Faux-CRT monitor designed to pair up with retro mini PCs to recreate CRT feeling — cute 8-incher puts retro design first by shoving a 60 Hz LCD panel behind a curved acrylic sheet

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Japan’s Mizuki Co. is now crowdfunding a monitor to match its attractive X68000 Z Super and X68000 Z XVI miniature retro reprint PCs. What can a company do to create an era appropriate (late 90s) CRT-like monitor in 2025? Mizuki has decided to crowdfund the manufacture of a “4:3 LCD curved acrylic structure reproduces the atmosphere of a classic CRT” (machine translation)

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This 32-inch LG Ultragear curved monitor is now just $196 — even cheaper than Amazon Prime Day

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Big curved gaming monitors often come with big price tags, but that isn't always the case and certainly isn't so today. We've come across a nice deal on this 32 inch LG 32GS60QC-B Ultragear curved gaming monitor. It has a recommended price of $299, but right now you can purchase it at Amazon for just $196.

This monitor was one of several from LG that were part of a

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Intel axes thousands of technicians and engineers in sweeping U.S. layoffs — cutting 4,000 positions in the U.S., 2,392 in Oregon

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Intel this month officially began to cut down its workforce in the U.S. and other countries, thus revealing actual numbers of positions to be cut. The Oregonian reports that the company will cut as many as 2,392 positions in Oregon and around 4,000 positions across its American operations, including Arizona, California, and Texas.

To put the 2,392 number into context, Intel is the largest employer in Oregon with around 20,

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Maker 3D prints left-handed Logitech MX Master 3S — fixes awkward button layout made for righties

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Many modern gaming mice designs are physically symmetrical - this makes it easy for both left and right-handed users to pick up and use them. Companies like Logitech, however, have stepped away from this trend by creating ergonomic designs like the one for the popular Logitech MX Master 3S. This mouse is made with exclusively right-handed users in mind, with some buttons oriented to one side, where the thumb would be positioned. Not happy with this dextrous-exclusivity

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Nvidia's new driver update finally brings Smooth Motion to RTX 40-series GPUs, works like AMD's Fluid Motion Frames and claims to double your FPS with a single click in any game

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Nvidia announced Smooth Motion back in January, as part of its initial RTX 50-series launch. Now the feature seems to have begun to trickle down to RTX 40-series graphics card owners, via a little Nvidia Profile Inspector tweak discovered by Macer, over at the Guru3D forums.

Much like AMD's Fluid Motion Frames , Nvidia's Smooth Motion claims to double your frame rate by putting one AI-generated frame in between two real ones. This is

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Holographic ribbon aims to oust magnetic tape with 50-year life span and 200TB capacity per cartridge — HoloMem says optical ribbon-based carts work with some components of existing systems, reducing

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Details behind HoloMem’s holographic tape innovations are beginning to come into clearer view. The UK-based startup recently chatted with Blocks & Files about its potentially disruptive technology for long-term cold storage. HoloMem is another emerging storage idea which relies on optical technology - to enable holographic storage. However, it cleverly melds the durability and density advantage of optical formats with a flexible polymer ribbon-loaded cartridge, so it can usurp entrenched LTO magnetic tape storage systems with minimal friction.

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McDonald's McHire bot exposed personal information of 64M people by using '123456' as a password in 2025

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A pair of security researchers has revealed vulnerabilities in the McHire chatbot Paradox, developed for McDonald's, that could have been exploited to reveal personal information about roughly 64 million people who have used the service to apply for jobs at their local franchises. (Hat-tip Wired .)

I was "hacked" the first time when I was 14. I put that in scare quotes because the password for the account was "1234." (Without the quotes

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Jensen Huang adds voice to those warning of AI-induced job losses - but only 'if the world runs out of ideas'

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There is a wide belief that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly increase productivity, which may also lead to widespread job displacement. This could happen sooner rather than later, if humanity loses its ability to innovate, indicated Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, in an interview with CNN .

"If the world runs out of ideas, then productivity gains translates to job loss," said Jensen Huang in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Huang had

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Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car, was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now

A security researcher discovered that the wireless RF communication between the first and last car of American trains isn't encrypted.

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Core Ultra 5 245HX blasts past desktop counterpart in PassMark — mobile Arrow Lake chip is up to 40% faster than the Core i5-14500HX

In a weird twist, Intel's Core Ultra 5 245HX is allegedly faster than the desktop Core Ultra 5 245 in PassMark, featuring better single-core and multi-core scores.