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A year ago, Amazon added AWS EC2 instances powered by AMD EPYC processors. A few months later, Microsoft did the same to its Azure instances. Now, it's expanding the array of instances to choose from with new v4 Azure D-series and E-series with AMD EPYC processors, and the latest NV-series …

Another day, another Cray. The HP supercomputer specialist subsidiary just signed another big contract on UK soil. Cray's latest supercomputer will be handed to AWE, Atomic Weapons Establishment, a company contracted by the UK government responsible for providing and maintaining warheads. Only last month, Cray was chosen by the UK government …

While most of the attention from Gigabyte over recent months has been on new motherboards for the 3rd generation AMD Ryzen platform, the company has been quietly working on boards for the upcoming Intel Xeon server platform too. To coincide with the recent announcement from Intel regarding new Xeon E-2200 …

An area which Intel still has a vast share of the market is with server CPUs – the company has announced that the new Xeon E-2200 processors are available now for entry-level servers. Intel’s Xeon E-2200 is designed to deliver essential performance for businesses, with advanced security features for cloud-based …

Briony unboxes the new Shield TV Pro and gives us her first impressions

If you are somebody who likes to keep an eye on developments in the world of network-attached storage systems, you will be very familiar with Western Digital Red drives. Western Digital has announced a range of new Red devices, purpose-built for small business and home office scenarios with NAS environments. …

Micron is widely known for its Cruical branded desktop range of SSD and memory solutions. The company also provides a range of high speed, high capacity storage devices for professional enterprise and data centre systems. Micron has announced an innovative memory technology which claims to produce the world’s fastest SSD, …

With the release of Intel’s 10th generation high-end desktop X-Series CPUs becoming ever closer, there is no doubt we should expect a barrage of new motherboard announcements to support the new CPU series soon. ASRock has got a head start on the rest with an update to their current X299 …

When planning out a custom liquid-cooling loop, fitting all the components that make up the loop into the tight constraints of a PC chassis can sometimes cause a bit of a headache. Alphacool has come up with a solution to this problem. A new range of liquid cooling pump/reservoir combinations …

The new Nvidia EGX Edge is another sign of the company's investment in AI and cloud accelerators. In this trendy market, there's not much competition and it's one where Nvidia reigns supreme.  At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019, in Los Angeles, Nvidia presented the Nvidia EGX Edge Supercomputing Platform. …

Not only one, but three VPN providers had security breaches since 2017, but are only acknowledging it now. NordVPN seems to have been hit the hardest, but TorGuard and VikingVPN also admitted breaches. NordVPN, one of the most well-known VPN provider, had confirmed a security breach in early 2018. At fault, …

Halo Infinite hasn’t had the greatest luck as of late. Less than two months after the departure of the game’s Creative Director, Tim Longo, 343 Industries is having to say goodbye to another important figure in the game’s development. Mary Olson, who was promoted to Lead Producer of Halo Infinite …

The AOC U2790PQU is colour accurate, 4k and less than £300

Corsair has announced it is ready to release updated versions of the Corsair One and Corsair One Pro, to expand its line-up of gaming and productivity systems with new models offering further specification options. From today, several new models of the Corsair One family of gaming PCs will be made …

Intel has unveiled a new device they are calling Element, a next-generation modular PC platform aimed at gaming and workstation NCUs which will offer up to eight-core Xeon or Core series processors. At a recent Intel event in London, the Element was on display. Similar to a concept which Razer …

Hp has entered the business-orientated Chromebook market by releasing two Enterprise mobile devices that support advanced security, management and deployment features. The new line-up consists of two machines which are Intel and AMD based. The HP Chromebook 14A G5 will feature a 14-inch IPS BrightView display powered by AMD Radeon …

Linksys has introduced the first-to-market motion-sensing Mesh Wi-Fi technology, which will offer a home security system linked to a smartphone app through a subscription-based service. Linksys has announced it will be introducing a new first-of-its-kind subscription-based home security system. Linksys Aware, which is connected to the Linksys Smart Wi-Fi app …

It's a Helium-filled 14TB HDD, designed for use in NAS systems

New details have come to light on AMD’s future Zen 3 and 4 architectures, along with a roadmap providing the timeline and key specifications for its next-generation EPYC Milan and Genoa lines of data centre processors. During a recent presentation at the HPC-AI Advisory Council Conference in the UK, AMD …

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Microsoft had an ambitious goal for Windows 10 at launch, with the company hoping for the OS to be on 1 billion devices within three years. That ship has since sailed but Windows 10 is still pulling in impressive numbers, with 900 million recorded installs worldwide. The new milestone comes …

FinalWire, the company behind AIDA64, has released version 6.10 of the PC diagnostic and stress testing tool. The new version is available to download immediately and includes support for new processors, PCIe 4.0, NVMe 1.4 and more. Multiple versions of AIDA64 6.10 are available to download from the official website. AIDA64 …

At an event in Rome, Italy today, AMD launched a brand new 64-core, 128-thread EPYC processor with faster speeds and a jump up to 280W TDP.

MSI has been making a big push recently to capture the content creation and professional markets. This month, we are seeing another push thanks to the Prestige P100 Desktop and Prestige PS341WU- a product combo that MSI calls “the world's first customisable and synchronisable” creator eco-system package. The Prestige P100 …

It is an absolute beast of a hard drive, with 16TB capacity, but can it perform as well?

IFA 2019 has been very busy so far but we're not done with our coverage just yet. This week, Leo had the chance to stop by at NETGEAR's area to check out the all-new WiFi 6 wireless routers and a new peculiar digital canvas. NETGEAR launched its first Orbi Whole …

Alongside the ROG Phone II and new flagship ProArt monitor, ASUS also announced the new ProArt StudioBook series of laptops. As you would expect, these are powerful workstation-grade machines aimed at graphics professionals, digital artists, animators, architects, programmers and more. The flagship is the ProArt StudioBook One (W590), a 15-inch …

It's a well-priced 2-bay NAS that's first to market with 2.5GbE

It's a 240GB SSD, but it's meant for use in a NAS, not a regular desktop

The KC2000 uses the latest Toshiba 96-layer NAND in combination with Silicon Motion's newest SM2262EN controller.