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Apple M4 arrives less than a year after M3 as the AI PC battle looms
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Apple's event mostly focused on iPads, but the presentation also introduced the M4 – the company's next-generation in-house SoCs. As expected, the processors offer performance improvements over the M3 and M2, but Apple's rundown also delivered a preview of the company's AI PC strategy for 2024.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Surprisingly, Google Pixel 8a launches at $499 with 7 years of updates
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The new Pixel 8a features Google's Gemini AI at its core. With seven years of OS updates and powerful hardware, the 8a emerges as a highly desirable mid-ranger.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Here is what it would look like if you traveled into the event horizon of a black hole
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
On Monday, NASA released a video showing what a camera would theoretically capture if it spiraled into a black hole (below). The clip is reminiscent of those Winamp music visualizations in the 90s (and today). It's a trippy trip into the weird math and physics of a black hole.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Cheyenne supercomputer sold to the highest bidder for $480,000
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The auction to get a piece of High-Performance Computing (HPC) history ended a few days ago, with the final bidder winning the Cheyenne supercomputer for $480,085 – a mere fraction of its $25-35 million development cost. The HPC system was one of the most powerful supercomputers ranked in the Top500...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ransomware criminals use children's phone numbers to coerce payments from parents
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Speaking at a Google Security Threat Intelligence Panel at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco (via The Reg), Charles Carmakal, CTO of Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, said, "We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM swap the phones of children of executives, and start making phone calls to executives,...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Visa: Not all stablecoin transactions are "real"
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Stablecoins have been hailed as the future of blockchain-based digital money due to their financial stability compared to Bitcoin and other "traditional" cryptocurrencies. However, according to Visa, more than 90 percent of stablecoin transactions aren't actually generated by real users of the technology.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's impossibly thin iPad Pro packs an M4 chip and tandem OLED technology
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The new iPad Pro is offered in two variants, one with an 11-inch display and the other sporting a larger 14-inch panel. Both utilize the brand new M4 chip, although specs vary depending on the chosen storage configuration.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM and pioneer of semiconductor scaling, dies at 91
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
Dennard's claims to fame are enormous. He's the mind behind dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the ubiquitous memory that quite literally makes our computers and smartphones function. And that's just the start. This Texas-born extraordinaire left an indelible mark on the trajectory of semiconductor innovation.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
PC market recovery leads to increased client CPU shipments, but server sales lag
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
According to a new report from Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the client PC CPU market reached 62 million units in Q1, 2024, representing a healthy 33 percent growth from the same period last year. However, the shipments are still down 9.4 percent sequentially from Q4, 2023, when the manufacturers shipped 69 million units globally.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Rare Super Famicom prototype zooms to $40k bid at auction
Posted on Tuesday May 07, 2024
The Super Famicom (known as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America) was the successor to the original Family Computer. That system debuted in Japan in 1983 before finding its way to American test markets as the original NES in late 1985. Nintendo wasn't in a hurry to release...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »