DeepCool Adds Vapor Chamber to an Air Cooler: AIO-Like Performance at Air Cooler Reliability

While the market for high-end CPU coolers has decidedly shifted towards closed-loop all-in-one liquid coolers over the last several years, air cooling remains alive and well. Even at the high-end, there are still further improvements and innovations being made, such as DeepCool's vapor chamber-based tower cooler, which was demonstrated at Computex. Named the Assassin IV…

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Extreme PSUs Incoming: Enermax, Leadex, and Seasonic at Up to 2800W

Just several years ago, we were impressed to witness a 2,000W power supply for mining systems at Computex. But with arrival or AMD's Ryzen Threadripper WX and Intel's Xeon W-3400-series – CPUs that can devour all the way to 900W under heavy loads – as well as NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards (or, well,…

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Apple Watch Series 10 to be thinner and have larger screen size

Apple Watch Series 10 could have the same screen size as this Apple Watch Ultra Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims that the Apple Watch Series 10 is getting tenth-anniversary redesign that will bring it the same screen size as the Apple Watch Ultra. Rumors of the Apple Watch Series 10 or Apple Watch X being a…

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Spielberg’s Apple Watch causes stir during film anniversary talk

Pressing the onscreen "X" will cancel any sort of false alarm on the Apple Watch. Director Steven Spielberg was giving a talk when his Apple Watch suddenly said he'd taken a hard fall. His reaction to the false alarm ended up making matters worse. Although false warnings from an Apple Watch are rare, they are…

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Rudimentary RCS support is in the iOS 18 beta — with some big caveats

RCS support will be added to the iPhone sometime in 2024 With some "special magic" some iOS 18 developer beta users claim to have been able to turn on an extremely limited and very early version of RCS messaging between iPhone and Android. iPhone sometime in 2024" height="738" > Apple confirmed during its WWDC keynote…

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Amazon Prime Day 2024: Everything you need to know and the best early Apple deals

Somehow, it’s already mid-June, so we’re already thinking about July and that wonderful Prime Day period that is approaching fast. There are so many cool gadgets and devices that will go on sale for fantastic prices on Prime Day, both from Apple and other big brands. Whether this is your first “Prime Day” rodeo or…

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Get lifetime access to 500GB of cloud backup for 66% off

Cloud storage is essential in today’s digital working world. For the many of us who have come to rely on Google Drive, there’s an intuitive, easy-to-use, and affordable alternative that’s on sale for a limited time only. You can get 250GB with FolderFort for only $39.99, and 500GB for $59.99. FolderFort is great for small teams…

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Xgrid lives — a new project resurrects the promise of Apple’s dead clustering software

If you have two Mac Studios, maybe you can cluster them Evoking the old Xgrid days, a new project connects Mac Studios together with Thunderbolt cables, and uses them in tandem for massively parallel computing tasks. A very long time ago, I was involved in cluster computing, and assisted with a few Mac-centric cluster builds…

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