Gaming Sale: Get up to $500 off Razer Laptops and Accessories

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Looking to upgrade your setup with some branded gaming hardware, including some of the best laptops , best mice and/or best microphones ? Razer's always near the top when it comes to premium gamer lifestyle gear, but its products usually come with a steep price tag to match.

But right now at Best Buy , you can circumvent this problem with site-wide Razer deals including up to $500 off Razer Blade laptops and up to $60 off accessories.

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System76 Launches Thelio Mira: Premium Linux-Based Desktops with AMD Ryzen 5000

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Leading workstation vendors offer Linux-based machines with the latest hardware inside, but those PCs are expensive and are not exactly home-friendly due to their expansive design. Meanwhile, buying a boutique desktop PC with Linux is somewhat tricky. Fortunately for Linux users, there are companies like System76, which just launched its Thelio Mira midrange system that can be equipped with a 16-core Ryzen 9 5950X processor and a leading-edge Nvidia Quadro RTX


Cytron Maker Pi Pico Review: Versatile electronics experiments

Our Verdict

Low cost and exceptionally versatile, the Maker Pi Pico is the ideal way to start your Pico projects.

For

  • + Low cost
  • + Easy to use
  • + Lots of extra features
  • + Inline LEDs
  • + Grove connectors

Against

  • - ESP-01 needs extra work

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a fun and inexpensive way to get into coding and electronics

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Arduino Oplà IoT Kit Review: An Introduction To IoT

Our Verdict

A great kit for learning IoT skills via a curated selection of lessons. The initial cost may seem high, but you get a lot of quality kit and content for your money.

For

  • + Great value kit
  • + Lessons are simple and easy to follow
  • + Easy to assemble

Against

  • - Not much use outside of learning
  • - Initial cost will scare off casual makers
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How to Build an Airplane Tracker with Raspberry Pi

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Chances are that there are planes flying over your house right now. Using a Raspberry Pi , a device known as an ADS-B receiver, and a standard projector, we can create our very own “radar” that shows the real time location of these aircraft and, if we have a projector, we can project it on the ceiling. Otherwise, we can track it on a regular screen.

About ADS-B Technology

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PowerColor Unchains The Radeon RX 6700 XT Hellhound

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VideoCardz has just leaked renders of one of PowerColor's new Hellhound series graphics card. As it's pretty straightforward, the Radeon RX 6700 XT Hellhound is based on AMD's latest Radeon RX 6700 XT and designed to contend with the best graphics cards on the market.

For the Radeon RX 6700 XT Hellhound, PowerColor is experimenting with a black and blue theme. The graphics card arrives with

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Blizzard Tests Nvidia Reflex in ‘Overwatch’

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Overwatch players with Nvidia graphics cards got some welcome news today: experimental support for Nvidia Reflex was added to the Public Test Region (PTR) that allows players to test new features before they’re added to the game proper.

Nvidia Reflex debuted in September 2020 in an effort “to optimize every aspect of the rendering pipeline for latency using a combination of SDKs and driver optimizations,” the company said , and give its customers an in-game advantage.

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Adafruit Feather RP2040 Review: A More-Refined Raspberry Pi Pico

Our Verdict

Solid hardware that offers a great deal more than a stock Pico, coupled with great software means that Adafruit’s Feather RP2040 should be your choice for ‘Pi Silicon’.

For

  • + Great form factor
  • + STEMMA QT easy to use
  • + FeatherWing add-ons
  • + Onboard battery connection and charging
  • + Pin labelling on both sides of the board

Against

  • - No pull up resistors on I2C pins
  • - No battery monitoring

The Raspberry Pi Pico was the first microcontroller to feature Raspberry Pi’s

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Intel's Raja Koduri Teases Xe HPG GPU Development Board

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A star engineer, Raja Koduri is one of the Intel executives who tends to reveal development progress of upcoming products via social media. A couple of months ago, he announced that the first GPU based on Intel's Intel's Xe HPG architecture had powered on, and this week, he seemingly teased the bring-up process of Intel's upcoming entrant into the best gaming graphics card race.

From 2012 to 2021 - same Intel

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Samsung Demos 256Gb 3nm MBCFET Chip: Performance, Density Up, Power Down

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Samsung Foundry will be the first maker of semiconductors to start using gate-all-around field-effect transistor (GAAFET)-like structures with its upcoming 3 nm fabrication process. The node is not quite ready for primetime yet, but at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) engineers from Samsung Foundry shared some of the details about the upcoming 3 nm GAE MBCFET (multi-bridge channel FET) manufacturing technology.

Formally, there are two types of GAAFETs: typical

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