Whether you’re shopping for PC upgrades or the latest tech deals , working from home or are just avoiding the outside, chances are you’ll have to check your mail. With the pandemic that is COVID-19, you may wondering if packages sent from Amazon, Newegg, around the world or even within the U.S. could carry infectious germs with them.
We’ve seen Reddit users question if shipments from China could pack more than shoppers asked for , and
SteamDB today revealed that Steam had a record 20.3 million concurrent users--6.2 million of whom were actually playing a game via the platform--on Sunday morning.
The independent database operators said this all-time high was "likely due to many people staying at home due to the #coronavirus," which makes sense, given the ratio of Steam users who simply have the app running to the number of people in-game.
Roughly 6.2 million
Microsoft announced Friday that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will become generally available with the release of Windows 10 version 2004 in the near future, and that it's changed how the Linux kernel built into Windows 10 is updated, too.
WSL debuted alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August 2016. Microsoft explained in its documentation that WSL lets "developers run a GNU/Linux environment -- including most command-line tools
The Asus ROG Strix 750W is dead silent and achieves high performance, but it is expensive.
Enthusiasts typically use their graphics cards to play games, mine cryptocurrency and use creative tools. Nvidia asked them to branch out yesterday by lending their GPU's power to Folding@home projects related to novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
So what is Folding@home? Its organizers describe it as "a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design and other types of molecular dynamics" on its official website .
Enthusiasts can help Folding@home "
Apple CEO Tim Cook outlined the company's response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in a letter to "the worldwide Apple family" on Friday.
Cook said that Apple has re-opened its retail locations in Greater China because "the rate of infections has dramatically declined" in that region. The company's stores in all other markets have been closed, however, until at least March 27. Apple will continue to offer support (and sell products
As discovered by German publication HardwareLuxx , Spectra has created a rather peculiar LGA1151-based motherboard for consumers that are still using archaic hardware. The MS-98L9 V2.0 apparently resurrects the defunct PCI interface, among other fascinating relics.
Maintaining the old-time look, the MS-98L9 V2.0 comes with a green PCB that adheres to the standard ATX form
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from Microsoft’s board, he announced on Friday , and is also leaving Berkshire Hathaway’s. He wants to focus on philanthropy.
Gates believes the companies have the right leadership and wants to prioritize his philanthropic activities via his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He explained his decision on LinkedIn :
“I have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve – Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway – to dedicate more
Though it was released back in 2017 and has since been replaced by AMD's more-powerful Navi cards, including the RX 5700, the Radeon RX 580 remains a masterful card for 1080p gaming. Now the price for an RX 580 is as low as we've ever seen it.
Right now, Newegg's eBay store has a Gigabyte Radeon RX 580 with dual fans for just $1