Nintendo says it’s finally going to show off the long-awaited Donkey Kong Country area of Super Nintendo World in a Nintendo Direct stream on Monday at 5PM ET. It’s an encouraging sign for the theme park expansion devoted to Mario’s first nemesis, the opening of which was delayed earlier this year. Nintendo first confirmed that… Read more
read more...The next Nintendo Direct is all about Super Nintendo World’s Donkey Kong Country
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Enthusiast demos motherboard socket pin replacement — hot air, tweezers, and a steady hand
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A tech enthusiast in China has demonstrated the skillful replacement of one of the ‘pins’ located in a CPU socket. Bilibili user and motherboard repair guru Mu Ziwen takes us step-by-step through the intricate process, demonstrating the success of their handiwork at the end of the brief video. Current-gen Intel and AMD systems locate contact… Read more
read more...UserBenchmark suggests you buy the i5-13600K over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D — says AMD drives sales with ‘aggressive marketing’ rather than ‘real-world performance’
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UserBenchmark - the gift that keeps on giving! The website’s latest review of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has left many in shock as it now deems spending extra on a gaming CPU pointless. Continuing its never-ending saga of denouncing AMD, which it often refers to as “Advanced Marketing Devices,” UserBenchmark doubles down and names the… Read more
read more...Downed Russian drone used at least 30 chips from Western companies — silicon from Xilinx, TI, Marvell, Micron, and others found in the wreckage
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(Image credit: Haci Productions/YouTube) It has been discovered that a Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-B unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), found crashed behind Ukrainian lines, was reliant on a plethora of Western chips. The drone included parts from Analog Devices, Fairchild Semiconductor, Infineon, Marvell, Maxim, Micron, ON Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, and more - some of… Read more
read more...Amazon’s tests mixing and matching its grocery operations
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Amazon tests mixing and matching its grocery operations / By combining its Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh fulfillment networks, Amazon tries for better footing against giants like Walmart and Kroger. By Wes Davis, a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist… Read more
read more...Take a seat — standing desks aren’t better for you, says new study
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A recently published study casts serious doubt on the touted health benefits of owning a standing desk. Researchers studying the incidence of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) in 83,013 UK adults found that substituting a few standing hours into a person’s daily desk time didn’t lower CVD risk, and standing for long periods brought along some… Read more
read more...Super tiny Raspberry Pi RP2040 RGB LED matrix display hits Kickstarter
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It’s no secret that we’re fans of the Raspberry Pi here at Tom’s Hardware but ever since the company decided to release the microprocessors along with the Pico and Pico 2, we’ve seen an amazing plethora of custom boards created by the community. Today we’ve got a really cool example to share of such a… Read more
read more...U.S. ordered TSMC to halt shipments of advanced AI processors to China: Report
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TSMC may not have voluntarily cut shipments of advanced AI processors to Chinese entities, as reported last week. Rather, it was ordered to do so by the U.S. government, according to a South China Morning Post report published earlier today. The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a notice to TSMC imposing export controls on advanced… Read more
read more...Apple now sells iPhone 16 and 16 Pro repair parts
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Apple has begun selling repair parts for iPhone 16 and 16 Pro phones on its self-service repair store. That includes replacements for commonly damaged parts like cameras, displays, and back glass, and follows the release of official Apple iPhone 16 repair manuals in September, as MacRumors notes. A replacement camera assembly will run you $169… Read more
read more...LG’s new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors
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LG Display, one of the global leaders in display technologies, unveiled a new stretchable display prototype that can expand by up to 50%. This makes it the most stretchable display in the industry, more than doubling the previous record of 20% elongation. LG Display showcased the new screen at the LG Science Park in Seoul… Read more
read more...Andor’s second season hits Disney Plus in April
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Star Wars spinoff Andor is finally coming back for its second and final season on Disney Plus April 22nd, 2025, Disney announced during its D23 event in Brazil yesterday. And in a clear nod to Rogue One, the 2016 film it’s setting up, it has a new logo with the subtitle “A Star Wars Story.”… Read more
read more...How to run a local Linux web server running in a Windows 11 window
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If you’re building a website or programming web tools using PHP, MySQL or other common languages, it helps to have a test site you can run on your local PC. However, most web hosting services, including the best web hosting services, use Linux, not Windows as their hosting environments. But what if you have a… Read more
read more...AMD Strix Halo ‘RDNA 3.5’ iGPU rumored to launch under the Radeon 8000S branding — Up to 40 CUs and support for LPDDR5X-8000 memory
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AMD’s plans for the mainstream market have come to light as the company readies its upcoming Strix Halo, Fire Range, Krackan Point, and Radeon RX 8000 offerings thanks to a series of leaked roadmaps by Golden Pig Upgrade Pack on Weibo (via WCCFTech). Most notably, the flagship Strix Halo APUs will use the Radeon 8000S… Read more
read more...Auto-Tune always and forever
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Popular music changes all the time, but there’s been one consistent element in practically everything released in the last two decades: Auto-Tune is everywhere. What started as a simple audio processing tool in the 1990s has become the dominant force in music. Artists are training to sing with Auto-Tune; songs sound like Auto-Tune. Like it… Read more
read more...Spotify’s AI is no match for a real DJ
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At the risk of stating the obvious, AI is absolutely everywhere lately. There’s AI in your car, AI in your messaging app, AI in your glasses. I’ve gotten pretty desensitized to it all as a hazard of the job, but it was Spotify’s AI DJ that actually got my attention. I’ve listened to a top… Read more
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