Author: Zach_Wilson
Qualcomm’s new mobile chip is the 8 Elite
Just a few years after changing its mobile chipset naming conventions, Qualcomm has gone and done it again. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is the company’s newest high-end smartphone SoC, and like the laptop chips it borrows its “Elite” name from, it comes with a new Oryon CPU. The company says…
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OnePlus 13: latest news, rumors, and everything we’ve heard so far
The OnePlus 13 is set to be one of the final flagship phones of 2024, though it will probably only be a 2024 release in China, with the rest of the world likely to get it in 2025. Either way though, it could be worth the wait, as between leaks…
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First AMD EPYC 9965 benchmarks are in; Turin server CPU sets flurry of new world records across wide range of software, but will that be enough to stop Xeon and Arm’s forthcoming onslaught?
Intel recently launched its 128-core “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6900P processor family, finally offering some true competition to AMD’s EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo server line. The first reviews praised Intel’s new chips, with the overall consensus being that the 6900P range successfully heralded Intel’s long-awaited resurgence in the server CPU arena. While…
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News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post
News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.” Perplexity…
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‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer
After a decade away, Jeff VanderMeer is heading back into Area X. In 2014, the author released all three parts of the Southern Reach trilogy over the span of just a few months, and the series became a breakout hit; the first was even adapted into a Hollywood film from…
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The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are majorly popular, which is exciting and frightening in equal measure
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have grown on me. I liked them a fair bit when I first reviewed them, but the addition of the Meta AI – which has now rolled out beyond the US officially – has made them easily the best AI wearable out there, and one…
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