After months of sitting in consolidation, Bitcoin has broken its record high for the second time this year, rising to over $84,000 at the time of writing.CNBCreports the main driving force behind Bitcoin’s resurgence is Donald Trump’s electoral win for the presidential seat. Bitcoin broke its previous high ($73,794) on November 6, the day Trump won the election. Since then, Bitcoin has been on a nonstop bull run, charging to its all-time high of nearly $85,000 today....

For an avid Photoshop user, you know how important brush tool is. I myself as Digital painter, cannot survive a day without it. However, if this is your first time on Photoshop and your brush tool isn’t working, it’s possible that you have overlooked few steps. For instance, you may have forgotten to rasterize the image before attempting to edit it. If this message pops up, simply click okay and your image will get rasterized....

Computer monitor specialist JAPANNEXT hasreleaseda pair of new eSports monitors that feature camouflage design aesthetics. The new JN-IPS238G200F-Camo and JN-IPS238G200F-Camo-W are both 23.8-inch FHD gaming monitors with 200 Hz IPS panels, but differ in structural material colors, with the former being earthy colored, and the latter mostly white plus grays. Camouflage-patterned PC parts seem to regularly go in and out of fashion. Looking through theTom’s Hardwarearchives we reported on theNZXT Camo Chassisback in 2010, and MSI prepared a whole series ofCamo Squaddesktops, laptops, GPUs, and accessories back in 2017....

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, March 28, shaking neighboring countries including Thailand, China and Vietnam — and came close to shaking up the technology industry. Thailand and Vietnam are major production sites for companies like Intel,Seagate, andWestern Digital. So far, these companies have not reported on damages and supply disruptions in their chains (at least, there are no appropriate filings with the SEC), but Taiwanese companies with manufacturing capacities in Thailand are indeed checking whether their capacities were disrupted and halting plants if they were, according toChina Times....

Chinese 3D NAND champion YMTC has filed a lawsuit against Micron in the Northern District of California (viaBlocks & Files) accusing the American company of infringing 11 of its patents covering various aspects of 3D NAND operation. Yangtze Memory asks the court to order Micron to stop the stop the sale of Micron’s memory in the U.S. while awarding it with royalty fees. YMTC says that Micron’s 3D NAND memory with 96 layers (B27A), 128 layers (B37R), 176 layers (B47R), and 232 layers (B58R) as well as some of Micron’s DDR5 SDRAM products (Y2BM-series) infringe 11 of its patents or patents applications filed in the U....

The public complaints of a Ukrainian Facebook user have led to the uncovering of an elaborate Chinese sanctions-swerving scheme.Militarnyireports that the deception aimed to funnel important glide bomb and kamikaze drone components to Russia undercover as car parts from a Taiwanese brand. On Friday, Ukrainian activist Vadim Labas posted about how he was irritated to find out Taiwan’s TRC was supplying what was, in effect, weapons parts to Russia. However, he shared anupdateon Monday as investigations revealed that a Chinese company had faked the TRC brand to swerve sanctions....

The Zhaoxin KX-7000, one of China’s latest desktop CPUs, has finally received its first comprehensive review fromPC Watch.The review shows that old budget chips from Intel and AMD are still firmly in the lead. Made by Shanghai Zhaoxin, theKX-7000originally debuted in December. It boasts eight cores, a boost clock of up to 3.7 GHz, support for both DDR4 and DDR5 memory, PCIe 4.0, and the company’s latest C-1190 integrated GPU. The older KX-U6880A, the fastest member of the KX-6000 desktop family, also had eight cores but only a maximum clock speed of 3 GHz and lacked support for PCIe 4....

OLED displays have become more standard across the PC and console gaming marketplaces. Gamers know that OLED provides industry-leading gaming performance, contrast,andcolor accuracy— albeit at a significant price premium, at least until we spotted this great Black Friday deal from Corsair. TheXeneon 27QHD240 is now just $499which, which is half off its original MSRP. A 27-inch OLED monitor would be unthinkable at this price point a year ago. Now you can get a 27-inch OLED with a 240 Hz refresh rate and 1000 nits brightness for superb DisplayHDR 1000 support for a steal....

Why you may 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. Crucial P310 2TB Performance Results Comparison Products and Testing By far the most common hardware for retail 2TB M.2 2230 SSDs is the Phison E21T combined with Micron’s 176-Layer QLC flash. We’ve reviewed several drives based on this platform, including theCorsair MP600 Core Mini,Silicon Power UD90 2230,Addlink S91,Inland QN446, andSabrent Rocket Q4 2230....

Chinese military institutions, state-run artificial intelligence (AI) research centers, and universities have been purchasing Nvidia’s AI and HPC GPUs, including the A100 and H100, despite U.S. export curbs to sell these products to Chinese entities, reportsReuters. These transactions highlight the challenge the U.S. faces in fully restricting China’s access to advanced processors that could enhance its AI and military capabilities. The U.S. imposed bans on the exports of Nvidia’s A100 and H100 chips to China and Hong Kong in September 2022, which lead to Nvidia designing A800 and H800 models tailored for Chinese market (in October 2023, the U....

Based on a report fromHKEPC, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) will award Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang—soon to be Dr. Jensen Huang—an honorary degree in Engineering. That’s 1-1 for Nvidia versus AMD, as Jensen now matches Dr. Lisa Su in the honorifics department. Jensen Huang has been the pivotal driving force behind Nvidia’s recent fortunes in the AI market. The general populace has coined a new term called “Jensanity” to describe the craze behind Jensen - who’s practically a celebrity at this point....

AMD is slated to release its next-gen Zen 5 processors soon, with the Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 9000rumored to arrive on July 15 and 31. However, some tech enthusiasts are excited about these new chips, especially as they’re the first in the Zen 5 family. Hardware tester David Huang got his hands on an engineering sample of the Ryzen AI 9 365, so he ran some quickbenchmarkson the device and shared theresults on his blog....

To all the dads out there, Jon Skagmo has justraised the bar exponentiallyto qualify for Father of the Year. He took an electric kids’ car with a dead battery and gave it new life. He also packed it with aRaspberry Piand touchscreen, a music player system, better motor control, working headlights, and more. Skagmo’s first thought was to build the car for his daughter from scratch. Instead, he focused his energy on what he enjoyed: the electronics....