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The M3 MacBook Air is officially discontinued, but the M2 MacBook Air will live on elsewhere and that’s good news
Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Air with M4 starts at $999 or $1,199 for the 15-inch The previous-generation MacBook Air with M3 is discontinued The even earlier M2 MacBook Air, which previously started at $999, will live on via other retailers New Apple devices typically mean the previous generation drops to…
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Gundam GQuuuuuuX will stream on Amazon next month
Today, Amazon Prime announced that it has secured the rights to stream dubbed and subbed versions of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, a new show produced by studio Khara, directed by Kazyua Tsurumaki, and co-written by Hideaki Anno and Yōji Enokido. Beginning April 8th, Amazon will begin streaming Gundam GQuuuuuuX in over over…
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ChatGPT 4.5 understands subtext, but it doesn’t feel like an enormous leap from ChatGPT-4o
OpenAI‘s release of GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers this week had me immediately keen to try it out, though with some skepticism. There had been reports of OpenAI (and other developers) struggling to make the big improvements to their models we’ve seen before. And the current standard model GPT-4o, is…
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FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to vote on an inquiry to explore alternatives to GPS, FCC chair Brendan Carr says in a blog post. Carr says that while GPS has been “indispensable,” the technology “isn’t infallible” and that “disruptions to GPS have the potential to undermine the nation’s economic…
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Micron just demoed the world’s fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it’s just a prototype for now
Micron PCIe 6.x SSD prototype shatters speed records with 27GB/s reads DesignCon 2025 showcases PCIe 6.x, but real-world use is years away GPUDirect Storage accelerates PCIe 6.x SSDs for next-gen computing demands Micron has unveiled a new PCIe 6.x SSD prototype with a sequential read speed of 27GB/s. Per AsteraLabs,…
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ChatGPT-4.5 is here (for most users), but I think OpenAI’s model selection is now a complete mess
Following yesterday’s announcement that ChatGPT-4.5 would be rolling out from today, and over the next few days, I was pretty pleased to find it had appeared in my model selector in ChatGPT Plus, however the model selector now looks like a complete mess. Take a look: There are now eight…
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