Zelaya, who lives in Toronto, Canada, said he paid $140,000 (Canadian) for the brand-new car back in 2013. According to Elon Musk, the batteries in these cards are designed to run for 300,000 to 500,000 miles or about 21 to 25 years before they have to be replaced. But Zelaya’s EV needed a new one after just 77,000 miles. Zelaya said the problem is that some 2013 and 2014 Tesla Model S vehicles had an issue in which fluid from the air conditioning system’s drainage hose dripped onto the battery, causing it to rust—technicians at the Transport Canada regulatory agency confirmed this was why his battery died....

The DS3612xs peaked at 900.6MB/s when using RAID0, while the RAID5 setup hit 803.7MB/s. Again, the TS-879 Pro was considerably slower, reaching just 608.3MB/s in RAID0 and 445.3MB/s in RAID5. The DS3612xs had solid write performance again at 950MB/s in RAID0 and 761.4MB/s in RAID5. By comparison, the TS-879 Pro trailed with a peak of 697.3MB/s and RAID5 reduced that to 489.3MB/s.

Minecraft The best way to explain Minecraft’s success is to see it as tapping into humanity’s need to build huge outlandish structures. Indie designer Markus Persson’s hit title has let people recreate everything from the Death Star to retro video game levels, while also providing a survival adventure mechanic to keep things interesting. A Good Match for: Frustrated urban planners. Aside from dodging the game’s monstrous green Creepers, all you need to build your Tower of Babel is patience and time....

The GTX 1050 wins comfortably when it comes to power consumption with the entire system using just 144 watts under gaming load, 16% less than the RX 560 in the same system. While a clear loss for the red team in this category, it’s not a deal breaker either. We have a few graphs that summarize the performance covered on previous pages to help you decide which entry-level GPU is the best choice for your gaming rig....

Whether you’re after a high refresh rate display, a glorious big panel for content creation, or something that’s wallet-friendly but still packed with features, our updated guide will help you on your way. Best Overall Gigabyte M32U 32" Price: $699 Best for Content Creation Dell UltraSharp U3223QE 32" Price: $858 Best for Enthusiasts Alienware AW3423DW 34" QD-OLED Curved Price: $1,195 Best for Gaming Multiple Options: Gigabyte | MSI | Asus | Samsung Price: $529 Best Portable Monitor Lenovo ThinkVision M14 14" Price: $249 Best for Office Work LG 27UK650-W 27" Price: $348 Best Budget HP X27q 27" Price: $192...

With the above thought in mind, let me explain why a seemingly modest announcement about a new industry consortium and semiconductor industry standard, called Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (or UCIe), is so incredibly important. First, a bit more context. Over the last few years, there’s been a great deal of debate and discussion about the ongoing viability of Moore’s Law and the potential stalling of chip industry advancements. Remember that Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously predicted just over 50 years ago that semiconductor performance would double roughly every 18-24 months and his prognostication has proven to be remarkably prescient....

Here are five technologies that may not be on your radar today, but they sure are approaching closer and are expected to become very relevant very soon… Smart Voice Analytics Smart Contact Lenses Nanobots 5G Wireless Non-Invasive Brain Computer Interfaces Smart Voice Analytics Siri, is there a doctor in the house? Smartphones and wearables could soon be equipped with software that is capable of diagnosing mental and physical health conditions spanning from depression to heart disease by listening for biomarkers through the sound of your voice....

The close proximity and low latency of 5G infrastructure will also be greatly advantageous to the development of wearable IoT devices that could gather physiological data and forward it to your smartphone. This paper out of the International Journal of Computer Science for instance discusses designs for wearable EEG and ECG system on chip sensor patches that could wirelessly measure and transmit brain and heart activity. Unifying existing network assets and restructuring them to be near the end user is a big part of what will enable ‘wireless fiber’ speeds and ultra-low latency, laying the groundwork for a cohesive digital fabric of the future that opens the door to streaming 4K video and virtual reality....

If you’ve ever tried getting into cryptocurrencies, you were probably met with a barrage of technical terms and buzzwords. I heard I can make easy money by mining on my home computer; how does that work? Why are there so many types of coins? How do I get started buying and selling cryptocurrencies? In this article we’ll focus on the state of mining, exploring the practical side of it, as we hopefully demystify some of the world of digital currencies....

TorrentFreak writes that the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office published new piracy guidance yesterday in the form of a campaign in partnership with Meta that’s designed to help people avoid piracy and counterfeit goods online. Most of the advice we’ve heard plenty of times before, but in a section under the heading Piracy, one of the listed activities that break copyright law is “password sharing on streaming services.” TorrentFreak contacted the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) for clarification....

When Wccftech investigated the Nvidia RTX Light Hash Rate (LHR) BIOS v2 unlocker this week, it turned out to be filled with malware. Videocardz later noted that the malware connects to a remote server and then Tom’s Hardware reported that the unlocker doesn’t uncap the hash rate, but instead infects PowerShell. Nvidia started shipping new RTX 30 series Ampere graphics cards with LHR caps last year, which limited their capacity to mine Ethereum in the hopes of reducing their attractiveness to miners and easing up the supply for gamers – the latter part never came to fruition....

The project was reportedly spearheaded by marketing chief Nick Tran. According to the New York Post, the former Hulu executive had been with TikTok for less than two years and this wasn’t the first time he went “rogue” with an idea before getting it cleared by superiors. Tran also reportedly spearheaded a campaign for a creator-led NFT collection in collaboration with celebrities like Lil Nas X and Bella Poarch. He was additionally behind the push for TikTok Resumes, a service to help users find jobs....

Enthusiasts have seen some impressive products from their favorite chip makers, with AMD boasting top-performing CPUs and GPUs these days. With a wide array of products in history to showcase from the ATI and AMD graphics lineup, there are a select few that pushed the industry forward, impressed critics, and brought financial success to the company. ATI VGA Wonder The VGA Wonder Series helped put ATI on the map in the late 1980s....

The worst injury occurred during a Face Off event, a promotion between Lenovo and Intel. This Gladiators-style contest involved two people trying to knock each other off podiums using large, padded poles and into a pit filled with foam cubes. But whoever filled the pit with those cubes should have added them a bit more liberally, especially as some streamers were jumping off the podiums after a battle. One of these was Adriana Chechik, a streamer and adult performer with over 800,000 Twitch followers....

The first is for a US prototype of The Battlefields of Napoleon. According to the description, this one-of-a-kind, unreleased game was rescued from a dumpster after The Learning Company purchased Broderbund in 1998. The cart has been WATA certified and includes two additional CHR ROMS. It even comes with all of the box art needed to craft a retail game box. Battlefields of Napoleon has approximately four days left as of this writing and has been bid up to $5,900....

Last year, we learned that Japan wants to reignite its once-dominant semiconductor industry, which has gone from producing 50 percent of the world’s chips in 1990 to less than 10 percent today. Japan has 84 chip manufacturing plants but many of them use aging process technologies and are in need of expensive retooling. The Japanese government has made it a top priority to incetivize private investments in this area. Like others, its efforts are born of fears that a fragile supply chain that’s mostly concentrated around China, Taiwan, and South East Asia is a threat to its national security....

The Senate yesterday voted 64 - 33 in favor of passing the $280 billion Chips and Science Act, $52 billion of which will go toward subsidies for chip makers. There will also be an investment tax credit for chip plants estimated to be worth $24 billion. The incentives do come with some restrictions for companies that have a presence in China or wish to operate there, or in other unfriendly countries, in the future....

Starting February 25, Valve will contact the first batch of reservation holders in the same order reservations were made. Customers will have three days from the receipt of their order e-mail to complete their purchase before their spot goes to the next person in line. Buyers will only be able to order the Steam Deck model they originally reserved. All money put up as part of the reservation deposit will be applied to the final price of the Steam Deck, we’re told....

This week, a security researcher and blogger reiterated his claims that all VPNs on iOS are broken. According to researcher Michael Horowitz and ProtonVPN, every VPN on iOS has been leaking data for at least the past two years. The core of the problem is that when a user activates a VPN on an iPhone or iPad, the device won’t first terminate all internet connections before restarting them within the VPN tunnel....

Above is a photo of an Arc GPU given to VideoCardz by an anonymous source. It depicts a combination of design elements from the previous two photographed prototypes: the black shroud seen in May and the black PCB pictured in October. Four ports can be seen on the left; one HDMI and three DisplayPort. According to a leaked driver update, Arc GPUs will be some of the first to support DisplayPort 2....