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Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Das Keyboard 5QS Mark II is an updated its notification-centric keyboard with nicer Cherry MX switches. But the software only integrates with about 40 services or settings. And as a touch typist, I still find the idea of using your keyboard as a notification console strange. Solid, familiar design 10 levels of RGB brightness Large volume knob Very expensive for a wired keyboard Software is too limited...

An open-source project is hoping to resurrect one of the most famous 8-bit CPUs in computing history. Zilog has announced the end-of-life for the original Z80 chip, but that might not be the end of the story. The first Free and Open Source (FOSS) clone of the Z80 chip is scheduled to start production in June 2024. A Unity iOS developer, Renaldas Zioma, launched the GitHub project shortly after Zilog announced it will stop accepting orders for the Z80after June 10, 2025....

It isn’t uncommon for hyperlinks in Excel to not work. Excel offers the feature of establishing a link between certain locations on either the web or your device. However, sometimes this tool does not work as you expect. When this happens, you may expect a dialog box alerting you about a broken hyperlink. If you’re facing a similar issue, we’re here to assist you. This article will break down the causes for why the hyperlink tool isn’t functioning in Excel....

Whenever you try formatting a disk or a volume, one of the choices you get is the File system on the drive. On Windows, you’ll get a choice between NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT. FAT32 and exFAT both represent FAT file systems. NTFS is Microsoft’s proprietary file system developed to overcome all the limitations of the FAT32 file system. Although NTFS superseded FAT32 in the 1990s, the latter is still used a lot even today....

Many actors, artists and writers are rightly worried about generative AI taking their jobs, but so far we haven’t seen a major entertainment company release a feature-length film that is all or even mostly AI-generated. That’s about to change. Today TCL, a company known for its connected TV sets, dropped the trailer for its first original feature: an AI-generated romantic comedy called “Next Stop Paris” and it’s . . . quite something to look at....

Earlier in the week, we reported on an Nvidia driver change which opened upcrazy new possibilities for PC DIYers. However, the dreams of Intel Core 2 system makers enjoying outlandish high jinks with Nvidia RTX50 GPUs have now partially evaporated. Twitter(X)-based tech enthusiast Bob Pony, who first surfaced the driver change, is back, but his tales of “struggles,” aren’t exactly the news we wanted to hear. To recap, the latest Nvidia GeForce driver re-enabled support for Intel processors dating back to the Core 2 era, as it no longer required CPU support for the POPCNT instruction....

Microsoft Windows System Protection Background Tasks, also calledSrTasks.exe, is used for creating system restore points by the Windows Task Scheduler. However, this important Windows service can also hog up your system resources. System Protection Background Task having insanely high CPU and Disk usage is a common issue in Windows 8 and 10. Furthermore, you cannot even end the task through normal means, andSrTasks.exegets stuck with high CPU and Disk usage....

Sysprep (System Preparation Tool) is a Microsoft Command line utility which users use to prepare a generalized Windows system image for deploying, duplicating and testing the Operating System. In this process, you need to generalize the Windows installing by using the commandsysprep /generalize /shutdown /oobeand remove any data specific to your PC for privacy purposes. However, Sysprep can’t execute this process if it fails to validate the system and returns the “Sysprep was not able to validate your Windows installation” error message....

You usually get “The File or Directory is Corrupted and Unreadable” error while trying to open a corrupt external drive or one that has the RAW file format. However, you can also encounter it while trying to open files in your local drives or an accessible external drive. You can easily solve the logical disk corruption issue with the disk-checking utility. Having said that, to troubleshoot for other causes, you need to apply additional methods, which we have explained down below....

For well more than two decades, Intel has been the undisputed leader in the market for datacenter CPUs. Intel’s Xeon processors powered the vast majority of servers, whereas AMD’s processors commanded a single-digit market share just some seven or eight years ago. However, the situation has changed drastically. While Intel’s Xeon CPUs still power the majority of servers, the most expensive machines now use AMD’s EPYC processors. This is why AMD’s datacenter business unit now outsells Intel’s datacenter and AI business group, as observed bySemiAnalysis....

Swedish PC hardware mainstay Fractal makes some great cases – in fact, you’ll find three of them currently on ourBest PC Cases list. And the company is back with its airflow-focused Meshify 3 and 3 XL chassis. The cases combine the company’s iconic triangle-pattern mesh front with three 140 mm fans and a scooped air guide behind the lowest fan that is designed to direct airflow at your GPU.Other interesting features and design choices include robust cable routing with dual-channel removable plastic cable brackets, and RGB fans (on some models) that plug into an included magnetic hub via a single cable....

A hobbyist has created a 16-bit CPU that was built and runs inside Excel at a 3Hz clock rate and has 128KB of RAM, a 16-color 128x128 pixel display, and a custom assembly language that all runs in the popular spreadsheet. In fact, you can even try out the CPU with files the creator has made available via Github. MicrosoftExcel may be everyone’s favorite spreadsheet application, but Excel’s functions are actually quite flexible for a variety of purposes....

Speaking toThe New York Times, several game developers and some industry figures spoke out about how the gaming industry’s AAA studios couldn’t reasonably handle the stress of creating cutting-edge graphics— particularly in light of major waves of layoffs throughout the past two years, and several high-fidelity AAA games underperforming in the market. Even live service games, which are known to be cash cows when successful, are noted to be a mature market and thus a dangerous investment, particularly when end users tend to despise particularly greedy live service business models....