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Yesterday,Microsoft announcedan unexpected revival of its retired Mixed Reality feature, which was deprecated in every official way apart from for HoloLens back in December of last year. This Mixed Reality revival forWindows 11, though, will be limited to current and upcoming Meta Quest headsets, specifically the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S for now. The three featuresMicrosoftflaunts for this integration are “Immersive and private productivity”, “Windows 365 Cloud PCs,” and “Easy PC connection....

Let’s say your internet connection is okay, and all your devices are using your Wi-Fi just fine. However, your Microsoft console has a specific issue: what to do whenXbox won’t let you sign in? Xbox Live log-in issues are as common as they are frustrating. Commonly, you’re dealing with faulty Microsoft servers. Other times, you’re dealing with the wrong configurations on your device. In particular, you may be seeing error codes whenever you attempt to log in....

The developers behind the FFmpeg project are again claiming major performance uplifts delivered by wielding the art of handwritten assembly code. With thelatest patchapplied, users should see a “100x speedup” in the cross-platform open-source media transcoding application. However, the developers were soon to clarify that the 100x claim applies to just a single function, “not the whole of FFmpeg.” BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly13:55:30 <•haasn> rangedetect8_avx512: 121.2 (100.18x) that may be the biggest speedup I’ve seen so farJuly 16, 2025...

A Blender benchmark for an allegedAMD Strix Point CPUengineering sample has surfaced. The results aren’t breathtaking, but many unknown factors make it hard to say if the score reflects the chip’s true capabilities. The benchmark was spotted by@9550Pro (HXL)and posted to X (formerly Twitter). HXL suggests the CPU is a Zen 5 Strix Point engineering sample with four performance and eight efficiency cores. Strix Point is the codename for AMD’s upcoming Zen 5-based Ryzen mobile processors, which will succeedZen 4 processorslike theRyzen 7 Pro 7840U....

3D printer owners yearning for a stylized wireless charger may be in luck— leading 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Labs has released a wireless charger kit modeled on theirA1 Miniprinter, containing all the electronics needed to make it work once you print your own shell materials. The Bambu Labs A1 Mini 3D printer this wireless charger is modeled after has already been highlighted as the Best Compact 3D Printer in our roundup of theBest 3D Printers, so it serves as a perfect companion piece....

Safe Mode is a special diagnostic mode that starts your computer in a limited state. This limited state can help you troubleshoot your computer’s startup problems. In this mode, only the essential Windows files and drivers are loaded. Moreover, booting in safe mode also increases the operational speed of the device as many features are restricted whichresults in less CPU usage.This can help you identify whether a problem is caused by a driver or by a piece of hardware....

Thangs.com is known as a file sharing library with a powerful search engine to scan the internet for 3D printable designs. In 2023, it evolved into a marketplace for designers to sell Patreon-like memberships and individual model files. The company’s founders were clear that their plan was to grow the site by offering artists the best tools in the business to showcase, sell and protect their digital intellectual property. More artists offering quality designs equals more visitors to the website....

A laptop may not turn on for a variety of reasons, including power failure, system board corruption, or problems with the BIOS or operating system. Some of these factors may cause the laptop to appear completely dead, while others may make it partially functional. Based on this, Dell has classified four different scenarios if your Alienware laptop is not turning on. Fixes for the “No Power” Issue If you press the Power button on your Alienware but the laptop appears as dead, it suggests there is something wrong with the power components of the laptop....

MSI is returning to the air-cooling space with theMAG Core Frozr AA13, after a nearly 10-year break from its last release. However, it doesn’t mean that its old air cooler lineup has already disappeared — in fact,Amazonis still selling the MSI Core Frozr L for $5,340.25. The Core Frozr L launched in 2016. Not only is it available, but you also have to pay a premium to get your hands on it....

AMD made a slew of announcements about its latest progress with its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors, with the most important announcement being that the company will now fully support a performance-boosting 105W TDP mode with its Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X models. The company also outlined the arrival of game-boosting branch prediction optimizations to the mainline Windows versions, tweaks that improve Ryzen 9000’s core-to-core latency, support for DDR5-8000 EXPO memory kits, and the long-awaited arrival of the 800-series chipsets....

In the originalAMD FSR 4reveal slide atCES2025, we learned through some tucked-away text that the “AMD FSR 4 upgrade feature (is) only available on AMDRadeonRX 9070 Series Graphics for supported games with AMD FSR 3.1 already integrated”, but exactly how this worked wasn’t explained. Now a tip from reputable industry insider @Kepler_L2 on Twitter, indicates that the RDNA 4 driver for the AMD RX 9000 Series will simply be replacing the FSR 3....

Recent rumors suggest that AMD is planning to refresh its Hawk Point family of APUs under the Ryzen 200 moniker.Over on X (formerly Twitter), Olrak, an avid silicon enthusiast, has leaked the entire line-up, including the PRO counterparts. Take the news with a measure of caution until official confirmation is received. Hawk Twoah PointRyzen 7 260Ryzen 7 255Ryzen 7 250Ryzen 5 240Ryzen 5 230Ryzen 5 220Ryzen 3 210Ryzen 7 PRO 250Ryzen 5 PRO 230Ryzen 5 PRO 220Ryzen 3 PRO 210November 22, 2024...

AMD has added another RDNA 4 GPU die name to its ROCm software suite. Discovered by@Kepler_L2 on X (Twitter), the new Navi 44 die could be an entry-level GPU die in AMD’s upcomingRX 8000-serieslineup. Or it could be something else entirely, as AMD currently isn’t saying much about its next-generation chips. Either way, these will eventually compete with thebest graphics cardsfor gamers' dollars.This is the second RDNA 4 GPU that AMD has added to the ROCm list for hardware enablement, the first being theNavi 48 die sporting the Gfx1201 moniker— Navi 44 boasts a Gfx1200 moniker....