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TheBlack Friday dealsare in full swing, stretching from a week or two before the actual date until Cyber Monday and beyond. One thing you won’t find as a real deal:Nvidia’s RTX 4090, or for that matter, most of theAda Lovelace RTX 40-series GPUs,AMD’s RDNA 3 RX 7000-series GPUs, and evenIntel’s Arc Alchemist GPUs. While many of these are still technically among thebest graphics cards, it’s no secret that all three GPU manufacturers are planning to launch their next-gen architectures within the near future....

When reCAPTCHA doesn’t work, you’ll see an error message along the lines of ‘We can’t process your request right now.’ This happens when your PC or IP is suspected of sending automated/unusual traffic. Fixing reCAPTCHA is generally quite simple. Updating your browserorresetting your IP Addresswill do the trick in most cases. Read our guide for step-by-step instructions for these and more ways to fix reCAPTCHA not working error. Why Is reCAPTCHA Not Working In My Browser?...

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The HS-02B is a good iron. It heats up extremely quickly, but the choice of tips lets it down. The current tip selection will do the job, but some of our favorites are missing. The fastest soldering iron we have ever tested Comfortable to use Easily changeable tips High temperatures Low price Much larger than the HS-01 Different tips to HS-01 HS-02A tip selection is better than HS-02B...

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Grayscale, Gamma and Color The GS27U’s image is fully adjustable in the Standard picture mode. It comes from the factory set to Eco, but you’ll likely want to remove that brightness restriction by selecting one of the other presets. There’s a usable sRGB mode too which is a nice bonus....

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Grayscale, Gamma and Color The GS34WQC’s default picture mode is Eco, but it is brightness limited so I switched to Standard for all tests and gameplay. It is fully adjustable for all image parameters. There is also a very accurate sRGB mode available....

Gigabyte has four newAorus Elite series power suppliesavailable, supporting the ATX 3.0 and PCIe 5.0 standards, with 80 Plus Platinum efficiency certification. The new fully modular power supplies are 850W and 1000W, clearly intending to compete with thebest power suppliescurrently available. The two capacities come in either white or black trim for the casing and matching flat cables, so users can match the color scheme of their PC builds (provided the color is one of those two options)....

It was 2022 when GlobalWafers first began the motions to open a US-based chip manufacturing plant in Sherman, Texas. This move was planned well before the Trump administration’s tariff situation, but it seems to have excellent timing given the current economic impact of hardware imports. According to Chairwoman Doris Hsu, the new facility will be followed up with an additional $4 billion investment to help support chip manufacturing in the US, as reported byWSJ....

Taara,Google’s quirky underdog project of the day, seeks to fire internet signals using light beams across long distances above ground, an innovation over fiber optics, radio signal, and satellite reception. Developed by X, Google’s go-big-or-go-home research wing, the Taara projecthas announcedthat it has downsized its reception/output terminals from the size of a traffic light to a 13mm silicon chip. X, the moonshot factory (a subtitle only slightly more humble than “X, the everything app”), has been developing Taara for the last seven years as a replacement for fiber optic internet cable....

In today’s limited-time holiday deal at Newegg, users can find theMSI Spatium M450 1TB SSD for just $44. This SSD is usually priced around $51, saving users over $7 off the usual MSRP. This mid-range SSD offers 1TB of storage for this great price, but the speeds aren’t exactly anything to write home about, with speeds similar to Gen 3 drives. The benefit of this deal is in the capacity given today’s discount....

Earlier this morning,HighPoint announcedthat its SSD7540 RAID Add-In-Card (AIC) is qualified for use with LiquidCool Solutions' immersion-cooled rack servers (and immersion-cooled server platforms in general). For those unfamiliar, immersion cooling is a version of liquid cooling where the entire PC (or most of it) is submerged in a non-conductive liquid, typically mineral oil, for stylish aesthetics, more efficient cooling, or both. In the data center space, where you often stack the equivalent of several fully-decked systems on top of each other, immersion cooling becomes a pretty viable solution for cooling servers....

iPhone has a widget that shows images on your home screen randomly as “Featured Photos”. But the photos in our gallery are not all stars and pearls and sometimes we need some privacy, right? So, how do you change random photos from showing up on your home screen? The featured photos can not be unchanged and are shown randomly according to our memories. Fortunately, you have a choice to remove unwanted photos so that they are not randomly picked by your iPhone....

When you visit a website, it sends a small piece of data that gets stored in your browser. These are called cookies, and they keep track of your browsing preferences like the pages you visit and the time you spend on a website. Most of the cookies are legitimate, and they help you to optimize the website for your next visit. While accepting cookies isn’t mandatory for all websites, some websites can block you or limit your access if you do not accept their cookies....

If you feel like you’re not getting the full performance out of your Gigabyte system, one of the first things you should check is the XMP setting in your BIOS. Think of it as a one-click overclocking tool for running your RAM at higher speeds. You canenable an Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)from theAdvanced Memory Settingssection, or from theTweakertab in the BIOS. On some Gigabyte boards, this setting might also be labeled asEOCP(Extended Over Clock Profiles)....