Image: Apple After launching the M3 chip in the 14-inch MacBook Pro last October, Apple has with the faster chips in the same thin and light design. Along with the M3 chip—8-Core CPU/8-Core GPU in the base 13-inch model; 8-Core CPU/10-Core GPU in all other configurations—Apple has also upgraded the Wi-Fi from 6 to 6E...
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Score this everyday HP laptop with an OLED display for $570 off
Image: HP Everyday laptops are perfect for the casual user because they’re designed to handle day-to-day tasks like browsing the web and watching Netflix. If you happen to be in the market for an everyday laptop, you’re in luck, as I happened to find a pretty good deal on one today. HP’s selling the ,...
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NVIDIA’s RTX 500 and 1000 Ada GPUs bring more AI smarts to thin and light workstations
Just ahead of Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA unveiled its latest laptop GPUs and, what a surprise, they’re designed largely to assist with AI processing. The RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation graphics cards are primarily for thin and light laptops. While they won’t offer as much TOPS AI performance as current higher-end mobile GPUs, they...
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Here’s Why Acura Stopped Making The SLX SUV
Keen to jump into the highly profitable and steadily burgeoning SUV craze of the mid-90s, Honda’s luxury arm Acura released its first-ever SUV, the SLX, in 1996. The SLX was fundamentally a rebadged Isuzu Trooper. The two brands did a similar deal in 1993 on the first-generation Honda Passport, which was an Isuzu Rodeo with...
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Mark Zuckerberg seeks to avoid personal liability in social media addiction lawsuits
Serving the tech enthusiast community for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Read our ethics statement. A hot potato: As long as there has been social media, there have been concerns about its addictive nature, especially when it comes to young people and children. It’s led to several lawsuits, and Meta...
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The Google Pixel Fold 2 could come with a radical redesign
(Image credit: Future | Alex Walker-Todd) The rumored Google Pixel Fold 2 could sport a significantly different design to its predecessor by ditching the camera visor and potentially taking the phone in a new direction. That’s going by claimed renders of the next-generation Pixel Fold shared by reliable leaker @OnLeaks in collaboration with SmartPrix ,...
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Hemispherical solar cells could significantly improve sunlight absorption
Serving the tech enthusiast community for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Read our ethics statement. Why it matters: Many research teams are working to achieve new technological breakthroughs in creating more efficient and useful solar cells. A recent study by a Turkish university presents a potential solution, offering a computational...
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AMD Zen 5 CPUs tipped to enter mass production in Q3 2024
Serving the tech enthusiast community for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Read our ethics statement. What just happened? AMD’s Zen 4 and 4c designs are showing their age, and the company is actively developing their successor, which is rumored to debut later this year. A recent leak now suggests that...
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A satellite designed to inspect space junk just made it to orbit
Astroscale’s ADRAS-J spacecraft, a demonstration satellite that could inform future space junk cleanup efforts, is now in orbit after a successful launch from New Zealand on Sunday. The satellite was sent to space atop an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab. Its mission, which was selected by Japan’s space agency (JAXA) for Phase I of the...
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My Notes on Gitlab’s Postgres Schema Design (2022)
I spent some time going over the Postgres schema of Gitlab. GitLab is an alternative to Github. You can self host GitLab since it is an open source DevOps platform. My motivation to understand the schema of a big project like Gitlab was to compare it against schemas I am designing and learn some best...