Month: June 2022
We’re still waiting for the laptop’s big year
After a long, long month of laptop releases, Computex 2022 is finally over. In some ways, it’s the Computex that wasn’t. The early part of this year was an exciting time to be a laptop reporter. Every company and its mother announced that big ideas were on the way. Wacky…
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Chinese astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station to prepare for its completion
Three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, arrived at the Tianhe core module of the unfinished Tiangong space station on Sunday morning, where they’ll stay for six months to help finish its construction (via Space.com). The Shenzhou 14 spacecraft took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on…
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Nvidia RTX 4060 could arrive in January 2023 – with a sting in the tail?
Audio player loading… Nvidia’s RTX 4060 GPU is going to represent a fair old leap in power usage compared to the current-gen graphics cards from Team Green, and will consume more wattage than the RTX 3070 according to fresh speculation – plus we’ve heard something about the release date, too,…
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Hitting the Books: Newton’s alchemical dalliances make him no less of a scientist
The modern world as we know it simply would not exist if not for the mind of Sir Isaac Newton. His synthesis of differential calculus and pioneering research on the nature of gravity and light are bedrocks of the scientific method. However in his later years, Newton's interests were admittedly…
Read MoreLove, Death and Robots’ most beautiful episode was ‘a love letter to Moebius’
Volume 3 of Love, Death and Robots covers a lot of ground: haunting alien landscapes, frighteningly realistic sea monsters, cute zombie apocalypses. But, even still, one episode in particular manages to stand out: “The Very Pulse of the Machine.” It’s a beautiful, lonely animated short about an astronaut named Martha…
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Apple’s AR/VR headset is likely to be a no show at WWDC 2022
Audio player loading… The much-leaked Apple AR/VR headset isn’t going to see the light of day until 2023 according to a new report citing “people familiar” with the project, which means we won’t get to see it revealed at the WWDC 2022 event this coming Monday. It’s the New York…
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