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Why it matters: Nvidia’s role as the provider of most of the advanced hardware powering the AI boom has seen it become the second most-valuable company in the world. Team Green’s market cap had surpassed the $3 trillion mark earlier this month but after a stock split and subsequent increases on its price, it’s now […]

In brief: For some time, curiosity has surrounded AMD’s upcoming Strix Point (Ryzen AI 300) APUs. Although the company expects to begin shipping the next-generation mobile processors as soon as next month, information on their performance has been scant so far. The first third-party vendor to publicly reveal performance projections for a Strix Point device

The big picture: Review embargoes have lifted, painting an early picture of how the Snapdragon Elite X stacks up against x86 machines powered by AMD and Intel as well as Macs featuring Apple’s own Arm-based silicon. Today the first wave of laptops powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series processors have hit shore, so it’s time

WTF?! If you’re a call center agent whose mother’s virtue has been called into question by a customer for the third time today, you’ve still got eight hours left of your shift, and your boss has just informed you that all holiday leave is cancelled, it’s likely to cause quite a lot of unhealthy stress.

In brief: Drones have joined the unending fight against the mosquito problem in the US. A Florida-based company manufactures the devices, which are being used in almost half of all American states and Australia to control the disease-spreading insects. A known vector for spreading diseases such as malaria, dengue, West Nile, yellow fever and Zika,

Why it matters: Companies involved in PCIe development have been designing optical connectors for the protocol for a while, but DevCon 2024 saw a significant new step toward using them in real-world hardware. Transitioning from CopperLink to optical might become crucial for the massive speed increases expected from PCIe 6.0 and 7.0. Cadence demonstrated a

What just happened? Issues regarding Asus’s customer service came to a head last month when Gamers Nexus reported on an outrageously overpriced ROG Ally RMA. In response to widespread consumer backlash, the company has outlined a detailed multi-step plan to overhaul its customer service and hopefully regain consumer trust. Asus has pledged to make several

The bleeding edge: Electronic manufacturer TDK just announced a solid-state battery breakthrough that could lead to smaller consumer devices and, eventually, longer ranges for electronic vehicles. The company claims the small ceramic cells can hold 100 times the charge of its current solid-state battery and over twice that of the closest leading liquid electrolyte batteries.

Why it matters: A manned mission to Mars is a long-term goal of the scientific community. However, a new study has presented a significant challenge to this objective: human kidneys may not endure the long trip to the Red Planet. While scientists are already considering potential solutions, much more research is needed. Elon Musk believes

These days, everyone has a phone in their pocket that can stream and download music, but two decades ago, that wasn’t the case. If you wanted to listen to your favorite songs on the go, you needed a dedicated music player. At the turn of the millennium, these devices either used tens of megabytes of