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The front panel of the Aerocool Streak case is cut by two RGB stripes

Users who are building a relatively inexpensive gaming desktop system will soon have the opportunity to purchase the Streak case, announced by Aerocool, for this purpose. The new product has expanded the range of Mid Tower solutions. The front panel of the case received multi-color backlighting in the form of two RGB stripes with support for various operating modes. A transparent acrylic wall is installed in the side part. Dimensions are 190,1 Γ— 412,8 Γ— 382,6 mm. You can use maternal […]

Ryzen 3000 processors will be able to work with DDR4-3200 memory without overclocking

Future 7nm AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors based on Zen 2 architecture will be able to work with DDR4-3200 RAM modules right out of the box, without additional overclocking. This was initially reported by the VideoCardz resource, which received information from one of the motherboard manufacturers, and then it was confirmed by a well-known source of leaks with the pseudonym momomo_us. AMD is improving memory support with […]

Mozilla Roadmap

The Mozilla browser development team (Netscape Communicator 5.0) chose the GTK+ library as the main one for development under XWindow, thereby replacing the commercial Motif. The GTK+ library was created during the development of the GIMP graphics editor and is now used in the GNOME project (development of a free graphics environment for UNIX). Details at mozilla.org, MozillaZine. Source: linux.org.ru

Scientists have created a new form of computing that uses light

McMaster University graduate students, led by Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Kalaichelvi Saravanamuttu, described the new computational method in a paper published in the scientific journal Nature. For the calculations, the scientists used a soft polymer material that turns from liquid to gel in response to light. Scientists call this polymer β€œa next-generation autonomous material that responds to stimuli and […]

Video: four-legged robot HyQReal pulls an airplane

Italian developers have created a four-legged robot, HyQReal, capable of winning heroic competitions. The video shows HyQReal dragging a 180-tonne Piaggio P.3 Avanti aircraft nearly 33 feet (10 m). The action took place last week at Genoa Cristoforo Columbus International Airport. The HyQReal robot, created by scientists from the research center in Genoa (Istituto Italiano […]

USA vs China: it will only get worse

Experts on Wall Street, as reported by CNBC, are beginning to believe that the confrontation between the United States and China in the trade and economic sphere is becoming protracted, and sanctions against Huawei, as well as the accompanying increase in import duties on Chinese goods, are only the initial stages of a long β€œwar” in economic sphere. The S&P 500 index lost 3,3%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 400 points. Experts […]

Windows 10 May 2019 Update may not install on some PCs with AMD processors

Despite the fact that the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) has been tested longer than usual, the new update has problems. It was previously reported that the update was blocked for some PCs with incompatible Intel drivers. Now a similar problem has been reported for devices based on AMD chips. The problem concerns AMD RAID drivers. In case the installation assistant […]

Best Buy CEO warns consumers about price hikes due to tariffs

Soon, ordinary American consumers may feel the impact of the trade war between the United States and China. At the very least, the chief executive of Best Buy, the largest consumer electronics chain in the United States, Hubert Joly warned that consumers will likely suffer from higher prices as a result of tariffs being prepared by the Trump administration. β€œThe introduction of 25 percent duties will lead to higher prices […]

GIGABYTE to Showcase World's First PCIe 2 M.4.0 SSD

GIGABYTE claims to have developed what is claimed to be the world's first ultra-fast M.2 solid-state drive (SSD) with PCIe 4.0 interface. Recall that the PCIe 4.0 specification was published at the end of 2017. Compared to PCIe 3.0, this standard provides doubling of throughput - from 8 to 16 GT/s (gigatransactions per second). Thus, the data transfer rate for […]

Huawei will not be able to produce smartphones with support for microSD cards

The wave of problems for Huawei, caused by Washington’s decision to add it to the β€œblack” list, continues to grow. One of the last partners of the company to break ties with it was the SD Association. This in practice means that Huawei is no longer allowed to release products, including smartphones, with SD or microSD card slots. Like most other companies and organizations, [...]

A bug in OpenSSL broke some openSUSE Tumbleweed applications after an update

Updating OpenSSL to version 1.1.1b in the openSUSE Tumbleweed repository has broken some libopenssl related applications using Russian or Ukrainian locales. The problem appeared after a change was made to the error message buffer handler (SYS_str_reasons) in OpenSSL. The buffer was defined as 4 kilobytes, but this was not enough for some unicode locales. The strerror_r output used to […]