Month: January 2023
AMD thinks the PC sales slump will end after one more rough quarter
Su predicts that the total addressable market for PCs will shrink 10 percent this year, down to around 260 million units. (IDC reported this month that 292.3 million PCs shipped in 2022, and both IDC and Gartner suggested it might take until 2024 to recover.) Su says AMD is expecting…
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We can’t afford to offset our aviation emissions
With business continuing as usual, climate pollution from aviation could nearly triple by 2050 as demand for air travel grows, according to a new study published yesterday in the journal Nature Sustainability. It would cost up to $1 trillion to try to remove enough of that pollution from the atmosphere…
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Rode added a removable microphone to its headphones
Rode is packaging the NTH-100 headphones with a headset microphone for broadcast, streaming, and other voice operations and calling it the NTH-100M. There is virtually no difference between last year’s NTH-100s and the new $189 NTH-100M outside of the new removable boom microphone and the required TRRS cable for allowing…
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Samsung Galaxy S23 live blog: last-minute news and rumors ahead of Unpacked 2023
Refresh 2023-01-31T22:12:27.698Z The S22 Ultra (Image credit: Future) As the Samsung fans over at SamMobile unearthed earlier this month, the Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus will sport new primary cameras at the same 50MP resolution as last year’s model. The Galaxy S23 Ultra will drop the 108MP sensor of its…
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AMD RDNA 3 appears primed for 3D V-cache integration
Audio player loading… With the announcement of AMD Ryzen 7000X3D-series chips at CES 2023, a lot of attention has been paid to what the new stackable cache technology can bring to Zen 4 processors. According to a new teardown of the Radeon RX 7900 XT, there is reason to hope…
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EA is shutting down Apex Legends Mobile and not giving refunds
Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment announced the game’s mobile version will shut down in all regions on May 1st, just a few weeks shy of its one-year anniversary. As if that wasn’t enough bad news for players, it also said that once the game is gone, so are any items…
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