Enlarge / It’s still a black box, but the chip inside is faster this time. (credit: Apple) The new Apple TV 4K adds HDR10+, bumps the default storage capacities, and keeps Ethernet only on the more expensive model. The new models cost $129 for 64GB storage and Wi-Fi or $149 for 128GB storage and an Ethernet…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
If you asked me to tell you all the most exciting things that happened to the Mac in the last two years, I’d start with hardware, not software. The transition from Intel’s chips to Apple silicon has been transformative, ushering in huge battery-life boosts and allowing MacBook Airs and Mac minis to do the kind of…
Enlarge / Separating out different wavelengths of light lets us track the movement of material toward and away from Earth. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) A team of researchers is publishing a paper based on new images taken by the Webb Space Telescope. The images reveal a dense concentration of matter in the early Universe,…
Travel is back on the radar for investment, with consumers and business users both on the move again after a long pandemic period of staying in one place. Today, a startup called WeTravel — which builds tech for the specific needs of group travel — has raised $27 million, money that it will be using…
Docker is still around and likely doing better — at last in financial terms — than during its early hype cycle that kicked off the container revolution (only to then be eclipsed by Kubernetes and its ecosystem). Today, the company announced the first technical preview of its WebAssembly (Wasm) support. Browser vendors pioneered Wasm to…
The original Orba was a curious little baseball-sized device that invited people who couldn’t play a triangle if they tried to somehow create beats, bops and bass lines. The success of the original — and the adoption of it as a tool for more serious musicians — inspired the Artiphon team to release an updated…
At its Build conference in May, Microsoft debuted Project Volterra, a device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform designed to let developers explore “AI scenarios” via Qualcomm’s Neural Processing SDK for Windows toolkit. Today, Volterra — now called Windows Dev Kit 2023 — officially goes on sale, priced at $599 and available from the Microsoft Store…
TL;DR: As of Oct. 24, Amazon has discounted multiple Beats earbuds products, including up to $100 off the Powerbeats Pro. QUICK LINKS: Powerbeats Pro — $149.95 $249.95 (save $100) Beats Fit Pro — $159.95 $199.95 (save $40) Beats Studio Buds — $89.95 $149.95 (save $60) Listen, we admit that AirPods are pretty good. Why else…
Playing cross-platform games with your friends on PlayStation 5 may get easier in the near future. Just a few months after Discord started rolling out voice chat features to Xbox owners, it looks like Sony’s next-gen console is getting the same treatment. A Sunday tweet from “advaith,” a Twitter user who regularly posts about upcoming…
“I’m a hundred feet tall. These people are pygmies.” Trust Logan Roy to tease Succession Season 4 with a quote that’s both magnificently egotistical, utterly dismissive of his children, and offensive in a hilariously outdated way. The 30-second trailer for the highly anticipated fourth season, which aired before the House of the Dragon finale on…