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Japanese company Lib Work has outlined its 3D house building technology, which relies on soil as its primary constituent. The company’sLib Earth House Construction(machine translation) process uses a massive3D printingassembly, rather like others we have seen used for buildingcoffee shops, bus stops, and so on. However, instead of relying on cement to create concrete, Lib Earth dwelling utilize a patent pending mix of earth, slaked lime, and natural fibers. The materials mix outlined above reminds us somewhat of wattle and daub, a building material and technique that has been around perhaps 6,000 years....

Elon Musk’s ‘Gigafactory of Compute,’ thexAI Colossus, received approval from the Tennessee Valley Authority in early November to receive 150MW from the state’s power grid. This increases the site’s initial supply of 8MW by almost twenty times, triggering concerns from local stakeholders about how this much power demand from xAI would impact supply reliability and power prices across the Tennessee Valley. Furthermore,Power Grid Internationalreports that Elon plans todouble the site’s computing capacity, doubling the facility’s energy requirements....

An engineer has shared his journey in “building a GPU from scratch with no prior experience.” As with his prior project ofdesigning a CPU from scratch, Adam Majmudar took just two weeks to complete this cerebral feat. In aTwitter/X threadMajmudar takes us through the process, step-by-step, and admitsGPU designingwas a much harder task than expected. To be clear, the current conclusion of the project is a chip layout in Verilog which was finally passed through OpenLane EDA software to verify it....

Sometimes, when starting the Ryzen Master application, it displays the error message, “Ryzen Master Driver Not Installed Properly.” It generally happens when the application runs into complications when installing or has resource usage issues with other applications. The error can also occur after updating the Ryzen Master utility which can cause multiple Registry entries or when the software becomes outdated or corrupt. As the error message says Razer Master Driver is not installed, you can first start by re-installing Razer Master and the AMD chipset driver....

The remote Procedure Call (RPC) server allows specific processes to communicate with the server over a network or within the same computer. You could encounter the “The RPC server is unavailable” message mainly when trying to let two or more computers communicate for file sharing or network-related purposes. While there’s usually an error code0x800706BA, some users have encountered the same message during Windows Startup (on a blue screen) too. This is probably due to issues with the RPCSS service that’s responsible for controlling COM and DCOM servers....

While adding a printer on your macOS 11 Big Sur or macOS 12 Monterey, you might have come across an error message “Unable to communicate with the printer at this time.” It generally pops up when you attempt to add a printer using USB, and the macOS does not find the compatible printer driver. This is a temporary glitch that can be solved by installing compatible printer drivers for your macOS version or upgrading/downgrading your macOS....

TheTom’s Hardwareteam is on the ground atComputex 2025, and we dropped by the booth of modern and minimalist PC case manufacturer Geometric Future to check out its latest offerings. We’ve seen the company’s new premium full-tower PC case, the Model 9, which features a unique combination of aluminum, steel, and tempered glass. There’s also the new Model 3 MAX compact, designed for those looking for a smaller, more compact solution. Aside from that, there’s also the Eskimo series of AIO coolers and a new line of Power PSUs, available in both 14CM and 12CM models....

Gigabyte has revealed theRadeonPro W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G and Radeon Pro W7800 AI TOP 32G, the company’s take on AMD’s Radeon Pro graphics cards. The new offerings won’t compete against thebest graphics cardsfor gaming, as they cater to workstation users, professionals, content creators, and AI developers. The Radeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot AI TOP 48G (W7900 AI TOP 48G) is based on the recently announcedRadeon Pro W7900 Dual Slot, a more slender variant of the originalRadeon Pro W7900....

Gigabyte has just announced 30 new GPU models atCES2025, comprised of 27 Nvidia GPUs, which should soon be available, and threeAMD Radeon RX 9000-series cardsexpected to arrive later this year. TheNvidia GeForce RTX 50-seriescomprises seven RTX 5090 cards, eight RTX 5080 GPUs, six RTX 5070 Ti graphics cards, and six RTX 5070 GPUs. The company also listed the following AMD cards: Aorus Radeon RX 9070 XT Elite, RX 9070 XT Gaming OC, and RX 9070 Gaming OC....

One of the most important parts of any gaming PC setup is the monitor. Whether your setup includes one, two, or even three or more screens, the monitor is where the final product is produced and what gives you the main experience. Over the years, as monitor technology evolves, we’ve seen higher and higher resolutions, refresh rates, and screen sizes. When the tech becomes more mainstream, those prices start to fall, and high-end monitors like 4K and OLED/QD-OLED start to become an affordable alternative for the average PC gaming enthusiast....

Although almost everything else in the computer component scene seems to have consistently risen in price with minimal discounts now and then, computer monitors have managed to buck the trend and become more accessible. With the constant leap forwards in technology and gimmicks for PC monitors, there’s always a new model being pushed in that forces the price of the new standards to fall. This is great news for us tech consumers....

Gradiant is building a water treatment facility for one of Germany’s upcoming chip fabs, according to a report fromThe Register. Gradiant did not disclose who would be making the fab in question, saying only that it is a “large semiconductor manufacturer” — making the most likely candidates TSMC or Intel. The water treatment plant will also receive funding from theEuropean Chips Act, which is partially funded by Germany. The water treatment facility will reportedly be built by Gradiant’s subsidiary, German water treatment company H+E Group, which Gradiant acquired just last year (giving the company a presence in Germany)....

Add-in card manufacturer HighPoint has unveiled the world’s firstPCIe Gen 5 x16 NVMe add-in card, which can house up to eight PCIe Gen 5 SSDs at full speed. The card, priced at $1,999.00, can operate at up to 56 GB/s and is compatible with up to 2PB of NVMe drives. The new add-in card, the Rocket 7608A PCIe Gen 5 x16, features eight Gen 5 2280 compatible M.2 slots capable of operating a four-lane Gen 5 NVMe SSD at full speed....