In light of the coronavirus outbreak, cloud services are witnessing exponential jumps in demand, straining services and data connections. Microsoft just outed an update about the status of its Azure services, which have recorded a peak increase in demand of up to 775% in areas where social distancing and/or lockdowns are enforced.
Microsoft described the influx of demand for Azure services:
Acer is bringing AMD's Ryzen 4000 U-series processors to its laptops this spring. The Acer Swift 3 with a Ryzen 7 4700U will start at $629.99 in April, while the Acer Aspire 5 equipped with a Ryzen 5 4500U will start at $519.99 in June.
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Update 03/29/2020, 3:10pm PT: Intel issued the driver update on 02/10/2020, meaning the driver delay lasted 12 months, not 14. The text has been amended.
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After leaving its Hades Canyon NUC customers without new Vega GPU drivers for 12 months, Intel has quietly stopped providing its own Intel-branded and validated graphics drivers for Kaby Lake-G
The Deepcool Gamer Storm Assassin III should be on every enthusiast and HEDT system builder’s colling short list. With seven copper heatpipes and twin 140mm cooling fans, it provides excellent thermal performance at a competitive price of $90.
A fully unlocked GeForce GTX 480 with all 512 CUDA cores active, unofficially known as the GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 in some hardware circles, first appeared in the wild in 2010. The card lead to the speculation that Nvidia might bring it to market, but that never happened. Ten years later, another working engineering sample of the fabled graphics card (spotted by @KOMACHI_
o experience for games, music and movies, even with sparse audio controls in its software. Its virtual surround sound sometimes proved handy for games, and its RGB lighting is attractive and easily controllable.
It's easy to move windows around in Windows 10 and to find applications too, but sometimes you either want to clear the clutter or find an icon that's sitting on the desktop. If you need to get to your Windows 10 Desktop quickly, there are several ways to go about it.
We'll go over each method for getting to the desktop in Windows so you can find one that works best for you.
Earlier this month, AMD announced the Ryzen 7 4800U and Ryzen 9 4900HS as the upcoming flagship mobile processors for the Ryzen 4000 U-and H-series, respectively. Although AMD's tailoring the two chips to different markets, hardware leaker @_rogame has given us an alleged sneak peek at the potential performance difference between the two chips.
The Ryzen 7 4800
With many people stuck at home , the desire for an at-home media center is greater than ever. But what if you could add an open-source user interface (UI), or ditch the one built into your TV, with the help of Raspberry Pi ? With Plasma Bigscreen, a new AI voice and KDE open-source development released this week, it's possible to use your Raspberry Pi 4 as a center of your media hub.
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As the U.S. and Chinese governments butt heads over the continued spread of coronavirus , senior Trump administration officials have reportedly agreed to new measures to restrict the global supply of chips to Huawei technologies, Reuters reported citing unnamed sourced this week.
Last May, the U.S. blacklisted Huawei over supposed concerns that the company was purposefully leaving information vulnerabilities in its products that could be accessed by “foreign adversaries.” This allowed the U.S. government to prevent domestic goods made