Today marks the beginning of Windows 10, version 21H1 availability. The May 2021 Update is purposely scoped to deliver important features that improve security, remote access, and quality—and engineered to provide a fast update experience.

On its blog NVIDIA now confirms the new updated GeForce RTX SKUs that carry the tag, LHR; Hash rate limited for the newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti graphics cards so they’re less desirable to miners

HWInfo64 is an application that monitors your PC's components and outs computer information about your the operating system, storage capacity, and RAM. It also displays more technical data, such as the number of logical CPUs, memory speed, and temperatures. 

This new Game Ready Driver provides support for the launch of Days Gone on PC with increased levels of detail, higher foliage draw distances, native 4K rendering, a configurable field of view, ultra-wide monitor support, unlocked frame rates, and more. Additionally, this release also provides optimal support for Knockout City and supports new LHR model GPUs.

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Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the industry’s first integrated power management ICs (PMICs) — S2FPD01, S2FPD02 and S2FPC01, for the fifth-generation double data rate (DDR5) dual in-line memory module (DIMM).

It's the year of price inflation, everybody knows it, everybody hates it. Overall and specifically graphics card prices do not seem to settle, and might not do so for a while. 

Granted it's hearsay, but just when you think they can't push it any further, they just might. While unconfirmed whatsoever, word out on the street is that AMD is pushing the number of EPYC cores even further beyond 64-cores. 

MSI held an online presentation "MSIology Tech meets Aesthetic" where it announced their Tiger Lake-H high-end gaming notebook PCs and creator notebook PCs equipped with the 11th generation Intel Core H processor.

Aerocool announced a new mid-tower PC case called "Splinter Duo", it has with ventilation holes on the entire front panel.

Deepcool announced their CASTLE EX A-RGB WH series of white all-in-one water cooling units that use Infinity mirror.

The Claymore II gaming keyboard features a detachable numeric keypad, and the Gladius III series gaming mice deliver 100-26,000 dpi with a class-leading 1% variance.

Cloudflare is starting a test to replace captchas with authentication keys. Users can then use Yubikeys, among other things, to authenticate themselves. 

Intel today announced its new memory and storage product for client, Intel Optane memory H20 with solid state storage.

Chia is positioned as an ecological alternative to Bitcoin relative to energy consumption. It's not mining, but farming on your storage solution. Its greener credentials seem questionable. Not only are we starting to see signs of HDD and SSD shortages, but it also greatly shortens the lifespan of these drives.

Corsair is thinking bigger and faster for Alder-Lake, in fact, if it's up to Corsair, 512GB or 1 TB systems of system memory are in the vicinity. The introduction of DDR5 is very close, and it should have all kinds of advantages over DDR4

This is a funny/funky one. Perhaps a bit of a dust magnet, but I do like the looks. Check out what Minisforum introduces a new mini PC under the new GameMini branding; the system is aimed at gamers and actually their first mini gaming PC.

ASUS announced a new Mini PC PN41 series of its ultra-compact desktop PCs equipped with the Jasper Lake generation Pentium / Celeron processor.