Tesla is adding quite a few features with its latest app update. Spotted by Not a Tesla App, the 4.19 update to the Tesla app adds its new “Drive on Sunshine” feature, makes the charging membership available to non-Tesla owners, and also shows more details about charging speeds and capacity. The biggest update with the…
US storage giant Western Digital already covers SSD, memory cards, RAM and hard disk drives and has dipped its toes in DNA data storage (it is a founding member of the DNA Data Storage Alliance). Now, newly-unearthed patents appear to show that the company may want to (re) add tape to complete its current media…
Despite the rumors, it seems that optical media is not dead – at least not yet. Streaming might have pushed physical media (DVD and Blu-ray) out of the limelight, into dollar shops and bargain buckets but Folio Photonics, a startup we covered extensively in 2022, wants to buck the trend and open up a new…
The number of GPU startups in China is extraordinary as the country tries to gain AI prowess as well as semiconductor sovereignty, according to a new report from Jon Peddie Research. In addition, the number of GPU makers grew worldwide in recent years as demand for artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), and graphics processing increased at a…
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If you are curious about Verizon’s network but aren’t quite ready to commit to paying for it, we have some good news. Verizon launched a new early access program this week that will let anyone give its network a trial run for free for 30 days. Verizon Test Drive, much like similar programs from AT&T…
When Honda finally built a Civic Type R for all of us to enjoy, the results were unquestionably outstanding. No longer relegated to forbidden fruit status in this part of the world, it barely took any meaningful time behind the wheel to understand what the hype has been about from the start. The short version…
Even the best SSDs are dirt cheap these days, so it’s very tempting to upgrade your gear. Migrating from one drive to another can be tiresome, however. You have the OS, your apps, all your settings and your data. Starting over from a clean install of Windows (or Linux) would take forever and you’d probably…
New findings from cloud storage and backup company Backblaze has shed light on the long-term reliability of SSDs versus HDDs, when deployed as boot drives. The second edition of the Backblaze drive statistics report (opens in new tab), based on the storage hardware deployed across the company’s data centers, shows the annualized failure rate (AFR)…
Sony’s decision to increase the price of its PlayStation 5 game consoles due to inflation rates and the global economic environment has surprised the industry, as this is not something console developers usually do. But since the company did it, Microsoft will not follow suit with its Xbox Series X|S machines. Our colleagues from WindowsCentral…
