The user, MentalReserve2351, posted the results in r/GamingLaptops after testing the setup while playing Cyberpunk 2077 in an air-conditioned room. The laptop had been reaching 80-90°C on the wooden desk, according to the post. On the metal table, temperatures reportedly ran between 75°C and 83°C. Read Entire Article
Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware
Robert Hallock, Intel's vice president and general manager of enthusiast channel business, recently told Tom's Hardware that the company plans to continue offering Raptor Lake CPUs, first launched in 2022, for a while longer. Intel, like AMD, is responding to sustained demand for hardware that supports DDR4 RAM. Read Entire...
A Windows Defender bug is making VLC take 30 seconds to open an MP3 file
Is VLC media player taking tens of seconds to load an MP3 file just because open-source software development is now in an embarrassing state? Jonathan Blow, designer of puzzle games Braid and The Witness, accused the VideoLAN team of doing a very bad job with VLC programming. The VideoLAN team......
Ohio city fires officer who shot and killed 15-year-old, settles lawsuit with family
Officials in Akron, Ohio, have fired a police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old boy
Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe’s reservation
A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent
Shootings in Michigan leave 5 people plus suspect dead following large-scale search
Authorities in Michigan say a series of shootings have left five people plus a suspect dead
Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote
Dr. Anthony Fauci has declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel
What to know about Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea to federal stalking-to-kill charges has raised questions about how it’ll affect his state murder case and what his lawyers might do to prevent Mangione from spending the rest of his life in prison
Congress may kill the federal heat rule before OSHA can
July was the hottest month on record in the United States, with three heat domes — slow-moving, high-pressure systems that trap heat and humidity in place — afflicting large swaths of the country. The most recent of these contributed to an 18-day extreme heat warning in Phoenix, Arizona, the state’s second-longest stretch...
The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark
Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same question. The facilities emit ethylene oxide, a potent carcinogen, and those who lived nearby wanted to know how much the emissions were increasing their cancer...