Researchers from Linköping University claim to be the first to have successfully created sheets of gold composed of justa single atomic layer. Move overGraphene- the naturally more glamorous Goldene has arrived, and just like that much fanfare 2D wonder material it is said to deliver some highly attractive, if not unique, properties. Interestingly, Gold also becomes a semiconductor in its 2D form. According to the Linköping blog, previous attempts in the quest to create Goldene have failed due to “the metal’s tendency to clump together....

It looks like those who received their AMDRyzen 9000samples early are continuing to test them, as an interesting new benchmark result has been shared online. Twitter’sHXL,an Asus system packing an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X engineering sample (ES), was checked in Geekbench 6. Moreover, this Zen 5 16C/32T consumer flagship was overclocked to 5.95 GHz. That’s a modest 300 MHz faster than the stock maximum clock. The overclockedZen 5desktop chip achieved a 3,706-point single-core score and 26,047 in the multi-core tests built into Geekbench 6....

Six major Russian supercomputer centers located across the country have teamed up to form the ‘Distributed Scientific Supercomputer Infrastructure’ consortium, reports theRussian Academy of Sciences. This new alliance aims to pool resources for the performance needed to process modern scientific workloads. In total, the six supercomputing centers have around 900 servers and these fleets cannot be upgraded due to the U.S. sanctions. To that end, pooling resources is largely a forced measure....

The AMD driver is responsible for the communication between the AMD graphics card in your system and the Operating system. If this driver crashes, the screen will go black, indicating that the GPU is not communicating with the OS and will recover shortly. This happens for many reasons, including Windows Multiplane overlay settings. Disabling this setting can typically fix the issue. However, extreme GPU overclocking, power supply issues, or a faulty GPU power cable may also cause the AMD driver to crash....

Sources familiar with the matter have toldBloombergthat Qualcomm is waiting for the results of the U.S. presidential election on November 5, before deciding on making a move on Intel, with some even saying that the company won’t move until the new U.S. president has been inaugurated in January 2025. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the chipmaker is considering the geopolitical climate after the election, especially as it wants to gauge the anti-trust policies of the new administration, as well as how America’s relationship with China would be affected by the new administration....

The South Korean government has greenlit theYongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complexthree months earlier than expected, which will significantly reduce the project planning timeline, reportsBusinessKorea. The science park is said to be the world’s largest semiconductor hub, accommodating multiple fabs, power plants, and fab suppliers. The Yongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complex spans 7.28 square kilometers (equivalent to 1,020 soccer fields or 3.6 times the size of Monaco, or about half the size of Beverly Hills)....

As revealed byPhoronix, Intel’s new ‘200S Boost’ feature for itsArrow Lakechips results in little to no performance improvements on Linux. This parallels our200S Boosttestingin Windows, where memory overclocking from DDR5-6400 to DDR5-8000 accounted for most of the performance increases across gaming and productivity. In the six months following Arrow Lake’s debut, Intel has issued several fixes to extract every last bit of performance from these chips. Thefirst wavewas delivered via Windows Updates and updated BIOS versions in December, addressing several major issues....

Black Friday deals are still in play this weekend. For most people, especially parents like myself, this time signifies that the holidays are just around the corner, which means buying gifts for my kids… and more importantly, availing those precious cost-saving discounts before they’re gone! Black Friday/Cyber Monday is that small window of time when most toy makers offer their best and most popular products for less. And so, the hunt is on to find the coolest and best educational gifts that you know your kids (and even “big” kids) will love....

Right now atAmazon, you’re able to find theCrucial X9 2TB portable SSDavailable for its lowest price so far this year. It usually costs around $148, but today, it’s been marked down to $109 as part of an early Black Friday promotion—this puts the price at around 5 cents per GB. Overall this is a pretty good deal for a portable SSD but it’s not exactly the fastest on the market. This drive is well-suited for anyone looking for storage on the go with a budget in mind....

Yesterday on Twitter, Nvidia employee Jacob Freemansharedthe PC requirements for the upcomingDoom: The Dark Ages, highlighting that the latest id Tech 7 engine would enforce mandatory ray tracing a la the last one,Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. The first id Tech 7 release,Doom Eternal, was built without an RT requirement but later retrofitted the feature as some RT effects, including reflections.Eternalwas otherwise incredibly performantdespite its cutting-edge visuals, to the point they even managed a feasible near-locked 30 FPS on the original Nintendo Switch’s anemic Tegra X1 chipset— though, of course, that version had no RT to speak of....

A new video discusses changes made to the Thermal Grizzly Mycro Direct Die water block so that it could be marketed to enthusiasts once again. Necessary changes have now been implemented alongside several design enhancements to precipitate the launch of the new Mycro Direct Die RGB Pro, which we highlighted earlier in the week. In brief, the design has seen improvements in machining, increased surface area, and better nickel plating to get it to where it is now – boastingsix degrees Celsius bettertemperatures than its issue-prone predecessor could achieve (when it worked), and it now comes with added RGB LEDs…...

It’s no secret that we here at Tom’s Hardware love theRaspberry Pibut did you also know we have a deep appreciation for trains? Whenever these two passions come to a crossroads, we can’t help but get excited. Case in point, today’s project created by maker and developerBrendan McGrathis using a Raspberry Pi Pico to make his level crossing lights more realistic for his model trains and we’re totally onboard with it....

As much as we love seeing theRaspberry Piused for fun gaming projects and entertainment purposes, it’s really cool to see it used in something like the medical industry. Today we’ve got a really unique project to share with a lot of helpful potential. Maker and developer Shebin Jose Jacob is using aRaspberry Pi 5to drive hisAI-powered stethoscope. The standard stethoscope is a device to help you hear sounds within the body by focusing the acoustic pressure waves to the listener’s ears via tubes....