Regardless of the reason, if a user account may be needed in the future, but has no use right now, Windows 11 provides several ways to disable it. Disabling an account will allow you to reinstate it if ever required in the future, with all the settings and data as-is. This, of course, cannot be accomplished if you permanently delete a user account. Note: This is not the same as disabling/blocking a Microsoft account on a Windows computer....

AirPods Pro 2 Asking Users To Replace The Battery Soon The bug in AirPods Pro 2 seems to be originating from the Find My app on devices nearby whenever the MagSafe Charging Case or earbuds battery is low (via MacRumors). Since the second generation of AirPods Pro houses a U1 chip for Precision Finding, it also aids in the transmission of battery levels all the time. Henceforth, it is possible the bug in AirPods Pro 2 is associated with it....

With the game now set to launch on October 18th, the developers at Asobo Studio have been interviewed in the latest issue of EDGE magazine to discuss some of the game’s features. For example, Game Director Kevin Choteau mentioned the benefits of leaving behind older platforms like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. We started from the basics to rebuild our gameplay, our AI and our visual effects. In Innocence, some parts could look a bit like a theatre set due to technical limitations....

However, there are so many different online portals that it can be confusing to remember their links and URLs. This is why we have assembled all of the useful Microsoft portal links under one roof. Below you will find a list of different administrative and end-user portals that you can instantly access by clicking on the respective “Visit Portal” button. You can also quickly navigate to the category of portals by clicking the category link from the Table of Contents....

The hardware specifications are downright impressive, with the Acer Swift X packing a Ryzen 7 5800U, which sports eight cores and 16 threads, clocking up to 4.40GHz. You also get a 4GB GDDR6 NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti GPU and can enable ray tracing and DLSS in supported games to get an image quality and performance boost. The 4GB VRAM might become a limiting factor in a few games, but DLSS can still help to bring that performance up....

Unfortunately, Samsung is not focusing on adding more RAM to any Galaxy S23 model New information shared by Ahmed Qwaider states that the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus, and Galaxy S23 Ultra will ship with 256GB internal storage for their base models. This effectively means that the Korean giant is done selling 128GB variants for the foreseeable future. This decision might have been made to give Samsung an edge against Apple and Chinese competitors, which have surpassed the company by offering smartphones with more features at a lower price....

AMD A620 Motherboards To Bring Value Back To The Ryzen Platform With Several Cheap AM5 Options Since AM5 launched, none of the motherboard manufacturers actually launched a product that was priced at the $125 US tier that AMD had promised. In fact, most of the B650 motherboards, which were supposed to bring back affordability on the AM5 platform, ended up with crazy prices which made AM4 even better value. The make things worse, DDR5 and cooling solutions for AMD Ryzen CPUs are still expensive as the newer memory standard has yet to reach parity with DDR4 (although it is close) and cooling components costs have gone up due to inflation....

AMD EPYC Exceeds Opteron’s Historical 26% Market Share, Big Win For Team Red In The Server Segment & The Best Is Yet To Come! Almost three years back, AMD set a goal to achieve not only a 10% market share by 2020 but also to hit the historical high of 26% that was once amassed by its older Opteron CPUs. Within 5 years, the company not only achieved its first goal but its latest EPYC CPUs now amount to an x86 server CPU share of well over 25%....

Various global online stores showing AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6650 XT Graphics Cards in stock before the official launch and selling for as high as $1000 Canada Computers & Electronics is the first retailer to show the cards in a banner advertisement. However, the link takes the user to their AMD Radeon RX 6000 series page but does not have the cards listed for sale. While we have already seen the pictures of the new cards before release, this is the first on a retail level to see anything promoting the unreleased series....

AMD Radeon RX 6000 Refresh Synthetic Performance Benchmarks Leaked: RX 6950 XT Flagship Faster Than NVIDIA RTX 3090 Ti In Time Spy and Fire Strike Yesterday, we gave you the first look at the full and final specifications of AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 refresh lineup which will include the Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6650 XT cards. The performance results we are sharing for these cards are based on reference designs that run at the boosted clock speeds we reported yesterday....

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Drivers Carry Fixes For Higher Power Draw Usage & Other Bugs During launch, the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards were seen sipping in much higher power draw than the competition when idling and during normal video playback. The power draw was at times 4x higher than NVIDIA’s RTX 40 series graphics card in multi-monitor & video playback. AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Power Consumption (Image Credits: TechPowerUp): Also, despite AMD claiming to offer a power efficiency improvement of 54% over RDNA 2, the RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards came nowhere close to that figure....

The official statement from AMD is below: From the above advisory, AMD states that not only is the Ryzen 7000 processor an issue, but also the internal game engine for each game, the GPU, and the memory being utilized, which sounds as though it is more of an overall compatibility issue of the system and games as a whole. Many factors affect gaming performance, including the game engine, CPU architecture, GPU selection and memory choices....

AMD Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC CPU Launches Rumored For March: Include Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Threadripper PRO 5000 & EPYC Milan-X The rumor comes from Videocardz sources which have told that AMD is expected to launch CPUs from each segment in the month of March. There will be data center EPYC, consumer Ryzen, and workstation Threadripper CPUs, all launching on different dates within this month. We will know for sure soon since the first launch of the month is planned for next week....

AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Official: World’s First 5nm CPUs Launching This Fall With Over 5 GHz & Over 15% Performance Uplift Versus Ryzen 5000 The AMD Ryzen 7000 processors will be powered by the brand new Zen 4 core architecture which is going to be a total architecture overhaul. The CPUs will retain the chiplet design along with high-core counts. AMD hasn’t confirmed anything in terms of specifications but it is stated that they will be powered by TSMC’s 5nm process node and are designed for gamers first....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Laptop CPUs & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Laptop GPUs Leak Out: Phoenix, Rembrandt-R, Barcelo-R & RTX 4050 Designs In The Works We have already seen various AMD Ryzen 7000 Mobility SKUs leak out over the past few months & now we have a confirmation from Lenovo whose specifications list of the IdeaPad Pro 5 & IdeaPad Slim have been leaked Notebookcheck. The CPUs that have been listed by the laptop manufacturer include:...

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i9-13900K: 3D V-Cache CPU Offers Up To 24% Better Performance In Games The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D is truly a monster of a chip, featuring up to 144 MB of cache thanks to the latest 3D V-Cache design for the Zen 4 lineup. AMD showed us a performance teaser of the chip against Intel’s fastest Raptor Lake CPU, the Core i9-13900K but before we talk about that, let’s take a quick recap of the specs for the 7950X3D....

Apple Could Be Testing out Game Controllers With Three Different Styles, for a Variety of Devices Instead of filing a patent in the U.S., Patently Apple reports that the company filed it in Europe, where the rules are different. The patent was made public on March 31, 2022, under the number WO2022067344, with the following description provided. Apple is said to be testing out three game controller styles. The first one in the images is titled FIGS....

News of Apple’s plans to lay off non-seasonal employees came through an email An email was sent to AppleInsider, who later reported that Apple has started laying off employees in its retail channel outside of its physical stores. The email has reportedly been verified through various sources, with the contents stating that employees working at Best Buy outlets have received a 30-day notice concerning their rights. It is unclear as to what percentage Apple intends to lay off as part of its cost-cutting measures, but without a doubt, the company is preparing for a slow 2023....

New Information Claims the 14.1-inch iPad Will Feature Regular LED Lightning, Implying a Smaller Price Tag Attached to the Product Thanks to an updated prediction from Ross Young through a tweet intended for this Super Followers, 9to5Mac reports a change in Apple’s supposed launch plans. Apparently, the new 14.1-inch iPad may not belong to the ‘Pro’ family at all, with new information claiming that the upcoming slate will not sport a mini-LED screen or support ProMotion technology....

iOS 17 to bring minor additions to the table as Apple’s developers and engineers focus more on xrOS for the AR/VR Headset This is not the first time that we are hearing details on the operating system for Apple’s forthcoming AR Headset. Apple’s engineers and developers have been working on xrOS for several years. Since the company is expected to announce its AR Headset sometime in 2023, developers are focusing less on iOS 17 features along with other operating systems....