Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 13 is an exceptional PSU with outstanding efficiency, solid build quality, and quiet performance. While it boasts excellent features and reliability, its high price tag may be hard to justify for those seeking more cost-effective options. However, for enthusiasts demanding uncompromising performance and longevity, it is a worthy investment. 80 Plus Titanium efficiency Quiet operation Premium build quality Amazing electrical performance...

Factorio blends the art of automation with construction simulation mechanics and a survival campaign. It’s a simple premise with deep systems and ample freedom for players. The game has multiplayer, it has mods, and you can mod it as well. Its experience is vast, but its mechanics may be too challenging for new players. Another drawback is the lack of full 3D rendering, according to Factorio’s forums. In any case, the title has over 11Kdaily concurrent playerson Steam every day....

A new stock alert from Best Buy has notified us that there is a new shipment of Nintendo Switch 2s available to order online. They’ve been very rare since launching, due to the massive demand for Nintendo’s latest handheld gaming device. The Switch 2 has proven to be the must-have gaming item to own this year, with pre-orders and any stock evaporating in record time from shelves and warehouses since the official launch date....

PC gaming can be an expensive hobby. Besides buying games, you also need a capable machine to play them on! But you can get started without spending thousands of dollars on a new gaming laptop. There are plenty of gaming laptops available for less than $1,000, which deliver the basics like a 1080p display, a strong CPU, and a discrete, gaming-ready GPU that’s enough for esports and competitive video games. And it will let you do some work or stream your favorite show when you’re done playing....

The process of transferring small files over the Internet is easy and can be done in several ways. The real challenge arises when you need to transfer large files over the Internet. Most file transfer applications/websites restrict users from transferring large files on concerns over storage, performance, bandwidth, and security. Only a few cloud storage services and web application allows you to transfer large files. As such, we have listed different ways you may transfer large files over the Internet....

You must have seen several videos that do not play and instead show a black screen that says “Sorry this content is age restricted.”Age Restrictedvideos are not available to those users who are not over 18 years old. This is a policy of YouTube because some contents are not appropriate for several users that are underaged. Some creators put excessive swearing and hate speech which can influence young teenagers to follow them as a trend....

Multiple Chinese tech firms recently launched several chips that will power ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ or GSE, a networking protocol designed to accommodate the large volumes of data and high transfer speeds that AI and other high-performance workloads require. According toThe Register, state-owned China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the country, has been working on the technology since 2023, after it published a white paper (PDF) on the “Technical Architecture of the Fully Schedule Ethernet....

Tech companies are increasing their pace in developing AI technologies. Baidu, China’s largest search engine, is often compared toGoogleand is pushing hard to gain a global lead. According to its CEO, Robin Li, the company has developed a system to combine GPUs from different vendors and use them as a single compute cluster for AI training. This was highlighted in its Q1 2024 Earnings Call transcript. Li mentioned in the call that Baidu is transforming from an Internet-centric business to an AI-first business with its generative AI, ERNIE, becoming the new core of its products in 2025....

China’s semiconductor exports are growing, but today’s success might not be the clear victory that state media makes it out to be. Industry analysts believe that China’s chip sector may be reaching overcapacity and that supply will dwarf demand in the coming months. That could mean we seepredictions of a price warand achip glutspurred by China’s overproduction ofdomestically produced mature node process nodescome to fruition. DigiTimes Asiareports on the General Administration of Customs of China’s recent reports on semiconductor imports and exports, highlighting growth in both segments....

All makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) strive to develop process technologies that allow them to build the smallest memory cells possible to make their chips cheaper. But this is not exactly the best strategy for China-based ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which has to comply with export restrictions of the U.S. government. Recently the company said that its 17nm production node is actually more like an 18.5nm technology, which allows it to get advanced wafer fab tools, reportsDigiTimes....

The world of 3D printing has grown significantly over the years, and with that, so has the waste generated from the hobby. Thankfully, we have researchers like the team of scientists over atZhejiang Universitywho are working hard to reduce this waste and make 3D printing more sustainable as a whole. The team is directed by Professor Xie Tao and Professor Zheng Ning, who led the group in developing a 3D printing resin that can be recycled over and over again....

Qualcomm and some laptop manufacturers predict that Snapdragon X PCs, which power all Copilot PCs at the time of writing, willtake half of the Windows PC market within five years. However, the segment seems to be struggling to gain traction, as research says that laptops with the required NPU performance (i.e., devices equipped with QualcommSnapdragon X, IntelCore Ultra 200V, and AMDRyzen AI 300processors) still account for less than 10% of total shipments in the third quarter of 2024....

Chances are, whether you’ve built one PC or a hundred, securing the fans to your case probably doesn’t rank very high on the list of assembly pain points. There’s the tiny, poorly labeled front-panel headers that are nearly impossible to see as you plug them in; the even tinier M.2 screws that happily launch themselves into the abyss and then lodge themselves in the recesses of your half-built PC; or the GPU PCIe connector that often to wedges itself half in and half out of the slot in a way that makes you panic about breaking off an important piece of (probably) your most expensive component....