Let the Dogs Out! How to Make a Raspberry Pi Pet Detector

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Working from home gives you more opportunities to spend time with your family - pets included. My office is upstairs and occasionally my dog wants to go outside. I could put a bell on the door that she could ring, but why waste the opportunity to build an over-engineered solution.

This project uses a field of machine learning known as object detection. Fortunately if you’re not familiar with machine learning, it’s a relatively easy project to get started with

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Raspberry Pi USB Copier Duplicates Data in a Flash

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Managing flash drive data can be a little bit tedious when using a computer, but this project streamlines the process in the form of a handheld. Maker Shaun Jay has created a USB flash drive copier using a Raspberry Pi Zero .

The best Raspberry Pi projects are ones with practical uses, and this one absolutely fits the bill. This handheld allows the user to easily view, remove and copy the contents of one flash drive to another using a custom interface.

It relies on an Adafruit

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Framework Reveals More About Its Customizable Laptop's Parts

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In contrast with the buy-ditch-replace model most current laptops operate under, San Francisco-based startup Framework announced in late February that it wanted to create a laptop that was truly customizable, largely future-proof, and more eco-friendly. In the following weeks, its revealed more details about how it planned to achieve those goals, and today it announced the new Framework Community devoted to its project.

Let's recap the basic specs: Framework's laptop is set

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GPU Face Off: GeForce RTX 3070 vs Radeon RX 6700 XT

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The GeForce RTX 3070 and Radeon RX 6700 XT both target the high-end market with official prices starting near $500. These are two of the best graphics cards , and rank in the upper echelons of our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. But which card takes home the crown? We've put the two contenders against each other to look at performance, features, efficiency, price, and more to determine the winner.

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Intel Core i7-1195G7 'Tiger Lake Refresh': Early Test Results

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Today saw new test results being published for an as-yet-unannounced Intel CPU, and the results are low enough compared to what's already on the market to make us wonder what Team Blue's plan is here.

Puget Systems, a well-known maker of PCs and workstations that also publishes benchmark results for exotic hardware in real-world applications, has revealed some early test results of Intel's unannounced Core i7-1195G7 processor.


Nvidia Allegedly Increases GeForce GTX 1650 Supply To Fight GPU Shortage

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The latest rumor coming out of China is that Nvidia is supplying its partners with more Turing silicon to deliver more GeForce GTX 1650 graphics cards to the market. The report specificially mentions mainland China, so it's uncertain if Nvidia is doing this on a global scale. However, we've reached out to the chipmaker for clarification.

Nvidia has already rekindled GeForce RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 T


Nvidia's RTX 3070 Out-Sold Every Other GPU in March of 2021

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Despite the massive graphics card shortage taking place right now, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070 has somehow made it up the ranks in Steam's hardware survey and racked in an additional 0.17% of market share in under a month. Which makes Nvidia's RTX 3070 seemingly the most popular graphics card purchased in March of 2021, period.

Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070 debuted on October 29th of

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Next-Gen AMD Ryzen Threadripper Might Be Coming Soon

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AMD'd next-generation Ryzen Threadripper might be coming soon, according to the latest patch notes for the popular HWiNFO diagnostic suite.

Realix, the developer behind HWiNFO, said earlier today that the upcoming version of the software will improve its work with AMD's Ryzen Threadripper Pro as well as "next-generation Ryzen Threadripper" platforms. This is essentially one of the first public signs of AMD's 4th Generation Threadripper, which is allegedly based on the Epyc 'Milan'

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Steam Survey Reveals: 6-Core and 8-Core CPUs Are More Popular Than Ever

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Sourced from Twitter; The day has finally come where higher core count six-core and eight-core CPUs are ready to overtake aging dual-core and quad-core solutions in market share. Thanks to Steam's hardware survey, we are able to get precise details on how popular both AMD and Intel's hexacore and octa-core processors have become over the past several years.

This huge uptick in six and eight-core popularity is in part thanks to AMD'

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Microsoft to Produce Xbox Series X Mini Fridges

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Remember the full-sized Xbox Series X fridge Microsoft sent out to a few celebrities as a marketing stunt back in October? Well, now it seems like you’ll soon be able to buy a miniature version of that same fridge, assuming that we haven’t been taken in by an especially cruel April Fools' joke.

Ok...here goes. Help @Xbox win this and we’ll put into production this year REAL XBOX SERIES X MINI FRIDGES! Yep,