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BETA TEST – If the Diablo series ever had a nightmare, it has undoubtedly materialized in Path of Exile 2. This game is so unapologetically brilliant that it feels like a generational leap for Diablo-style action RPGs. And yes, this includes dragging Diablo IV down into the abyss. With brutal challenges and an avalanche of content, PoE2’s early access has plunged headfirst into the somewhat stagnant waters of the genre.   No matter how prepared you think you are, Path of Exile 2 will take you by surprise. This dark action RPG delivers a breathtakingly powerful experience, and this is … Read more

The big Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are officially over, but if you didn’t manage to pick up a great storage deal fear not. There are still some bargains to be had. The fantastic Silicon Power US75 wasn’t on sale during the extravaganza, but now has $10 knocked off the usual price. 4TB is often the largest capacity for many M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs, and having all that storage on one drive means you can pack more storage into your laptop, PC, or even PlayStation 5 games console. Head to Amazon where the Silicon Power US75 (4TB) is on … Read more

Apple has included the Tips app with the iPhone and iPad since iOS 8 in 2014 and on the Mac since macOS 10.14 Mojave in 2018. Initially, it didn’t contain much useful content, and many longtime users ignored it. However, Apple has significantly increased the amount of information in Tips over time, adding device-specific tips, full device and app user guides, highlights of new features, and more. Many tips even include short demonstration videos. Tips is worth exploring or referring to the next time you have a question. Be sure to encourage anyone you know who’s new to the iPhone, … Read more

The game from Silent Games (a new studio based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England) and Secret Mode (founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of the Sumo Group) looks promising based on what we’ve seen so far.   Empyreal is a complex, challenging, feature-rich action-RPG. In a distant corner of the galaxy, an expedition arrives on a previously unexplored planet to find a colossal monolith built by a lost civilization. These are no mere ruins: the monolith is fraught with danger, and the expedition is ill-equipped to uncover the secrets within. All eyes turn to an elite mercenary who may succeed … Read more

Nvidia has announced two products: the GB200 NVL4, a monster quad-B200 GPU module featuring two Grace CPUs, and the H200 NVL PCIe GPU, aimed at air-cooled data centers. The GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip is an even more potent variant of the standard (non-NVL4) dual-GPU variant, featuring a whopping four B200 Blackwell GPUs hooked up to each other with NVLink and two Grace ARM-based CPUs all on one motherboard. The solution is aimed at HPC and AI-hybrid workloads featuring a whopping 1.3TB of coherent memory. Nvidia advertises the GB200 NVL4 as having 2.2X the simulation, 1.8X the training, and 1.8X … Read more

One challenge organizations face when customizing large language models (LLMs) is the need to run multiple experiments, which produces only one useful model. While the cost of experimentation is typically low, and the results well worth the effort, this experimentation process does involve “wasted” resources, such as compute assets spent without their product being utilized, dedicated developer time, and more. Model merging combines the weights of multiple customized LLMs, increasing resource utilization and adding value to successful models. This approach provides two key solutions: Reduces experimentation waste by repurposing “failed experiments” Offers a cost-effective alternative to join training This post … Read more

A tech enthusiast in China has demonstrated the skillful replacement of one of the ‘pins’ located in a CPU socket. Bilibili user and motherboard repair guru Mu Ziwen takes us step-by-step through the intricate process, demonstrating the success of their handiwork at the end of the brief video. Current-gen Intel and AMD systems locate contact pins in the socket. While this makes processors more robust, we have to be more careful with motherboard sockets. Modern CPU socket ‘pins’ aren’t rigid, though. They have a thin kinked copper leaf at their business end, which exerts spring-like pressure for good contact on … Read more

A new cell-phone-sized device—which can be deployed in vast, remote areas—is using AI to identify and geolocate wildlife to help conservationists track endangered species, including wolves around Yellowstone National Park.  The battery-powered devices—dubbed GrizCams—are designed by a small Montana startup, Grizzly Systems. Together with biologists, they’re deploying a constellation of the devices across the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem to record audio and video of when and where wolves or wolf packs howl.  Once fully deployed, the data can help scientists and conservationists better understand wolf behavior and create new strategies for deterring wolves from attacking livestock. Conservationists retrieve audio data from … Read more

It’s no secret that we’re fans of the Raspberry Pi here at Tom’s Hardware but ever since the company decided to release the microprocessors along with the Pico and Pico 2, we’ve seen an amazing plethora of custom boards created by the community. Today we’ve got a really cool example to share of such a creation, this one put together by Vcc Labs and shared to Kickstarter. Vcc Labs has created a super tiny Raspberry Pi RP2040-powered RGB LED matrix known as Nova. So far, the Kickstarter has been posted but is not open for purchases so pricing information and … Read more

A new deep learning model could reduce the need for surgery when diagnosing whether cancer cells are spreading, including to nearby lymph nodes—also known as metastasis. Developed by researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the AI tool analyzes time-series MRIs and clinical data to identify metastasis, providing crucial, noninvasive support for doctors in treatment planning. The advancement could lead to more timely and accurate cancer assessments, helping many patients avoid unnecessary surgery and improve outcomes.  Metastatic breast cancer is responsible for the majority of breast cancer-related deaths. About one in three women in the US diagnosed with … Read more