Month: February 2025
Volkswagen claims it’s actually making that $20,000 EV and will show it next month
Volkswagen has announced that next month, it will show off a new low-cost, entry-level EV that could cost just €20,000 (about $20,800 USD), the price it suggested it would hit back when it announced the ID. Life concept in 2021. That’s a steal compared to current low-end US EVs like…
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Steam now warns you if an ‘early access’ PC game might be abandoned
Steam’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access game’s store page if it’s been a minute since the last update. If…
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Comcast’s Super Bowl broadcast won’t just look great in Dolby Vision, but it will have Dolby Atmos sound for the first time
Comcast will offer the Super Bowl with a Dolby Atmos mix It’s part of Comcast’s ‘Ehanced 4K’ product, which pairs this sound mix with Dolby Vision and 4K view. You’ll need to have the right equipment to take full advantage. If you’re looking for the most immersive visual and sound…
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Want to rent a $300,000 AMD MI300A supercomputer for free for seven days? Gigabyte wants to hear from you ASAP
Gigabyte G383 R80 supercomputer costs $304,207 Distributors and users without a clear project are not eligible Get up to two weeks free trial via email Gigabyte, through its subsidiary Giga Computing, is offering qualified individuals and organizations the opportunity to test one of the world’s most advanced supercomputers, the Gigabyte…
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Qwertykeys halts keyboard shipments to US over tariff costs and confusion
The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporaily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it’s working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that “all keyboards from China to…
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SUPERb: Chinese researchers just designed and built a flying robot that looks like a precursor to Matrix’s laser-focused Sentinels
[embedded content] LiDAR helps SUPER to detect and avoid even the thinnest obstacles The drone can track moving targets in dense forests SUPER’s real-time spatial mapping allows it to operate effectively even in low-light conditions A team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong has designed and tested an…
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