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The popular Pebble range of speakers from Creative has been around for a while and is still a popular choice for small computer desktop setups, and with good reason. They are small, stylish, and don’t take up much room on your desk but still provide decent audio for the price. You can pick up an original pair of Pebbles for around $18-25; that low price is part of the appeal. The speakers on sale today, though, are the full-fat Pro-version of the Pebble with the same size and style but fully upgraded internals and power with an overall increase in sound quality....

Thermaltakehas published a list of coolers it currently markets for Intel LGA1700 chips, which are also compatible with theupcoming LGA1851Arrow Lake chips. The list includes 17 air coolers, 49 all-in-one (AIO) liquid coolers, and five water blocks, so if you’re upgrading your Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, or Raptor Lake Refresh chip to one of Intel’s latest CPUs, here is official reassurance that you can carry over your Thermaltake cooling solution to your new processor and motherboard....

We’ve scoured Amazon to find you the best budget 3D printers available during Prime Day 2025, which I’ve compiled into a guide for you below, along with a breakdown of each printer’s strengths and weaknesses based on our expansive library of 3D printer reviews and in-depth testing. Right now in my office I have two 3D printers. I used to have three, but my eight year-old nephew has just started his 3D printer journey with an old Creality Ender 2 Pro....

The U.S. government has pulled back from its plan to block Nvidia’s H20 HGX GPU exports to China, following a meeting between the U.S. President Donald Trump and Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang at a $1 million-a-head dinner. During the tête-à-tête Huang vowed to invest in domestic AI infrastructure, reportsNPR. The Trump administration reportedly planned to ban sales of Nvidia’s H20 HGX GPUs to China starting this week, but changed its mind....

TSMC plans to bounce back quickly following a massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan Wednesday morning, leading the company to evacuate some facilities.Now, according to a statementreceived byBloomberg, it seems that TSMC’s most important equipment got by largely unscathed.“There is no damage to our critical tools including all of our extreme ultraviolet lithography tools” TSMC’s statement read in part.Wen-Yee Lee, a semiconductor reporter based in Taipei, posted a full statement on X (formerly Twitter), translating a statement that says “the recovery rate of wafer fab equipment has exceeded 70%, and the recovery rate of newly built fabs (such as Fab 18) has exceeded 80%....

Many PC buyers are wary of buying cheap parts on AliExpress, but one Reddit user found a legitimate deal on the eCommerce platform. u/chiaman117 shared onr/pcmasterracethat they found aRyzen 7 5700X3Dfor just$130on AliExpress—a 38% savings from the chip’s retail price of$209.99. u/chiaman117 received the tray CPU about a day after making the post and was relieved to see that it was working great despite its low price. He even updated the original post by sharing images of the new processor’s Cinebench 2024 benchmark results, adding that it was worth the risk....

Valvehas introduced the Steam Deck OLED to its certifiedrefurbished program. Gamers can now buy the OLED variant refurbished directly from Valve at a heavy discount. The refurbished OLED models are 20% less expensive than their vanilla brand-new counterparts. The 1TB OLED and 512GBSteam Deck OLEDmodels are available with the refurbished program. The 1TB model is priced at $519, and the 512GB at $439. By comparison, buying the new 1TB version costs $649, and the 512GB version costs $549, representing a $120 discount for the 1TB model and a $110 discount for the 512GB model....

PerMicrosoft’s officialWindows Release Health pagefor Windows 11 Version 23H2, it seems that the so-called 2023 Update is finally “broadly available” to all Windows 11 users with eligible devices, here in July 2024. This update’s release has been marred with some severe crashing and boot loop issues, particularly impacting users of virtualization software following aforced rolloutphase, though these bugs and more minor Photos and Taskbar bugs have thankfully been fixed as oflast week....

The original Macintosh computer, quickly renamed to theMacintosh 128k, sold for $2,495 (£1,969) when it launched in 1984. Now, thanks to theRaspberry Pi Picoand one dedicated maker, you can build your own for less than $6.34 (£5).Matt Evansdeveloped the projectover an undisclosed amount of time. He was inspired by a conversation about building a desktop GUI for the Raspberry Pi Pico’sRP2040 MCU. He’d commented on running an old operating system instead, and the original Macintosh came to mind....

Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett said that Intel should not divide its business into two pieces, especially as it just had a technological breakthrough that would allow it tocatch up with TSMC’s N2 process node. Barrett said this in his opinion piece onFortune,in response to the suggestion of a few former Intel directors that championeddividing the chip giant instead of letting TSMC take it over. Barrett said that the reason whyIntel’s foundry business failedin the past years is because it lacked the technology to compete against the Taiwanese chipmaker, not because customers won’t trust Intel since it also makes and sells chips....

If the camera or webcam on your Dell laptop is not working, you’ll usually see some error message or a black screen on the camera window depending on the application. This issue usually happens due to improper permission or camera settings and driver issues. But it can be a hardware issue as well. First, figure out if the camera does not work on all applications or only some. If only the Camera app is not working, you’re able to go to its settings and then repair or reset it....

The System Cannot Find the File Specified is an error that can appear when the file, you or the program you’re using is trying to access, is either corrupt or missing. Some quick fixes for the error is to check if the files you’re trying to access exist in the device or not. Checking the permission of the files and folders and simply restarting your device can also help solve the issue....

If your system fails to initialize the required DLL files, you will receive the error message “The Application was unable to start correctly, (0xC0000142).” Missing DLL files can then prevent your system from launching the program. This error indicates that one or more of your Dynamic Link Library (DLL) files are missing or damaged. Your system may have other issues as well. Installing or repairing the files should fix this error....