May 2024

Podcast: 32TB HDDs by 2029, but how much bigger can they get?

In this podcast, we look at the roadmap for spinning disk HDD capacity with Rainer W Kaese, senior manager in business development for storage products at Toshiba Electronics Europe. We talk about the likely disk drive capacities we can see in the next four or five year as we head into the 30TB and 40TB…

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This is the dumbest M4 iPad Pro complaint I’ve seen

One of the iPad Pro’s big upgrades is the ultra-thin Tandem OLED screen that we knew Apple was working on. The screen has two OLED layers, hence the “tandem” name, and they let Apple significantly increase the screen’s brightness. You also get a better contrast ratio, deeper blacks, and better efficiency from the Tandem OLED…

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This is the biggest change in RAM technology we’ve seen in years

Micron has started shipping a brand new type of upgradeable laptop RAM that is available to buy individually and in the latest Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7. The new type of RAM module integrates LPDDR5X memory with speeds up to 7,500 MT/s. That’s really impressive, given the size and the fact that it’s even easier…

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OpenAI’s new ChatGPT privacy tool lets creators hide their work from the AI

OpenAI has been in hot water regarding data privacy ever since ChatGPT was first released to the public. The company used a lot of data from the public internet to train the large language model powering ChatGPT and other AI products. But that seems to have included copyrighted content. Some creators went ahead and sued…

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VESA Rolls Out DisplayHDR 1.2 Spec: Adding Color Accuracy, Black Crush, & Wide-Color Gamuts For All

VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the…

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Nvidia could use massive 600W-capable cooler for RTX 5090 – but don’t panic about flagship GPU being a power hog

New photos have surfaced showing what could be Nvidia RTX 5000 prototype designs with far larger coolers than we’ve seen from even leading current-gen Lovelace graphics cards. As Videocardz reports, there’s fresh evidence revealing that Nvidia is experimenting with triple and quad-slot coolers for its upcoming Blackwell RTX 50 series.Add seasoning appropriately here, but should this…

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Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs might be slower but this could help fix a major issue

Normally CPU performance increases with newer generations but, according to a new leak, the upcoming Intel chips may be going against the grain.A new leak reveals that the Intel Arrow Lake desktop lineup may have a clock speed of up to 5.5 GHz, much lower than its current flagship Intel Core i9-14900KS which can reach…

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There’s one iPad Pro feature that could get me to switch from my iPad mini

I love my iPad mini. It’s the best iPad I’ve ever owned — even after owning an iPad Air and iPad Pro in the past. However, there’s one feature of the new iPad Pro that has me wondering if it might make sense to give the Pro another go.On Tuesday, Apple hosted its “Let Loose” event and…

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Apple Announces M4 SoC: Latest and Greatest Starts on 2024 iPad Pro

Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life…

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Upcoming AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 Processor Leaked By ASUS?

In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks that all but allude to the next generation of AMD’s mobile processors. While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen…

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