On the evening of Sept. 13, something hit Jupiter, producing an explosion and a flash of light visible even to amateur astronomers with off-the-shelf telescopes. Now, the hunt is on to figure out what the impactor could have been. The collision was first reported by Brazilian amateur astronomer José Luis …
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Google released the Pixel Slate with much fanfare in late 2018, bringing to fruition its efforts to optimize Chrome OS for the tablet form factor. The device sold boatloads and finally solidified Google’s position in the tablet market. Actually, no — the Pixel Slate sold so poorly that Google …
Read More »Oppos 125W Flash Charge
Oppo’s 125W ‘Flash Charge’ Can Completely Recharge a Phone in 20 Minutes Charging your phone used to mean plugging it in and walking away for a long, long time as power slowly leached into the battery. In just the last few years, charging speeds have improved dramatically thanks to USB-C …
Read More »Toshiba may spin off or sell its NAND flash business after accounting scandal, cost overruns
Toshiba is investigating radical options for restructuring in the wake of its 2015 accounting scandal and a massive write-down on the value of its US nuclear business. The company has confirmed that it is evaluating splitting its semiconductor business with longtime partner Western Digital, and that any entity created in …
Read More »Kingston announces world’s largest capacity 2TB flash drive
How much storage space do you need on a laptop? For most people, a few hundred gigabytes will do it. Maybe you need a terabyte on the device if you work with a lot of big files. Flash drives were long seen as a way to keep a subset of …
Read More »iPhone Xenon Flash Adapter (video)
Smartphone photographers especially those equipped with iPhone devices looking for a more powerful smartphone flash solution. May be interested in the Xenon Flash for iPhone which has been created by iStabilizer. The new iPhone camera accessory has been created to provide a professional iPhone Xenon flash adapter that is capable …
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