M4 iPad Pro teardown shows the M4 processor and Apple Logo heat spreader in the flesh — scores points for being repairable, too

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Apple hasn't always been the friendliest company in terms of third-party and self-repair options. However, the YouTube channel Phone Repair Guru recently did a teardown of the M4 iPad Pro , Cupertino's latest tablet. The disassembly process seemed a bit straightforward this time, with the creator commenting, "This is so much easier than how it used to be."

Suhaib El-Komy, who owns the Phone Repair Guru YouTube channel, is a Canada

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How to use your Android phone as a webcam in Windows 11

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Even if you have one of the best webcams , it's usually stuck on your monitor or built into your laptop bezel. But what if you want to step a few feet away from your PC or show something that's not in range of your regular webcam. Or what if, like me, your laptop's webcam is broken?

Windows 11 allows you to turn any Android phone into a mobile webcam using its front or rear camera. Like any webcam, the

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China firms' AI breakthrough can meld GPUs from different brands into one training cluster — Baidu says new tech fuses thousands of GPUs together to help sidestep shortages

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Tech companies are increasing their pace in developing AI technologies. Baidu, China's largest search engine, is often compared to Google and is pushing hard to gain a global lead. According to its CEO, Robin Li, the company has developed a system to combine GPUs from different vendors and use them as a single compute cluster for AI training. This was highlighted in its Q1 2024 Earnings Call transcript.

Li mentioned in the call that Baidu is transforming from an Internet

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Two Raspberry Pi Picos power this sleek dual clock with an LED matrix

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The Raspberry Pi community has become well known over the years for developing some of the most useful projects from scratch with fit and finish that rivals many professional equivalents. Today, we've got a wonderful example of such a creation put together by maker and developer Ajith Kumar B. He created a sleek dual clock bundled with some fun bonus features by using two of our favorite microcontrollers, the Raspberry Pi Pico.

Each Pico is connected using an I2C connection and has a

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Asus vows to improve clarity surrounding warranty claims and astronomical hardware repair costs

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Several customers have complained about unreasonable payments that Asus required to cover "customer damage" on items sent back for warranty work. The rising complaints have prompted many publications and tech channels to investigate the issue. Because of this, Asus released a statement saying it is enhancing its RMA communication processes in the US and Canada.

According to the company, it will revise its repair pricing structure for out-of-warranty items, analyze returned devices and give the customer a clear list of all free

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Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B

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The Core i9-11900K may not be one of the best CPUs anymore, but that doesn't mean the flagship Rocket Lake chip has lost its mojo. Our resident extreme overclocking guru, Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch, has set a new world record with the Core i9-11900K in PyPrime 32B ,

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Handheld gaming PC makers look to Intel Lunar Lake CPUs as an alternative to dominant Ryzen Z1

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AMD's Ryzen Z1 series processors have dominated the handheld gaming PC landscape, with MSI being the only manufacturer that utilizes Intel CPUs in its handheld PC . However, it appears this is changing, and more handled makers are looking into Intel CPUs — particularly future Intel chips. PC World reports that OEM service provider Weibo is looking to use Intel Lunar Lake CPUs in its first-ever handheld gaming PC. The new machine is known as the GP10 and features

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Gigabyte's ultrawide 49-inch Aorus OLED gaming monitor drops to its lowest-ever price of $969

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A lot of gaming setups commonly include a dual or even triple monitor formation with a primary monitor for your game and support monitors for chat applications or maybe a YouTube guide video. The benefit of an ultrawide gaming monitor is that it's like having dual monitors seamlessly squished together for a panoramic viewing experience, but with fewer cables and less clutter (monitor arms and stands) on your desk.

Gigabyte's impressive Aorus CO49DQ ultrawide 49-inch QD-OLED gaming

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Researcher develops AI-infused active noise-cancellation headphones — Tech can isolate user-specified environmental sounds in real-time

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AI expert Shyam Gollakota from the University of Washington, together with his team of researchers, found a way to use artificial intelligence in real-time active noise cancellation, which can remove specific sounds without altering the headphone's audio . He presented this idea on May 16 at a conference held by the Acoustical Society of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association , where he showed a working prototype.

Gollakota and his team used a smartphone-based neural network to identify, train, and filter

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Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ OLED gaming monitor review: Tremendous color and contrast

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ is one of the least expensive large OLED monitors out there but it doesn’t skimp on quality or features. With excellent gaming performance and stunning color, it’s a great choice for those with $1,000 to spend on a monitor.

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    Stunning image with amazing contrast

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    Huge and accurate color gamut

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