Microsoft Confirms A Windows 10 Update Is Breaking USB Printers, Try These Workarounds

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Microsoft Confirms A Windows 10 Update Is Breaking USB Printers, Try These Workarounds]( By Zak Killian on Jul 26, 2022 02:55 pm [Microsoft Confirms A Windows 10 Update Is Breaking USB Printers, Try These Workarounds]( Two days ago, your writer here was at his cousin's residence attempting to troubleshoot why the Brother laser printer would not work. The printer was duplicated several times in the Windows "Printers & Scanners" dialog, and troubleshooting had to go as far as removing all of the print devices, while rebooting several times, before finally [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Meta Levies A $100 Price Hike On Quest 2 In A Virtual Metaverse Money Grab]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 26, 2022 02:06 pm [Meta Levies A $100 Price Hike On Quest 2 In A Virtual Metaverse Money Grab]( If you were considering the purchase of a Meta Quest 2 VR headset, you better act fast because it's about to go way up in price. Announced on Twitter and in a blog post, the Quest 2 will increase $100 to $399.99 for the cheaper 128GB model, and $499.99 for the 256GB model. Those prices go into effect in on August 1, 2022, which is less than [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Micron Unveils 232 Layer NAND Paving The Way For Faster And Bigger Capacity SSDs]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 26, 2022 01:15 pm [Micron Unveils 232 Layer NAND Paving The Way For Faster And Bigger Capacity SSDs]( Micron delivered some pretty big news today, saying it has begun volume production of the industry's first 232-layer triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory chips with huge gains in area density, capacity, energy efficiency, and performance. In short, it's an improvement over 176-layer NAND in practically every conceivable way. Or to [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [This Red Dead Redemption 2 Mod Adds A New Character And Single-Player Campaign]( By Lane Babuder on Jul 26, 2022 12:03 pm [This Red Dead Redemption 2 Mod Adds A New Character And Single-Player Campaign]( It has been more than nine years since Grand Theft Auto 5 hit the store shelves. Only about four years have passed since Red Dead Redemption 2 wound up in the hands of fans of the old west game. Most people have played through all the content of both, or at the very least watched streamers and content creators do so. Some people think that [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [How To Make Your Xbox Series X Or S Gaming Console Boot Faster]( By Tim Sweezy on Jul 26, 2022 11:54 am [How To Make Your Xbox Series X Or S Gaming Console Boot Faster]( The time it takes your Xbox Series X/S console is about to get a bit faster. Microsoft was able to cut seveal seconds off the boot sequence by creating a shorter bootup animation. Gamers can be some of the most impatient people on the planet. If a new console or gaming PC takes more than a few seconds longer than normal, cries of "Come [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [TeamGroup Lays Claim To First SSD With Vapor Chamber Cooling To Tackle Throttling]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 26, 2022 11:50 am [TeamGroup Lays Claim To First SSD With Vapor Chamber Cooling To Tackle Throttling]( TeamGroup has launched what it claims is the world's first M.2 form factor solid state drive (SSD) equipped with an industrial grade vapor chamber cooling solution, the N74V-M80. The pitch is that porting vapor chamber cooling over to M.2 SSDs is an effective way to prevent performance-robbing heat buildup. Because as you know, SSDs deal with [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD Teases AM5 Motherboards For Zen 4 From ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI And Others]( By Mark Tyson on Jul 26, 2022 11:25 am [AMD Teases AM5 Motherboards For Zen 4 From ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI And Others]( AMD has prepared a warm-up event ahead of the impending Ryzen 7000 series processor launch. On Friday, August 5, it will be getting together with its most important manufacturing partners to showcase a wide range of AM5 motherboards. The hour long-event should be entertaining enough as top-end reps from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and others duke [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [A 21-Ton Rocket Is Hurtling Towards Earth And Nobody Knows Where It Will Crash]( By Tim Sweezy on Jul 26, 2022 10:55 am [A 21-Ton Rocket Is Hurtling Towards Earth And Nobody Knows Where It Will Crash]( A Chinese core rocket stage will be performing an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere soon. The left over piece is from a Long March 5B rocket that launched this past Sunday. China launched a Long March 5B rocket from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan on June 24, 2022. The rocket carried the Wentien laboratory to the Chinese [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Kioxia's CM7 Series SSDs Rock 14GB/s Over PCIe 5 With Up To A Massive 30TB Of Storage]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 26, 2022 10:41 am [Kioxia's CM7 Series SSDs Rock 14GB/s Over PCIe 5 With Up To A Massive 30TB Of Storage]( If you have a need for speed in the data center, Kioxia hopes to satiate your hunger for blazing fast storage with its new CM7 series, which is now shipping to customers. Designed around the PCI Express 5.0 bus and offered in Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S and 2.5-inch form factors, these newly minted drives serve [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [The Original Apple-1 Prototype Woz Hand Soldered For Steve Jobs Is Up For Auction]( By Paul Lilly on Jul 26, 2022 09:40 am [The Original Apple-1 Prototype Woz Hand Soldered For Steve Jobs Is Up For Auction]( An historic piece of computing history is up for auction and could end up fetching $500,000 or more when it ends in a little over three weeks from now. What's up for grabs is an original Apple-1 computer prototype, the exact one Steve Jobs demonstrated to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, way back in 1976. That [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Windows 11 Updates Are Breaking The Start Menu On PCs, Here's How To Fix It]( By Zak Killian on Jul 25, 2022 03:44 pm [Windows 11 Updates Are Breaking The Start Menu On PCs, Here's How To Fix It]( If you feel like you're serving as a tech guinea pig for the rest of us, running with Windows 11 as your daily OS driver, well, good on you. The officially-released OS does come with a few nice renovations, like the mostly-unified Settings applet, DirectStorage support, and under-the-hood improvements for Intel's latest processors. 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