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YouTube Music, NetEase, Deezer, Yandex and others collectively populate the bottom quarter of the market. MIDiA is presenting what some might consider older data simply because the market analysis process takes a while to complete. MIDiA said YouTube Music is especially popular among Gen Z and younger millennials, which may have Spotify concerned considering its core base of millennial subscribers is beginning to age. The market as a whole continues to exhibit strong growth....

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of British Columbia recently published a study alleging that solid state drives can lead to double the carbon emissions of hard disk drives (HDDs). The study analyzes the carbon impact of different devices and components across their lifespans. The researchers admit that operating SSDs consumes less energy than HDDs, but claim that manufacturing SSDs results in far higher emissions. Most of an SSD’s carbon emissions have already occurred before anyone ever starts using it, assuming the manufacturing processes still rely primarily on fossil fuels....

The Force Engine (TFE), as the project is known, is now at version 1.0 after three years of development and fully supports Dark Forces. The project’s creator said the goal with Dark Forces was for TFE to replace DOSBox and the original executable, and to be compatible with both the vanilla levels and subsequent community mods. With TFE, you can play Dark Forces with high-resolution and widescreen support. Other enhancements include full mouselook support, an aiming reticle and an improved Boba Fett AI....

The extra threads of the Core i7 920 processor are no advantage when compared to the Core i5 750 in this game, but the additional memory capacity and bandwidth is. The Core i7 920 was 11% faster when comparing the clock for clock data at 3.70GHz which is quite significant. An older processor like the Core 2 Quad Q6600 suffers compared to the other CPUs tested, serving as a bottleneck to a high-end GPU such as the GeForce GTX 480....

Chen Ming-tong, director-general of Taiwan’s National Security Bureau, told lawmakers (via Bloomberg) that TSMC’s reliance on overseas companies and supplies for its operations means the facilities would be useless if China took over Taiwan. “If you understand the ecosystem of TSMC, the comments out there are unrealistic,” Chen said. “TSMC needs to integrate global elements before producing high-end chips. Without components or equipment like ASML’s lithography equipment, without any key components, there is no way TSMC can continue its production....

Motherboard, Processor, Memory AMD reclaimed a seat in our Budget Box back in 2011 with its A8 Fusion APU (Llano) and has since maintained that position with Trinity, Richland and now Kaveri chips. The Kaveri-based APUs have been shrunk down to the 28nm process and as a result consume considerably less power. In our Kaveri review, we found the part’s general execution to be slower than Intel’s offerings while consuming more power, but its integrated graphics core was significantly faster, exceeding some entry-level discrete graphics cards....

Back in February, 19-year-old Sweeney started the Zucc Jet account that tracked and shared updates on the Gulfstream Jet believed to be used by Zuckerberg. But an April post confirmed that the jet, which has the registration N528AP, is no longer used by the Meta chief. In a new post, Sweeney has confirmed he’s found Zuckerberg’s new jet by drawing a correlation between the aircraft’s travel history and Zuckerberg’s trips....

The Dawn Project is an organization launched last year calling for software in critical computer-controlled systems to be replaced with unhackable alternatives that never fail. It took out a full-page ad criticizing Tesla’s FSD beta program earlier in 2022, offering $10,000 to the first person who could name “another commercial product from a Fortune 500 company that has a critical malfunction every 8 minutes.” The Dawn Project continued its campaign earlier this month by releasing a video called “Test Track - The Dangers of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Software....

For those folks, test-driving Ubuntu via the LiveCD is certainly an option, but it comes with a couple major disadvantages: it’s a much slower experience (from boot-up to general usage), and all your changes and customizations are lost once the operating system is restarted. Besides a traditional installation, you can get around these limitations a few ways, one being with a virtual machine. Naturally, going that route means you’ll have to download and install VM software (we recommend VirtualBox, which is free and very easy to use), but this isn’t viable for everyone not least because of hardware constraints....

I’m not going to focus on any one benchmark in great detail, but across the charts you’ll see here you’ll see the N3450 compared to other mobile chips like the Cherry Trail x5-Z8550, which uses Airmont cores from the generation before Goldmont, along with more recent Skylake and Kaby Lake Core M and Core i3 or i5 CPUs. I’ve left out 8th-gen Kaby Lake Refresh here because you won’t find those chips in any product even remotely close in price to the Lapbook....

Handheld consoles like the Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch are in for some fierce competition from lesser-known brands. One example is Chinese startup Aya, which originally set out to create a Switch-killer with devices like the AMD Ryzen-powered AyaNeo but now has even higher ambitions. Last month, the company unveiled the AyaNeo 2, which is a more refined take on the original recipe that is expected to start shipping sometime later this year....

The FX-8320E delivered a dismal 37.6fps when running Company of Heroes 2 at 1366x768 with a GeForce GTX 980 – 43% slower than the Core i3-4360’s 66fps. The FX-8320E also struggled in Metro Redux at 13% slower than the i3-4360 and it was still 7% slower once overclocked. When testing Hitman Absolution the FX-8320E was 22% slower than the i3-4360 and it wasn’t until we overclocked it to 4.6GHz that it was able to match the Core i3....

When buying a new desktop PC you have two main options: you can build one yourself or you can buy a “pre-built.” With the sufficient time, parts and knowledge, building your own machine is the preferred method among enthusiasts, usually resulting in better value and upgradeability, not to mention the satisfaction of putting it all together yourself. However, for the past year, graphics card prices have made pre-built PCs an interesting option even for gamers and hardcore enthusiasts....

To make the process of choosing a new graphics card a little easier, TechSpot’s Best GPUs guide is intended to answer one simple question: Given a specific budget, which is the graphics card you should buy? In the past year we’ve seen a lot of new graphics card releases, but very few of them have been exciting, resulting in a situation where the product that sucks the least is the winner....

If you are set on buying a smartwatch, however, there are a handful of things to consider - compatibility and key features being chief among them. With that in mind, the following are our picks for you - whether you are an Android user, committed to iPhones, looking for something that is fitness centric to track regular workouts or exercise, or if you’re into into luxury watches and also happen to be curious about the current smartwatch trend....

Jason Scott with the Internet Archive goes into more detail on how the MAME Artwork System functions and how more than 1,400 systems have used it thus far. The Calculator Drawer is currently comprised of the following 14 machines: Hewlett-Packard 48G+ Hewlett-Packard 48GX Hewlett-Packard 49G Hewlett-Packard 38G Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Texas Instruments TI-73 Explorer Texas Instruments TI-81 Texas Instruments TI-82 Texas Instruments TI-85 Texas Instruments TI-86 Texas Instruments TI-89 Texas Instruments TI-92 Texas Instruments TI Voyager 200 VTech Electronic Number Muncher...

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) report shows a Q2 2022 growth of 2.7 percent in global monitor shipments compared to Q2 2021. The numbers contrast with the current falling demand for PCs and other computer components, at least for now. In emerging markets outside China and Russia, growth exceeded 16 percent, contributing significantly to the global increase. The company that benefitted the most was HP, which saw a 30....

We had the opportunity to give Vega 56 a good workout at launch, but we didn’t receive a Vega 64 card on time for a review. In fact, our sample only arrived Monday, at which point we dropped everything and have been testing since. With that said, this might be the biggest GPU benchmarking session in TechSpot’s history, it’s so large that we almost gave up after accepting the challenge....

We’re big fans of Samsung’s T7 brand, having awarded the T7 Touch the Top Portable Storage award in our Best of Storage feature. The T7 Shield might not offer a fingerprint sensor like that model, but it’s a lot more rugged. Samsung says the Shield’s rubberized exterior that protects its aluminum body lets the SSD survive a fall of 9.8 feet, more than the standard T7’s 6.5-feet limit. The outer rubber also works alongside Samsung’s Dynamic Thermal Guard controls to keep the drive from overheating, allowing it to maintain top performance even under heavy loads....