According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the company is hard at work on integrating Valve’s Steam, which will take its in-car gaming platform to a whole new level. Tesla has invested heavily in integrating video games into its in-car entertainment system. Nevertheless, many were surprised when, in early 2022, Tesla...
Tests of the latest MacBook Air laptop based on the M2 single-chip system have begun to appear on the Web. And this SoC shows its power: in the Geekbench benchmark, the laptop scored almost 1900 points in a single-threaded test and almost 9000 points in a multi-threaded test. And that...
MSI has unveiled the gaming performance figures for the Intel Arc A380 graphics card that will be installed in its new M301 Dragon Shield PC. This data was leaked from promotional materials that mentioned several esports games. All of them use medium or low graphics quality settings. In Naraka: Bladepoint,...
Last week, Apple held its annual WWDC conference, where it talked about future versions of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS. Now it has become known that the new iPadOS 16 will support the DriverKit API, which will allow device manufacturers to create more accessories for tablets. DriverKit API is a...
Coreboot is a non-commercial project for a unified BIOS that can be installed on different motherboards instead of the original system from a specific manufacturer. Coreboot performs all the initialization functions of the hardware, like a regular BIOS, but after that it can run the so-called “payload” – a term...
Huawei has patented a quantum computer, confirming that it only works on simple electronics such as smartwatches, headphones, or smartphones. Huawei’s new type of quantum computing device aims to solve the current problems of quantum chipset manufacturing, which include manufacturing complexity and poor performance of quantum chipsets compared to today’s...
Thermaltake’s range of computer cases has been expanded with the Tower 500, the first Mid Tower case in The Tower series. It is rather big (dimensions – 608 x 388 x 398 mm) and not light (almost 15 kg), but all because of the use of thick 4 mm tempered...
Apple has confirmed in a press release that the space sandbox No Man’s Sky will be released on Macs and iPads before the end of this year. The game uses the Metal 3 GUI, so it will most likely require a model with an M1 or M2 chip to run...
The company, which has previously released a number of single-board computers Orange Pi, introduced its first computer-in-keyboard Orange Pi 800. This is almost a complete analogue of the Raspberry Pi 400, although there are also differences. Inside is a six-core Rockchip RK3399 processor with two ARM Cortex-A72 cores and four...
B&H Photo, America’s largest Apple Authorized Reseller, has listed two new Mac mini computers at once. These are Mac mini with M2 chip and Mac mini Tower with M1P processor (perhaps we are talking about M1 Pro). Both versions have 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. There...
The Nokia 1680 classic is a simple push-button mobile phone that was released in 2008, when smartphones were just starting to appear. It supports the functions of calling, receiving and sending SMS, and so on, but only in 2G mobile networks. However, a hardware hacker and enthusiast under the pseudonym...
The other day we learned what changes Apple is preparing in its operating systems. Now there are details regarding iPadOS 16. As already mentioned, Apple will improve the features related to multitasking. In fact, the changes will indeed be quite tangible, albeit far from being necessary for everyone. The new...
HP announced the expansion of its range of mobile computers with the Dev One model, focused on application developers. There has not yet been a full premiere, but the company has already revealed key details. So, for example, the device is running Linux (Pop!_OS is pre-installed). HP Dev One will...
Apple has released an update to the macOS Monterey operating system, the fourth major update since its release in October 2021. macOS Monterey 12.4 comes out two months after the launch of macOS Monterey 12.3. One of the important innovations was the Universal Control function. The initial announcement of Universal...
McDonalds has introduced a smart smoke detector in the Netherlands that looks like an upside-down Big Mac. The device is called McDelivery Detector, and this name well reflects its essence. The sensor is supposed to be installed on the ceiling in the kitchen. When smoke is detected, McDelivery Detector will...
In the US, an interesting lot appeared at the Goldin auction – an Apple I computer from the first batch autographed by Steve Jobs. The description of the lot says that this is “the holy grail for collectors of vintage computers.” The serial number 01-0050 is marked on the computer,...
