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A superb Black Friday price cut brings this MSI Katana A15 AI laptop down to $1,099 - With an AMD Ryzen processor and RTX 4070 GPU
22 November 2024 @ 6:17 pm
Black Friday deals price cut brings this MSI Katana A15 AI laptop to just $1,099, a great price for such a decently specced laptop.
Three days later, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launch is still stumbling with access and bandwidth problems — issues aren't going away anytime soon as more users come online globally
22 November 2024 @ 6:12 pm
Microsoft has revealed that player counts for MSFS 2024 across the globe have begun to increase, putting continuous strain on the servers and exacerbating current issues.
The RTX 5090's GB202 GPU will reportedly be the largest desktop chip from Nvidia since 2018 coming in at 744mm-squared — 22% larger than AD102 on the RTX 4090
22 November 2024 @ 6:04 pm
Rumor has it that Nvidia's RTX 5090 wielding the GB202 chip has a massive 744mm-squared die size. Nvidia is expected to announced the Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs at CES 2025 in January.
GlobalFoundries gets $1.5 billion subsidy from U.S. gov't after it was fined for violating export laws to China
22 November 2024 @ 5:49 pm
GlobalFoundries signed a deal to get $1.5 billion under the CHIPS and Science Act even after being fined for violating U.S. export laws by supplying advanced chips to Chinese entities.
Score 4TB of PCIe 4.0 SSD storage for just 5 cents per GB — Crucial's P3 Plus is a Black Friday steal
22 November 2024 @ 4:53 pm
Crucial P3 Plus 4TB drops to $212.99 ahead of Black Friday.
AMD increases official Ryzen 7 9800X3D pricing to 542 Euros in Europe due to exchange rate fluctuations
22 November 2024 @ 4:48 pm
AMD might be worried about changing prices based on the exchange rate. However, these incremental updates are not affecting the chip's real-world pricing due to the chip's non-stop availability issues.
WD 20TB External HDD is only 1 cent per GB for Black Friday — $200 off at Best Buy
22 November 2024 @ 4:08 pm
Get a cheap external HDD while you can for roughly 1 cent per GB
This Raspberry Pi Pico visually demonstrates Dijkstra's shortest distance algorithm using LEDs
22 November 2024 @ 3:55 pm
Russell Eveleigh is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to demonstrate Dijkstra's algorithm visually with LEDs arranged as a map of the Cotswolds in England.
Top-end and mid-range RTX 50-series cards are rumored to launch in early 2025, and entry-level cards to follow later — RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070 up first
22 November 2024 @ 3:29 pm
Nvidia is rumored to launch the RTX 50 series GPUs early next year.
US FCC to update undersea cable regulations amid suspected cable sabotage incidents — proposals include restricting Chinese companies from building cable components
22 November 2024 @ 2:42 pm
The FCC is working on a new set of rules that will help protect the more than 400 undersea cables connecting the globe from disruption.