Ourfavorite ultrawidegaming monitor, theAlienware AW3423DWFQD-OLED gaming display, has been marked down to its lowest price to date. It debuted with a price of $899 but right now it’s available for just $649 as part of an early Cyber Monday promotion. As far as gaming monitors go, this one has plenty of beefy specs to delight the pickiest of gamers. In fact, when we reviewed theAlienware AW3423DWF QD-OLED gaming monitor, we rated it at 5/5 stars....

Creator uwo’s lab built the world’s loudest mechanical keyboard live on his Twitch channel, where he adds several noisemakers to liven up the typing experience. you’re able to see in the preview shared onX (formerly Twitter)that he started with a 65% keyboard attached to a breadboard, which is then attached to relays and linear actuators that hit a steel plate. Apparently, the tinkling sound is not enough, so he added a steel tongue drum with two rubber mallets powered by compressed air, which hit the drum with every key press you make....

What’s the best way to listen to MP3s today? With a customRaspberry Piproject, of course! Maker and developer Arnov Sharma has created a Raspberry Pi MP3 player from scratch modeled after the classic Walkman system. Sharma has dubbed his creation theWalkPi,and it features our favorite microcontroller—the Raspberry Pi Pico 2! We recently published our review of thePico 2 W,so we’re excited to see the RP2350 get some more love. Sharma’s design uses the Pico 2 alongside a DF Mini Player....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The TP-Link Archer BE3600 is cheap, but you also don’t get the full spec of features or performance of “true” Wi-Fi 7 routers Sub-$100 price tag Strong 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz performance at close range Two 2.5 Gbps ports Lacks 6 GHz band Performance at 25 feet was lacking Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

TSMC has reportedly delayed the opening ceremony of its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, from December 6 to sometime in late January or even February after Donald Trump takes office, reportDigiTimesandChina Times, as noticed byDan Nystedt. The decision means that the ceremony will unlikely be attended by the U.S. current President Joe Biden, or members of his administration. Last week, a rumor broke outthat the opening ceremony for TSMC’s Fab 21 was scheduled for December 6, shortly after the recent U....

The market capitalization of TSMC, the world’s No.1 contract maker of semiconductors, briefly exceeded $1 trillion earlier this week as demand for advanced processors, including those for AI, is setting records. TSMC could solidify its position in the trillion-dollar market cap club later this month when it reports its quarterly earnings. TSMC produces processors for all the world’s leading chip designers, including Apple, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. These processors are in high demand, and in many cases, TSMC has no rivals....

All-in-one PCs, which combine a screen with a computer to help save space and eliminate wires, are great for people who like to keep their desks as free from clutter as possible, but they can be expensive, and offer limited upgrade options (if any). The good news is that if you’ve already got a monitor (or even a decent TV), you can easily turn it into an all-in-one style device with a mini PC, like the MSI Cubi NUC 1M....

About a fifth of the hard drives it receives from the media industry for service are completely dead, saidenterpriseinformation management company Iron Mountain, which specializes in records management, information destruction, data backup, and data recovery. This means information contained within those drives — including studio masters, live sessions, and everything in between — could be lost forever unless the recording label has backed up the missing data in another storage drive or medium....

Washington is investigating TP-Link, the most popular home internet router brand in the U.S., because of its links to recent cyberattacks. According to theWall Street Journal, the Chinese company currently owns about 65% of the home and small business router market in the U.S.—up from 20% in 2019—and its products are also used by the Department of Defense and several other federal agencies, including NASA and the DEA. Reports say three government bodies—the Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, and Department of Justice—have opened inquiries into TP-Link....

Research conducted by the University of California, Riverside shared byThe Washington Poston Wednesday highlighted the high costs of using generative AI. It turns out AI requires pretty heavy water consumption — used to cool the servers that generate the data — even when it’s just generating text. This is, of course, in addition to thesevere electric grid toll. The research noted that the exact water usage varies depending on state and proximity to data center, with lower water use corresponding to cheaper electricity and higher electricity use....

Valorant is one of the most popular online shooting games that has amassed thousands of players worldwide. So much so that it is also one of the top games streamed on Twitch. But recently, some players are not able to update Valorant even when they have stable internet. There are even some reports of the update taking too long. If you are someone in the same boat, you can read below to find out why you can’t update Valorant and how to fix it....

Incognito mode provides aprivate browsing session. This session does not storewebsite cache, cookies, login details, browsing history, or other browser activity. However, it only provides this privacy feature for the local computer. Itdoes not mask your activityon the internet. The websites you visit, your ISP, or your network administrator can always monitor you. Let’s go through everything in detail. What Incognito Mode is Designed For On a normal session, your browser saves additional data for more convenient access during the next session....

WithWindows 1124H2 all geared up to have AI-intensive applications,Microsofthas added a code that willwarn youif your PC does not meet the hardware requirements, according to codedug up by Twitter/X sleuth Albacore(viaNeowin). The warning will be displayed as a watermark so you know that you cannot use certain AI-powered built-in apps because of an unsupported CPU. Earlier, it was thought that only PopCnt was the only requirement later but the coding revealed a mandatory SSE4....