Month: June 2024
How the laptop could become the battery — new revolutionary carbon-based material means your laptop chassis could become a power source, eliminating the need for a traditional battery
Building on the pioneering work done at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Swedish startup Sinonus is looking to commercialize a new multifunctional carbon fiber composite that can function as a battery, with the hope its technology could potentially eliminate traditional battery packs in devices like laptops, electric vehicles, and…
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“World’s Fastest Storage Device” — Highpoint card paired with eight of the quickest SSDs delivers a staggering 60GBps in read performance but it will cost you dear
Two years ago, TweakTown reviewed HighPoint Technologies’ SSD7540 PCIe Gen4 M.2 RAID card, which achieved an impressive 28GB/s sequential throughput. Wanting to see how things have improved since, the site decided to put HighPoint’s PCIe Gen5 x16 Rocket 1608A card through its paces. With a theoretical bandwidth of 64GB/s, the…
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We have another clue about which chipset the Samsung Galaxy S25 may use
The launch of the Samsung Galaxy S25 is most likely still more than 6 months away, and yet we’ve already heard plenty of leaks about what to expect – and the latest to catch our attention concerns the chipset the smartphone series will use. According to ZDNet Korea (via Android…
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Even Elden Ring’s game director knows Erdtree is too hard
As I work my way through Shadow of the Erdtree, the new DLC for Elden Ring, I can’t help but think that game director Hidetaka Miyazaki is trolling the shit outta me. Speaking with him at Summer Game Fest two weeks ago, Miyazaki said that Erdtree is “by far the…
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How to stream video to your TV using a VPN
Thanks to the convoluted nature of geography-based licensing among the major studios, streaming services with international reach can have much more comprehensive selections of TV shows and movies in a different country. That’s why savvy viewers have long used VPNs – virtual private networks – to expand their options. Change…
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These Are the Best Laptop Backpacks We’ve Tried and Tested
Whether you’re biking to the office or schlepping a camera to a shoot, a laptop bag is your constant companion. These WIRED-reviewed packs do the job. Source
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