Monthly Archives: July 2022

Intel claims its Arc GPU is faster than Nvidia’s RTX 3060

Intel has released a new performance showcase video for the upcoming Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition graphics card via YouTube. The video shows Intel’s graphics card, in tandem with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor, running CyberPunk 2077 at average 60.79fps performance with a 2560×1440 resolution. Intel also showed off some of its benchmark findings compared…

Review: Meross’s Smart Air Purifier Offers HomeKit Support at an Affordable Price

Meross’s smart air purifier provides a way to filter out dust and pollutants from the air to improve air quality at an affordable price, with full support for Apple HomeKit and the Home app. Meross makes a wide range of HomeKit-compatible smart home devices for regions around the world, including garage door openers, smart lighting,…

Apple Music subscribers will get exclusive live performances in spatial audio

Carrie Underwood’s Apple Music Sessions performance is available now. | Image: Apple This morning Apple announced Apple Music Sessions, a series of live performances that will be available exclusively to subscribers of the company’s music service. Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes are the first two artists to be featured, and for now, the sessions will…

The trampoline is now international: NASA and Roscosmos agree to seat swap

Enlarge / Anna Kikina will be the fifth Russian woman to go to space. (credit: Roscosmos) NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, have officially agreed to exchange seats on four upcoming missions to the International Space Station. The first missions—with a Russian on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and an American on Soyuz vehicles—will fly in September. “Flying…

New research into why woodpeckers don’t get concussions busts a popular myth

Slow-motion video of pecking by the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). The original video was recorded at 1600 frames per second. Credit: Robert Shadwick & Erica Ortlieb/University of British Columbia Slow-motion video of pecking by the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). The original video was recorded at 1600 frames per second. Credit: Robert Shadwick & Erica Ortlieb/University…

Europe’s health data reuse plan needs some surgery, say privacy supervisors

A proposal put forward by European Union lawmakers in May, to establish a legal framework to make it easier to share electronic health records and other medical data — across borders and care institutions and with researchers and developers of innovative health products — should be revised to ensure citizens’ health data is stored locally,…