They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but could a thousand words be worth a picture? Maker and developer Diego Trujillo Pisanty sought to find out with his Raspberry Pi-powered blind camera project. Instead of using a lens to capture light to make a picture, it listens for sound and constructs an approximation of what could be around it based on the audio detected.The device works similarly to a regular camera in that you aim the camera at what you want to capture and press a button to generate an image. In this case, however, it has a…

Today at Amazon, users can find Western Digital’s WD Black 1TB SN850X for its lowest price to date. It’s been going for around $100 lately but right now it’s discounted to just $77 which takes the price down to about 8 cents per GB. This is a notably fast SSD suitable for everyday use and as well as gaming.We reviewed the WD Black SN850X when it launched mid of last year and recognized it as one of the fastest SSDs on the market for gaming. Overall, it has exceptional performance. Our biggest con was the price — given today’s discount,…

OBS (Open Broadcaster System) is a remarkably powerful tool. With OBS we can record videos, using various scenes and sources to create broadcast quality shows, for free! OBS can also be used to livestream via many different services, and using a few plugins you can also interact with your community.Recently I had a need to record video from a 4K USB video capture device. The video source was the latest LattePanda Sigma SBC, which I was testing using Steam for a review. Steam’s built-in FPS counter was a little small (yes I could install another FPS counter, but that would…

Today’s best Anycubic Photon Mono M5s dealsNo price informationCheck AmazonWe check over 250 million products every day for the best pricesAnycubic’s newest Photon Mono M5s is a smarter, faster, medium format resin 3D printer bursting with 12K worth of pixels. Yes, that’s a whopping 11,530 pixels on the X axis. Anycubic is also saying it’s three times faster than ordinary printers, capable of reaching a print speed of 105 mm/hour. During testing, the machine printed a 3.5 inch tall figure in under an hour.It’s the first auto leveling resin printer we’ve seen, and it uses a combination of sensors and…

AMD’s latest processor revision guide for the EPYC 7002 ‘Rome’ server chips reveals an interesting new bug (errata) that can cause a core on the chip to hang after 1,044 days of uptime (~2.93 years), meaning you’ll have to reset the server for the chip to run correctly. AMD says it will not fix the issue. AMD’s description of the issue, which impacts its second-gen EPYC processors (AMD’s fourth-gen Genoa chips are the newest), is succinct, but there’s a lot to unpack.(Image credit: AMD)The issue stems from the core failing to exit the CC6 sleep state, but AMD says the…

ASRock Rack has showcased its first motherboard for Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max processors marking its entrance into the Arm-based servers business. The company’s ALTRAD8UD-1L2T demonstrated at Computex can be used to build miniature servers or workstations featuring up to 128 Armv8 cores and datacenter-grade expandability and manageability. ASRock Rack’s ALTRAD8UD-1L2T fully supports Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max CPUs with 32 – 128 cores that can be paired with up to 2TB of memory using eight DDR4-3200 modules. In addition, the motherboard takes advantage of rather abundant I/O capabilities that Ampere’s 1st Generation Altra Max datacenter SoCs have, including 128 PCIe Gen4…

Consumers often overlook RAM (Random Access Memory), but our RAM benchmark hierarchy will help you find the fastest DDR5 and DDR4 memory kit for your system. Memory is one of the most critical hardware of any system. The right or the wrong memory kit significantly impacts your system’s overall performance in gaming, productivity, and (if you don’t have enough of it) general sluggishness. Of course, you can always reference our Best RAM list to find the best deals on memory.Companies regularly release new memory kits with different speeds, timings, capacities, and ranks, making sifting through seemingly endless models surprisingly time-consuming….

Whether you’re building a new PC or upgrading an existing system that was once one of the best gaming PCs but now struggles to tackle today’s games, the best RAM kit for your money depends on the platform you pick and the workloads you plan to run.The hard part is evaluating whether faster memory affects your system. For example, if you’re running an Intel system with one of the best graphics cards, most programs won’t respond meaningfully to faster or slower system memory. On the other hand, some workloads will scale well with higher data rates, including some games and…