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Google Replaces Millions of Intel’s CPUs With Its Own Homegrown Chips

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Google has designed its own new processors, the Argos video (trans)coding units (VCU), that have one solitary purpose: processing video. The highly efficient new chips have allowed the technology giant to replace tens of millions of Intel CPUs with its own silicon. For many years Intel’s video decoding/encoding engines that come… Read more

Alder Lake Chipsets Will Not Support PCIe Gen 5.0

Home News (Image credit: Photoshop) It appears that Intel’s 600 series chipset — built for Alder Lake — will not support the Gen 5.0 standard, per a report from HardwareTimes. According to a PCI-SIG certification, Intel’s future Alder Lake-supported chipsets will max out at Gen 4.0 speeds running in an x4 configuration, meaning the only… Read more

Google Pixel Buds A-Series review: price is everything

The new Pixel Buds A are available in a dark green color The $99 Pixel Buds are a better buy than their pricier predecessors With the new, awkwardly named Pixel Buds A-Series, Google is trying to do more than merely introduce a much cheaper set of true wireless earbuds: the company wants to get it… Read more

Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

It’s the sort of thing that can almost pass for background noise these days: over the past week, a number of publications tentatively declared, based on a UN report from the Libyan civil war, that killer robots may have hunted down humans autonomously for the first time. As one headline put it: “The Age of… Read more

Norton Added Ethereum Mining Capabilities to Its Antivirus Software

Home News (Image credit: NortonLifeLock) NortonLifeLock announced yesterday that it’s adding Ethereum mining to its Norton 360 antivirus software with an upcoming feature, Norton Crypto, that “select Norton 360 customers in Norton’s early adopter program” are invited to test. Let’s make this clear from the start: Enthusiasts will probably be better off learning how to… Read more

Microsoft looks ready to launch Windows 11

Microsoft has been teasing a “next generation” of Windows for months now, but new hints suggest the company isn’t just preparing an update to its existing Windows 10 software, but a new, numbered version of the operating system: Windows 11. The software giant announced a new Windows event for June 24th yesterday, promising to show… Read more

Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September

Apple employees are being asked to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Tim Cook sent out an email Wednesday informing staff of the change. “For all that we’ve been able to achieve while many of us have been separated, the truth is that there has been something essential missing… Read more

Patriot Brings The Sting With New Viper Elite II RAM

Home News Viper Elite II (Image credit: Patriot) Patriot, which produces some of the best RAM on the market, has presented the new Viper Elite II, the successor to the brand’s award-winning Viper Elite family. Retaining its successor’s DNA, the Viper Elite II memory arrives with an aggressive design that’s devoid of flashy RGB illumination…. Read more

Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th

Microsoft is planning to detail its “next generation of Windows” at an event later this month. The software giant has started sending invites to media for a Windows event on June 24th. Both Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and chief product officer Panos Panay will be presenting at the Windows event. Microsoft’s Windows event will start… Read more

An ongoing Apple Card outage may keep you from making payments or managing your card

The Apple Card is experiencing an outage today that may affect your ability to make payments, manage your card, and see recent transactions, according to Apple’s status page. Interruption in service appears to have started at 6:17AM PT today and is still ongoing over two hours later. Apple’s credit card solution is managed almost entirely… Read more

Huawei Watch 3 vs Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro: What’s changed?

(Pocket-lint) – Huawei’s latest watch has been announced, and is the first to launch officially running HarmonyOS, the new cross-category operating system designed to make multiple devices seamlessly connect with each other. The manufacturer has built some great fitness tracking watches of late, including the previous flagship watch: the Watch GT 2 Pro. So, what’s… Read more

I broke off a tiny piece of the world with a self-flying drone

With photogrammetry, hundreds of still photos can be transformed into an incredibly realistic 3D model of a real place on Earth — assuming you capture them all. This Memorial Day weekend, a self-flying robot cameraman did that entire job for me. I simply designated where to fly and where not to fly, kicked back in… Read more

Huawei’s HarmonyOS arrives on tablets with the new MatePad Pro

Huawei has announced a trio of new MatePad tablets; a new 12.6-inch MatePad Pro, a smaller 10.8-inch MatePad Pro, and a new MatePad 11. Not only are they the company’s first tablets running its own HarmonyOS operating system, but the smaller MatePad Pro and MatePad 11 use Snapdragon chips produced by Qualcomm rather than the… Read more

Nintendo is turning a factory into a gallery

Nintendo has announced that its Uji Ogura plant will be turned into a public gallery to “showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history.” The factory, located in the Ogura district of Uji, a city just outside Kyoto, was built in 1969 and was mainly used for manufacturing playing cards and hanafuda cards,… Read more

Dell has discontinued the Alienware Graphics Amplifier, its external GPU

We recently noticed that Alienware’s just-announced X15 and X17 thin and vaguely light gaming laptops are conspicuously missing a port — and it’s not because they’re thin-and-light, it turns out. Alienware has just confirmed to The Verge that it has discontinued the Alienware Graphics Amplifier external GPU, and so these laptops won’t need that proprietary… Read more