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It’s never too early to introduce your kids to the wonders of 3D printing. Many of us here at Tom’s Hardware are parents who love 3D printing, and these are the printers we would give our own kids. Why buy a kid 3D printer?We have many machines on ourBest 3D Printerlist, but most of them are too advanced for younger kids. This is where “toy” printers come to the rescue. These printers are perfect for young beginners, especially those without a knowledgeable grown-up to help with setup and maintenance....

TheRaspberry Pi 400was definitely a curveball. Looking like a Raspberry Pi keyboard, inside the case was a SoC similar to theRaspberry Pi 4. And according to a device tree overlay spotted byHackadayIt seems that Raspberry Pi isworking on the Raspberry Pi 500, a version based on the current flagshipRaspberry Pi 5. Over on theRaspberry Pi GitHub repositoryfor the arm64 OS we can seearch/arm64/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm2712-rpi-500.dts,which is the first device tree overlay for the Raspberry Pi 500....

If you want eye-popping color and smooth gaming at very high frame rates, you can’t beat Alienware’s AW2725DF. This 27-inch flat monitor features a vibrant OLED panel that runs at 2560 x 1440 resolution and at up to 360 Hz. When wereviewed the AW2725DF, we gave it a perfect, 5-star rating thanks to its sharp images, extremely wide color gamut coverage and very quick response time. Like other Dell and Alienware monitors, the build quality is also fantastic....

Retro gaming on theRaspberry Piis cool enough on its own but it’s even more exciting to see the neat housing makers come up with for their retro gaming rigs. Today we’ve got an awesome build put together by a maker known asBBoHK. Using the latestRaspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5), he’s created a handheld retro console that resembles a Nintendo Switch. The cool thing about this Switch build is that you’ve got the full emulation power of the CM5 backing it up....

Update 04-06-2025:TrendForce, one of the sources quoted in our story, reached out to clarify that “Toshiba Kaga fab does not produce NAND, Toshiba Kaga has established one of each 6-inch and 8-inch fab in the area, with one additional 12-inch fab slated for completion in 1H24.” Though running under the banner of Toshiba’s Electronic Devices & Storage division, the temporarily closed fab is said to be “focused on the production of PMIC and logic IC....

Toshiba announced the highest-capacity N300 and N300 Pro hard drive models, built for private cloud storage and network-attached storage (NAS) systems. These 24TB drives add 2TB more capacity to the company’s current largest offerings, allowing users with limited drive bays to expand their capacity by replacing drives instead of adding new systems. Toshiba says that the N300 series supports up to 12 drive bays and has a workload rating of 180 TB/year, while the N300 Pro works with up to 24 drive bays and up to 550 TB/year workload....

Toshiba hasintroducedits latest hard drives aimed primarily at cloud datacenters and hyperscalers. The new drives are the MG11-series HDDs offer up to 24 TB capacity and use conventional magnetic recording technology and the MA11-series with a 28 TB capacity that uses shingled magnetic recording to maximize capacity, albeit at the cost of compatibility. Toshiba’s newest MG11 and MA11 HDDs share the same 10-platter helium-sealed platform with a 7200 RPM spindle speed andenterprise-grade enhancements to improve reliability and longevity in 24/7 environments....

The semiconductor industry produces many kinds of distinct processors, but RISC-V startupUbitium saysit’s working on a single architecture that can rule them all. Emerging from stealth sometime this year, Ubitium has gone public to announce the development of its Universal Processor, which is based on a “workload-agnostic microarchitecture.” “Our Universal Processor does it all – CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA – in one chip, one architecture. This isn’t an incremental improvement. It is a paradigm shift....

One way China’s chip manufacturers have been getting advanced chip fabrication equipment capable of making processors on 14nm and smaller process technologies is through South Korea. The U.S. government is now working with its peers in the country to adopt export restrictions on semiconductor technology to China. These restrictions are akin to those imposed by Washington, reportsBloomberg.The U.S.’s proposition to South Korea includes limiting exports of fab tools and parts for fab tools that could be used to build logic chips in non-planar 14nm process technologies....

Yesterday onBlueSky, user Pavel Djundik (@xpaw.me) posted a thread of leaked renders for the upcomingValveSteam Controller 2 (codenamed “Ibex”) and a few different prototype renders for next-gen VR controllers (codenamed “Roy”). While these designs are hardly finalized due to being found through a SteamVR update leak, they do indicate where Valve is going with its next generation of input devices. The “Ibex” Steam Controller 2 looks to be a complete evolution of the original Steam Controller with the Steam Deck’s advancements in mind....

Western Digitalreleased an 8TB version of itsWD_Black SN850PNVMe SSD that’s officially licensed for thePlayStation 5console. This doubles the capacity of the previous largest WD_Black SSD for the PS5, which was 4TB. However, the 8TB version is much more expensive, coming in at $999.99 on the Western Digital page, almost thrice the price of the $349.99 4TB version. The 8TB version is the largest possible SSD you can get from WD_Black for the PlayStation 5, but it’s a bit slower in sequential reads compared to its stablemates by about 100 MB/s....

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the tech term of the moment, and everyone in the PC space wants a piece of it. Every major computer company, from the ones that make thebest ultrabooksand laptops to those that put together thebest gaming PCsand desktops, as well as most component manufacturers, want to say they’re offering an AI PC.But what is an AI PC, exactly? What does it do differently from the computer you already have?...

Driver Verifier is a Windows tool used to monitor and stress drivers to detect any unintended behavior. It’s a tool meant to be used on development systems by driver developers rather than on production systems by normal users. In fact, Microsoft cautions users to do the same. However, you’ll often see users on forums being advised to use Driver Verifier to troubleshoot driver issues and BSODs. So, what’s the reality? Is Driver Verifier safe to use, and should you use it on your system?...