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AMD Radeon & NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Cards See More Price Cuts Hours Into The ETH Merge There are several factors behind the recent price cuts and one of them is without a doubt the end of ETH mining as we know it. With the ETH merge, mining on graphics cards is more or less over & that’s something the market has been anticipating for a while. NVIDIA and AMD have been course correcting their GPU inventories and prices ever since crypto started to decline and this could be a final nail in the coffin for GPU mining....

Now, Microsoft has added another feature to Windows Security: a driver block list named “Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist“ With this feature, Windows can now block drivers from running on your PC, which can be a potential threat to it. Since Microsoft has a zero-tolerance policy for malicious code execution in the kernel of the operating system, with the driver block list activated, it automatically prevents drivers and other pieces of code from running on it....

Although these icons provided quick access to certain Windows functionality, many users had no use for them, while some found the taskbar very clustered. Thankfully, the Windows operating system gives users the option to hide these icons, and show them when needed. You can hide or show these icons from the Settings app or through the Windows Registry. We suggest that you opt for the latter when you are unable to get the job done through the Settings app....

The context menu is the little pop-up menu that opens up when you right-click a file or a folder on your Desktop or through File Explorer. Windows 11 has introduced a new, more brief context menu that only provides so few options to choose from. Users now have to go the whole extra mile and click Show more options before they can finally select what they want from the more expanded context menu....

Basic applications and tools, like the Windows Photos app, do not support this format. So if you have a WEBP image saved on your computer, it is likely that you must view it in the Chrome browser, download another app that supports this format, or convert it into a standard imaging format, like JPG or PNG. Several websites explicitly use this format to compress the image to optimize their website, since a WEBP image is 26% smaller than a PNG image, and 25%-34% smaller than a JPG image....

Intel Confirms 13th Gen Raptor Lake Mobile CPUs Launching After Desktop CPUs In Late 2023 The Alder Lake desktop series, Alder Lake-S, was released last year towards the end of October. Non-K variations of the chip did not release until January this year, while the Alder Lake mobile series debuted a month later. After the Alder Lake, mobile P and H-series processors launched the final HX chipset, a desktop-focused processor, which arrived in May 2022....

Intel Core i5-13400 CPU Delivers A 30% Performance Boost With 30% Higher Power Draw But The Same Cool Temps There have been recent reports that certain Asian retailers have already started selling the Intel 13th Gen Non-K CPUs ahead of their launch in early January. The CPUs will be accompanied by a new B760 motherboard lineup at launch on the 3rd of January. While this certainly isn’t the first time we are looking at benchmarks of this particular chip, it is definitely the first time that a retail chip has leaked out....

Future Intel Raptor Lake-P support is added to the upcoming Linux 5.19 Kernel Similar to the Intel Alder Lake-P series and previous models, the next-gen Raptor Lake-P series will be available for lightweight, high-performance laptops. The initial support code was sent to the Linux 5.19 kernel, adding PCI device IDs to the i915 graphics driver. With the newest support added to the Linux 5.19 kernel, developers included around 24 new codes lines to activate the Raptor Lake-P support....

Intel’s Raptor Lake-Ready Z790 Flagship Motherboards To Be Revealed In Q3 2022 With PCIe Gen 5 M.2 Support The Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPU lineup is coming later this fall and the blue team will be ready to support it not only on the existing 600-series motherboards but also on the next-gen 700-series boards. Now, these boards have already been revealed and will come in three flavors, Z790, H770 & B760....

Intel’s Core i9-13900K “Raptor Lake” Is 11% Faster Than AMD Ryzen 9 7950X “Zen 4” In CPU Gaming Benchmarks Intel shared the slides at a recent event in their Raptor Lake launch event in India where they did showcase a brand new slide that compares the Intel Core i9-13900K CPU to AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X across a total of 12 titles. No settings or resolution are mentioned but the games range from the following titles:...

Raja Koduri Teases Upcoming Beast Canyon NUC Extreme With Intel Arc Alchemist Discrete Graphics Cards The Intel NUC Extreme ‘Beast Canyon’ is one of the most powerful SFF PC that one can get, offering support for desktop-grade 11th Gen Tiger Lake Desktop ‘KB’ CPUs and support for full-length graphics cards. We have our own review of the NUC Extreme coming in which we have utilizing NVIDIA’s RTX 3080 Ti Founders Edition graphics card, the fastest solution that you can fit inside the SFF PC but Intel seems to have its own discrete graphics solution, Arc Alchemist, running within prototype builds as showcased by Raja Koduri....

Apple’s iPad 9 with 64GB of Storage and Wi-Fi Currently Selling for a Low Price of Just $269 Ahead of Black Friday This is an extremely limited time deal and does not require any discount code or coupon. Since the price is quite low, there is a chance stock will run dry before you are able to place an order for yourself to be delivered on time. Buy 2021 Apple 10....

Aristotle believed that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” If we apply the same logic to GameStop’s future valuation, the company is worth well north of $20 billion and might even be worth as much as $30 billion. However, the reality is much more nuanced. Before the meme stock mania of 2021, GameStop was traversing a terminal decline trajectory, with foot traffic plummeting and the last vestiges of resistance among hardcore gamers to online downloads eliminated by the pandemic and the attendant social distancing realities....

Power-efficient crypto mining device promises 65 MH/s & utilizes only 30W of power within a fanless chassis The Jasminer X4 Etchash Brick showcases a fanless design and a 30W chip, allowing the device to run relatively silent and be highly power-efficient. The crypto mining brick utilizes the Jasminer X4 chip designed by Sunlune Technology, employing 3D chip stacking with through-silicon vias, or TSVs. This breakthrough technology permitted Sunlune to load computing and data storage units onto one chip....

Khronos ANARI analytical rendering interface is added to the list of supported applications utilizing AMD Radeon ProRender ANARI limits the fragmentation of varying APIs from several merchandisers looking for a feature-rich data visualization application. In 2021, the Khronos Group initialized the ANARI 1.0 provisional specification to create an industry-standard endeavor focused on customized 3D data visualizations. The organization intends for the analytical rendering interface to be the golden rule specification used by AMD Radeon ProRender and utilized by several CPU and GPU libraries....

None of these games are planned to launch on the Nintendo Switch console, though. When questioned by Gamespot on this topic, Like a Dragon producer and studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama revealed why. Do we want to put a title like this where we’re going around and picking a fight with the world and doing all this Yakuza stuff on a Switch? We still kind of think of ourselves as people of the night world, right?...

Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) is currently going through the veritable hellhole that is the production ramp-up, with the company forced to reduce its projections of EV deliveries for the entire 2022 at each of the past few quarterly earnings disclosure. However, the most difficult period for Lucid Group might finally be in the rear window after the company introduced sweeping changes in its logistics operations as well as the top management....

Midnight Suns is a tactical RPG with card-based mechanics featuring superheroes such as Iron Man, Captain America, and Ghost Rider, among others. The game was originally revealed last year and had an extended gameplay trailer shown this past September. You can watch that video below to catch up. You can check the rating for yourself here. Given that this happened, one could assume that the title will be released sometime this year....

It’s not without people talking about it; in the past, the idea of the first game being remade has been thrown around or even rumored, too. As a matter of fact, a thread on ResetEra highlights another one of these rumors, which we’ll break down now. The ResetEra thread points out a post by Spanish gaming outlet AREAJUGONES saying that the Metal Gear Solid remake is indeed a reality. The rumor starts by saying that this remake will be PlayStation 5 exclusive....

Earlier this month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a suit to block Microsoft’s intended merger with Activision-Blizzard. “The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block technology giant Microsoft Corp. from acquiring leading video game developer Activision Blizzard, Inc. and its blockbuster gaming franchises such as Call of Duty, alleging that the $69 billion deal, Microsoft’s largest ever and the largest ever in the video gaming industry, would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business”, the FTC’s reasoning behind the suit reads....