Apple, please don't kill the iPad mini
The iPad mini might be on its deathbed. The 7.9-inch tablet, a recent report says, is cannibalized by the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus, which is big enough for those late-night reading binges, and more powerful in some regards. On the other hand, it appears that Apple is positioning the tablet as a larger device, one that competes with your laptop. According to rumors, the next tablet Apple launches will be bigger, not smaller than the iPad, and the iPad mini will likely go into oblivion. But ask ..>> view originalIt's official: AMD's Threadripper will bring a 16-core, 32-thread monster to the desktop
It's called Threadripper, and it will be the first consumer-focused chip with 16 cores and 32 threads of computing power. Yes, you read that right: 16 cores and 32 threads of computing power, confirming that the CPU wars will rage on at the high end.AMD's Jim Anderson announced the high-end desktop chip during the company's financial analyst day Tuesday. Details were sparse, but the CPU has been making the rumor mills the last few weeks, though the company was expecting to announce at the upco..>> view originalHow T. rex's powerful bite crushed dino bones to a pulp
A T. rex fossil exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2014. (Stephen Morrison/European Pressphoto Agency) A dog, when gnawing on a favorite bone, slices it with its molars. If the pooch instead had a crocodile's snout and gap teeth, crunching bones would be out of the question. But imagine if you will a croc-canine combo, one that is 40 feet long, 20 feet tall, walks on two legs and weighs about six tons. You'd end up with something strange, although not that far from a Tyrannosaurus rex...>> view originalWhy Android is likely safe from a WannaCry-like attack
Unlike the Google Pixel, most Android devices are running on outdated operating systems. James Martin/CNET The WannaCry cyberattack has ensnared more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries by taking advantage of outdated versions of Windows that never got Microsoft's crucial security patches. Hmm. Millions of devices that are stuck on older versions of an operating system and don't have access t..>> view originalReport: Apple Inc. Prepping MacBook Updates for WWDC
Per a fresh report from Bloomberg, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) "plans to announce an update to its laptop lineup at an annual conference for app developers in early June." Or, in other words, at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). Image source: Apple. Bloomberg says that the Mac maker plans to refresh three of its MacBook products. The company's MacBook Pro "will get a faster Kaby Lake processor from Intel" (NASDAQ:INTC), and its 12-inch MacBook will also get a "faster Intel chip." Perha..>> view originalBragi's new wireless earbuds are supposed to fix all the problems of the Dash
Bragi has announced a new version of the Dash, the truly wireless earbuds that evolved from Kickstarter darling into a frustrating bleeding edge product. The new $329 set is called the Dash Pro, and while it's functionally the same product as its ...>> view originalGalaxy Note 8 to add 3x zoom on top of dual cameras
It seems that the rumors for Samsung’s next phablet have started to trickle down now that the Galaxy S8 is more or less secure on its spot. So far, it seems that most of the focus has been on one of the biggest changes for the Galaxy Note 8, its camera. Or cameras rather. This latest report hailing from Samsung’s own how town sheds more light on the phone’s cameras, including how it will boast of a 3x zoom to top off the two megapixel sensors. There are many factors to consider in the quali..>> view originalGoogle I/O 2017: Expect a clearer understanding of Google's 'AI first' future
A year ago, Google CEO Sundar Pichai laid out a vision for an “AI first” future at Google, where the concept of computing is focused less on devices, with the computer taking the form of an omnipresent intelligent assistant. At this year's annual ...>> view originalSteve Jobs Once Asked Jeff Goldblum to Be 'the Voice of Apple'
Steve Jobs once tried to convince Hollywood actor Jeff Goldblum to become "the voice of Apple", it emerged yesterday. Goldblum disclosed his contact with the late Apple co-founder during an interview on the Today Show in Australia, according to CNet. "Steve Jobs called me up a few decades ago to be the voice of Apple," said Goldblum. "That was early on, and I did not know it was Steve Jobs."The star of movies like Jurassic Park and The Fly offered no further details on the timing of the p..>> view originalAMD Unveils the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition: Vega Starts in the Pros
It feels like the build-up to Vega has been just shy of forever. And in a way it has been: AMD first announced the architecture back in March of 2016, and we’ve known for almost as long that Polaris would be a volume play, not a play for the high performance market. It would be Vega that would be AMD’s next high-end GPU, and true successor to 2015’s unique (if mistimed) Fiji GPU. Since then AMD has slowly been releasing details on the Vega architecture. Bits and pieces related to the Playstatio..>> view original
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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