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Struggling chipmaker Intel announced to its workers that they’re getting free coffee and tea in breakrooms once more. These beverage benefits are one of the things the company suspended after it revealed its massive $1.6-billion loss last August, according toThe Oregonian. Although it may seem minor, the company said via internal messaging, “…we understand that small comforts play a significant role in our daily routines. We know this is a small step, but we hope it is a meaningful one in supporting our workplace culture....

Intel’s upcoming LGA1954 socket for next-generation Nova Lake CPUs is rumored to match its predecessor’s size and may retain cooler compatibility.Ruby_Rapidson X highlighted NBD shipping manifests detailing the socket dimensions of LGA1954. At 45mm x 37.5mm, the size remains largely unchanged, despite offering roughly 100 more pins than LGA1851. However, full compatibility is still up in the air due to potential hotspot shifts with Nova Lake, depending on how and where Intel designs the cores....

Intel has released its open-sourceNPU Acceleration Library, enablingMeteor Lake AI PCsto run lightweight LLMs like TinyLlama. It’s primarily intended for developers, but ordinary users with some coding experience could use it to get their AI chatbot running onMeteor Lake. The library is out now on GitHub, and though Intel was supposed to write up a blog post about the NPU Acceleration Library, Intel Software ArchitectTony Mongkolsmai shared it early on X....

Intel’s latest 14th GenerationRaptor Lake Refreshprocessors have found their way into the list ofbest CPUs. Some China-exclusive SKUs, like theCore i7-14790Fand Core i5-14490F Black Edition, have also arrived on the market, and now we have the former’s first benchmark (viaBenchleaks). The Core i7-14790F is a controversial model name since common sense suggests it’s an enhanced variant of the Core i7-14700F. However, the two processors are nothing alike, and don’t let “9” in the Core i7-14790F’s name fool you into thinking it’s faster....

Intel will release its next-generation codenamed Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors for desktops and laptops this fall, according to aDigiTimesreport. In particular,Lunar Lake-V will likely be launched in mid-September, whereas unlocked Arrow Lake-S processors along with the Intel Z890 platform will be released in October. If the unofficial information is correct, then Intel’s partners will have plenty of PCs based on the company’s latest technology by the holiday season....

While iTunes comes built-in for Mac users, you can download it on Windows to sync all your previous music library and access the iTunes store. However, it can sometimes suffer from occasional hiccups. When this happens, iTunes doesn’t sync upon connecting iPhone, iPod, or iPad. Or it keeps crashing too often and sometimes doesn’t even open. If it’s just a minor glitch, a simple restart solves the problems most of the time....

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. “We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,” Kono toldReutersearlier today. The milestone, decades after the storage medium’s heyday, was reached as the scrapping of 1,034 official regulations that required the filing of floppy disks was enacted. Back in January, we reported on the Japanese government’splanned abolitionof the floppy disk as it sought to modernize....

It’s always been clear thatPCIe bandwidthhas an effect on gaming, especially when playing on some of themost high-end GPUs. But what about content creation?Puget Systemsput this idea to the test and found that lacking proper PCIe bandwidth can seriously hinder performance in video rendering and game development. That suggests professionals working with multiple add-in cards may need to take care in their placement to ensure the best possible performance for their workloads....

Rumor has it that Nvidia is eying to operate sales for the RTX 4050 mobile in tandem with the upcoming RTX 5050 - hinting towards a potential price bump for budget Blackwell mobile GPUs per Lenovo’s Product Manager atWeibo(viaWCCFTech). The leak also explicitly states that all other RTX 40 mobile (Ada Lovelace) offerings will be discontinued - and replaced by respective RTX 50 (Blackwell) counterparts. The flagship RTX 50 GPUs will be unveiled atCES2025, but mobile variants, as is tradition, might launch byComputex2025 or later....

LGDisplay is in talks to leave the LCD business to focus on OLED production, the Korea Herald reports. The display maker is reviewing options to sell its LCD assets, including manufacturing facilities in Guangzhou, China.LG Display and Samsung were once the dominating players in the LCD panel market, but both Korean companies have been focusing on the more advanced (and presumably profitable)OLED marketin recent years.Intense competition with Chinese LCD panel manufacturers has led companies from other countries to shift to the more advanced OLED panel....

M.2 SSDs offer incredible transfer speeds and also come with a smaller form factor. However, there are situations where it does not show up for some users—especially on the systems where it is newly installed. It primarily happens when the SSD is not initiated and allocated. If you are trying to use the latest M.2 interface on an older and incompatible motherboard, you will see the same problem in that case as well....

Microsofthas been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newestWindows 11installerremoved the easy bypass to the requirementthat you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn’tinstall Windows 11 without a Microsoft Accountand now want to stop sending the company your data, you may still switch to a local account after the fact. Microsoft even had instructions on how to do this on its official support website - or at least it used to…...

Windows 11Insider Preview Build 27686, recently released in the Canary Channel, is finally making it easier and simpler to change your laptop’s power mode depending on its charging state. The current Windows 11 Power & battery menu only lets you select one Power Mode for your device, no matter if it is discharging or plugged in. The new option in the Canary Channel now lets users choose a different power plan depending on the laptop’s charging state from the Settings menu....