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My favorite 3D printer, the Creality CR

See this dragon? He was born on my Creality CR-6 SE printer. He arrived in three pieces: one body and two wings, each of them fully articulated and fully assembled. That’s right: When I lifted a wing off the print bed, all the little hinges that make it flappy were already in place. It printed that way. No rafts, no …

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Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070 Ti gaming GPU crushes at 1440p

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is literally the most middling GPU of the past year, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On almost every gaming performance test I’ve run, the 3070 Ti delivered the median score in a field of RTX 3000 series and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series cards, more or less.  Nvidia positions the starting-price $599 (£529, …

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