Month: June 2022
RIP Chris Evans’ iPhone 6S
I think most of us here at The Verge can agree that if we were famous celebrities who acted in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, we would always be rocking the latest and greatest tech. That’s apparently not how Chris Evans, star of Lightyear and The Avengers,…
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Intel Raptor Lake is already 20% faster than Alder Lake in leaked benchmarks
Audio player loading… A newly leaked benchmark may have revealed that the Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K could be 20% percent faster than the Alder Lake Core i9-12900K in multi-threading. This benchmark leak, which comes from Expressview and reported on by Wccftech, was revealed just after the i9-13900K was allegedly…
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Apple Music Student Plan members just got an unhappy surprise
Audio player loading… Apple is quietly raising the price of its Apple Music Student plan again, but this time, in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The changes were first spotted by Twitter users (opens in new tab) who noticed the price hike in the American plan, which…
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The Mars Express spacecraft is finally getting a Windows 98 upgrade
Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are getting ready for a Windows 98 upgrade on an orbiter circling Mars. The Mars Express spacecraft has been operating for more than 19 years, and the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument onboard has been using software based…
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Linus Torvalds: Rust is coming to the Linux kernel ‘real soon’
Audio player loading… The next version of the Linux kernel may come bundled with support for the Rust programming language, creator Linus Torvalds has hinted. At the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit, Torvalds told the audience that support for Rust in the Linux kernel could arrive with version 5.20 of…
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Apple’s second-gen AirPods drop to $100, plus the best early Prime Day deals you can get now
We may be a few weeks out from Amazon Prime Day, but early deals are already starting to roll in. If you’re in need of a new smart TV, Amazon has discounted a bunch of Fire TVs and Prime members can pick up a 55-inch Omni Series set for only…
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