Monitor Camera Not Working? Try these 8 Fixes

When your monitor’s camera isn’t working, it might seem like it’s been damaged and needs some physical repair or replacement. However, most problems with monitor cameras aren’t unfixable hardware issues. Often they’re just software settings that aren’t quite right and need a few tweaks. Types of Monitor Cameras There are two types of monitor cameras:built-inandexternal. An external monitor camera may be attached to the monitor on the bezel, but it isn’t integrated into the bezel itself....

May 5, 2025 · 5 min · 880 words · Tracey Nelson

New AMD gaming bundle for Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 GPUs — get up to two free games, though it's not for the looming Ryzen 9000 series

AMD is giving away two free games on Steam with every purchase of a participatingRyzen 7000-seriesCPU andRadeon RX 7000-seriesGPU. you may also get these titles if you buy a laptop with a participating mobile CPU and GPU from AMD. However, you cannot just get these parts and laptops from anywhere.Amazonand Newegg are the only participating retailers in this promotion, at least for the U.S. and Canada. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2will be released on June 14, 2025, on Steam, and the preorder price is $59....

May 5, 2025 · 3 min · 439 words · Paula Murray

New Intel Arc driver improves frame rates by up to 174%, adds support for 'Horizon Forbidden West'

Intel is back again with another massive performance-improving driver update for itsArc A-series graphics cardsandIris XeiGPUs. Driver31.0.101.5379adds game support forHorizon Forbidden West, The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Diablo IV’snew ray tracing update, and driver optimizations for 16 titles in total. The majority of game optimizations apply to Arc A-series discrete graphics cards. However several games have also seen performance improvements with Arc integrated graphics currently found in Intel’sCore Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs....

May 5, 2025 · 2 min · 300 words · Louis Faulkner

Noctua's next-gen flagship CPU cooler finally arrives — Noctua NH-D15 G2 released at $150

Noctuahas finallyreleasedits highly anticipatedNH-D15 G2 CPU cooler. We saw the final design at Computex in early June, and today the Austrian PC cooling specialist has made the revamped NH-D15 available via its Amazon outlets. The Noctua NH-D15 G2 islisted at $149.95 in the USand €149.90 in the Euro-zone. In the US, the new product demands a premium of $40 over theoriginal modelor $30 over thechromax.blackmodel. The product redesign and pricing increase are justified by Noctua in its latest barrage of press materials and social media postings....

May 5, 2025 · 3 min · 468 words · Michaela Carpenter

Nvidia became world's largest fabless chip designer by revenue in 2023 thanks to AI boom

Driven by unprecedented demand for its H100 processor used for AI and HPC applications, Nvidia more than doubled its revenue in the calendar year2023 and became the world’s largest fabless chip developer by revenue last year. The company did much better than the remaining nine companies in the top 10 and was among only four developers that posted revenue increases last year, reportsTrendForce. Revenue of the top 10 fabless chip design firms rose to approximately $167....

May 5, 2025 · 3 min · 483 words · Jessica Miller

Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 and 5070 Super with boosted memory configurations according to leaker

It has only been a few months since Nvidia officially announced its RTX 50-series graphics cards, but rumors are already pointing to a potential Super series refresh. According to a post on theChiphell forums, a hit-and-miss source for hardware leaks, Nvidia might already be working on an RTX 5080 Super with 24GB and an RTX 5070 Super with 16GB of VRAM. The key enabler behind these rumored memory configurations is said to be Nvidia’s use of 3GB GDDR7 memory modules....

May 5, 2025 · 3 min · 504 words · Charles Johnson

Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month

TSMC admitted in mid-2023 that demand for its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) has exceeded its production capacity, and the company vowed to double capacity by the end of 2024. But while TSMC isbuilding up its CoWoS capabilities, Nvidia would like to ship as many of its high-demand AI processors as possible — which is why it’s tapping Intel to use its advanced packaging technology (in addition to TSMC’s), according to a report frommoney....

May 5, 2025 · 3 min · 546 words · Kathleen Wright

PC manufacturers race ahead of tariffs with rush shipments, Q1 market share booms as a result

Reports from multiple data acquisition experts indicate that PC shipments increased globally during Q1 2025 — most likely in response to the U.S. tariffs that have shaken financial markets across a wide array of industries. Data shared byCanalysreflects that shipments for desktops, laptops, and workstations moved 62.7 million units so far this year, which is a total increase of 9.4%. We also found similar data from theInternational Data C orporation (IDC)website....

May 5, 2025 · 2 min · 401 words · Jonathan Fields

Pineboards HatDrive! Nano Review: Low-cost, high-speed storage for your Raspberry Pi 5

Tom’s Hardware Verdict You’re not going to find a better M.2 HAT for your Raspberry Pi. This is the standard to which other boards will now be measured. Easy to build GPIO and port access is excellent Doesn’t impede cooling performance Cons Not a massive fan of the M.2 retaining screw 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....

May 5, 2025 · 7 min · 1342 words · Rebecca Wright

RAM Slot Not Working on My Motherboard – How to Fix it?

With the increasing program and system requirements, the need for more amount of RAM is also growing. It has become normal to use multiple memory in our system. However, there are instances when the RAM is not detected by the system, or you simply see a black screen. In addition, you may not be able to see your additional memory in Task manager. One of the reasons for these issues is the fault in the RAM Slot....

May 5, 2025 · 5 min · 954 words · Jonathan Estes

Raspberry Pi drives daily Calvin and Hobbes comic fun via E-ink display

There’s nothing quite like cracking open the funnies to find your favorite comic strip. Today we’ve got aRaspberry Piproject that harnesses that energy and compresses it into a beautiful E-Ink display. Maker and developer Doctr_sbaitso is a Calvin and Hobbes fan and decided to create aframed displaythat automatically shows a new Calvin and Hobbes comic every day. It’s important to note that this doesn’t just show a random Calvin and Hobbes comic but rather displays them each day in the order they were released....

May 5, 2025 · 2 min · 416 words · Roberto Martin

Raspberry Pi project uses AI and a camera to detect fires and alert for help

We’re always excited to see theRaspberry Piused in new and exciting ways—especially when those projects can help save lives. A maker known asAneeshamolis using our favorite single-board computer to monitor for fires with AI. The project relies on image recognition by monitoring a given area using a camera module. All you have to do is face it toward the area you want to monitor and train the AI to check for fires....

May 5, 2025 · 2 min · 403 words · David Roach

Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Hacking Challenge results announced — four winners are each awarded the full $20K prize

The official winners of the $20,000 Raspberry Pi and Hextree RP2350 Hacking Challenge have been announced. Four successful claimants for the prize are outlined in ablog postby Raspberry Pi chief Eben Upton today. As Raspberry Pi was so impressed by the quality of the submissions all four winners will get the full prize, rather than a share. One of the four successful competitive hackers was engineer Aedan Cullen, andwe coveredhis RP2350’s OTP secret unearthing methodology in detail early this month....

May 5, 2025 · 5 min · 923 words · Richard Sanchez