Noise-cancelling headphones aren't just for travel, they will isolate you from all sorts of audio distractions so you can concentrate on your music. We'll guide you to the best models. https://www.techhive.com/article/3611418/best-noise-cancelling-headphones.html#tk.rss_all
Virtual private networks are designed to preserve your anonymity on the internet. But VPNs can suffer from data breaches too, just like any service—as a recent report reminded us all. They also can be run by just about anyone, so it’s wise to scrutinize your options before signing up.That’s especially true when picking a free VPN. Free services aren’t automatically bad, but internet connections, electricity, and servers cost money. To afford those, free VPNs may show you ads, sell your data,
Practical Pi projectsImage by Raspberry PiThe Raspberry Pi single-board computer and all its variants have captured the imaginations of DIY enthusiasts and budding hobbyists alike. And now that the price of the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 has been slashed to $35 and an 8GB model with as much RAM as a Mac Mini is here, interest in building with the board is sure to spike.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3043022/10-surprisingly-practical-raspberry-pi-projects-
Microsoft’s strategy of using pop-up advertising to promote new features and services has returned—and ad blockers can do nothing against it.I saw two examples of this on Monday morning using Microsoft Edge and Bing. One I found acceptable, but a second went way over the line. That latter Bing ad promoted Microsoft’s new Bing Rebates program. It seized a good third of a Chrome window—yes, with ad-blocking software installed and active—and then retreated, lurking at the bottom of my window unt
A picture of Intel’s upcoming 11th-gen Rocket Lake chip, delidded (metal cover plate removed), shows just how utterly huge the backported chip is.The photo (shown above), shared by “MoeBen” of Overclock.net, is presumably one of the Core i7-11700K chips that was accidentally sold by a European retailer to a hundred or so lucky buyers.One of those who got his hands on one, Hardwareluxx.de’s Andreas Schilling, did some quick math on the delidded chip and estimates its area at about 270 square m
AMD has found a fix for intermittent USB problems some Ryzen owners have reported.“We would like to thank the community here on r/AMD for its assistance with logs and reports as we investigated the intermittent USB connectivity you highlighted. With your help,” the company posted in a post in the r/AMD section of Reddit, “we believe we have isolated the root cause and developed a solution that addresses a range of reported symptoms, including (but not limited to): USB port dropout, USB 2.0 au
For the past several months, carmakers have been struggling with a chip shortage due to pandemic-related demand for consumer electronics. Now a new report suggests that shortage could hit smartphones, too.According to Reuters' sources at Samsung and other phone makers, the chip shortage affecting the industry has reached all levels of smartphone processors, including Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 flagship that powers Samsung's Galaxy S21 and other high-end phones. The report notes that the sh
Just how fast will Intel’s upcoming Xe HPG graphics card for gamers be? Based on a tweet by Intel chief architect Raja Koduri, it’s looking to run in the neighborhood of Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070.Koduri posted the tweet Thursday afternoon, along with photos of other Intel employees looking at a screen with UL’s popular 3DMark graphics test on it. Although Koduri doesn’t explicitly say which card he’s testing, we know Intel is already benchmarking Xe HPG with 3DMark, and there are plenty of hi
After teasing the idea for months, AT&T now says it will roll out an AVOD tier for HBO Max in June. https://www.techhive.com/article/3611465/ad-supported-hbo-max-coming-in-june.html#tk.rss_all
The $329 GeForce RTX 3060 finally brings Nvidia’s next-gen Ampere GPU architecture to the mainstream masses—at least in theory.Normally, the release of Nvidia’s 60-class graphics cards sparks a lot of excitement. They tend to be the best-selling card of a GeForce generation. This time around, graphics cards are mired in a months-long shortage driven by a mixture of sky-high demand, logistics woes caused by the pandemic, a cryptocurrency boom that’s driving miners to gobble up GPUs, and some c