Coil whine can be musical, demonstrates engineering student — this usually hated noise can make some people happy
Video shows that electronic noise pollution can become music.
Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com Crazed enthusiast runs PC on 192 AA batteries, successfully boots into Hannah Montana Linux — System is stable during stress testing and even plays FreeDoom
A creator by the name of "Uwoslab" just jerry-rigged three battery banks together, each made up of 64 AA Alkaline cells, to form a giant 192-cell array that's enough to power an AM4 system.
Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds
This project uses a clever hashing trick to fit over half a million blocked domains into just 4MB of flash memory.
GTA 3 and Vice City are now playable inside San Andreas — a mod lets you revisit Liberty City and Vice City without leaving San Andreas
A GTA modder has embedded GTA 3 and Vice City within San Andreas, even nesting Vice City within GTA 3, with all three games continuing to run simultaneously.
AMD’s new Ryzen 7 7700X3D plummets to $279 days after launch — the X3D chip rules the mid-range at its discounted price
The Ryzen 7 7700X3D has suddenly become a solid value thanks to a $50 promo code, knocking its price down from $329 to just $279 on Newegg.
Strapping 11 fans and a 360mm AIO to an RTX 3080 sounds crazy until you see the 30°C temp drop — modded GPU delivered less than 5 FPS uplift at turbojet noise levels
TrashBench recently decided to test whether adding more and more fans to a powerful GPU would improve its performance.
Jurassic Park packed $4 million of legit 1993 computer hardware — a software engineer detailed every single piece of hardware in the film
Google software engineer Fabien Sanglard meticulously listed the computer hardware and software used in the first Jurassic Park film. He even added details for each device, turning the film into something of a computer museum.
Grab AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary CPU with motherboard and 16GB RAM for just $529 — save over $100 on this epic AMD gaming bundle
Newegg has a great combo bundle on sale with over $100 in savings for the fastest DDR4 gaming system you can build today. It pairs a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 16GB of CL16 DDR4-3200 RAM and an Asus TUF Gaming B550-Plus WiFi II motherboard.
Nvidia RTX 50 Super GPUs are reportedly ready, but stuck in limbo due to excessive GDDR7 pricing — 3GB GDDR7 module costs triple the price of 2GB
The 3GB GDDR7 chips that the RTX 50 Super GPUs will use reportedly cost twice to thrice as much as the 2GB chips found on vanilla RTX 50-series graphics cards. This would likely push the retail price of these GPUs way beyond Nvidia's target MSRP.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s trademark leather jacket raises nearly $1 Million at charity auction — bidding makes $60,000 valuation look like pocket change
‘The Jensen Jacket’ achieved a hammer price of $960,000 this weekend.
Security engineer ports password cracker hashcat to Gameboy Advance — 16.8 MHz chip can perform a meager 727 hashes a second, 30 million times slower than a modern rig
Gameboy Advance port of hashcat allows for advanced password cracking in meager hardware — so long as you're willing to wait
AGI AI828 SSD Review: A near-last resort for those on a budget
The AGI AI828 is a budget drive with subpar performance and power efficiency. This makes it a last resort, although in the current market, it might be good enough for some.
Korean outfit hosting 1.44MB game development contest to honor the floppy disk — entrants must confine entire fileset, including resources, engine, and library, to miniscule storage format
There’s a new 'open to everyone' floppy disk-size game development competition with cash prizes for the best three submissions.
Autonomous micro-drone achieves first air-to-air insect kill on the way 'towards completely eradicating mosquitoes' — 40-gram unit uses car parking sensors, can eliminate insects at up to 26 feet
A micro-drone designed to locate and eradicate mosquitoes has passed an important milestone with its first recorded air-to-air kill.
ASML's planned Low-NA EUV machine price hikes reportedly frustrate TSMC — lithography machine maker comes knocking to make bank on TSMC's profitable fabs, potentially costing the Taiwanese chipmaker billions
ASML says that the increased productivity of its Low-NA EUV tools gives it an option to increase the prices of these scanners in the future. The move may have a drastic effect on TSMC's future expansion plans, as the foundry made a big bet on existing lithography systems.
TSMC confirms significant yield and performance improvements in A14 update — strong interest from AI/HPC and smartphone customers
TSMC's A14 process technology progresses faster than N2 at this stage of development as developers of both client and AI/HPC plan to use it.
Florida man arrested after allegedly stealing $220,000 in crypto using malware hidden in Steam Games — 8,000 devices infected
Federal agents arrested 21-year-old Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins of North Lauderdale, Florida, on Tuesday.
Best Back to School tech deals on laptops and essential tech — save on new semester essentials now
Grab savings on the best back-to-school tech deals.
GameStop CEO says Sony's decision to go disc-less is 'totally irrelevant' — claims software, including physical discs, accounts for only 12% of the company's business
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says Sony’s physical game exit is irrelevant to the company's business, amid a $56 billion eBay takeover, as collectibles now drive growth.
Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains — citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security
U.S. lawmakers demand Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to ban imports of memory chips from China to the U.S., ask allies to do the same.