Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft has had almost nothing to say about the next major update to Windows 10 beyond the fact that the operating system will keep getting yearly updates for the foreseeable future. But the Windows 10 22H2 update is actually already out there for those who know how to install it. Neowin has published…
Enlarge / The Arm Cortex X3 brings some modest improvements. (credit: Arms) Fresh off a dramatic journey of not being bought by Nvidia, Arm announced its latest flagship CPUs. Coming soon to your 2023 Android devices, we have the Cortex-X3 and Arm Cortex-A715 CPUs. As usual, these designs will be part of a system-on-chip CPU cluster….
Enlarge (credit: iFixit) The iFixit and Google partnership that was announced in April is now live. iFixit says that genuine parts for Google smartphones are now for sale in “the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixel is available.” It looks like iFixit is offering screens, batteries, and rear camera assemblies for most…
Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi Pico W adds Wi-Fi to the $4 Pico board for an additional $2. (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) The Raspberry Pi Zero series is the smallest version of the popular single-board computer that most people have experience with, but there’s one Pi that’s even smaller: the Raspberry Pi Pico. Launched in…
Enlarge / The Rufus tool will offer to modify your Windows 11 install media when you create it. The workaround for the Microsoft account requirement is new to the 3.19 beta. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Update, 7/2/2022: The final, non-beta version of Rufus 3.19 is available for download from the app’s website. One of the new…
(credit: Aurich Lawson) When macOS Ventura was announced earlier this month, its system requirements were considerably stricter than those for macOS Monterey, which was released just eight months ago as of this writing. Ventura requires a Mac made in 2017 or later, dropping support for a wide range of Monterey-supported Mac models released between 2013…
Enlarge / A customs officer inspects imported lithium carbonate at Longwu Branch Terminal of Shanghai İnternational Port Co., Ltd. (credit: VCG | Getty Images) The industrial port of Kwinana on Australia’s western coast is a microcosm of the global energy industry. From 1955, it was home to one of the largest oil refineries in the…
Enlarge / Smart contact lenses don’t work quite this easily yet. (credit: Getty) Since 2015, a California-based company called Mojo Vision has been developing smart contact lenses. Like smart glasses, the idea is to put helpful AR graphics in front of your eyes to help accomplish daily tasks. Now, a functioning prototype brings us closer…
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup | Getty Images) Google had a pair of high-ranking executives leave this week. The first was Bill Ready, Google’s “President of Commerce, Payments & Next Billion Users,” who left to become CEO of Pinterest. The second big departure is Javier Soltero, who was vice president and GM of Google Workspace, Google’s paid…
Enlarge (credit: RISC-V International) The world’s first laptop to use the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture (ISA) will reportedly start shipping in September. The Roma laptop is available for preorder on Xcalibyte’s website, but the site merely takes interested parties’ information without providing much detail or any pricing. The laptop will start shipping in September,…