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The holiday season is here, and we’ve already got an awesomeRaspberry Pi-powered Christmas decoration to kick off the holiday spirit. The Gustavsson Family is at it again with this incredible light show that covers their entire house, spilling over into the yard with an insane plethora of LEDs that pair to music in real time. Not only have they programmed a handful of light shows to various songs, but they’ve also recorded them all and shared them on aYouTube playlistso you’re able to check out the work without having to drive by the house yourself....

Realistic FPS shooters makeyou feel the thread and the weight of each bullet. The thrill of the hunt and survival becomes real. These kinds of games are few and far, though. Even though most developers prefer going for “realistic” graphics, most shooter games are, well, games. But there is still hope, my comrades. We scoured the web for the most realisticFPS gameswith insane attention to detail that still manages to make your blood boil in action....

Smart TVs come with built-in Wi-Fi features that help you surf the Internet. However, when it ceases to work you are met with an error message “Automatic IP setting failedorMAC address not correct” thereby restricting you to stream online services like Netflix or Hulu. There may be various scenarios when your TV won’t connect to Wi-Fi. For instance, it might get stuck after entering the password or keep reconnecting itself. Or, even if it is connected, you may receive a weak signal....

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on the 2025 defense budget this week, which includes a $3-billion allocation to replace telecommunications equipment previously acquired from Huawei and ZTE. According toReuters, the equipment provided by these companies comes withsecurityrisks, especially as People’s Republic China (PRC)-affiliated hackers have beenconducting a massive cyber espionage campaignto compromise private U.S. telecommunications companies. Congress also wants an intelligence report that outlines Chinese espionage efforts and the country’s biotech capabilities....

If you recently installed Ubuntu, you might’ve been surprised to find that all the WiFi options were missing. Even if you install the correct drivers, issues with the WiFi Adapter can lead to the same problem. The WiFi Adapter and Driver are just two common culprits. In your case, the problem may be something else entirely and figuring out exactly what can be tough. As such, we’ve detailed the main reasons why the WiFi doesn’t work on Ubuntu, as well as how you’re able to fix it in this article....

You’re looking for that one file, the one that contains the all important information for your next meeting. Do you manually search all of your files? That will take time. Instead we use a little Linux command line magic.Grepis a pattern matching command that we can use to search inside files and directories for specific text.Grepis commonly used with the output of one command, piped to be the input of the grep command....

As spotted by Reddit usercoolbho3kon the r/SteamDeck subreddit,Valveappears to be testing a new SteamOS-based device. The mysterious device, which Valve calls Fremont, seems to be the long-awaited successor to theSteam Box. The Steam Deck kernel was updated a month ago for a device codenamed Fremont, which doesn’t correspond to any officially released Valve product. The kernelupdateis brief and only changes a single character on a single line. However, there are some nuggets of information: references to a ChromeOS Embedded Controller (CEC) driver,GoogleDexi, and AMD Lilac....

The Menu function on your Vizio TV provides quick access to different TV settings like network settings or changing the input source. But, you can not make any customization to the TV if the Menu function does not work. There are several instances when the Menu function on your Vizio TV stops working. Here are some scenarios that you may encounter. Power Cycle Vizio TV Sometimes, temporary glitches on the Smartcast OS of your Vizio TV may prevent the Menu window from appearing on the screen....

Windows 11continues to grow slowly yet steadily, as its market share climbed to35.58% in October 2024. This near 3% increase marks continued adoption since its release, with Windows 10 still dominating around 61% of the Windows market. Analysts attribute Windows 11’s growth to multiple factors, includingMicrosoft’s recent push for users to upgrade, ongoing support for the latest hardware optimizations, and enhancedsecurityfeatures designed for modern computing demands. With Microsoft expanding Windows 11’s availability through new devices and encouraging upgrades, the uptick reflects consumer andenterpriseadaptation....

Microsofthas revealed Windows Server 2025’sCPU support list, in conjunction with the operating system’s general availability, which was announced today. CPU support includes chips such as Intel’s flagship 64-core Granite Rapids and Emerald Rapids chips down to (surprisingly) Intel’s consumer-based entry-level dual-core Pentium parts. Intel CPU support includes several generations of Intel Xeon processors. These are the second through fifth-gen Xeon SP CPUs, based on the Emerald Rapids, Sapphire Rapids, Ice Lake, and Cascade Lake architectures; the Xeon D series, which is also based on Ice Lake; the Xeon E-series, which is based on Raptor Lake; and Intel’s Xeon 6 series, which is based on Granite Rapids....

Setting a new benchmark for Flash memory performance, a team of researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai has developed a super-fast, picosecond-level non-volatile memory device. But what exactly is picosecond-level memory? It refers to memory that can read and write data within one-thousandth of a nanosecond or one-trillionth of a second. The newly developed chip, named “PoX” (Phase-change Oxide), is capable of switching at 400-picoseconds, substantially surpassing the previous world record of 2 million operations per second....

Most people use laptops over desktops as they are portable due to their size and built-in batteries. So, it’s a real problem if yourlaptop suddenly stops charging. On an HP laptop, the most notable causes for this issue include a damaged charger or charging port, bugs in the battery driver, or poor health of the battery. However, it is also possible that there is a battery level limit on your battery preventing it from charging any further....

3D Gloop! is finally leaving dad’s garage and getting its own pad – or rather, a 10,000 square foot warehouse with space for a new lab and storefront. After nearly seven years in business, Andrew Mayhall and Andrew Martinussen have outgrown Mayhall’s garage (and living room, crawl space, storage locker, and a few trailers). They are moving their “science sauce” production to its own facility. 3D Gloop is a solvent-based adhesive that chemically welds together plastics like PLA, PETG, and ABS/ASA....