Month: September 2023
Lamborghini Lanzador EV First Drive: Shooting for the Moon
The Italian supercar maker’s 1,340-horsepower electric car won’t go on sale for five years—but that didn’t stop WIRED from taking the prototype for an exclusive early spin. Source
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Remember the venerable tape from the VHS era? It’s back with a vengeance and a 50TB capacity
IBM has quietly introduced a new tape drive, the TS1170, that can read and write on a new enterprise tape data cartridge, the 3592 JF manufactured by Fujifilm, that has a native capacity of 50 TB – almost three times that of archrival LTO-9 (which currently offers 18 TB). The…
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Google leaks Pixel 8 Pro again with a 360-degree preview
If you had any remaining questions about what the Pixel 8 Pro looks like, Google is here to answer them. The company has put online a 360-degree simulator that lets you turn the device over back to front and top to bottom, with helpful indicators pointing out where various sensors…
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Apple signs new agreement with Arm that goes past 2040
Apple has struck a deal with the chip design company Arm that goes past 2040, as reported by Reuters. A disclosure noting the arrangement appeared in new documents Arm filed as part of its planned IPO. The statement about the deal doesn’t have much additional detail. “We have entered into…
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Here’s Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s public memo on Google at 25
To everyone around the world who uses our products, our employees, and our partners: This month, Google will celebrate our 25th birthday. It’s a huge privilege to reach this milestone, made possible by the people who use our products and challenge us to keep innovating, the hundreds of thousands of…
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Zoom is even less happy about Microsoft Teams than you are
He’s got a point about bundling! Vox Media uses Google Meet now because it’s part of our Google Workspace account, though we used to use Zoom. As for Teams, I’ve never used it, but there’s still a little Teams icon in my PC’s system tray because Microsoft jammed it in…
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