, 2021 10:49 pm UTC Enlarge / Drop’s Moon Shot keyboard uses tall, SA profile keycaps. High-end mechanical keyboard and PC peripherals brand Drop (formerly Massdrop) today revealed its next lineup of prebuilt mechanical keyboards. The brand added options…
Nvidia There’s no sign that the graphics card shortage will end anytime soon. That being the case, more than a few gamers are turning to the newfangled alternative to local powerhouse hardware: game streaming via Xbox Game Pass, Stadia, and GeForce Now. The latter is now offering an even more intense tier of service, letting…
Sammyuri Computer chips have become so tiny and complex that it’s sometimes hard to remember that there are real physical principles behind them. They aren’t just a bunch of ever-increasing numbers. For a practical (well, virtual) example, check out the latest version of a computer processor built exclusively inside the Minecraft game engine. Minecraft builder…
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