Month: June 2021
The Colorful, Costly World of Custom Keyboard Enthusiasts
Hobbyists spend hours building their own personalized rigs, while others drop thousands of dollars on a bespoke board. The hype is only getting bigger. Source
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AMD’s next-gen Ryzen CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs could launch together at end of 2022 AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen processors based on the Zen 4 architecture might launch simultaneously alongside RDNA 3-powered graphics cards, but we’ll be waiting some time for this to happen. A fresh rumor shared on Twitter – from leaker Broly_X1 – asserts that this simultaneous CPU and GPU launch could occur at…
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This Plastic Phone Case Could Biodegrade Within 2 Years
Most plastics take hundreds of years to decompose. This one, from case maker Pivet, harnesses the power of hungry microbes. Source
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Huge web outage takes Reddit, Twitch, and other big sites offline for an hour
A huge global web outage swept across the internet this morning, taking out popular sites including Amazon, Twitch, and Reddit. The outages started at around 5:30AM ET, with a large number of sites affected. The Fastly content delivery network (CDN) was the source of the issues, which lasted for more…
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Major internet outage takes top sites offline – here’s why they were down security
UPDATE: As of 10.44 UTC, Fastly says it has identified the issue and “a fix is being implemented.” Some sites (including TechRadar) appear to be coming back online. Hundreds of the world’s most popular websites went down earlier today following following a serious outage at one of the most important…
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Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage (Update: Outage resolved after 1 hour)
Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, Stripe, and news outlets CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC and Financial Times are currently facing an outage. A glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, is thought to be…
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