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Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Cocoa Press is an impressively capable chocolate 3D printer that converts chocolate cores into 3D models with minimal software prep work. Prints chocolate with no post-processing equipment required Best-in-class documentation and assembly guide 0.8mm nozzle offers sharp printed features Open platform for experimenting with different materials Rock-solid CoreXY-inspired kinematic system, quality LDO parts Lengthy assembly process may be a blocker for non-technical customers 65 gram chocolate cores feel a bit limiting in volume...

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Cougar GEX X2 1000W PSU offers solid performance with good efficiency and reliable voltage regulation, making it a dependable choice for demanding systems. However, its relatively high price and modest feature set may limit its appeal in a market with fierce competition and more value-oriented options. Solid voltage regulation High efficiency at any input voltage Compact size for a 1000W unit Fair build quality Effective ripple suppression...

Nvidia is preparing to launch theGeForce RTX 5060 Tito compete with AMD and thebest graphics cardson the market. Meanwhile,VideoCardzhas leaked various custom models from MSI, displaying the use of a16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is a forthcoming midrange gaming GPU from Nvidia, expected to have a 180W TDP. A single 8-pin PCIe power connector, capable of providing up to 150W, is more than adequate for the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti since it can draw an additional 75W from the PCIe slot, resulting in a combined total of 225W....

Nvidia would like you to know that Diablo IV’s ray tracing update is finally available — in case you took a break from the game while waiting. It also announced several more games withDLSS 2upscaling and/orDLSS 3frame generation technologies. These include Outpost: Infinity Siege, Alone In The Dark, and Lightyear Frontier Out. The biggest draw will likely beDiablo IV, which seemed to have plenty of headroom for enhanced visuals when we tested it at launch last year....

EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed the company is considering putting ads in traditional AAA games — titles that players purchase up-front for around $70 apiece. In the Q&A part ofEA’s latest earnings call, Eric Sheridan from Goldman Sachs asked Wilson about dynamic ad insertion in traditional AAA games. Wilson said, “…Advertising has an opportunity to be a meaningful driver of growth for us.” He then continued, “…we have teams internally in the company right now looking at how we do very thoughtful implementations inside of our game experiences....

Microsoft’sall-new Surface Laptopsporting Qualcomm’sSnapdragon X EliteSoC has been tested and reviewed by a third party,Signal65. The review was commissioned by Microsoft, and other reviewers haven’t been able to chime in just yet, but the results seem to confirm what Qualcomm has been saying. The testing compared the X Elite-equipped Surface to four other devices in a plethora of benchmarks, including thermal testing, to see how Qualcomm’s new silicon stacks up.Ryan Shrout shows that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoC delivers as advertised....

Tech baron Elon Musk has taken to Twitter/X to boast of starting up “the most powerful AI training cluster in the world,” which he will use to create the self-professed “world’s most powerful AI by every metric by December of this year.” Today, xAI’s Memphis Supercluster began AI training using 100,000 liquid-cooled Nvidia H100 GPUs connected with a single RDMA (remote direct memory access) fabric. Nice work by @xAI team, @X team, @Nvidia & supporting companies getting Memphis Supercluster training started at ~4:20am local time....

Elon Musk’s Texas Tesla Gigafactory is expanding to contain an AI supercomputer cluster, and Supermicro’s CEO is a big fan of the cooling solution. Charles Liang, founder and CEO of Supermicro, took to X (formerly Twitter) to celebrate Musk’s use of Supermicro’s liquid cooling technology for both Tesla’s new cluster and xAI’s similar supercomputer, which is also on the way. Pictured together among server racks, Liang and Musk are looking to “lead the liquid cooling technology to large AI data centers....

Apple had deleted FaceTime’s Live Photos feature in iOS version 12.1.1 due to privacy-related reasons. However, it returned with significant bug fixes and improvements in iOS version 15. Yet, there are still a few issues with the Live Photos feature. Out of them, the common ones are FaceTime photos not saving to camera roll and FaceTime freezing. Usually, the causes for such errors are an outdated iOS version, incorrect settings, bugs, privacy restrictions, lack of storage space, and more....

This error occurs when you’re trying to move a file larger than 4GB into a drive with the FAT32 file system. It happens because the maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB. You can fix this by changing the drive’s file system from FAT32 to exFAT or NTFS in Windows. Mac users can instead use Mac Extended, APFS, or exFAT. Find detailed steps to fix the “The Item Can’t Be Copied Because It Is Too Large For The Volume’s Format” problem in the tutorial below....

AMD fans, rejoice, because according to an enormous leak from Golden Pig Upgrades onBilibili, AMD’s Zen 5 architecture is going to be exciting. The leaker, whose leaks have repeatedlyproven true, now drops another bombshell containing info on all levels of AMD’s new architecture to be released in the second half of 2024. Much of the leak corroborates or confirms previous leaks, like thisshipping manifestthat highlighted Granite Ridge desktop CPUs, Strix Point APUs, and Fire Range mobile CPUs with matching specs to Golden Pig’s....

You’ve got one of thebest 3D printers, and whether it’s one of thebest budget 3D printers, or something a little more spendy (like thePrusa CORE One), you need tools to keep it running smoothly. Sure you get some tools in the box, but getting a dedicated 3D printer toolkit will make short work of caring for your 3D printer. I’ve looked around Amazon during its Prime Day sales and I’ve found the tools that you absolutely need to add to your 3D printer toolkit....

If you use an HP inkjet printer and encounter low-quality printing issues, it may be time to clean the printhead. Printhead is responsible for holding the ink cartridges and spraying ink into the paper for printing. But when they get clogged, you may not get quality printouts from your printer. You should consider cleaning the printheads if the printer prints blank pages,refuses to print colored documents, or generates streaky printouts. Similarly, if you have just changed the cartridges on your printer, cleaning the printhead helps remove the air bubbles on the printhead....