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One of the best PCIe 4.0 4TB SSDs has reached an incredibly low price ahead of Amazon Prime Day.Samsung’s 990 EVO Plus 4TB is $110 off(from MSRP), bringing its price all the way down to just $234 from multiple retailers. There’s a chance this deal will stick around untilPrime Day, but there’s no guarantee. Amazon,Newegg,B&H Photo,Best Buy, andSamsung’s own storeare selling the 4TB version of the 990 EVO Plus for $234....

Samsung Electronics said on Monday that it would not split its contract chip manufacturing or logic chip design units despite massive losses. Chairperson Jay Y. Lee toldReutersthat Samsung remains committed to growing these businesses rather than divesting them. According to Reuters, Samsung’s foundry and System LSI businesses reported a combined operating loss of 3.18 trillion won ($2.4 billion) last year, with analysts expecting a further loss of 2.08 trillion won in the current year....

It’s almost Black Friday and we’re excited to see that ouroverall best monitorrecommendation, theSamsung Odyssey G9 G95C, has dropped to its lowest price to date. This huge, high-performance monitor has been going for around $999 but right now it’s marked down to just $769. When we reviewed theSamsung Odyssey G9 G95Cmonitor, we were overwhelmed by our experience. It has impressively high brightness, a stellar response time and other specs that landed it with a rating of 4....

If you’re looking to beef up your storage, especially in your NAS drive, then check out this deal from Western Digital on the WD Red Pro 20TB Hard Disk Drive. If you head on over to the Western Digital store, you can save $160 when you purchasetwo WD Red Pro 20TB HDDs for $599- that’s just $15 per TB — normally, the price would be $759. The WD Red Pro 20TB HDD comes with a 512MB cache size and is rated for 550TB/year workloads and up to 2....

Now that AI can reliably imitate humans in certain situations, it’s not surprising to hear it’s being used by actual human scammers. According to an article fromThe Express, a 53-year-old French woman who identified herself as “Anne” to French channel TF1 was scammed out of 830,000 euros ($851,355) over two years by a scammer using AI-generated images of Brad Pitt. Anne was convinced to hand over the money because she thought “Brad” needed it for cancer treatment....

A team of scientists and engineers from two British institutions built the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery that has the potential to deliver low amounts of power for thousands of years. According to theUniversity of Bristol, the battery uses carbon-14 encased in a manufactured diamond to generate power. The radioactive decay of carbon-14, more popularly known for its use in radiocarbon dating, releases electrons, which are then captured by the diamond’s structure to produce voltage....

Earlier this month, the Australian Border Force (ABF) found 100kg (~220 pounds) of methamphetamine hidden inside a consignment of imported PC tower cases. This week, after all the contraband had been removed, the ABF and Australian Federal Police (AFP)arresteda 45-year-old Malaysian man when he allegedly accepted delivery of the imported cases. The unnamed individual will face charges of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs, which could lead to life imprisonment....

ASRock has launched two new 700 series Mini ITX motherboards optimized to overclock Intel’s latest 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs. The two new boards are thePhantom Gaming Z790i Lightning WiFi and the B760I Lightning WiFi. Both feature robust power delivery systems, enough to support the i9-14900KS and memory overclocking support of up to 8600MHz. And the Z790i Lightning WiFi has already been used by master overclocker Splave to achieve multiple world records with Intel’s Core i9-14900KS....

Linux developers have managed to get Steam running on RISC-V-powered platforms. Moreover, some big-name games like The Witcher 3 and Crysis arenow playable(h/tGamingOnLinux). Please note, this achievement isn’t due to something as momentous as the Steam Client being ported to the RISC-V architecture. Rather, the Steam client and some games can run on RISC-V due to the increasing quality of the felix86 emulation project. The Felix86 blog mentions that the emulator has just started delivering playable AAA Windows games, so this is a major breakthrough for the project....

It’s not even officiallyPrime Dayyet, and there’s already a major deal on one of Apple’s flagship laptops. The 16-inch MacBook Pro is atAmazonandBest Buyfor $1,999, which is $500 off (a full 20%) of its usual price. 16-inch MacBook Pro (M3 Pro)now $1,999 at Amazon(was $2,499)Apple’s powerhouse 16-inch notebook is 20% off. It comes with a 12-core M3 Pro CPU, 18-core GPU, 18GB of unified memory, and 512GB of SSD storage.See also:Best Buy...

Right now atAmazon, you can find one of our favorite SSDs—theCorsair MP600 Mini 2TB SSD—for one of its lowest prices to date. It has a recommended price of $229 but it’s currently marked down to just $193. As of writing, no expiration has been clarified for the offer so we’re not sure for how long it will be made available at this rate. This SSD currently sits at the top of our list ofbest SSD picks for the Steam Deckhandheld....

The Biden administration’s CHIPS Act is pumping money into chip manufacturing construction at an historic rate. According to a recent reportfrom the U.S. Census Bureau, the growth of computer and electrical manufacturing construction funding is so great that the U.S. government will add as much funding to the sector in 2024 alone as it did in the prior 27 years. A recent tweet by Martin Chorzempa, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute, called attention to the surge and illustrated the meteoric spending growth of the last few years....

Today atAmazon, you may find theDell S3221QSfor one of its lowest prices—$249 instead of its usual $359. This gaming monitor is vast, spanning 32 inches between each corner. It’s also curved with a dense, 4K resolution. If you’ve been holding out for a decent curved monitor, now is a great time to look at this discount on the Dell S3221QS. This gaming monitor is also AMD FreeSync certified, ensuring more than a high resolution; it has features like low framerate compensation support....