Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI
At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their tie-up with Seagate for the […]
The Unusual HEDDphone TWO GT Air Motion Transformer Headphones
Have You Heard Of Air Motion Transformer Drivers? The HEDDphone TWO GT has a rather uncommon pair of drivers inside of it, called air motion transformers. These are not the common dynamic drivers we are used to, nor planar magnetic drivers as we’ve started to see in quite a few headphones. Instead of a driver […]
xAI Launches Grok-3 AI Model, Claims Superior Performance Over GPT-4
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI on Tuesday announced Grok-3, and Musk is making some bold claims. The new AI model is said to have more than ten times the computing power of its predecessor and outperforms leading competitors, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini. The latest iteration of xAI’s flagship model introduces new “reasoning” […]
Spurious report says Apple may increase prices for Apple Music
A new report about Spotify’s plans for a more expensive premium tier claims that Apple is considering doing the same, but Apple Music has no reason to ever copy its streaming rival. The days of Spotify being the most popular streaming music service in the world and yet constantly losing money, may be over. The […]
Security Bite: How hackers are still using Google Ads to spread malware
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DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs
The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the […]
Use Your Thunderbolt 3 Port To Get 10GbE Networking
The Sonnet Solo 10G Is Not As Wonky As The Old USB Network Adapters In the bad old days there were a slew of USB network adapters, and as a rule they were awful. You might luck out and find one that wasn’t an absolute klutz with your packets, but the odds were against you. […]
Spotify Readies Premium Tier With Hi-Fi Audio and AI Features
Spotify users waiting to learn when the service’s long-delayed high-quality premium audio service will materialize may finally have something to chew on. Bloomberg reports that the streaming service hopes to roll out a new “Music Pro” tier later this year. The company is said to be developing the new premium subscription plan that will cost […]
Amazon and Best Buy Slash MacBook Air Prices: Starting at $749
Grab a MacBook Air for $749 today only. Amazon’s Presidents Day MacBook Air sale discounts the ultraportable laptops to as low as $749, with Best Buy offering flash deals today only as well. Amazon is offering shoppers a bonus $50 discount on top of a $200 instant rebate on Apple’s standard M2 MacBook Air 13-inch […]
Apple’s iconic ‘1984’ Super Bowl ad aired 41 years ago this week; how it almost didn’t happen
On this day 41 years ago, Apple’s first Macintosh went on sale, just two days after being introduced to the world during a commercial break in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. Although “1984” became a cultural phenomenon and a watershed moment for product launches, Apple’s Board of Directors was against it from the […]