Raspberry Pi Uses Siri to Operate a Garage Door

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Building the smart home of your dreams? You may want to check out Steve's Siri-controlled garage door management system from Steve Does Stuff on YouTube. It uses a Raspberry Pi integrated with Siri support to check the status of and control up to three individual garage doors.

Users can interact with a custom interface hosted on a Flask-based web server. The dashboard offers various control options as well as log information with usage history for each door.

You'll

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GTAV Fan Fixes GTA Online's Super Lengthy Load Times

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GTA Online might be one of the most popular and longest-lasting games to date, but it isn't without its flaws. More specifically, GTA Online has an insane loading time of up to six minutes on most PC hardware (possibly more on slower PCs), which is absurd given how old the game is. A fix might be in the works, or at least, a fan of GTAV has figured out the problem and fixed it with a simple solution . Well,


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AMD Announces Global Retail Availability of Threadripper Pro

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AMD announced today that the Threadripper Pro desktop processors, which top out with 64 cores and 128 threads with the Threadripper Pro 3995WX , are now available for purchase worldwide. These chips were previously exclusively available in Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 workstation that we recently reviewed , but the chips and the accompanying WRX80 motherboards are now available at retailers. Other third-party workstation vendors, like Velocity Micro and Boxx , have also now listed their


2014-Era GTX 970 Emerges as Value GPU on eBay During Shortage

A dusty and decrepit Zotac GTX 970 — it's not dead yet! (Image credit: Tom's Hardware)

Our GPU pricing index shows just how overpriced the latest graphics cards are, if you're even willing to bother with eBay. Trying to sift through eBay sold listings while eliminating fake "here's a picture of a card" red herrings takes some effort, but the clear trend is that every GPU that's even remotely useful for mining has shot up in price, dragging

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Samsung Reveals First AMD FreeSync Premium Pro TVs, Mini LED Gaming Monitors

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Samsung just leveled the playing field a bit in the battle between TVs and gaming monitors. PC monitors have long held an advantage over TVs for gaming, largely due to speedier refresh rates and response times. The best gaming monitors also fight screen tearing with some flavor of Adaptive-Sync. TVs, meanwhile, have made advanced display technologies, like OLED and mini LED, more attainable. Today, Samsung threw

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Intel Reportedly Confirms March 30 Release Date for Rocket Lake-S CPUs

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Intel might have finally set an official release date for its Rocket Lake chips that will soon vie for a spot on our list of Best CPUs . HardwareLUXX editor Andreas Schilling today reported that “the sales embargo for 11th Gen Desktop processors (Rocket Lake S) is March 30, 2021, at 6 a.m. PT / 9 a.m. ET."

The announcement was largely symbolic. Representatives from MSI and Gigabyte revealed the March launch window in


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Maker Creates Raspberry Pi Pico 3D Printed Soldering Jig

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The Raspberry Pi Pico has one major issue:  it comes with no header pins soldered to it. As our tutorial on how to solder pins to Raspberry Pi Pico shows, solving this problem isn't difficult, but we do need to make sure that they are straight and if we have a lot of boards, this all takes time. Martin O'Hanlon was faced with this issue and so used a little 3D modelling knowledge and a 3D printer to create

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MSI Unlocks PCIe 4.0 Support on Z490 Motherboards

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MSI has officially unlocked PCIe Gen 4.0 support for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake CPUs that will soon vie for a spot on our list of Best CPUs . The update comes through new BIOS updates for MSI's entire Z490 lineup, following up on Z490's potential to bring PCIe 4.0 support to Rocket Lake platforms.

MSI says it designed its Z490 boards specifically for Gen 4.0 support from the very beginning by

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Best Thermal Paste for CPUs 2021: 90 Pastes Tested and Ranked

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Choosing the best thermal paste may sound simple, but a dizzying array of options can turn this seemingly easy choice into a time-consuming task. Thermal paste is designed to minimize microscopic air gaps and irregularities between the surface of the cooler and the CPU's IHS (integrated heat spreader), the piece of metal which is built into the top of the processor.

Good thermal paste can have a profound impact on your performance, because it will allow your processor to transfer

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All-in-One Device Combines Condenser Mic, Webcam, Ring Light

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Having all your telecommuting equipment in one dedicated device is an enticing promise, which is probably why ring-light equipped webcams like the Razer Kiyo exist. But as someone who still attends work meetings with a headset, even the best webcams still leave me wanting a separate microphone. That leaves demand for a proper all-in-one device, which is at least one reason why the Movo WebMic HD Pro Kickstarter hit its $15,000 goal in less than three hours

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