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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

There’s an Apple event next week, and it’s looking fairly likely that we’ll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini. Which is great, because it made me think about the Eee PC, which was either one of the greatest short-lived success stories in tech history or a collective delusion shared… Read more

Six months later, there still isn’t a MagSafe car charger

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. As Vergecast listeners know, I am a sucker for car phone mounts and chargers. They are a perfect gadget for the modern age — a design problem with no perfect solution, price points that usually land at… Read more

Parallels Desktop 16.5 Enables Windows 10 on Mac M1 at Native Speeds

Home News (Image credit: Parallels) Parallels has released a new version of its Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization software that features full native support for Mac computers equipped with either Apple M1 or Intel processors. The program allows users to run Windows 10 Arm Insider Preview as well as various Linux distributions on systems running the M1 SoC at… Read more

The Core i9-11900K is Faster On Windows 10 Than Linux

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Courtesy of Phoronix; It appears that the latest build of Windows 10 is the most optimal operating system to use for Intel’s new Core i9-11900K Rocket Lake CPU. Tests show the i9 wining more benchmarks in a Windows 10 environment compared to Linux Ubuntu. For the test bench, Phoronix ran… Read more

You can now run Windows 10 on Arm on Apple’s M1 Macs

Parallels is releasing an update to its Desktop virtual machine software that allows M1 Mac owners to install Windows 10 on Arm. Parallels Desktop 16.5 now includes the necessary native support to run the Arm version of Windows on M1 chips, following Apple’s decision not to support Boot Camp on M1 Macs. The latest version… Read more

RISC-V Raspberry Pi Alternative Edges Closer to Release

Home News (Image credit: CNX-software) A potential new Raspberry Pi competitor will soon be announced, according to a post on embedded systems blog CNX-Software. Based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture, the Allwinner D1 development board is a credit-card-sized single board computer with a single core XuanTie C906 64-bit RISC-V CPU running at 1GHz… Read more

Hack Boosts Video Encoding For Nvidia’s Consumer GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Back on Saturday we reported that Nvidia’s GPU virtualization capability only enabled on select GPUs for datacenters can be unlocked using a rather simple hack (albeit only in Linux) on GeForce and Quadro graphics cards for client PCs. Apparently, this is not the only datacenter-exclusive feature that can be enabled on client… Read more

Nvidia’s Virtualization Unlocked On Gaming GPUs via Hack

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) A group of enthusiasts has unlocked vGPU (GPU virtualization) capability, which is only supported on select datacenter and professional boards, on standard consumer Nvidia GeForce gaming graphics cards. Since the vGPU capability is supported by the silicon but locked out by software, it was only a matter of time and effort… Read more

Linux Support on Apple’s M1 Macs Could Come With New Kernel

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Linux could make it to Apple silicon even sooner than expected. A pull request for the Linux 5.13 kernel submitted on Thursday and spotted by Phoronix looks to add “initial support” for the Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models equipped with an M1 chip. Developer Hector Martin submitted… Read more

AMD’s Zen 3, Navi 2 APUs With DDR5 Support May Arrive Next Year

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) A Twitter user has shared an alleged AMD roadmap that details the chipmaker’s plans for its next-generation mobile APUs. Respected hardware leaker kopite7kimi got word that the roadmap looks accurate. Nevertheless, approach the information with caution since roadmaps are known to change as time progresses. The roadmap reveals AMD’s upcoming… Read more

AMD Rolls Out Patches To Disable Predictive Store Forwarding on Zen 3 CPUs

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Making good on its promise, AMD has deployed new patches to the Linux kernel to mitigate the potential security risk with the Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF) feature. Linux publication Phoronix spotted five patches that allow users to disable Predictive Store Forwarding if security is a concern. Predictive Store Forwarding is… Read more

Intel Ice Lake Xeon Platinum 8380 Review: 10nm Debuts for the Data Center

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s long-delayed 10nm+ third-gen Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors mark an important step forward for the company as it attempts to fend off intense competition from AMD’s 7nm EPYC Milan processors that top out at 64 cores, a key advantage over Intel’s existing 14nm Cascade Lake Refresh that tops out… Read more

AMD’s Zen 3 CPUs Are Susceptible To Spectre-Like Vulnerability

AMD has published a whitepaper on a potential security vulnerability that affects the company’s latest Zen 3 processors. The side-channel exploit is similar to Spectre that affected a plethora of Intel processors three years ago. With Zen 3, AMD introduced a new technology called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF), which helps improve code execution performance by… Read more

How To Emulate An Apple II On Your PC

The Apple II released in June 1977 was one of the first successful mass-produced computers and Apple’s first personal computer aimed squarely at the consumer market. The hardware was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak and the case by Steve Jobs, who we both know as the founders of Apple. In 1977, there were three machines… Read more

Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now

Discord is the latest company to introduce a Clubhouse-like feature that lets people easily broadcast live audio conversations to a room of virtual listeners. Discord says its take, called Stage Channels, is available now on all platforms where Discord is available, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web. If you’ve used Discord before,… Read more