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The Celsius Network was one of the first big casualties of the crypto crash following the collapse of TerraUSD. The decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, which operated by collecting customer deposits that it loaned out to others to earn a return, froze account withdrawals and transfers last month due to “extreme market conditions.” Celsius said customers would “accrue rewards” during the pause, though receiving any interest on the held crypto seems like wishful thinking right now....

Reducing the terrain shading samples doesn’t appear to help Nvidia hunt down the AMD cards as the R9 390 furthers itself from the GTX 970, it is now 33% faster. The margin between the R9 390X and GTX 980 remains much the same. This time we see poor mixed card performance when pairing the GTX 980 with the R9 390X – this combo averaged just 67fps. However, swapping the cards around boosted performance by 22% making the R9 390X/GTX 980 combo 39% faster than a single R9 390X....

Before we discuss the multi-GPU results let’s just touch on single card results, as the performance landscape is considerably different to what we saw back a few months ago. Back then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti was faster than the R9 Fury X in both the DX11 and DX12 modes. Under DX11 the 980 Ti was 15% faster and about 2% faster in DX12. The same scenario was seen when comparing the GTX 980 and R9 390X....

“As a result of Defendants’ wrongful acts and omissions, and the precipitous decline in the market value of the Company’s securities, Plaintiff and other Class members have suffered significant losses and damages,” the complaint reads. Image credit DCL 650 The suit aims to recover damages for investors that traded shares between October 19, 2021 and April 19, 2022. Netflix in April announced a loss of 200,000 subscribers in Q1, its first quarterly loss in a decade....

Dot Esports reports that the incident occurred during the Eastern Europe Dota Pro Circuit Regional Finals over the weekend. During Virtus.pro’s (competing under the name Outsiders) semi-final match against Mind Games, one of the former’s players, Ivan ‘Pure’ Moskalenko, used a mid-match pause to draw what looked like the letter ‘Z’ on the game’s map. The letter has been used to show support for Russia’s troops and their actions against its neighbor....

This week, E Ink quietly launched its next-generation color ePaper display which is quite a significant upgrade over previous offerings. By far, the most important of the changes is the improved refresh times for updating the contents of the display — something that has limited the proliferation of e-paper displays in a variety of devices where they could provide better battery life and a viewing experience that’s less taxing on the eyes....

According to a US securities filing made public yesterday, Musk sold 22 million Tesla shares over three days from Monday to Wednesday this week. After Musk sold $8.4 billion worth of Tesla shares in April, money that was supposed to be used to help finance the Twitter acquisition, the billionaire said he was done selling. But August saw him sell $6.9 billion more, which he said was necessary in case some equity partners didn’t come through in the Twitter deal....

Swedish media holding giant Embracer Group is already the parent company of several massive industry players, including THQ Nordic, Gearbox Interactive, Dark Horse Media, and more. Back in May, it agreed to add Square Enix Montréal, Eidos Montréal, and Crystal Dynamics to its roster. Among the new acquisitions made through its Freemode subsidiary is Middle-earth Enterprises, granting it IP rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit that cover everything from movies, TV shows, video games, merchandising, and board games, to stage plays and even theme-park rights; the literary works are owned by Tolkien Estate....

The first game to support FSR 2.2 is Forza Horizon 5 and even though the release is light on details, the key claim is improved temporal upscaling quality with additional enhancements relative to FSR 2.1. The big talking point is that AMD claims it “alleviates ghosting on fast moving objects,” which is critical for racing games like Forza Horizon, where you’ll be in motion pretty much all of the time – often very fast motion with large differences between each frame....

The Epson FastFoto 680W is roughly the size of a toaster and weighs about as much as a gallon of milk. It is optimized for scanning 4 x 6" or 5 x 7" prints but can scan most anything up to 8.5 x 11". The scanner connects to your PC via USB cable or wirelessly and can accommodate batches of up to 36 photos at a time. At its default 300 dpi setting, the Epson can scan around one photo per second....

On Wednesday, members of the European parliament agreed almost unanimously in favor of a proposal to establish USB-Type C as the standard connection port on electronic devices. The European Commission introduced the proposal last fall. The proposed Radio Equipment Directive aims to reduce confusion over the types of cables consumers use for different devices. Another goal is to cut down on electronic waste with platform-agnostic charging ports. The preliminary proposal passed on a nearly unanimous 43-2 vote....

Nvidia’s claim that their Pascal GPUs will perform on par or close than their desktop equivalents was proven correct. Granted the Asus ROG GX800 is an extreme testbed, but even when air-cooled with SLI disabled, the mobile GPU (if you can call it that) could match our desktop test system. This means your average GTX 1080-enabled laptop should have no trouble getting within 10% of the single GPU results shown here....

That alone makes it invaluable for my daily computing needs, but with a little ingenuity, you can use Dropbox to do much more. Below I’ve compiled some useful tips and tricks to make the most of this amazing free app. Autostart torrent downloads Many BitTorrent clients have an option to monitor a specific folder on your computer and automatically start downloading any torrents copied to it. In uTorrent for Windows, for example, you can find it in the Directories section on the left-hand pane of the preferences window....

So today we’ve got an old fashioned GPU battle pitting the GeForce GTX 970 against the Radeon R9 290. Whether you’re looking to upgrade or not, it should be interesting to see after 5 years which GPU is the ultimate winner… Quickly rewinding for a moment, Nvidia revealed the GTX 970 for the first time in September 2014, some ten months after the Radeon R9 290’s release. The GTX 970 was the newer product and unsurprisingly it came in offering a little extra performance at a slightly better price....

It just so happens that as a standalone module, the motherboard can easily double as a high-performance single board computer complete with integrated CPU. Framework offers three configurations: an Intel Core i5-1135G7, a Core i7-1165G7 and an i7-1185G7 priced at $399, $549 and $799, respectively. All are 10nm quad-core, eight-thread CPUs with Intel’s Iris Xe graphics. The boards feature upgradeable PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, upgradeable dual DDR4-3200 memory sockets and four USB receptacles for expansion cards....

At 2560x1600, the GTX 670 averaged 31fps in Aliens vs. Predator, or 3% (1fps) slower than the GTX 680 and older GTX 580. It was also 6% behind the HD 7950 and 16% below the 7970. The GTX 670 averaged 40fps at 2560x1600 in Metro 2033, matching the HD 7950 and ranking just 5% lower than the HD 7970 and GTX 680.

The self-custodial Ethereum wallet, fitting known as the GameStop Wallet, can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store. Self-custodial wallets differ from what you’d find on a service like PayPal or Robinhood in that you are the sole owner of the private digital key needed to access the wallet. That’s good for security sake, but it also means you are responsible for keeping up with it. If you lose the key, there’s no middleman to help recover it....

At idle, we were surprised to find that there was quite a variance in temperature between the various enclosures. This test was conducted 20 minutes after a stress test, which should be plenty of time for the system to cool down. The Cooler Master HAF X and Lancool PC-K63 were standouts, keeping the processor, motherboard and graphics card very cool. The Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 was a disappointment as we found even with the fans set to high, the graphics card would idle 30% hotter, the motherboard was 26% hotter, while the processor was 14% hotter....

Trendforce’s Anita Wang released a report on the matter that also covers details such as sales for panel types and screen curvature. In 2021, there were 22.8 million shipments of gaming monitors compared to an estimated 20.5 million units shipped for 2022. Trendforce believes the drop is due to high inflation in Europe and the US as well as the long delay times for new graphics cards, leaving consumers to believe there’s no reason to upgrade their monitor....