Month: September 2023
The smaller iPhone 16 Pro might get Apple’s new ‘tetraprism’ zoom lens
Next year’s Pro iPhones are both “expected” to have the “tetraprism” zoom lens Apple is using for the 5x telephoto camera in the iPhone 15 Pro Max, according to a new post from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. That tetraprism optical system, which is intended to replicate a 120mm lens of…
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The cheaper $600 Asus ROG Ally is here, and you probably shouldn’t buy it
If you’ve been eying an Asus ROG Ally gaming handheld but can’t quite justify the $700 price tag… you’ll probably want to keep on waiting. Today, the company has begun selling a less-expensive $600 model with a lower-performance AMD Z1 chip, but early reviews suggest the Windows gaming handheld is…
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Top business software development platform Retool breached, blames Google Authenticator
Software development platform Retool has pointed the finger of blame at Google after suffering a data breach. Here’s what happened: a hacking collective engaged in SMS phishing and social engineering managed to steal login credentials for an Okta account belonging to a Retool IT employee. It was quite an elaborate…
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Apple A17 Pro is a match for Intel and AMD CPUs, and this is great news for Apple M3
Newly leaked benchmark scores for Apple’s A17 Pro system-on-chip (SoC) for smartphones reveal that it can challenge AMD and Intel’s processors in Geekbench 6. According to Apple’s A17 Pro scores in Geekbench 6’s single-core test, it scored within 10% of AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel’s Core i9-13900K processors. The…
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Music industry revenue hits all-time high
The RIAA just put out the music industry’s midyear revenue report, and it’s a stark illustration of the haves / have-not divide that’s been accelerating in the streaming era. Actually, scratch that: it’s a terrific illustration of how good it is for the haves: retail revenue is up 9.3 percent…
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AMD unleashes intriguing new EPYC server CPUs — and its main feature could be key for Ryzen’s future
AMD has finally launched its EPYC 8004-series processors, a dozen of them, with a new SP6 socket and up to 64 Zen-4c cores (128 threads). The Siena CPU range completes the family whose other members include Genoa (high performance), Genoa-X (big cache) and Bergamo (cloud native). In AMD’s own words,…
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