Sandisk’s upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSD fights throttling with 7W power

By: Tom's Hardware

(Image credit: SanDisk) Sandisk has announced a new SSD set to max out PCIe 5.0 speeds at 7W power draw, comparable to the max power draw of many modern Gen4 drives. The company, fresh off a rebrand and now the SSD/flash storage wing of Western Digital, will launch this flagship drive as part of its… Read more

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RX 9070 XT Red Devil packaging recommends a 900W power supply — AMD’s Frank Azor confirms custom cards with lower wattage requirements

By: Tom's Hardware

(Image credit: X/Tomasz Gawroński) Packaging for one of AMD’s custom Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards has been uncovered, showing the alleged power supply requirements for the RDNA 4 GPU, which will rival the best graphics cards. Tomasz Gawronski posted an image of what appears to be the box of PowerColor’s Radeon RX 9070 XT… Read more

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WhatsApp is getting themed chat bubbles

By: The Verge

Umar Shakir is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. WhatsApp is turning up the customization features for chats by including new theme options, custom colors for chat bubbles, and a bunch of new… Read more

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Meta’s Ray-Bans have sold 2 million pairs — its maker is prepping to sell 10M each year

By: The Verge

Two weeks ago, we exclusively reported Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on how many pairs of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses the company had recently sold and might theoretically sell — 1 million pairs in 2024, with the possibility of reaching 2 million or even 5 million by the end of 2025. But glasses giant EssilorLuxottica,… Read more

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Netflix says its brief Apple TV app integration was a mistake

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Chris Welch is a senior reviewer who has worked at The Verge since its founding in 2011. His coverage areas include audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, and more. Considering the trajectory of 2025 so far, perhaps we should’ve known that Netflix finally playing nice with the Apple TV app was… Read more

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Arm’s to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports

By: Tom's Hardware

(Image credit: Arm) Arm Holdings is set to launch its first in-house designed processor later this year and has already landed orders from several customers, including Meta, according to the Financial Times. This decision places Arm in direct competition with some of its customers that develop Arm-based processors for data centers, including Ampere and, to… Read more

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Intel Panther Lake-H CPU hits max turbo power of 64W — mobile chips’ leaked specs point to substantial power draw

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Hardware leaker Jaykihn has shared what’s believed to be the preliminary power specifications for Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake-H CPUs, which are set to be used later this year in a new slate of laptops and mobile devices, which were previously shown off at CES 2025. The alleged preliminary spec details three variants of chips within… Read more

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Meta is working on ‘humanoid’ robots too

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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta is planning to design the hardware and software for humanoid robots, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources tell the outlet that a newly formed team… Read more

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Instagram starts testing new button that might downrank comments

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Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Instagram is beginning to test a button that “gives people a private way to signal that they don’t feel good about that particular comment,” Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says in a post… Read more

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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books

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Starting on February 26th, 2025, Amazon is removing a feature from its website allowing you to download purchased books to a computer and then copy them manually to a Kindle over USB. It’s a feature that a lot of Kindle users are probably not aware of, given books can be more easily sent to devices… Read more

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Nosferatu is making its Peacock streaming debut next week

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Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Robert Eggers’ excellent Nosferatu remake will finally be available to stream very soon. Peacock announced today that Nosferatu — which stars Lily-Rose Depp,… Read more

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Elecrow’s Raspberry Pi powered CrowPi 3 educational kit offers plenty of scope for learning

By: Tom's Hardware

(Image credit: Elecrow) Elecrow, creators of the CrowPi 2 and the CrowView has written to us to detail its new CrowPi 3, which will launch on Kickstarter “soon.” This is quite a complex product, designed to be an innovative open-source learning tool built around the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer. The comprehensive hardware consists of… Read more

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WD’s new HDMR tech to enable record-breaking 100TB+ drives

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(Image credit: Western Digital) Western Digital is set to introduce its first hard drives featuring heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, and around 2030, this technology will enable the company to build 80TB–100TB HDDs. At that point, FePt-based granular media will start reaching its limits in terms of areal density. But Western Digital is already working… Read more

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Raspberry Pi Dune Weaver table draws images in sand using magnets

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If you’re looking to add a luxurious piece of furniture to your house, why not build it yourself? That seems to be what maker and developer Tuan Nguyen has done with this incredible Raspberry Pi-powered sand-drawing table he calls ‘Dune Weaver Pro‘. Using our favorite SBC, this table automatically draws pictures in sand either on… Read more

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Yellowjackets continues to stretch itself thin in season 3

By: The Verge

The third season of Yellowjackets is a bit like getting lured back to the high school reunion that was delightfully fun the first time but eventually becomes an exercise in diminishing returns. Maybe it’s part of our soft human inability to let go of the past, especially coming-of-age drama that seems increasingly romantic and valid… Read more

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