Thermaltake's new AIO cooler uses Dall-E 3 to generate custom backgrounds for $0.04 per prompt, requires paid OpenAI subscription — "AI Forge" feature taps into OpenAI's platform and JiMeng

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A few months ago, we covered Thermaltake's "AI Forge" feature for the first time, detailing how it can generate custom backgrounds for you based on AI prompts. At the time, we even highlighted how it must connect to the internet to use some diffusion model instead of running anything locally. Today, Thermaltake has finally given the feature a

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Micro Center puts up 8TB WD_Black SSD at $2,419 MSRP, real price tag up 50% since October — pricing surges on high-capacity SSDs in response to AI demand

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RAM prices have been surging for the past two months, but behind the scenes, prices on SSDs have silently crept up, as well. There's no better evidence of that than two 8TB drives on display at Micro Center. The 8TB WD_Black SN850X is listed at a suggested retail price of $2

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Motorized aim assist system uses a moving mousepad for laser-accurate headshots — a cannibalized GRBL drawing system and computer vision software deliver perfect shots

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What do you do if you are so good at video games that playing against family and friends becomes drained of all its entertainment value? If you are Nick, at the Basically Homeless YouTube channel, you combine woodworking , hardware hacking, and software shenanigans to enhance your friendly foes with a slick, mechanized, mousepad-driven aim-assist system that imparts expert

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Louis Gerstner, the man who saved IBM, dies at 83 — industry mourns the passing of transformative CEO

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Louis Gerstner, the executive who engineered one of the most important corporate turnarounds in the history of the high-technology sector, died at the age of 83 on Saturday. Gerstner took control over IBM in 1993 when it was at the brink of breakup and bankruptcy, rebuilt the company into a services-led enterprise , and restored its strategic relevance

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Anycubic promises its Kobra X high-speed multi-filament printer can print over twice as fast and with half the material for $259 — redesigned head keeps the cutter close to the nozzle

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Bambu, Prusa, and Creality are the usual household names in the 3D printing world, but there's no shortage of alternative makers trying to upset the status quo. Anycubic just announced the Kobra X , an affordable multi-filament, multi-material 3D printer that the company claims can print twice as fast while spending half the material of its competitors

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Save $125 on the high-end, direct-drive Thrustmaster T598 with new all-time low price — grab Thrustmaster racing wheels up to 40% off at Amazon

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Over the last decade, the ubiquity of VR headsets and the affordability of accessories led way to a renaissance of sorts in the racing sim genre. Competition breeds better prices, and deals result. Today, we have three wheel-and-pedal kits from the trusty folks at Thrustmaster for your perusal.

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Save over $500 on the cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop we've seen with an OLED screen — Grab Lenovo's Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 CPU for as low as $1,137 with discount code

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As PC building becomes more and more infeasible due to the AI boom, gaming laptops are emerging as a great way to combat the ongoing component crisis. They still feature excellent performance, and often better screens than what you would've used otherwise. We've spotted a deal just like that: Lenovo's Legion 5 (Gen 10)

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TSMC chipmaking factories rocked by magnitude 7.0 earthquake that was the strongest in 27 years, but facilities escaped unharmed — company's earthquake protection measures pay off

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Yesterday, the ground shook off the coast of Taiwan, slamming the country with the strongest earthquake in 27 years. The seismic wave registered 7.0 on Taiwan's scale, or 6.6 to 6.7 according to the USGS standard. Thankfully, according to reports , TSMC's factories are all intact, saving the world from yet

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World’s smallest autonomous robots are 'smaller than a grain of salt,' cost one penny apiece — researchers expect new micron-scale fully-programmable robots to be used in medicine, microscale manufac

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Fully programmable, autonomous robots “smaller than a grain of salt” have been developed in a collaborative effort between research teams from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. Claimed to be the world’s smallest of their kind, these nanoscale robots are expected to find applications in medicine, microscale manufacturing, and other areas. Remarkably, the researchers contend

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Cyberpunk 2077 transformed into a stunning VHS visual experience using new ReShade preset — so 1980s real you start watching for mullets, another enthusiast benchmarks preset's visuals using an actual

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A new ReShade preset that emulates the look and feel of a VHS tape for Cyberpunk 2077 is earning plaudits on social media. The grainy, analog-tape-worn scenes shown in an embedded sample video on Reddit (below) make this graphically stunning game so 1980s-real you start watching for mullets. The preset

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