As a software developer, part of your job is to deliver the best user experience possible to those using your site or product. And building a helpful and efficient search function is one way you can do this. So if you are looking for the right way to build out
How to Automount a Storage Partition on Startup in Linux
By default, Linux OS does not automount any other partition at startup other than the root and the home partition. You can mount other partitions very easily later, but you might want to enable some kind of automount feature on startup. This means that you won’t need to mount them
How Web Workers Work in JavaScript – With a Practical JS Example
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HTML Best Practices – How to Build a Better HTML-Based Website
HTML is the backbone of any website. It’s the first thing people see. Without it, there would be no website. Because of this, it’s important that you stick to good coding practices. If you don’t follow the best practices, you will create a bad user experience for the web user.
What is IT Infrastructure? A Beginner’s Guide
It is difficult to imagine a business that operates without at least some basic IT infrastructure. Digital solutions and hardware that are linked together help boost a company’s productivity. And good infrastructure improves internal processes and communication between different departments. IT infrastructure is based on various components that aim to
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Having a “back to top” button on a website is important. It allows users to easily scroll back to the top of the page. Most websites rely on JavaScript to toggle the visibility of the button based on the amount of scroll. In this post, I will show you how
Apple becomes first $3 trillion company after boost from pandemic demand
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Apple has become the first company to hit a market capitalization of $3 trillion, after its value rose by $1 trillion in less than 16 months as the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged Big Tech.
The iPhone maker became a $1 trillion company in August 2018 and two years later became the first company to be valued at $2 trillion. On Monday, shares in the company rose by 3 percent to $182.86, taking it past the latest milestone, before easing back to trade at $182.
Apple briefly lost its title as the world’s most valuable company to Microsoft at the end of October. However, a strong rally in November restored its crown. It then surged higher into the end of 2021 and has added half a trillion dollars to its market value since November 15.
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Backwards capacitor causes fiery failure for some high-end Asus motherboards
Enlarge / Burned out MOSFETs on an Asus Z690 motherboard. (credit: Reddit user Duhjahno)
Intel’s high-end 12th-generation Core processors use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, but Asus’ ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboard takes things to the next level. A “potential reversed memory capacitor” in some boards can cause them to catch on fire.
The problem was initially hunted down by the Actually Hardware Overclocking YouTube channel, which diagnosed the issue using images from Reddit users and posters on Asus’ support forums whose boards had failed. The reversed capacitor causes increased current leakage, which generates heat that subsequently burns out the neighboring MOSFET transistors. Users with the flipped capacitors noted that they noticed a burning smell or even fire before their systems shut down. Once the MOSFETs have burned out, the motherboard’s built-in status display will show error code 53, indicating that the motherboard doesn’t detect any installed RAM.
Not all ROG Maximus Z690 Hero boards have the capacitor installed backwards, and the Actually Hardware Overclocking video shows you the exact place to look to see if the capacitor has been installed properly or not. Entering your motherboard’s serial number into Asus’ support page for the problem will tell you for sure whether your board is affected, and the page will walk you through contacting Asus support to get a replacement.
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GoldenEye 007 on Xbox is like an old wrestler at the Royal Rumble
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Samsung’s 2022 TVs get 144 Hz support and a built-in NFT marketplace
Enlarge / Here’s the first publicly released render of Samsung’s new Mini LED TV. (credit: Samsung)
It’s that time of year again: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is upon us, and companies like Samsung are announcing the first details of their 2022 product refreshes. That includes Samsung’s flagship TV lineup, which will this year see an iterative step over last year’s models.
The company’s line of popular, high-end Mini LED 4K and 8K TVs (which it calls its “Neo QLED” line) isn’t seeing any radical changes this year. Rather, the line will get small improvements to picture and sound quality.
First off, these TVs now support 4K input at 144 Hz in addition to 120 Hz. Unless you’re using your TV as a computer monitor for high-skill, pro or semi-pro esports on a high-end gaming PC, the bump from 120 Hz support to 144 Hz isn’t going to mean much. And even then, it’s still not significant. Samsung is just looking for a place to one-up competitors on specs any way it can.
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