Category: Technology

BlackBerry announced this week that it will stop support for legacy services running its operating system in the next few days. Functionality that simply won’t be there anymore includes basic things like making phone calls and text messaging, effectively ending the life of older BlackBerry phones (all models not running Android) as communication devices. The […]

This week, a Taipei YouTuber who may be part of the Asus ROG motherboard team prototyped an adapter for using DDR4 memory sticks on motherboards designed only for DDR5. This trick may alleviate a dilemma facing those building or buying new computers with Intel’s new Alder Lake processors. When Intel launched its Alder Lake CPUs […]

When one imagines “the world’s fastest PC,” you wouldn’t expect its performance to be measured in kilometers per hour (KPH). But Sega and ASRock’s Alder Lake build is a little different from the norm: it’s integrated into the chassis of a Remote Control car that’s capable of reaching 100 KPH, or just over 62 MPH. […]

Just as more people are buying PCIe 4.0 SSDs, next-generation PCIe 5.0 storage is making headlines. The latest reveal comes from Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist and former tech journalist Ryan Shrout, who showed off a PCIe Gen 5 Samsung SSD running on an Alder Lake system and hitting some impressive speeds. Shrout tweeted that the […]

The PC community has long awaited the launch of Intel’s first true dedicated gaming GPUs, and now, that day is just around the corner. With competition from AMD and Nvidia likely to arrive later the same year, an early 2022 launch window for the first generation of Intel’s upcoming Arc GPUs (codenamed Alchemist) seems likely. […]

If you have a 2021 Model S or 2014-2020 Model 3 Tesla, be aware that the company and the NHTSA have issued recalls on those vehicles. Both models have problems with their front and rear trunks that could cause visibility issues for the driver. Reuters notes that Tesla will recall more than 475,000 cars sold […]

A team of researchers has been testing the ability to control brains using just light. They can control the actions and emotions of lab mice in a process they say is entirely reversible. There is no word on whether this could work on humans. The researchers describe a method that uses a special kind of […]