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Asetek was one of the pioneers of closed-loop liquid cooling systems in the early 2000s and patented many technologies covering all-in-one liquid coolers. This put Asetek in a unique position to sue competitors for patent infringements or make them its customers and produce LCSs for them. However, as suppliers of closed-loop liquid coolers find ways to overcome Asetek’s patents to circumvent some of the company’s patents while the other expires, they lower their orders to the Danish liquid cooling giant....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Asus ROG Swift PG34WCDM is pretty much flawless as a gaming monitor. It delivers accurate color without calibration and a premium OLED image. Its video processing is as good as it gets. Paired with a premium PC or console, it’s hard to imagine anything better in this size and shape. Stunning image with saturated color and deep contrast Color accurate out of the box, no need for calibration...

Although curved monitors are common today (especially with larger panel sizes), this wasn’t always the case. There used to be a time when non-CRT desktop monitors were all flat, which remains the case today withmostlaptop displays. However, as people spent more time in front of a monitor during the day, engineers looked for ways to help alleviate eye strain, which became more apparent as display sizes increased. Curved monitors are designed to match the field of view humans see with their eyes more closely....

Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is most well-known today for its infamous halting of operations and bankruptcy back in February of 2014, a multi-million dollar loss for the Bitcoin community of the time. Since 2014, and after many lawsuits, Mt. Gox has managed to recover a very worthwhile amount ofBitcoinsand is now sending an amount valued at $9 billion divided across Mt. Gox’s former account holders [h/tCNBC]. The original Mt. Gox bitcoin heist meant that there were “up to 950,000 Bitcoin” lost, and reportedly 140,000 of those recovered Bitcoin are what’s being returned to Mt....

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has just releasedversion 6.0of the Bluetooth standard. The last major version, Bluetooth 5, launched in 2016, although the Bluetooth SIG updated this to version 5.4 in 2023. Bluetooth 6 primarily focuses on increased efficiency and reliability, allowing more IoT devices to use it for communication. Bluetooth 6 implements two new features that help it reduce power consumption — Decision-Based Advertising Filtering and Monitoring Advertisers. These features help Bluetooth devices reduce power consumption and increase efficiency by ensuring they only scan for data packets when they receive data on their primary channel relevant to their application....

Bluetooth devices, especially audio ones are extremely convenient as they don’t hold you down near your computer or mobile while you move around the room. However, Bluetooth audio devices can also sometimes show different issues. The device failing to produce any sound even after connecting it is one such error. It usually occurs due to minor issues with the device or your system settings, which you can troubleshoot very easily. It is also possible that the Bluetooth or the device’s driver has some defects....

CES2024 is here, with throngs of tech companies, businesses, analysts and media descending upon Las Vegas to check out the latest gadgets. And while CES technically starts on January 9, there were a ton of announcements today, before the show even started.The show-before-the-show saw major announcements from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and all of their hardware partners. We’re talking about graphics cards, processors, laptops, and gaming handhelds — and that’s before we get to the slew of peripherals and monitors we’ve checked out, too....

China is implementing measures to support its AI startups, as the latter has trouble accessing high-performance Nvidia GPUs for large language model (LLM) training due to U.S. export rules. Several city governments, including Shanghai, are offering ‘computing vouchers’ to AI startups to subsidize the training cost of their LLMs, reports theFinancial Times. The computing vouchers are worth between $140,000 and $280,000 and are designed to subsidize costs related to data center use....

‘AI’ and ‘AI PC’ are, of course, two big buzzwords these days — and not only in the U.S. and Europe, but also in China, where openKylin just released what it’s calling an operating system for AI PCs. OpenKylin is an open source OS based on Linux and maintained by the OpenKylin community, which is backed by a number of Chinese companies including Hygon and Phytium. Clearly, Chinese PC makers are interested in getting in on the AI PC craze — but Windows remains China’s most-used OS....

Chinese GPU designer Moore Threads has developed the MTT X300, a new graphics card for workstations. Under the company’s professional vision accelerator label, the X300 supports x86, Arm, and LoongArch CPUs. Moore Threads says the GPU works in Windows, Ubuntu, and Chinese OSes like Fangde and Tongxin. On the hardware side, the X300 is a PCIe 5.0 card with 4,096 second-generation MUSA cores, 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and a 256-bit wide memory bus capable of hitting 448 GB/s of bandwidth....

If you’re old enough to remember when 8MB thumb drives hit the scene, you’ll probably remember Clippy,Microsoft’s digital writing assistant. Clippy lived in the bottom corner of Microsoft Office from 1996 to 2003, but now he can return to your desktop with a new life as a mouthpiecefor AI, thanks to anew projectfrom software engineer ‪Felix Rieseberg. This odd couple of 90’s UI design and the modern-day AI craze provides potential users the ability to set up anylocally installed LLMand use Clippy as its mouthpiece....

Prime Day is winding down, so your time to grab excellent deals is coming to an end. A perfect example is theCooler Master MasterLiquid 360L Core 360mm AIO that’s on a limited-time sale for just $85. The liquid cooler retails normally for $100, giving customers 15% off the high-performance liquid cooler. The MasterLiquid 360L is a few years old and no longer one of theBest AIO Coolers. However, the cooler still provides good cooling performance for even theBest CPUs....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Corsair’s 3500X ARGB is a decent wrap-around glass computer case with back-connect motherboard support, but it’s a bit pricier than competitors. If you like it, you may want to consider the more expensive iCUE LINK version for its improved lighting and features – otherwise, equally good alternatives are available for less. Supports up to ten fans Cons A little expensive 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....