Halloween is just around the corner but you’ve still got a couple of weeks to put together a cool, spooky,Raspberry Piproject like this awesomespider robotcreated by robotics master Kevin McAleer. If that name sounds familiar, it should. We’ve covered plenty of McAleer’s robotic creations in the past and we’re excited to share yet another with our readers just in time for the creepy holiday season! This spider is still technically a work in progress but he shared lots of juicy info about its design in a recent video — plenty to indulge in....

The easiest solution for a keyboard for both gaming and productivity is to go for a full-sized keyboard with all the buttons you’d need to accomplish both activities. But what if you’ve ventured down the TKL (tenkeyless) or 60/65% keyboard route? Well, the answer is, there are options. My daily driver is an Everest Mountain 60 - a 60% keyboard that I also purchased a separate number pad for. This means I can play games, have plenty of space on my desk, and when it comes time to crunch spreadsheets, I can just whip out the number pad and increase my productivity....

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.Find out more about how we test. Response, Input Lag, Viewing Angles and Uniformity The sweet spot of price and performance is with 27-inch QHD monitors running between 165 and 180 Hz. The P27A2R is directly comparable toLenovo’s G27q-30,Cooler Master’s GM2711S,Gigabyte’s GS27QCandMSI’s G272QPF. To fill it out to six, I addedHP’s Omen 27qs240 Hz screen....

Just as the second round of his announced tariffs began to take effect, President Trump said he would delay their full implementation for many countries for 90 days. However, because China retaliated against the 104% tariff on its goods by applying 84% import duties on American goods, the White House is firing back by pushing the China levy back to 125%. This pause will apply to the 75 countries that have reciprocal tariffs applied against them but have not announced any retaliation against the planned higher tariff rates....

A pair of Ukraine-supporting hacktivist groups have reportedly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a major supplier of drones to Russia’s military called Gaskar Group. TechCrunchreportedthat BO Team—the “BO” stands for “Black Owl,” not “Body Odor,” in case you’re wondering—announcedthe operation with a Telegram post on July 14. The group stated that the attack was a joint effort among its members, another group known as the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, and Ukraine’s military intelligence agency....

The BBC saysBeijing and Washington issued a joint statement earlier today saying that both parties will suspend 24 percent of the current tariffs they have applied to their counterpart. This means that tariffs on Chinese goods arriving in the U.S. will drop to 30%, while China will reduce the duty rate on American products arriving at its ports to 10%. Although the 30% tax is high amount for import taxes, it’s still a bigger reduction than most experts anticipated....

Waking up in the morning sets the tone for your day, so why not do it in style? That seems to be what maker and developer Mod Room My was thinking when putting together this awesome Pokémon-themedRaspberry Pi PicoGame Boy alarm clock. Our favorite microcontroller is inside this classic DMG handheld, and an eInk display replaces the original screen. Across the screen, along the bottom, you’ll find a random array of Pokémon sprites from the first two generations....

Whether it’s a gaming rig or a PC setup for productivity work, there’s always a need for decent capacity in whatever storage solution you choose. Internal SSDs are convenient and speedy, with capacities ranging from 250GB to 8TB. As file sizes (especially with games) grow, the need to upgrade storage increases. At the moment, 2TB is the price-per-capacity sweet spot, but if you can get your hands on anything bigger, it’s certainly a bonus....

AtComputex,Western Digitalreiterated plans to start high-volume shipments of hard disk drives featuring heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology in 2027. However, before going all-in with HAMR, the company plans to introduce its last and final ePMR 2-based generation of HDDs next year. Western Digital’s initial HAMR drives will come in several variants: a 36TB version using conventional magnetic recording, a 40 TB model using shingled track layout (SMR), and a 44TB model using UltraSMR technology with a variety of proprietary enhancements aimed at select partners....

You might have seen Delivery Optimization Files while trying toclean your C driveusing the Disk Cleanup utility. Or you may have come across the term while searching the internet on how to delete junk files or increase storage on your device. So, it’s natural that you want to know what these files are in order to decide whether you should delete them or not. In short, Delivery Optimization files are some temporary files that help make the system and application update process more quicker and reliable....

The new Raspberry Pi Pico 2, released just two weeks ago, has garnered a lot of attention from the maker community. Powered by the RP2350, the Pico 2 comes with two different CPUs in one package. The first is a powerful dual-core Arm Cortex M33, the second is RISC-V based and designed as a personal project by Raspberry Pi engineer Luke Wren. RP2350 Block Diagram The RP2350’s Arm Cortex M33 cores are more powerful than the Arm Cortex M0+ found on the original RP2040 of theRaspberry Pi Picoand theRaspberry Pi Pico W, But the most intriguing feature has to be the dual core RISC-V Hazard3 CPU....

The visuals on a TV screen flicker continuously at a rapid pace to form a steady picture. But the process is so quick that the human eyes can not see it. However, if you start noticing the flickers, it could be an indication that something is wrong with your TV. The Samsung TV screen mostly starts flickering when the eco-sensor, that serves the ambient light detection and motion lighting function, stops working....

Solidigm’sD5-P5336SSD offers a unique capacity of 61.44TB and is aimed at read-intensive applications that require a lot of storage space and density (such as datacenters used for AI training). But without any rivals currently available, these drives have gotten substantially more expensive than they were earlier this year, as noticed by our colleagues fromTechRadar. There is a big catch here: we are talking about retail price. When Solidigm’s D5-P5336 61.44TB SSD became available for pre-order in early 2024, it cost from $3,692 to $3,975, depending on the retailer....