Samsung seems to have accidentally confirmed the upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display in a blog post about One UI 8.5 updates for Good Lock. A since-removed screenshot from the post shows a dedicated Privacy Display toggle in the Quick Settings panel, positioned between the music widget and Nearby devices …
Read More »'Ringing' Black Hole Signal Confirms Both Einstein's and Hawking's Theories
Gravitational wave detections have provided yet another insight for fundamental physics, with a new detection that helps to bolster the work of both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.Scientists studied a series of gravitational wave signals with advanced analytical techniques designed to pull faint background wave signals out of a cacophony …
Read More »Intel Confirms 12 P-Core Bartlett Lake S CPU In Nova Lake Slide
Intel has given the first confirmation of the long-rumored Bartlett Lake CPU with 12 performance cores and no E cores. The surprise reveal comes in a slide about Intel’s Time Coordinated Computing platform, which pushes high-performance edge computing. The document is designed to show how Intel’s CPUs can manage real-time and general-purpose …
Read More »Deep Dive on Zen 5 Mobile Architecture Confirms 16% IPC Over Zen 4
AMD announced revamped Zen 5 processors at Computex in May for desktop and mobile, but they won’t launch until July. Ahead of their auspicious debut, we now have our first deep dive into Zen 5 mobile, and it verifies AMD’s claim of an IPC (instructions per clock) gain over Zen …
Read More »Space Telescope Confirms First Exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope was not designed exclusively to hunt for exoplanets like NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), but it can still make vital contributions to our understanding of these distant worlds. NASA has announced that Webb just confirmed its first exoplanet, a world known as LHS 475 …
Read More »Gigantic Inbound Comet
Last year, news broke that scientists had discovered a huge inbound comet, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein. It was the most distant comet we’d ever discovered. And it was huge, so big scientists originally thought it was a minor planet. But it was so distant that all our pictures were still blurry. So, …
Read More »Chinese Lunar Rover
China made history in 2018 when it landed the Chang’e 4 mission on the lunar surface. The lander deployed a plucky little rover known as Yutu-2, which is still trundling around the far side of the moon—a first for humanity. Late last year, the rover spotted something unusual in the …
Read More »Micron Memory Shortages
If you were considering upgrading your gaming rig to Intel’s new Alder Lake platform, and dropping in some DDR5 memory modules, memory manufacturer Micron has some bad news for you. The company confirmed in an earnings call recently that production of the next-gen memory modules is quite difficult at this …
Read More »Google Pixel 6
Google’s recently released Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are huge steps forward for the company’s smartphones. Google is finally getting serious about its hardware by offering big batteries, great displays, and a custom ARM chip called Tensor. Google even boosted the Pixel series’ anemic charging speed, although, it’s not …
Read More »Nvidia Confirms GPUs
Nvidia has released a preview of its Q1 2021 revenue figures and a statement indicating the GPU shortage that’s bedeviled the market since September 2020 isn’t going away any time soon. The good news is, Nvidia expects to earn more than the $5.3 billion it previously predicted. Nvidia doesn’t …
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