If new patent details are any indication, Apple might be paving the way for a major redesign of the iMac — one that effectively transforms the iconic desktop computer into a display embedded in a single sheet of glass. According to the details in Apple’s patent (titled “Electronic Device with Glass Housing Member”), the idea…
Apple’s latest M2 (opens in new tab) 13-inch MacBook Pro laptops contain a significantly slower SSD – or at least one putting out slower transfer rates – than the equivalent M1 models. The discovery was reported by MacRumors (opens in new tab) and builds on the work of YouTube channels such as Max Tech (opens…
Cerebras, the company behind the world’s largest accelerator chip in existence, the CS-2 Wafer Scale Engine, has just announced a milestone: the training of the world’s largest NLP (Natural Language Processing) AI model in a single device. While that in itself could mean many things (it wouldn’t be much of a record to break if…
Cluster computer the Turing Pi 2 has just launched on Kickstarter, and with 29 days still to go has breezed past its $64,000 goal with over $1 million pledged at the time of writing. An extra special addition to the Turing Pi 2, as reported by CNX Software, is that it supports a brand-new module,…
As soon as the Raspberry Pi Pico, and its RP2040 microcontroller chip, became available back in January 2021, people have been integrating it into many different form factors, some of which include tiny IPS screens. The newly available LilyGO T-PicoC3 takes this trend to its inevitable conclusion by combining the RP2040 with another microcontroller –…
The deluge of spam calls that many people receive every single week is absolutely maddening. Even more frustrating is that the folks behind these seemingly endless calls are getting tricker. As a prime example, many spam calls now show up from numbers that look remarkably similar to the recipient’s number. This makes it seem that…
RISC-V is a novel processor instruction set architecture (ISA) developed at UC Berkely. Originally designed for teaching purposes, the ISA has been released as an open-source, license-free template that is used for now millions or even billions of applications. However, as an average PC user, how could you use a RISC-V processor? Well, according to…
A single China-based mining operation reportedly plans to move 1 million Bitcoin mining rigs to Canada over the next 24 months with the help of a U.S. company. The partnership between Optimum Mining Host (OMH) and Black Rock Petroleum Company (BRPC) could offer a glimpse at the scale of the mining operations being forced to…
XMG has added a new processor option to the company’s existing Neo 15 and Neo 17. Intel’s new Core i7-11800H (Tiger Lake) processor will be powering XMG’s refreshed gaming laptops. Built on Intel’s 10nm SuperFin process, the Core i7-11800H wields eight Willow Cove cores with Hyper-Threading and up to 24MB of L3 cache. The 45W…