There seems to be no limit to what we can do with 3D printing. Just last week, we reported on Chinese scientists3D printing organ tissuefor transplanting into burn victims. Today, we’re sharing an amazing 3D printed innovation in cancer research that comes from Tissue Tinker, a company spinoff from McGill University. The company has put together a team that has managed to3D print tumorsfor cancer research. TissueTinker was promoted by the McGill Innovation Fund team with the goal of improving the testing protocol for cancer therapies....

Write protection on SD cards is a security feature to protect the data integrity of the card’s contents. Since it is possible to enable both hardware and software level write-protection, you need to check both these components to disable this protection. In some cases, the SD card can become very corrupted and automatically go into write-protection mode. This process is not reversible and your only option is to attempt to recover as much data as possible before switching to another device....

Some users routinely shut down their laptops at night after use and stick to the decision, whether it’s to conserve battery life, apply updates, or simply out of habit. But does turning off your laptop offer any advantages over putting it to sleep or in a low power consumption mode? When shut down, the laptop is put to rest and all activity stops until the user turns it back on. This reduces wear and tear on the device’s moving parts, which helps users in maintaining the device’s health and increase its life expectancy....

SilverStone has unveiled the successor to its beigeFLP01retro sleeper desktop PC case, which was launched last year. The new FLP02 we saw atComputex 2025in Taipei manifests your beige sleeper PC dreams via a tower case akin to those popular in the late 1980s, when Intel’s 386 and 486 processors still dominated the computing landscape. Despite its extremely retro looks, SilverStone’s new FLP02 can fit in some of the most desirable power-user components available in 2025....

Sonyposteda recent blogpost celebrating 30 years of PlayStation consoles, but the promo asnoticed by Kamialso gave a glimpse of an alleged and highly anticipatedPlayStation 5Pro. Sony may have officially teased the PS5 Pro design in their new 30th Anniversary logo. 👀"More announcements in the near future" were teased for the 30th Anniversary earlier today. #PS5 #PS5Pro pic.twitter.com/N5A22Ow1rBSeptember 5, 2024 The blog post’s featured images for many of the earlier consoles — including the PlayStation Portable (PSP), official accessories and physical media for the PSP....

Sometimes it takes a modern eye to innovate problems of the past. Today we’ve got an incredible creation to share that does just that by maker and developerGraham Tinkers. Graham has created a custom archival system using parts from disk duplicators and our favorite SBC, theRaspberry Pi, to automatically process stacks of floppy disks and back them up onto a USB drive. Graham has been sitting on a stack of over 800 Commodore Amiga floppy disks with intentions of manually backing them up....

While we’re big fans of building your own PC and even maintain a list of thebest PC builds, sometimes it’s cheaper and easier to buy a prebuilt desktop. This is one of those times. Right now, Walmart has an iBuyPower desktop with Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU, Intel 13600KF CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD forjust $699. With those specs, you should be able to easily play games at 1080p with the settings turned up to ultimate....

Seminal 3D graphics accelerator company 3dfx went under on this day, 24 years ago. Notice of the end came by way of a final 3dfx press release,apologizingto customers and fans for the drastic action it had been forced to take. Facing bankruptcy near the end of the year 2000, 3dfx’s shareholders agreed to sell off its brands and assets to nVidia to get “the best possible result” for creditors, investors, and employees....

There are good reasons behind Steam’s immense popularity as an online video game distributor. The platform offers an extensive library of games with competitive pricing, seasonal and holiday sales, mini-events, and social features like profile customization, community hub, etc., which helps to bring the whole gaming community together. That being said,Steam isn’t the only online game distributor available on the market. Even though it is pretty difficult to match Steam’s game variety and its features, there are some reallygood digital storefronts that sell curated high-quality and DRM-free video games....

A highly anticipated auction of an extremely rare piece of console gaming history is underway.Goldinfeatures one of the rarest Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges in existence. Produced in 1990, the auction for one of only 26 copies of the Gold Nintendo World Championships cartridges opened for bidding on July 22. These cartridges are so scarce one sold for over $100,000 on eBay in 2014.The 26 Gold cartridges were presented as exclusive prizes for Nintendo Power magazine readers....

The U.S. Defense Department has updated its list of Chinese companies allegedly linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The most notable new names on the list are memory maker Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), battery maker CATL, and cloud and gaming giant Tencent, reportsNikkei. The U.S. Defense Department’s ‘Section 1260H’ list has expanded to 134 companies, including major chipmakers SMIC and YMTC, high-tech giant Huawei, and server maker Inspur. Tencent Holdings, a leader in cloud and gaming and the parent company of WeChat, is among the new additions....

AMD CEO Lisa Su is set to take the stage for aComputex 2024keynote address here in Taipei at 9:30 a.m. local time on Monday, June 3rd. If you aren’t here in Taiwan or you are and you haven’t pre-registered, you can’t get a seat in the audience. But you can turn watch Dr. Su’s presentation as a YouTube Live stream, which we’ve embedded below. The event starts at 9:30 a.m. Monday Taiwan time, which is 9:30 pm Sunday (June 2nd) if you’re in the U....

Microsoft has added and removed many features in the Windows OS over the years. If you regularly use the Device Manager, you may have come across the Microsoft Device Association Root Enumerator driver. However, this device driver was not present in older Windows OS like Windows 7. Users have even mentioned that your Windows 10/11 PC’s gaming performance improves if you disable this driver. If you’re wondering what this driver is and whether you should disable it, we have covered all the information in this article....