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GIGABYTE B450M DS3H WIFI: A Compact Board for AMD Ryzen Processors

The GIGABYTE assortment now includes the B450M DS3H WIFI motherboard, designed for building relatively compact desktop computers on the AMD hardware platform. The solution is made in Micro-ATX format (244 Γ— 215 mm) using the AMD B450 system logic set. It is possible to install second generation Ryzen processors in the Socket AM4 version. The board, as reflected in the name, carries a wireless adapter […]

Islay Canyon Intel NUC Mini PCs: Whiskey Lake Chip and AMD Radeon Graphics

Intel has officially unveiled its new small form factor NUC computers, devices previously codenamed Islay Canyon. The nettops received the official name NUC 8 Mainstream-G Mini PCs. They are housed in a housing with dimensions of 117 Γ— 112 Γ— 51 mm. Intel processor of the Whiskey Lake generation is used. This could be a Core i5-8265U chip (four cores; eight threads; 1,6–3,9 GHz) or a Core […]

Wine 4.9 and Proton 4.2-5 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.9. Since the release of version 4.8, 24 bug reports have been closed and 362 changes have been made. The most important changes: Added initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers; The ability to assemble 16-bit modules in PE format has been implemented; Various functions have been moved to a new KernelBase DLL; Corrections have been made related to [...]

IBM plans to commercialize quantum computers in 3-5 years

IBM intends to begin commercial use of quantum computers in the next 3-5 years. This will happen when the quantum computers being developed by the American company will surpass the supercomputers that currently exist in terms of computing power. Norishige Morimoto, director of IBM Research in Tokyo and vice president of the company, Norishige Morimoto, made the announcement at the recent IBM think Summit Taipei. Costs […]

Video: GM Cruise self-driving car performs one of the most difficult maneuvers

Making an unprotected left turn in an urban environment is one of the most difficult maneuvers drivers must make. When crossing the lane of oncoming traffic, the driver must assess the speed of the vehicle moving towards him, keeping motorcycles and bikes in sight, as well as monitoring pedestrians leaving the sidewalk, which forces him to act with great caution. Accident statistics confirm […]

Connected car sales to halve in 2019

Analysts at International Data Corporation (IDC) predict that sales of connected vehicles will grow steadily in the coming years. By connected cars, IDC refers to cars that support data exchange over cellular networks. Internet access provides access to various services, as well as timely updating of navigation maps and on-board software. IDC considers two types of connected vehicles: those […]

Firefox 69 will stop parsing userContent.css and userChrome.css by default

Mozilla developers have decided to disable by default processing of the userContent.css and userChrome.css files, which allow the user to override the design of sites or the Firefox interface. The reason for disabling the default is to reduce browser startup time. Changing behavior via userContent.css and userChrome.css is done extremely rarely by users, and loading CSS data consumes additional resources (optimization removes unnecessary calls […]

LG's first large-format OLED factory opens in China

LG Display aims to become a major player in the large format OLED TV panel market. Obviously, premium TVs need to get the best screens available, which OLED fits perfectly. This is especially important for the market in China, where factories for the production of LCD and OLED panels are springing up like mushrooms after rain. For the sake of leap forward LG […]

ADATA XPG Spectrix S40G RGB: Original Backlit M.2 SSD

ADATA Technology has prepared to release a high-performance solid-state drive, the XPG Spectrix S40G RGB, designed for gaming-class desktop computers. The new product has a standard size M.2 2280 - dimensions are 22 Γ— 80 mm. 3D TLC NAND Flash microchips are used. The drive joins the range of NVMe devices. Using the PCIe Gen3 x4 interface provides high read and write speeds – up to […]

Video: NVIDIA promises some superproduct GeForce

AMD, as you know, is preparing the announcement of new 7nm Radeon video cards with Navi architecture, which will be accompanied by the launch of 7nm Ryzen processors with Zen 2 architecture. Until now, NVIDIA has been silent, but it seems that the green team is also preparing some kind of answer. The GeForce channel presented a short video with a hint of the announcement of some kind of superproduct. What this might mean is unclear, but [...]

Dark theme and built-in translator appeared in test builds of Microsoft Edge

Microsoft continues to release the latest updates for Edge on the Dev and Canary channels. The latest patch contains minor changes. These include fixing an issue that could result in high CPU usage when the browser is idle, and more. The biggest improvement in Canary 76.0.168.0 and Dev Build 76.0.167.0 is a built-in translator that will allow you to read text from any website […]

Galax GeForce RTX 2070 Mini: one of the smallest RTX 2070

Galaxy Microsystems has introduced two new versions of the GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card in China, which are distinguished by a rather unusual blue color. One of the new products is called the GeForce RTX 2070 Mini and it is quite compact in size, while the other is called the GeForce RTX 2070 Metal Master (literal translation from Chinese) and is a full-size model. Interestingly, earlier Galax had already […]