Category: #ExtremeTech

Here we go again! AMD Zen CPUs already have a reputation as the best performers in multi-threaded and productivity application performance. Now, the chip manufacturer has…

VirtualBox is a popular virtualization tool that lets you install and test virtual computer systems on a host operating system. With VirtualBox, users have the…

So, how many of you actually coughed up $30 to stream Mulan on Disney+? If you wanted to see the flick but didn’t get excited…

As more devices adopt wireless charging, how much will the technology improve? Here’s how wireless fast charging works, and how it’ll likely become even faster…

When working with MSSQL databases, you may find that you need to export databases over a network share directly from the SQL Server Management Studio…

If you’re looking to upgrade your rig or pick up a new desktop, it may be worth waiting until next year. In a Medium post,…

When the Task manager is opened in Windows, you may notice unexplained high memory usage. The memory spikes can slow down the application’s response time…

Not all characters are equal in Bash. Some of them carry out special functions, tweak commands, and help us manipulate data. That’s why we’ve compiled…

NVIDIA says it’s delaying the launch of GeForce RTX 3070 by two weeks to October 29th. It recently launched the RTX 3080, which sold out…

There was a time when the prescription for speeding up a slow PC was just to add more (or faster) RAM. These days, though, that’s…

If you’ve built a Docker image on your development machine, and want to deploy it on a server, you could use a Docker registry, but…

A firewall is a network utility that runs on your server and prevents outsiders from using certain ports. This makes it a useful security tool…

Hosting your own VPN server can secure your network by allowing you to set rigourous firewalls in place (to block important services like SSH), while…

Google Cloud Platform’s Compute Engine works very similarly to AWS’s EC2 platform, allowing you to launch and run cloud servers very quickly. We’ll show how…

Building a new PC is fun, exciting, and . . . expensive. After you’ve built a few desktops, all those new boxes of Corsair, NVIDIA,…

FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, is a standard protocol for sending and receiving files from remote servers. It’s easier to use than command line alternatives…

It isn’t CSI magic—it’s easy to get location info from an IP address. The internet is split up into chunks, called subnets, which are spread…

If your Mac is suddenly feeling very sluggish and unresponsive, it’s possible that a runaway application is consuming a large percentage of your CPU’s processing…

Linux namespaces are the underlying tech behind container technologies like Docker. They’re a feature of the Linux kernel that allows the system to restrict the…

Run Snort on Linux and protect your network with real-time traffic analysis and threat detection. Security is everything, and Snort is world-class. This pig might…

A new government initiative will direct hundreds of millions of dollars to support new centers for quantum computing research. Why it matters: Quantum information science…