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‘Misogynistic’ Apple hire is out hours after employees call for investigation

Antonio García Martínez is no longer working at Apple hours after employees circulated a petition calling for an investigation into his hiring. Martínez, a former Facebook product manager on the ad targeting team, authored a controversial book about Silicon Valley where he expressed misogynistic views on women. “We are deeply concerned about the recent hiring… Read more

Colorful’s Cute GeForce RTX 3060 Will Hit Shelves for $839

Home News Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 3060 bilibili E-sports Edition OC 12G (Image credit: Colorful) Colorful’s iGame GeForce RTX 3060 bilibili E-sports Edition OC 12G graphics card sports a cooler very similar to what you might find on Nvidia’s own Ampere Founders Edition cards. The graphics card won’t come cheap; it’s set to arrive at… Read more

MSI Website Lists RTX 3080 Ti Early

Home News (Image credit: Reddit) Leaker @momomo_us on Twitter today posted screenshots showing MSI’s website with a listing for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, seemingly confirming the card’s existence. Since the Tweet went out, MSI has quickly fixed the listing, so you won’t find it on the website anymore. This little hiccup seems and… Read more

Asus Unveils Hybrid Cooled ROG Strix RX 6900 XT With Navi 21 XTXH

Home News (Image credit: Asus) Asus has introduced its highest-performing AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT-based graphics card to date, the ROG Strix LC RX 6900 XT Top Overclocked Edition. The board features an out-of-box boost clock of 2525 MHz and uses a hybrid air / liquid cooling system to lower temperatures and maximize overclocking potential. Asus… Read more

Intel’s flagship Tiger Lake-H mobile chips are here to take on Ryzen 5000

Intel has added five consumer processors and five commercial processors to its 11th Gen Core H-series generation (codenamed “Tiger Lake-H”). Both groups include three eight-core chips and two six-core chips. All of the parts are 35W, save the flagship Core i9-11980HK, which is clocked at 65W. You’ll see them in over 30 upcoming ultraportables (laptops… Read more

Apple could use its own 5G modems for iPhone starting in 2023

Home / Lifestyle / Mobile / Apple / Apple could use its own 5G modems for iPhone starting in 2023 Matthew Wilson 4 hours ago Apple, Featured Tech News Apple’s first attempt to get out of its partnership with Qualcomm did not go to plan, with the company eventually agreeing to continue to use Qualcomm’s… Read more

Pony.ai unveils its next-gen robotaxi with LIDAR from Luminar

Pony.ai’s next-generation robotaxi is distinctive because it appears to be missing the cone-shaped LIDAR sensor perched on the roof that’s typical of most autonomous vehicles. That’s because the startup, which is based in Silicon Valley and Guangzhou, China, is teaming up with Luminar to use the fast-growing LIDAR company’s sleek new sensors that are more… Read more

Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity

After more than a year of iOS exclusivity, social audio platform Clubhouse is releasing its Android app. It will be available in beta on Google’s mobile OS today in the US, allowing users to sign up and participate in its audio-only chat rooms. “Our plan over the next few weeks is to collect feedback from… Read more

Galax Launches First GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 With Ethereum Nerf

Home News Galax GeForce RTX 3080 Black General FG (Image credit: Galax) Galax (via VideoCardz) has re-released the brand’s GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 Black General graphics cards with Nvidia’s revamped Ampere silicon, which cracks down on Ethereum mining. The new graphics cards with the anti-mining limiter are identical to the previous revisions in… Read more

The autonomous vehicle world is shrinking — it’s overdue

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge ‘The AV industry has promised too much for too long, and has delivered too little’ After years of positive vibes about the future of autonomous vehicles and nearly unrestricted access to cash from Kool-Aid-drunk venture capitalists, the AV industry is confronting some hard truths. The first is… Read more

TSMC to Produce 5nm Chips for Cryptocurrency Mining

Home News (Image credit: Bitmain) As Bitcoin and Ethereum reach record-high prices, miners can increase their spending on hardware and companies developing mining ASICs waste no time rolling out new models. Bitmain, a designer of mining accelerators, has reportedly placed an order with TSMC to produce an ASIC using the foundry’s latest N5 fabrication process… Read more

ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula Review – This Card is Fast

Introduction We have with us the ASRock Radeon RX 6900 XT OC Formula, the company’s new flagship graphics card, positioned a notch above even the RX 6900 XT Phantom Gaming. This sees the company revive its topmost “OC Formula” brand co-developed by Nick Shih, which represents the company’s boutique range of motherboards and graphics cards… Read more

Substack introduces publication sections for newsletters so writers can ‘grow their media empire’

Newsletter publishing platform Substack has introduced publication sections for its newsletters, which will allow writers “to create and manage multiple newsletters or podcasts within a single main publication,” the company announced Thursday. “As your publication grows, you might start to expand what you offer to readers,” Substack explained in a blog post. “For example, you… Read more

IBM Unveils World’s First 2nm Chip with Nanosheet Tech, Intel and Samsung to Benefit

Home News (Image credit: IBM) IBM research unveiled a new 2nm chip with nanosheet technology today that will serve as the underpinning of its future process technology. IBM displayed a full 300mm wafer produced on the 2nm nanosheet process at its Albany, New York facilities. However, it is important to remember that the technology is… Read more

New climate goals are going to need a lot more minerals

The world isn’t mining enough minerals to reach a future that runs on clean energy, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel are the building blocks for clean energy economies. Countries can’t meet their new climate goals without them. If supply chains can’t meet skyrocketing… Read more