The M3 Ultra Mac Studio. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is reportedly testing an M3 Ultra chip with a significant CPU bump from 24 cores in the M2 Ultra to 32 cores in the next generation version of the chip, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
Read MoreReuters: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1, ahead of the chip designer’s Nasdaq IPO next month — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Apple is preparing for its first major redesign in several generations of the mainline Apple Watch, but we won’t be seeing it this year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter this morning. Instead, Apple is working on a thinner “Apple Watch X” with magnetic watch band attachment points,
Read MoreFor organic semiconductors like the very common organic light-emitting diode (OLED), the issue of degradation due to contaminants that act as charge traps is a major problem. During the development of OLEDs, this was very pronounced in the difference between the different colors and the bandgap which they operated in. Due to blue OLEDs especially
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Cutting the cloud tether is increasingly easy, with plenty of excellent self-hosted options to house your documents and media library on your own NAS drive. But there’s one service that’s proven stubbornly tricky to replace — Google Photos. Out of all Google’s apps and services, Photos is the one
Read MoreHow would scientists even recognize biological signs of life beyond Earth? Assembly theory proposes a way to identify molecules made by living systems—even those using unfamiliar chemistries.
Read MoreFinding the perfect place to live in another state—or country—is challenging, but with a few tools and some smart communication, you can make it easier.
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Read MoreThis low-cost electric trike opens up the outdoors to more people, but three wheels have their own set of challenges.
Read MoreImage: William Joel / The Verge Hi friends! Welcome to the first-ever edition of Installer. My hope here every week is to be your guide to all the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. My original pitch for this was just “what if we just found all the cool apps/videos/creators/whatevers every week and put
Read MoreJosef Adalian / Vulture: A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos’ potential role in bundling, and big streaming services’ opposition to sharing the same user interface — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
Read More[Fred] has a Casio PB-700 pocket calculator / computer, complete with the companion docking station featuring a four-color pen plotter, model FA-10, and a microcassette tape recorder, model CM-1. He really wanted to see what this plotter could do, but there were no demos that he could find. So despite only having one working pen,
Read MoreSteven Lee Myers / New York Times: How Sweden’s Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia — The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin.
Read MoreWindows comes with its own productivity-boosting tool—here’s how it works.
Read MoreWhat’s the difference between a 64k ROM in a 28-pin DIP and a 128k ROM in a 32-pin DIP? Aside from the obvious answers of “64k” and “four pins,” it turns out that these two chips have a lot in common, enough so that it only takes a little bodging to make them interchangeable —
Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is the company’s best attempt at a large-screen foldable. While the Fold 5 may only be packing in modest upgrades over its predecessors, it’s still a fine attempt at a mainstream foldable that can easily be purchased worldwide. If you just picked up a Galaxy Z Fold 5, congratulations
Read MoreFinancial Times: Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month — Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming
Read MoreFinancial Times: Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month — Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming
Read MoreWe’ve always admired Curta mechanical calculators, and would be very hesitant to dismantle one. But [Janus Cycle] did just that — and succeeded. A friend sent him a Curta Model 2 calculator that was frozen up. Just opening the case involved percussive force to remove a retaining pin, and once inside he discovered the main
Read MoreLily Hay Newman / Wired: Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated” — The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine.
Read MoreFlight simulator software has been available for about as long as desktop PCs have been a thing, but modern incarnations such as 2020’s Microsoft Flight Simulator have really raised the bar — not only graphically, but in terms of interactivity. There’s a dizzying array of switches and buttons that you can fiddle with in your
Read MoreThe news is rife with claims of the next great thing in clean energy generation, but most of these technologies never make it to production. Whether that’s due to cost issues, production, or scalability, we’re often teased with industry breakthroughs that never come to fruition. Multi-layered solar panels, wave and tidal energy, and hydrogen fuel
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Read MoreKatrina Manson / Bloomberg: How hackers at DEF CON are trying to expose flaws and biases in AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others through a public contest — – At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21 — AI has chance to transform everything from finance
Read MoreThe news is rife with claims of the next great thing in clean energy generation, but most of these technologies never make it to production. Whether that’s due to cost issues, production, or scalability, we’re often teased with industry breakthroughs that never come to fruition. Multi-layered solar panels, wave and tidal energy, and hydrogen fuel
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