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The prices of top GPUs have taken a sharp decline as of late due to the reduced demand in cryptocurrency mining. The shortage, as well as high secondary market prices, has been steady for the past two years, leading to a frenzy of resellers looking to cash in on the premiums. While companies like NVIDIA tried to curb miners by throttling speeds, it didn’t stop the Nvidia RTX 3080 from reaching a secondary price of $1,613 USD in January versus its retail price of $699 USD. As Sean Hollister of the Verge reports, many of the top GPUs have dropped over 50% in price over the last six months. One of the biggest factors driving this decline is the lack of demand for cryptocurrency after the market crash from back in May, where mining is no longer as lucrative. Those interested in seeing th...

The prices of top GPUs have taken a sharp decline as of late due to the reduced demand in cryptocurrency mining. The shortage, as well as high secondary market prices, has been steady for the past two years, leading to a frenzy of resellers looking to cash in on the premiums. While companies like NVIDIA tried to curb miners by throttling speeds, it didn’t stop the Nvidia RTX 3080 from reaching a secondary price of $1,613 USD in January versus its retail price of $699 USD. As Sean Hollister of the Verge reports, many of the top GPUs have dropped over 50% in price over the last six months. One of the biggest factors driving this decline is the lack of demand for cryptocurrency after the market crash from back in May, where mining is no longer as lucrative. Those interested in seeing th...

The prices of top GPUs have taken a sharp decline as of late due to the reduced demand in cryptocurrency mining. The shortage, as well as high secondary market prices, has been steady for the past two years, leading to a frenzy of resellers looking to cash in on the premiums. While companies like NVIDIA tried to curb miners by throttling speeds, it didn’t stop the Nvidia RTX 3080 from reaching a secondary price of $1,613 USD in January versus its retail price of $699 USD. As Sean Hollister of the Verge reports, many of the top GPUs have dropped over 50% in price over the last six months. One of the biggest factors driving this decline is the lack of demand for cryptocurrency after the market crash from back in May, where mining is no longer as lucrative. Those interested in seeing th...

London-based start-up Pentaform is now introducing what it’s calling the “world’s most affordable PC,” the “AbacusBasic.” The computer built into a keyboard is part of the company’s goal to share the magic of computing with a revolutionary personal computer compressed into a keyboard, made from recycled plastics. Priced at $150 USD, the fully functional computer comes with Windows 10 pre-installed and features an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 Cherry Trail quad-core processor (1.44 GHz/1.84 GHz Turbo Boost). Assisted by up to 2-8 GB of RAM coming from an LPDDR3 64-bit dual-channel and eMMC module for storage (16 GB-128 GB), along with μSD card (supporting up to 512 GB). The AbacusBasic is also designed with a built-in speaker and integrated trackpad. Pentaform’s AbacusBasic comes with VGA and HDMI 2....

London-based start-up Pentaform is now introducing what it’s calling the “world’s most affordable PC,” the “AbacusBasic.” The computer built into a keyboard is part of the company’s goal to share the magic of computing with a revolutionary personal computer compressed into a keyboard, made from recycled plastics. Priced at $150 USD, the fully functional computer comes with Windows 10 pre-installed and features an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 Cherry Trail quad-core processor (1.44 GHz/1.84 GHz Turbo Boost). Assisted by up to 2-8 GB of RAM coming from an LPDDR3 64-bit dual-channel and eMMC module for storage (16 GB-128 GB), along with μSD card (supporting up to 512 GB). The AbacusBasic is also designed with a built-in speaker and integrated trackpad. Pentafor...

London-based start-up Pentaform is now introducing what it’s calling the “world’s most affordable PC,” the “AbacusBasic.” The computer built into a keyboard is part of the company’s goal to share the magic of computing with a revolutionary personal computer compressed into a keyboard, made from recycled plastics. Priced at $150 USD, the fully functional computer comes with Windows 10 pre-installed and features an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 Cherry Trail quad-core processor (1.44 GHz/1.84 GHz Turbo Boost). Assisted by up to 2-8 GB of RAM coming from an LPDDR3 64-bit dual-channel and eMMC module for storage (16 GB-128 GB), along with μSD card (supporting up to 512 GB). The AbacusBasic is also designed with a built-in speaker and integrated trackpad. Pentafor...

Apple has filed a new round of patents for the MacBook that could revolutionize the iconic laptop series’ design. According to new reports, the patents cover everything from the construction of the laptop’s body itself to the different tech features it’ll carry. MacBook models currently boast a machined aluminum body, but some of the patents the tech giant has filed turn to more explorative materials such as glass and ceramic. It also says it’s looking into using more transparent dielectric materials in order to great a “continuous or seamless input surface,” essentially turning the entire keyboard side into a giant touchpad. Newer patents build on this and include an “extended touchbar” that reaches all the way around the keyboard for more convenience, while a built-in wireless charger ca...

Apple has filed a new round of patents for the MacBook that could revolutionize the iconic laptop series’ design. According to new reports, the patents cover everything from the construction of the laptop’s body itself to the different tech features it’ll carry. MacBook models currently boast a machined aluminum body, but some of the patents the tech giant has filed turn to more explorative materials such as glass and ceramic. It also says it’s looking into using more transparent dielectric materials in order to great a “continuous or seamless input surface,” essentially turning the entire keyboard side into a giant touchpad. Newer patents build on this and include an “extended touchbar” that reaches all the way around the keyboard for more c...

Apple has filed a new round of patents for the MacBook that could revolutionize the iconic laptop series’ design. According to new reports, the patents cover everything from the construction of the laptop’s body itself to the different tech features it’ll carry. MacBook models currently boast a machined aluminum body, but some of the patents the tech giant has filed turn to more explorative materials such as glass and ceramic. It also says it’s looking into using more transparent dielectric materials in order to great a “continuous or seamless input surface,” essentially turning the entire keyboard side into a giant touchpad. Newer patents build on this and include an “extended touchbar” that reaches all the way around the keyboard for more c...

Tesla’s latest software update includes a cool-sounding feature that could prevent a lot of underbody damage — and perhaps some driver damage too, Electrek reports. According to release notes, the update (2022.20) will enable Tesla vehicles to scan the road ahead of potholes and adjust the suspension to account for rough roads. Tesla owners can activate the new feature by selecting “Comfort” under the Adaptive Suspension Damping setting. But the new feature may be dependent on where the vehicle is being driven — meaning it may not be available for every pothole and road crack. “This adjustment may occur at various locations, subject to availability, as the vehicle downloads rough road map data generated by Tesla cars,” the release notes state according to Not a Tesla App. Notably, the soft...

Xiaomi is introducing a trio of new smartphones today, and one of them comes with a pretty huge new feature: a 1-inch camera sensor, which is relatively giant for a smartphone. Everything about Xiaomi’s new flagship smartphone, the Mi 12S Ultra, is big. It has a 6.73-inch OLED display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 system on a chip, and a camera-lens shaped bulge on that back that takes up about a third of the phone’s rear side. Inside that faux-lens are the phone’s three cameras: a 48 megapixel ultrawide, a 48 megapixel telephoto with 5x optical zoom (and “120x” digital zoom that will probably not look very good), and finally, the 50 megapixel main camera, which uses that 1-inch sensor. A few different companies have put 1-inch sensors in their phones before, but it hasn’t bee...

They might often be an afterthought nowadays, but in the console generations of yesteryear, game manuals were often essential reading. Compared to the scant pack-ins that come with games today, those vintage instruction manuals were on a completely different level in terms of the care and detail that went into them — and the page count was much higher, too. Now, as noted by Kotaku, a community project led by led by streamer Peebs has successfully scanned and uploaded every last English-language game manual for the Super Nintendo. You can check out the entire collection here. Peebs was motivated to assemble one central resource for manuals during an eight-year quest to play and beat every SNES game for his Twitch viewers. Perusing through random instruction booklets can be a fun dose of nos...