Apple's quiet satellite strategy is starting to look like a long-term play for global coverage
Nearly a decade after hiring two senior satellite engineers from Alphabet to explore off-world communications, Apple's once-secret project has become a core part of its connectivity roadmap. What began as a radical plan to bypass wireless carriers entirely has evolved into a cautious, technically complex expansion of mobile services via...
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Hackers are saving Google's abandoned Nest thermostats with open-source firmware
Cody Kociemba, the developer behind the Hack/House collaborative project, is waging war against Google. The tech giant recently decided to discontinue the first two generations of its Nest Thermostat, stripping the devices of much of their original functionality. Thanks to Kociemba's hacking efforts, Nest customers now have an alternative path...
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Mozilla gives Firefox a rebrand and a new mascot named Kit
According to Mozilla, Kit represents "a new companion through an internet that's private, open, and actually yours." The flame-colored fox will start appearing in Firefox's (download here) branding from November 11, beginning with the new tab page and expanding across Mozilla's websites and marketing materials.
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The 'Phantom' claims to be world's first transparent computer monitor, touts 5,000 nits of HDR brightness – 24-inch 4K panel
Visual Instruments' Phantom is a 24-inch monitor that differentiates itself from the competition by featuring adjustable transparency.
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This $120 PS5 APU-based cryptomining board can run modern games like Cyberpunk 2077
The BC-250 was famous for its use of a cut-down version of the APU found in the PlayStation 5. It has six out of the eight Zen 2 CPU cores enabled, and there's 16 GB of GDDR6 memory shared between the CPU and Radeon GPU – there is no typical...
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Quantinuum claims a massive leap toward practical quantum computing with Helios
The Helios hardware houses 98 physical qubits. But practical quantum computing isn't measured merely in quantity: physical qubits are vulnerable to minute environmental disturbances, which can produce errors even during short computations. The industry instead often focuses on "logical" qubits, which result when many physical qubits are interlinked via error-correction...
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Intel files $250K lawsuit after laid-off employee allegedly stole files and vanished
Jinfeng Luo, who started at Intel in 2014, was one of the 35,000 employees who lost their job at the company as part of extensive ongoing cost-cutting measures implemented in recent years.
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Asus ROG Swift PG27AQWP Review: 720Hz OLED is Here
720Hz OLED is finally here. Asus' ROG Swift PG27AQWP pushes 540Hz at 1440p or a wild 720Hz at 720p, making it the fastest desktop OLED we've tested.
The microchip era may be ending – and wafer-scale systems could be what comes next
Nowhere is this transformation more visible than at Nvidia, whose valuation recently soared to about $5 trillion, making it the world's most valuable publicly traded company. Nvidia's flagship processors are intricate marvels. Each unit – encapsulated in a plastic package and interwoven with copper connections – contains up to 208 billion transistors.
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Hackers used booby-trapped images to spy on Samsung phones, no clicks required
For months, hackers conducted a quiet but highly advanced espionage campaign targeting select Samsung Galaxy users. The invasion used an exploit so sophisticated that it infected devices without users taking any action. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have disclosed full details of "Landfall," a commercial-grade spyware that...
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