Author: Zach_Wilson
How to make your smartphone last longer
Replacing a smartphone every two years is partially why billions of phones go into landfills each year. If stacked flat atop one another, that many handsets would reach farther than the ISS. But we’ve become accustomed to that 24-month time frame because wireless carriers often push an upgrade on biennial…
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Nuclear weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet
Last month, several news outlets reported that Russia could be planning to deploy a space-based nuclear weapon, alarming, well, pretty much everyone. US policy hawks, space environmentalists, and anyone with a lingering memory of Cold War-era fears over nuclear annihilation were all sounding the alarm about the threat posed by…
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The Best Instax Cameras and Printers (2024): Film Types, Tips, and More
Should you buy an Instax Mini? Instax Mini Evo? Instax Square? We demystify Fujifilm’s Instax lineup to help you find the perfect instant camera (or printer). Source
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Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection gets swept up in more controversy as Aspyr may have used uncredited work from modders
Aspyr Media may have used a modder’s work and not credited the owner for the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection. Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection was released last week for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC following a surprise announcement and thus far hasn’t been received too…
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The Morning After: NVIDIA says its Blackwell GPUs are the world’s most powerful chips
NVIDIA’s H100 chips are used by nearly every AI company in the world to train large language models hooked into services like ChatGPT. It’s been great for business. Now, the company is ready to make those chips look terrible, announcing a next-generation platform called Blackwell. Named for David Harold Blackwell,…
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The Meta Quest 3 Lite gets another image leak – and a new name
Nothing is official yet, but it seems increasingly likely that a cheaper version of the Meta Quest 3 is on the way. Now we have a freshly leaked image of the headset – which apparently isn’t called the Meta Quest 3 Lite. That’s the name we’ve used for previous leaks,…
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