Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has revealed that China will soon have home-grown “next generation” chips for AI systems, which raises the question of whether the country has achieved a big breakthrough in building its own technology stack. The statement came in a short note on the company’s official WeChat account, where …
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AMD is about to break some major news in the laptop world, as it’ll reportedly be adding V-Cache to a new line of Zen 4 mobile gaming CPUs. For AMD, mobile CPUs are the final frontier for vertically stacked L3 cache, as it already offers it on its desktop and …
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Neuralink aims to create a brain-computer interface (BCI), which would allow a user to control a computer simply by thinking about it. Such technology could be a boon to those with paralysis or another medical condition that affects mobility. It could also lead to novel ways to interact with technology …
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There is currently a chasm in the Mac desktop lineup in between the entry-level Mac Mini, and the expensive Mac Pro. The Mac Mini pricing starts at $699, and the Mac Pro starts at $5,999 (and goes to the stratosphere), so that’s quite a gulf.To remedy this, Apple is reportedly …
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According to sources involved with Apple’s supply chain, the company plans to launch its rumored mixed reality headset later this year. This flies in the face of earlier reports that the headset had been delayed until next year due to a variety of issues Apple was struggling with. This would …
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It’s quite rare for Apple to announce a new technology at one of its hardware launch events, then scuttle it afterwards, but that’s exactly what happened with its much-hyped AirPower charging mat. The tantalizing mat would have been able to charge three Apple devices at once: an iPhone, Apple Watch, …
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According to a new report, cryptocurrency miners aren’t just buying up desktop PC GPUs — they’ve started hoovering up gaming laptops as well. This has kept gaming laptop sales high through Q1 when normally the market would have cooled off by now. This information comes courtesy of DigiTimes, via …
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Apple’s CPU technology and its run-up against AMD and Intel has received a great deal of press, with various pundits weighing in on what they see as the risks or rewards of Apple pivoting to use its own silicon. Its GPU project, however, continues to fly mostly under the …
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Reportedly Hit With Ransomware Attack You might not have thought much about Garmin since smartphones took over from standalone GPS units, but the company still has a large and passionate base of fitness-tracking users. Those passionate users are understandably agitated as the company’s services have been down for the last …
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It looks like there’s more trouble round the corner for Uber. Reuters is reporting that the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the company’s controversial “greyball program” which helped it sidestep law enforcement officials and regulators. The existence of the program was made public in early …
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