One Shots: Cheer the Reaper
Just because you’re a Reaper doesn’t mean that the whole world has to fear you. Sure, you could come along at any moment and reap...
Researchers build a wireless transceiver that can transmit data 24 times faster than 5G connections, reaching blazing 15 gigabytes per second — invention uses silicon chip that sends and receives analog signals from digital data directly
A research team from the University of California, Irvine developed a new wireless transceiver that skipped DACs and used three sub-transmitters to send analog signs from digital data.
The Apple Mac turned 42 this weekend — we are still using the WIMP GUI WYSIWYG computing paradigm in 2026
A youthful Steve Jobs unveiled the original Apple Macintosh 42 years ago.
HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 Wireless Review: 250-hour battery life and simultaneous dual-wireless connectivity
HyperX’s Cloud Alpha 2 is a wireless over-ear headset with several impressive features: up to 250 hours of battery life, simultaneous dual-wireless connectivity, and a customizable desktop base station.
ChatGPT found to be sourcing data from AI-generated content — popular LLM uses content from Grokipedia as source for more obscure queries
ChatGPT has been found to be citing Grok in some of its answers, returning recursive results that risks spreading hallucinated or incorrect information.
The Daily Grind: What low-impact task will you go out of your way to avoid in an MMO?
I hate farming Kavat Genetic Codes in Warframe. It’s not actually difficult to do this; the codes are a bit time-consuming but there are plenty of maps...
Open-source Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486’s goal was to achieve Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that
An enthusiast has showcased an open-source Intel 486 motherboard that they claim was ‘made from scratch’ in under six months.
Modder turns RTX 2080 Ti Hall of Fame into a supercharged 900W Titan RTX with transplanted core and memory — fully unlocked TU102 die with a 900W power limit hits 18k on 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme
RTX 2080 Ti Hall of Fame graphics card gets transplanted with a Titan RTX core and 24GB of GDDR6 memory. Paired with a 900W power limit modification, the card achieved a TimeSpy Extreme score better than an RTX 3090 on air.
Gaming PC charges you quarters every time you want to power it on, restoring oldest form of microtransactions — $135 in tools and supplies, plus a lifetime supply of quarters to kick it old school
A YouTube engineer has built a coin-operated power switch for a gaming PC, allowing users to pay for the privilege of turning on their own PC’s — which is unfortunately not a cry too distant from encroaching reality.
Enthusiast strips GPU cooler to run sub-zero water through its heatpipes, drops temps to 13C — Modded, liquid-cooled RTX 2060 maintains 13C in gaming & unlocks higher boost clocks
A GPU running ice-cold water through its heatpipes without being a part of a massive liquid-nitrogen-fueled overclocking session is not something you see every day. That’s exactly what TrashBench did by cutting up an RTX 2060’s heatsink and attaching his own tubes to the cooler to push sub-zero liquid to the die.