Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material ( www.tomshardware.com )
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic ( www.tomshardware.com )
China's chip output expected to double in five years, Barclays says ( www.tomshardware.com )
AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux driver patches thanks to the open-source community ( www.tomshardware.com )
TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best ( www.tomshardware.com )
Not sure I could ever live with that - anyone able to test if multi monitors works?
Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters ( www.tomshardware.com )
YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix ( www.tomshardware.com )
Core i9-14900KS at 6.2 GHz May Be The Fastest Consumer CPU ( www.tomshardware.com )
Passive Salt Water Cooling Boosts CPU Performance by Almost 33% ( www.tomshardware.com )
Miniature RISC-V Developer Laptop Looks Like a Lenovo ThinkPad Clone | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters ( www.tomshardware.com )
Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!
Taiwan Government Looks to Protect TSMC Tech from US — Report ( www.tomshardware.com )
Taiwan earthquake causes estimated $62 million in damage and disruptions for TSMC - EUV equipment reported to be safe and sound: Report ( www.tomshardware.com )
Key extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) equipment at TSMC is “safe and sound,” reports DigiTimes, with production back up to 70 or 80% capacity on the same day as the massive April 3 earthquake. However, the quakes didn’t leave the production facilities unscathed. According to the new report, the seismic interruption...
