LG's Ultrawide HDR Monitor Drops to $699

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With the extra screen real estate and convenient viewing angles, an ultrawide monitor can be a lifesaver for productivity and creatives. Throw in HDR support, a 75 Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync , and the LG 34WL850-W is even fit for casual gaming. Right now it's on sale for $699 at B&H .

With creators in mind, one of the key features of this 34-inch, 34

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Open up for This Raspberry Pi Face-Detecting Candy Launcher

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This Raspberry Pi project is seriously delicious. Harrison McIntyre is using his time in lockdown to create a Pi-powered candy launcher that shoots M&Ms at his mouth from across the room.

McIntyre's creation has a Raspberry Pi receives voice commands by using an Amazon Echo Dot. When triggered, it uses a camera to detect a face and determine how far away it us before launching candy toward the face.

McIntyre had to work out the logistics of how to accurately project candy along


Microsoft Stops Giving PC Makers Windows 10 32-Bit

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Microsoft started giving OEMS access to its next Windows 10 update, Windows 10 version 2004, this week, and the update spells a limited future for 32-bit versions of Windows 10 going forward.

As spotted by Neowin , in the new minimum hardware requirements for Windows 10 version 2004 , Microsoft notes, “Beginning with Windows 10, version 2004, all new Windows 10 systems will be required to use 6

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Rivals in Arms: Nvidia's $199,000 Ampere PC Taps AMD Epyc CPUs

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The DGX A100 system is ultra-powerful system that has a lot of Nvidia markings on the outside, but there's some AMD inside as well. A pair of core-heavy AMD Epyc 7742 (codenamed Rome) processors are at the heart of Nvidia's new $199,000 creation.

The DGX A100 employs up to eight Ampere-powered A100 data center


Alienware Aurora R11 Has the Weirdest Liquid GPU Loop We've Ever Seen

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Just yesterday Alienware announced its new machines, among which the Aurora R11 gaming desktop that comes with liquid cooling. We hadn't noticed at the time, but as tweeted by Asetek , it looks like the GPU will be liquid-cooled with a radiator built into a PCI-Express slot below the graphics card, which Asetek is calling the Rad Card.

We've seen some creative solutions to build GPUs into AIO loops, but this is something we haven't seen

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Eve Spectrum Crowd-Sourced Monitor Eyes PS5, Xbox Series X With 4K 120 Hz HDMI

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Eve Distribution, the brand behind the crowdfunded and crowd-developed Microsoft Surface rival , has moved on to making monitors with specs rivaling some of the best gaming monitors on the market. But the company’s not content vying for PC gamers only -- it wants to carve out a piece of that next-gen console pie too.

Eve currently has three gaming monitor SKUs available for pre-order with varying release dates.

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AMD Ryzen 4000 Renoir Desktop APU Specifications Leaked

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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 4000-series (codename Renoir) desktop APUs aren't available yet, but a recent leak claims to show specifications for engineering samples, which should still be near specs for the final product.

Similar to the mobile AMD Ryzen 4000 processors (codename Renoir), the desktop variants are expected to unify AMD's Zen 2 CPU and Vega GPU microarchitectures. The new APUs, which will come out of TSMC's 7nm


Watch All Nine Parts of the Nvidia GTC 2020 Keynote

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The Nvidia A100 GPU based on the Ampere architecture has arrived, and Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang talks about the technology, applications, and other advancements in his eight part digital keynote. The A100 is the highlight of the keynote, but Nvidia has its fingers in a lot of other pies. Here are the nine (one was missing earlier) different parts with a short summary of each:

Kicking things off, we have Jensen in the kitchen cooking up


Nvidia Unveils Its Next-Generation 7nm Ampere A100 GPU for Data Centers, and It's Absolutely Massive

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The day has finally arrived for Nvidia to take the wraps off of its Ampere architecture . Sort of. While Ampere will inevitably make its way into some of the best graphics cards and find a place on our GPU hierarchy , today's digital GTC announcement is only about the Nvidia A100, a GPU designed primarily for the upcoming wave of exascale supercomputers and AI research. It's the descendant of Nvidia's existing line of Tesla V100 GPUs, and

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Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit: Powerful A.I., Tiny Size

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If you’re developing A.I. applications, including intelligent robots, Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier platform is one of the best choices. Announced in late 2019 but just starting to hit the market, the Xavier NX combines the power of a 384-core Volta GPU with a 6-Core Arm v8 CPU to deliver 21 TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) of inference goodness in a package the size and shape of a SODIMM

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