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Synology confirms need for its own branded drives in newer Plus-series NAS
Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its “Plus” tier of devices, starting with the 2025 series, will require...
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To regenerate a head, you first have to know where your tail is
For those of us whose memory of high school biology hasn’t faded entirely, planarians will probably sound very familiar. They’re generally used as an example of one of the extreme ends of regenerative...
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Nintendo finally sets a Switch 2 pre-order date, but its sales restrictions...
The Switch 2 will still launch on June 5, featuring upgraded internals, improved Joy-Con controllers with magnetic snap-on rails, and backward compatibility for most digital Switch games. Nintendo has...
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Google adds YouTube Music feature to end annoying volume shifts
Google’s history with music services is almost as convoluted and frustrating as its history with messaging. However, things have gotten calmer (and slower) ever since Google ceded music to the YouTube...
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Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move
According to reports, Synology plans to restrict features to its own branded hard drives with the new 2025 Plus models. This is bad The post Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move...
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Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for life. Despite the red...
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New Nvidia drivers improve performance in benchmarks, but crashes and gaming...
Users on the ComputerBase forums report that Nvidia’s graphics driver version 576.02 noticeably improves performance in 3DMark’s Steel Nomad benchmark. However, Reddit users have also disclosed...
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ACE & MPA Quietly Seized Dozens of Pirate Domains in Q1 2025
When the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment launched in 2017, the globalization of online piracy had been apparent for some time. In the relatively calm waters of a decade earlier, the...
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Mass phone tracking via cell tower dumps ruled unconstitutional
The case at the center of this ruling involves Cory Spurlock, who faces serious charges including conspiracy to distribute marijuana and alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot. In an effort to...
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Early RTX 5060 Ti benchmarks reveal why Nvidia withheld the 8GB version from...
A review on Bilibili offers an early look at the 8GB version of Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti, which has not been made available to Western media. The video reveals that halving the VRAM significantly affects...
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New graphene-based flash memory writes data in 400 picoseconds, shattering...
To put this achievement into perspective, PoX can perform 25 billion operations per second – surpassing the previous world record for similar technology by a factor of 100,000. Read Entire Article
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Hands on: Windows 11’s Notification Center finally has a clock with seconds
Windows 11 23H2 and 24H2 are testing a feature that allows you to add a “Clock” with seconds to the Notifications Center. You’ll see a full-fledged clock when you tap the notifications icon or the...
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Windows 11 File Explorer gets better theme accent support, progress bar looks...
Windows 11’s File Explorer has dark mode support, and it does look really nice (most of the time), but it’s not that good at adapting to the accent colour, especially the new “Home” section, which...
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Windows 11’s secret End Task button for Taskbar is the best feature to try
Windows 11 allows you to add an End Task button to the right-click menu on the taskbar. To do this, open Settings > System > For Developers, and toggle on “End Task.” But how does it work, and...
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Generic 48GB DDR5-5600 ECC UDIMM Quick Look
We take a quick look at some very generic DDR5-5600 48GB ECC UDIMM modules to see how they work in 96GB and 192GB configurations The post Generic 48GB DDR5-5600 ECC UDIMM Quick Look appeared first on...
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Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the...
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Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare...
Although solid-state drives have become the standard for personal computers, mechanical hard drives remain the backbone of data centers worldwide. When these drives are retired, they are often shredded...
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Google demos Android XR smart glasses with Gemini AI, visual memory, and...
Until now, Google’s Android XR glasses had only appeared in carefully curated teaser videos and limited hands-on previews shared with select publications. These early glimpses hinted at the potential...
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Microsoft’s BitNet shows what AI can do with just 400MB and no GPU
The BitNet b1.58 2B4T model was developed by Microsoft’s General Artificial Intelligence group and contains two billion parameters – internal values that enable the model to understand and generate...
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10 Tech Enthusiast Guilty Pleasures: (A.K.A. Expensive Gear We Need)
We’ve all thought about it: What would we buy if money were no object? Most people have mental lists of extravagant, unnecessary-but-awesome tech they’d snatch up if they ever hit the jackpot. Read...
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