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AMD Axes StoreMI Technology, Replacement Coming in Q2 2020 (Updated)

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In a recent Product Change Advisory , AMD has announced that the company has officially terminated support for the StoreMI technology. But fear not, the chipmaker confirmed that a brand-new version with improved features is slated for release in the second quarter of the year.

For those of you that are not familiar with StoreMI, it's a feature that AMD introduced with its Ryzen 2000-series (codename Pinnacle Ridge) and corresponding 400-series chipsets. AMD subsequently


Join The Fight Against the Coronavirus on Raspberry Pi or Your Smartphone

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Imagine if the compute power of all the world's estimated 3.5 billion smartphones were simultaneously crunching away to search for a cure for the coronavirus. Today, that's at least theoretically possible with the announcement that COVID-fighting research can now run on Arm64 devices, meaning you can help researchers find a cure or vaccine for the coronavirus on both Raspberry Pi devices and an app on your smartphone.

The Rosetta@Home project works much like the now-

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS Battery Testing: Unplugged Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Run Time Explored With Various Workloads

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The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is one of the best gaming laptops , in part because of its excellent battery life. In our review, the laptop and its 76 WHr battery lasted 11 hours and 32 minutes on our battery test.

Usually, our battery testing ends there. But the Zephyrus, powered by a 35W AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q , proved to be

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Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed Wireless Gaming Mouse Review: Value Performer

Our Verdict

The Basilisk X HyperSpeed proves specs don’t tell the full story by offering nigh identical performance to newer--and more expensive--models.

For

  • Excellent wireless connectivity
  • Ergonomic design
  • Strong in-game performance

Against

  • Doesn’t support any wired connections
  • Relies on last-gen Razer technology
  • AA battery, not rechargeable
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Amazon Project Tempo Cloud Gaming Service Unveiled After Coronavirus-Related Delays

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Amazon’s cloud gaming service has been officially announced, and then promptly delayed to adjust for the coronavirus outbreak, the New York Times reported this week.

Late last year, rumors emerged that Amazon would be the next internet kingpin to launch a cloud gaming service, as CNET reported that the company was hiring key game industry players to work on a gaming-focused initiative within its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud team. This followed news from 2016 that Amazon was working


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Calling All Folders: We Still Need Your Help to Beat Anandtech (and COVID-19) - Update

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Editor’s Note : This article was first published on March 27th and was updated on April 3rd.

At the end of March, we announced a competition between Tom’s Hardware and Anandtech , where we asked our readers to pick a side and start donating their extra CPU and GPU cycles to Folding@Home , a non-profit massive computing project run out of Stanford University that’s currently helping medical researchers look for a coronavirus vaccine. Anyone can help out just

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Now You Can Fight the Coronavirus on Raspberry Pi and Your Phone, Too

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Imagine if the compute power of all the world's estimated 3.5 billion smartphones were simultaneously crunching away to search for a cure for the coronavirus. Today, that's at least theoretically possible as the Rosetta@Home project announced that is has enabled COVID-fighting research to run on Arm64 devices, which means you can now help researchers find a cure or vaccine for the coronavirus on both Raspberry Pi devices and your smartphone, both through the BOINC program.

The Rosetta

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Intel Will Likely Recycle Coffee Lake iGPU for 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs

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It's increasingly looking like Intel's desktop Comet Lake processors, like the mobile chips , will use the same iGPU found in Coffee Lake CPUs.

HP's document for the 288 Pro G6 Microtower PC [ PDF ] also shows specifications for various 10th Generation Comet Lake processors, as potted by hardware leaker @momomo_us . Given the device's reduced footprint, it's leveraging Intel's 65W models, including the i7

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GTX 1650 GDDR6 Shows 6% Uplift Over GDDR5

Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 Destroyer OC

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Chinese news outlet Expreview has reviewed Nvidia's refreshed GeForce GTX 1650 gaming graphics card. The new GTX 1650 has GDDR6 memory for a speed boost over the original version with GDDR5.

The sample tested, the Zotac GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 Destroyer OC, is a SKU that's specific to China. The graphics card's teardown shows that the revised version is still


Using A Raspberry Pi for That Perfect DSLR Shot

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One creative maker has come up with a way to control a DSLR camera with a smartphone. Luis Salha called in a Raspberry Pi for his DIY solution, dubbed Black Box, which uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to communicates with a DSLR camera and control almost all of its settings.

While professional tools already exist on the market that do what Black Box can, Salha proved that you don't necessarily need them to get the job done -- especially if you've got