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Custom Linux-powered Smart TV breaks free from ads and tracking, enables ultimate customizability — EarlGreyTV straps a laptop to the back to unlock unlimited control
Software engineer Carl Riis has announced his first hardware project, dubbed EarlGreyTV. This is a Smart TV project that differentiates itself from the usual ‘idiot box’ dominating your living room by leveraging the wonders of Linux and Firefox, plus an old laptop.
Snapdragon X Elite with liquid metal thermal paste yields disappointing results
A notebook reviewer swapped the thermal paste application on his X Elite laptop to liquid metal to improve thermals. Sadly, the liquid metal application did little to enhance thermals, only lowering max temps by two degrees Celsius.
Researchers grow sub-nanometer size transistors — new 1D MTB transistors jump ahead of the IEEE 2037 roadmap
Korean researchers have developed a method to grow sub-nanometer semiconductor logic circuits. The team from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) claims that they grew 1D metallic materials with a width of less than 1nm and developed them into 2D circuits.
AMD's revolutionary exascale APU under the microscope — MI300A processor gets deep dive paper from AMD engineers
The AMD Instinct MI300A APU is AMD's most powerful processor to date, and AMD's researchers have published their latest paper describing the journey of bringing "exascale heterogeneous processing" to life.
Intel's new CPU socket may not need custom contact frames to improve chip temperatures anymore — the LGA1851 socket allegedly features optional "Reduced Load ILM" to improve temps
Intel is reportedly implementing a new ILM strategy with LGA1851 that will see the adoption of two ILMs for the socket: one aimed at default operation and one designed for overclockers.
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