D-Silence

The hunt for the cause of massive South America power outage is just beginning. As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout that hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and were tallying the damage…

After installing the latest Windows 10 update, I can’t return from Sleep without getting a Power Driver Failure error. It then has to reboot. Everything was working fine until this patch.

Good news on the medical front…a drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemotherapy. Many chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells by severely damaging their DNA. However, some tumors can withstand this damage by relying on a DNA repair pathway that not only allows them to survive, but also introduces mutations that helps cells become resistant to…

Is USB 3.2 even in widespread adoption? The USB Promoter Group today announced the pending release of the USB4 specification, a major update to deliver the next generation USB architecture that compliments and builds on the existing USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 architectures. The USB4 architecture is based on the Thunderbolt protocol specification recently contributed…

If only it was remnants of an ancient civilization! Scientists say the blob may be remnants of the metallic asteroid that smashed into the lunar surface billions of years ago. For more, check out this NBC News story.

Yikes! A ladybug swarm was detected by weather radar over Southern California. When National Weather Service radar picked up a giant blob moving swiftly over southwestern San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, around 8 p.m., forecasters at the agency’s San Diego office called spotters on the ground, who told them it was an enormous…

USA Today has posted a story about 5 ways to avoid being put on robocall lists. The good news is that there are ways to avoid robocall companies from getting your number. Although these steps cannot guarantee you will not receive robocalls – any phone number can be randomly generated and called using robocall technology…

Doh! The world’s largest airplane may be grounded after just one flight. Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, the space company founded by late billionaire and Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, is closing operations, cutting short ambitious plans to challenge traditional aerospace companies in a new “space race,” four people familiar with the matter said on Friday. For…

With Windows Version 1903, Microsoft has added a new toggle in Graphics Settings for variable refresh rate. Variable refresh rate (VRR) is similar to NVIDIA’s G-SYNC and VESA DisplayPort Adaptive-Sync. This new OS support is only to augment these experiences and does not replace them. You should continue to use G-SYNC / Adaptive-Sync normally. This…

Here’s a surprise for an oldie, but goody…Quake II RTX is coming out. Now, we can confirm that Quake II RTX will be released on June 6th, 2019. If you have a GeForce RTX graphics card, or other capable hardware, you can experience the first 3 levels of the game for free, fully remastered with path-traced…