Month: July 2024
Sorry, gamers: memory prices could be on the way up, which means you’ll pay more for that Nvidia RTX 5090
A new report from the tech industry grapevine could spell bad news for gamers looking to invest in the upcoming Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card. RAM costs are set to rise by 3-8% in the next three months, according to the latest report from TrendForce (via PCGamesN). This will also…
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Forget about Wi-Fi, your own private 5G network could be the answer to your connection woes — here’s how to set one up for much cheaper than you think
Private 5G networks, where individuals or companies set up their own cellular connections, could potentially provide a viable alternative to Wi-Fi. Vodafone, which wants to make 5G-based mobile private networks (MPNs) more accessible to the 22 million SMEs across Europe, first unveiled a Raspberry Pi-powered prototype of a 5G network-in-a-box…
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Midjourney is creating Donald Trump pictures when asked for images of “the president of the United States.”
Midjourney, a popular AI-powered image generator, is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite saying that it would block users from doing so earlier this year ahead of the upcoming US presidential election. When Engadget prompted the service to create an image of “the president of the United…
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Tap-to-pay could get more capable and more complicated
At some point in the future, a new “Multi-Purpose Tap” concept will let payment cards or devices like smartwatches and phones accomplish multiple things at once when using NFC. With this in play, a customer in a store might tap their phone with Apple Wallet or Google Pay on a…
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The first Thunderbolt 5 cables are here, but there’s barely anything to plug in
Available today from Amazon in 1-foot (0.3m), 1.6-foot (0.5m), and 3.3-foot (1m) lengths for $23, $27, and $33, respectively, the new cables obviously don’t do anything on their own — you’d need a computer with a Thunderbolt 5 port and a dock or accessory of some sort to get some…
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Silvergate Bank didn’t adequately monitor $1 trillion in crypto transactions, SEC says
Silvergate Bank, once a cornerstone of the crypto financial world until its collapse in early 2023, defrauded its investors by lying about its anti-money laundering controls and misleading investors about how the fallout from the FTX collapse would affect it, the Securities and Exchange Commission says in a lawsuit. Also…
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