Last week, the Crave Plus battery made its way to my desk. I've never used any of Crave's products, so I didn't know what to expect from the very, very thin battery pack.The $50 Crave Plus is the thinnest battery pack I've tested, comparable to the profile of an iPhone 12 without a case. In fact, as I sit here looking at the pack, I realize it's roughly the same size and shape as an iPhone 12 Pro Max. That means it's portable and will slip into a backpack or pocket.Note: This review is part o
Well, that didn’t last long. When Nvidia launched its $330 GeForce RTX 3060 just weeks ago, it shipped the card with anti-mining protection that automatically halved performance when it detected Ethereum workloads. Ethereum is a booming cryptocurrency partly responsible for the sky-high pricing of graphics cards right now. This morning, however, reports are trickling in that the RTX 3060’s mining protection has been circumvented—by Nvidia itself.Oops.Japan’s PC Watch first reported that Nvidi
The dearth of Thunderbolt ports on most AMD-based motherboards has been well documented and whined about for years. Asus just threw everyone a bone with its Thunderbolt 4-equipped ProART B550-Creator motherboard.The AM4 motherboard supports Ryzen 5000 CPUs and is aimed at content creators. That’s why it supplies such a long list of I/O ports, including two 2.5-gigabit ethernet ports and a pair of Thunderbolt 4 ports.The board will be the first Ryzen-based model to include the newer standard.
Closing every possible program can help you eke out more endurance when your laptop is running low on battery. But not every program fully closes when you exit its window, and sometimes background processes can suck up a surprising amount of computing power. Fortunately, the Windows 10 Task Manager includes tools that let you quickly identify the power hogs on your computer, though the information isn’t the most straightforward to locate.Start by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc to summon Windows
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