Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday that his company, Microsoft and other tech companies, including Slack, Pinterest and Twitter, are lending their support to the COVID-19 Global Hackathon.

The hackathon invites software engineers to "build software solutions that drive social impact, with the aim of tackling some of the challenges related to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic." Anyone can join the hackathon via Devpost .

Zuckerberg said the COVID-19 Global Hackathon will also offer

Team Group is back with a couple of new RAM kits, this time aiming at users who need lots of memory. With the upcoming expansions to the T-Force Vulcan Z and Dark Z lines, the company is introducing modules that can pack up to a whopping 32GB.

Team Group is packaging two modules in each kit for a total capacity of 64GB. The announcement today noted that the Vulcan Z will also be available in a single-channel kit with a

Workstation laptops have

Microsoft and Nvidia both released statements today claiming recovery in their supply chains following Chinese efforts over the past few months to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country and reopen factories. This follows recent announcements from both Intel and AMD reassuring customers of an adequate processor supply going forward, which could leave Apple , still impacted by reliance on non-Chinese suppliers , as the odd producer out as we enter spring 2020.

Speaking to CNBC earlier today about whether Microsoft could still hit its

Doom Eternal is the first game to use the new idTech 7 engine, and it's one of the best looking games in a long time. It's also able to reach fantastic frame rates on a variety of capable hardware — all of our picks for the best graphics cards are more than able to break 60 FPS, and most will do 144 FPS or more with the right settings. But what about things a bit further down the GPU hierarchy , specifically integrated

Intel announced on its blog yesterday that it will be sourcing and donating more than 1 million masks, gloves and other materials intended for its factories to healthcare workers to help combat shortages due to coronavirus .

“We will donate masks, gloves, face shield and other gear that we have sources from our factory stock and emergency supplies,” Intel's global public affairs director, Todd Brady, said on Intel’s blog. “And we’ll continue to look for additional sources of

When you're a software and hardware engineer sometimes you need a little challenge. Engineer Robert Lucian Chiriac's latest Raspberry Pi creation can detect license plates and read the characters with fairly decent accuracy. This is an involved project that relies on machine learning to properly interpret images from the camera into discernible text.

The primary license plate reading function is constructed using three separate applications (there are more used throughout the project, but these three are critical). Chiriac used the YOLOv