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Tom’s Hardware Verdict It may not be fully compliant with the Wi-Fi 7 spec, but the Roamii BE Lite is an affordable option for bargain shoppers. Affordable pricing Full-featured web interface and smartphone app Wall mounts included for satellites Only two downstream 1 GbE ports and no USB Dual-band only Why you may trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

MSI’s initial motherboard lineup for thecoming Intel Core Ultra 200 seriesprocessors has appeared onthe device.report online database. The list shows 12 new MSI motherboards forthe LGA1851 socket: sporting four B860 mid-range and eight Z890 high-end chipsets. The company also registered a B760M-A for Intel’s 12th to 14th Gen Intel processors, and an H610M-S mobo designed for business users. The Z890 boards are slated to arrive as follows: MPG Z890 CARBON WIFI, MPG Z890 EDGE TI WIFI, MEG Z890 UNIFY-X, MEG Z890 GODLIKE, MEG Z890 ACE, MAG Z890 TOMAHAWK WIFI, MPG Z890I EDGE TI WIFI, AND PRO Z890-P WIFI....

GPD, one of the more well-known Chinese handheld PC manufacturers,officially revealed its GPD Win Mini 2024 handheld refresh earlier today on X. Among the first major points of information revealed is that the GPD Win Mini 2024 will use the same display as theAsus ROG Ally, which means it will boast 1080p 120 Hz support, and more importantly for this handheld form factor, FreeSync Premium and a variable refresh rate (VRR)....

In the everlasting search for economically viablesuperconductors, a variety of scientists and researchers have published findings on naturally occurring mineral miassite as an “unconventional superconductor.” These findings (“Nodal superconductivity in miassite”) were published for Open Access viewing on Nature.com and include contributors from a variety of US universities, as well as institutions in France and New Zealand. Unlikesemiconductors, which are still integral to the overwhelming majority of modern electronics, superconductors conduct electricity with 100% efficiency, not losing any power (typically released as heat) in the process....

Senator Rajkumar introduced the bill to control the proliferation of homemade 3D-printed handguns. One profile example is the Luigi Mangione case, where it’s thought that he used a 3D-printed Glock-style gun during his assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “Three-dimensional printed guns are growing more prevalent each year. There were 100 taken off the streets of New York City in 2019. That number skyrocketed to 637 in 2022. Concurrently, ghost gun shootings have risen 1,000% across the nation,” Senator Rajkumar previously wrote in a 2023 memo....

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has issued an apology during the company’s 85th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, acknowledging that initial demand for the Switch 2 “greatly exceeded expectations.” The long-awaited console arrived on store shelves early in June,smashing the original Nintendo Switch’s sales recordby almost a million copies. Although it seems that the U.S. and the U.K. did not face any supply issues during the launch, other markets — most notably Japan — aren’t as lucky....

Notion is undoubtedly a great app for managing projects and boosting productivity. However, it doesn’t always work perfectly. The major problem people have faced while using it is the server down issue which is very rare. Also, the app sometimes fails to load or open. While restarting the app isn’t a silver bullet, it can solve most common problems. On the other hand, it doesn’t work every time for every kind of issue....

According to theFinancial Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. The source, familiar with the matter, reportedly indicated that the meeting was planned some time ago but did not reveal the topics to be discussed. Given Nvidia’s current focus, it is likely that Huang and Trump will discuss U.S. AI policies. U.S. AI policy is multifaceted, from domestic development of AI models and hardware to exporting AI hardware to other nations....

Nvidia has published a new driver (552.12) that addsgame-ready supportfor Season 3 ofCall of Duty Modern Warfare IIIandWarzone, the game’s free-to-play battle-royal component. The only other addition to Nvidia’s new driver is a new Resizable Bar profile forHorizon Forbidden West Complete Edition, which enables ReBAR support in the game — giving GeForce gamers a slight performance improvement. Season 3 is the latest update for Modern Warfare III and its battle-royalWarzonecomponent.Warzoneis getting new features, including the return to Rebirth Island, which debuted when Warzone first launched several years ago....

New week, new RTX 50 meltdown story. Thankfully, this time, the damage was confined to the power adapter only, thus sparing the card. A Reddit userpostedtwo images of a melted triple 8-pin to 16-pin adapter that powered their Gigabyte RTX 5080 Gaming OC. Further inspection revealed no damage to the GPU connectors, saving them the hassle of going through RMAs. Both the 15-year-old PSU in the user’s system, which is non-ATX 3....

Love them or hate them, the Nvidia RTX 5070 and AMD RX 9070 are two of the more affordable current-generation graphics cards you can buy from Team Red or Team Green for the time being (inflated pricing or not). At least that’s true until the RX 9060 series debuts and the RTX 5060 goes truly mainstream and sells regularly at MSRP. In this face-off, we’ll pit the two latest ‘70 cards against each other to see which is the best option....

Per an exclusive report fromReuters,Nvidia has lost the #1 spot in the Chinese AI chip market following the release of thesanctions-legal Nvidia H20, which slightly underperforms compared to the China-made Huawei Ascend 910B. Reportedly, the Huawei Ascend 910B is roughly 10% faster in AI workloads than Nvidia’s top-end, sanctions-legal H20. These performance issues, combined with Nvidia’s abundant supply and sanctions restrictions, have forced it to cut H20 prices by “over 10 percent” in the Chinese market....

Avid readers ofTom’s Hardwarealready know that graphics processing units (GPUs) designed for laptops tend to end up on desktop graphics cards made by little-known Chinese brands. Well, this has happened again with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop and GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPUs that were installed on larger printed circuit boards (PCBs) and sold as desktop graphics cards, reportsVideoCardz. For obvious reasons, the so-called GeForce RTX 4080M (listed at $420 - $560) and GeForce RTX 4090M are cheaper than some of Nvidia’sbest graphics cardsfrom renowned brands partnering with Nvidia....