Month: June 2022
TSMC joins Intel in calls for Congress to hurry up with chip funding
Audio player loading… A member of the board at TSMC has echoed calls from Intel and other semiconductor companies for Congress to reach a swift agreement on the CHIPS Act, which is set to unlock $52 billion in federal funding. Ming-Hsin Kung, who is also a minister in the Taiwanese…
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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ races to its conclusion with a spot-on ‘Aliens’ riff
The following article includes significant spoilers for All Those Who Wander. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has never been ashamed to tip its hat to the stories it’s riffing upon, some more obviously than others. This week’s episode, All Those Who Wander, might as well just have been called “Screw it,…
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The Steam Deck’s best button is its software
The Steam Deck has a lot of buttons. There’s a D-pad, all the typical face buttons, two control sticks that also respond to capacitive touch and can be pushed down like buttons, two trackpads with haptic feedback that are also pressure-sensitive buttons, two shoulder bumpers, two analog shoulder triggers, and…
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The Metaverse is Still Messy
This week, we talk with author and venture capitalist Matthew Ball about the metaverse and whether this next generation of the internet will ever really materialize. Source
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These cheeky handmade mirrors are perfect for TikTok
Annemarie Rose is bent over a sheet of glass, hair tucked into a messy half ponytail, tracing the outline of a heart into its glossy surface. She breaks it apart, sands the edges, and etches a simple message across its smooth surface: spit in my mouth. “Something hot for Valentine’s…
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Windows 11 continues to struggle to attract new users
Audio player loading… Windows 11 is still hampered by a lackluster pace of adoption, looking at the latest figures gauging the market share of Microsoft’s desktop operating system. The report on Windows versions and their respective market share compiled by AdDuplex (opens in new tab) for June 2022 shows that…
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