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Electronics Security

FCC moves to ban Chinese labs from testing electronics sold in the US

75% of all electronics are tested at labs located inside China

Cutting corners: Not content with banning sales of high-end AI chips to China and imposing 145% tariffs on many imports from the country, the US government is now trying to stop companies from using Chinese labs to test electronic devices available in the United States.

Full story By Rob Thubron, May 1, 2025, 7:01 AM 11 comments

Microsoft Software

New Windows 11 preview build improves privacy for European users

Location-storing API and cloud-based data harvesting are gone, though not for everyone

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 20, 2025, 4:36 PM 13 comments

Tech Culture Car Tech

Goodyear's advances in tire simulations are reducing the need for real-world testing

Simulation eliminates the need for 60,000 miles of test track driving for each development cycle

By Skye Jacobs, January 16, 2025, 8:14 AM 7 comments

Science News Around the Web

Easy blood test shown to predict heart disease risk decades in advance

The lead author thinks the findings can apply to men too

By Skye Jacobs, September 2, 2024, 6:56 AM

Gaming Tech Culture

Activision secretly reduced skill-based matchmaking in Call of Duty to "prove" players prefer it

Players have continually argued the merits of CoD's SBMM. Will these tests settle the fight?

By Cal Jeffrey, July 29, 2024, 4:47 PM

Software Download of the Week

Memtest86+ 7.0 updates open-source RAM testing

Memtest86+ 7.0 adds support for integrated memory controller (IMC) polling, allowing users to obtain live RAM settings and timing information.

By Ivan Franco, January 13, 2024, 10:31 AM

So, You Want to Be a Video Game Developer?

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, December 11, 2023, 6:13 AM TechSpot Gaming

You might be one of the millions of people who love playing video games, but what if you want to take it further and become a game developer? Here's our advice on how to do exactly that.

Software Electronics

Microsoft had a "Cart of Death" to intentionally crash and debug early Windows USB infrastructure

The crash cart: In a hospital a crash cart could save your life, but Microsoft had a different type of crash cart back in the day that usually spelled the death of a testing PC. In-house developers called it the "Cart of Death" – a repurposed mail cart carrying daisy-chained USB hubs and tons of connected USB devices to test plug-and-play support on Windows PCs.

Full story By Cal Jeffrey, November 27, 2023, 5:29 PM

How to Use Intel PresentMon for Benchmarking and Testing

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, August 29, 2023, 6:15 AM TechSpot Software

Intel's long-running game performance analyzer has been updated with a fresh look and new features. Is it worth using? Let's dive in and see how we can use PresentMon to analyze our gaming PCs.