Month: September 2024
Apple’s new Mac Mini might be coming with some design compromises
Apple’s Mac mini might finally be getting a new design, but it could come at the cost of some compromises, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On newsletter. According to him, the upcoming M4 Mac mini will likely be ditching USB-A ports in favor of a radically reduced…
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Electrolight is a short and sweet Playdate adventure game about branching out
Heart-warming little adventure games have really found a place to thrive in the Playdate. I picked up Electrolight this weekend while looking for something in the same vein as the bite-sized puzzle/exploration game, Eyeland — cute, low-commitment, not particularly difficult — and found it to be utterly charming. Electrolight is…
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Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound yesterday
US astronaut Barry Wilmore called NASA ground crew on Saturday, asking for help with a repetitive knocking sound that was coming from the Boeing Starliner craft. The interaction was captured by a NASA Space Flight forum member, who included a recording of it in a post that was spotted by…
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Do we have Microsoft to thank for the iPhone?
On the eve of yet another Apple event, one in which it introduces a collection of iPhone 16 handsets probably not hugely different from the year before, and the collective technology consumer leaps into buying action because, well, it’s Apple, it’s worth remembering that, perhaps, none of this would’ve been…
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‘The Linux of processors’ — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC
In 2019, the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) began the “XiangShan” project, aiming to create a high-performance open-source RISC-V processor. The result of this endeavor was the XiangShan processor core, which has gained much attention on GitHub, with over 4,500 stars and 630…
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Apple’s rumored Mac Mini redesign may ditch the USB-A port
Apple’s next Mac Mini won’t have USB-A ports, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in today’s Power On newsletter that the new desktops will start to hit Apple’s warehouses in September. The higher-end variant with an Apple M4 Pro chip will ship in October, he writes. The version with…
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