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  1. Apple announces new iPads bringing Pro features to lower-cost tablets

    I mean, feel free to go spend $329 on any Android tablet of your choice and see how it compares to an iPad. Yes, because buying either of these two lousy worthless products proves...what exactly? Give it a rest... We get it; you don't like Apple products. The millions of people that buy them every year prove that they're useful and profitable products. Go find somebody else that cares about your mindless complaining...
    11 points
  2. yields are probably due to the last minute changes to the PS5 target clocks. in all rumors, the PS5 was intended to be a 9 TFLOPs machine for consistent performance. but when it was found out the Xbox Series X would be a 12 TFLOPs machine, Sony had to depend on the AMD SmartShift technology where you can increase/decrease GPU/CPU clocks within a TDP threshold. Then Sony was able to convince Sony gamers that its advertised peaks were normal. But it's like a teeter totter. You can't have both peak GPU clocks at the same time as peak CPU clocks. It's one or the other in order to keep within threshold. So they're advertising 10 TFLOPs, 3.5 GHz CPU and 2.23 GHz GPU clocks even though you can't have those numbers at the same time. And yet gamers are comparing those numbers against the Xbox Series X numbers when the Series X numbers are constant. And the reason why they had to depend on advertising peak numbers is because the PS5 only has 36 compute units compared to the Series X which has 52 CUs. This is similar to what happened with the Xbox One and PS4. When it was revealed that the Xbox One had a CU deficit of 12 compute units versus the PS4 18 CUs, Microsoft had to boost the clocks as far as possible to narrow the gap but 18 CUs beats 12 CUs no matter how high you clock. And yet the gap between the Xbox One and PS4 was only 0.5 TFLOPs. but the realistic gap between the PS5 and the Xbox Series X is 3 TFLOPs.
    6 points
  3. Origin client on PC is becoming the EA Desktop app

    > The EA Desktop app is being designed to deliver a frictionless and socially connected experience that is faster for players to get into their games I feel this same experience can be done by not requiring your game launcher be used for purchases made on Steam. When that's done and done then it will truly be a frictionless and will still be a socially connected experience.
    5 points
  4. I'm sold. The Ipad Air looks like my next Christmas gift to me.
    4 points
  5. Wow! so underwhelming like every year!
    4 points
  6. Yup! It's just an iPhone with a big screen. And with the "new" processor you can run no serious software and play whale mining phone games at the same speed as ever before! /s But they have increased their profit per unit so Wall Street will be pleased. And that's all that really matters to the post-Jobs Apple...
    3 points
  7. The Mandalorian

    Season 2 -October 30 ...this is the way.
    3 points
  8. Origin client on PC is becoming the EA Desktop app

    Did a Microsoft employee name it?
    3 points
  9. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    * Apple to Nvidia, I don't want to talk to you anymore * Apple, we will move to ARM. * NVidia buys ARM. 😵
    3 points
  10. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again?
    3 points
  11. Apple to release iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 tomorrow

    Running fine on both my SE (first gen) and 11 Pro.
    2 points
  12. Apple to release iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 tomorrow

    Beta Users - Once you update to the GM version, remove the beta profile from the device, unless you want to be on the beta train or have to restore the device from iTunes or Apple Configurator 2.
    2 points
  13. Since they bumped the price up in to ipad pro territory, I wonder how much more expensive the next ipad pro will be.
    2 points
  14. I mean, feel free to go spend $329 on any Android tablet of your choice and see how it compares to an iPad.
    2 points
  15. Apple introduces the Apple Watch SE starting at $279

    Meh, i'll stick with my Series 3. Great that they still mentioned the series 3 on the anouncment as the cheapest opotion. This should mean it will be getting updates for a while yet.
    2 points
  16. External drive error

    There is one SMART and its at a firmware level. There is no such thing as "Windows SMART".
    2 points
  17. Here's how you can watch today's Apple event

    Since the iPad 2018 and 2019, I'm not sure they need the iPad Air line. The iPads are now very slim (the original reason for Air name). Adds confusion. Stick to: iPad, iPad Pro.
    2 points
  18. AT&T is launching new hotspot with mmWave and sub-6 5G this Friday

    lol 32 users and an "unlimited" data plan. It'll work for a full 5 minutes before ATT throttles it. I do however see this type of device as the future of home internet though. Cable modems will go the way of the Dino, especially when 5G starts outpacing 1 gig speeds on a widescale.
    2 points
  19. Origin client on PC is becoming the EA Desktop app

    "All of that is signaled by creating a common and consistent brand that is centered around EA and what EA stands for, and what signals it is this inflection about how EA stands for bringing your players together around the games they want to play on the platforms they want to play on. So yeah, it's not just a name change. It really signals an ethos that is critically important to us and that we know that's important to our players." Blah blah brand blah blah inflection blah blah together blah blah ethos. What a load of complete waffle. Make a lightweight launcher that LAUNCHES GAMES, and has simple access to the store. That's it. I can't believe I am actually saying it, but apart from GOG Galaxy (which is my go-to app for using my games library) Uplay is the least intrusive of all the big name launchers right now.
    2 points
  20. Imagine how clever this person must've felt after typing this out with their fedora on and stroking their neckbeard.
    2 points
  21. Apple didn't invent Bluetooth, and if you're talking about the physical design, no, "same as Sony earbuds from the '90s but with the wires cut off" doesn't make it an "original design".
    2 points
  22. You know what's making the ice caps melt more? Your god damn air conditioning. Everyone's air conditioning in america. You could have picked a cooler place to live but no instead you pick a bit of land that's too hot for the entire year and waste a lot of energy on trying to cool it back down. Yeah air conditioning is pretty great.
    2 points
  23. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    You could say it cost them an arm and a leg.
    2 points
  24. Well that's one way to multitask...
    2 points
  25. Apple to release iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 tomorrow

    It's out now with the beta profile.
    1 point
  26. If border po po bans any product that looks like it copied another then literally no tech would ship into the US.
    1 point
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  28. Yes. You get the cord still. But no block/brick. The logic is that most people already have one.
    1 point
  29. Yes. You get the cord still. But no block/brick. Oh, I wonder if I got a brick with my watch. I just plugged it into my 5 port charger. I guess not including the brick is a good idea.
    1 point
  30. External drive error

    You are confusing a Windows feature for checking filesystems with hardware error reporting. They are naturally going to give different results depending on the issue. Windows cares about filesystems. SMART cares about hardware. From the sounds of it, it was an unrecoverable filesystem error. The OP needs to look at data recovery utilities and not dwell on the differences between these. Lets move on, yes?
    1 point
  31. Fitbit Sense smartwatch receives U.S. and EU clearance for its ECG app

    i would like to know too. https://support.apple.com/en-u...e%20classifiable%20results. "The ability of the ECG app to accurately classify an ECG recording into AFib and sinus rhythm was tested in a clinical trial of approximately 600 subjects, and demonstrated 99.6% specificity with respect to sinus rhythm classification and 98.3% sensitivity for AFib classification for the classifiable results."
    1 point
  32. Origin client on PC is becoming the EA Desktop app

    They should call the beta the "EA Beta Origin Desktop".
    1 point
  33. Good to see 60 fps video @ 4K going mainstream slowly.
    1 point
  34. Origin client on PC is becoming the EA Desktop app

    Fun fact: It used to be called the EA Download Manager (EADM)!
    1 point
  35. Sony reduces PS5 production by 4 million units due to yield issues

    It's more likely Sony restricting availability so that it appears to be more desirable. This is a common marketing strategy used for luxury goods of this type and is used to offset higher pricing. I suspect Sony have been thrown by the Xbox Series S low price and realise their initial pricing was more than the XBox Series X so resort to this. Could work for them if people fall for it.
    1 point
  36. even worst they put second class hw on the AMD version: nvidia gpu max 2060, no 4k or good quality display, no top gamma models
    1 point
  37. Sony reduces PS5 production by 4 million units due to yield issues

    I'm just waiting for the fanboi's to come out and say that shortages are due to popularity and not production woes...
    1 point
  38. Pretty sure we know the playbook by now: 1. Reach conclusion. 2. State conclusion. 3. If someone questions, goto 2.
    1 point
  39. ByteDance rejects Microsoft's bid to buy TikTok's U.S. operations

    Oracle... Is there an option to have my personal data sent to China instead?
    1 point
  40. A known company only in third world countries. Apparently every country is third world except US..for the US They're well-known in the US. He'd be including the US in that list of third-world countries.
    1 point
  41. This is an excellent way to accelerate melting of the polar ice caps to reveal more oil resources for us to drill and extract.
    1 point
  42. Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming launches with over 150 games

    I have heard rumblings of a couple of things. The first one is NVidia and AMD having a cow with older hardware and low end integrated GPUs being seen as an alternative to hardware upgrades. I think they are being a bit 'crazy' as gamers will are going to use this on notebook/tablets that would not be upgraded anyway. There is also a bit of debate whether a PC/Desktop client will compete with Xbox Series S sales specifically, since it is just $10 more a month over the Pass subscription. (Which I think users would do anyway, if there is a desktop client or not.) These are very much rumors, that are possibly already resolved if they were accurate earlier this year. However, it would explain the feet dragging on the PC App - which has been in beta for a while, and a rather simple App client because of the technologies in Windows. Those sound like valid points but I don't think a PC streaming app will hurt nVidia or AMD GPU sales, like you said it'll be used on lower end hardware that can't be upgraded anyways. Like my pretty old HP laptop with intel HD iGPU, it's one of those funky 1366x768 (if I remember the res right), systems, it can't play the games I want to play on it by a long shot. Besides I see streaming as a type of way to upsell you on buying actual hardware and playing locally in the end. Not so much a replacement for local.
    1 point
  43. I really like the idea.
    1 point
  44. You'd think they'd research what they seized before running to the internet to brag about it..........
    1 point
  45. Facebook leaks its own Oculus Quest 2 with "near 4K" resolution

    Just make a fake one. I don't get what's the big deal. It's not that hard, Russian bots make millions of accounts each day. If a bot can do it, you can too. A fake one will get shut down.
    1 point
  46. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again? American companies are ######ing ######. Source: work for a previously british company that was taken over by an american one. NO ONE in the whole company on the non-american side is happy with anything they've done. He said they lost another company to the Americans, but ARM is currently a Japanese company so how is Britain losing it again? They already lost it in 2016. If Nvidia sells it to a Chinese firm years from now will that mean Britain is losing another company to China?
    1 point
  47. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again? American companies are ######ing ######. Source: work for a previously british company that was taken over by an american one. NO ONE in the whole company on the non-american side is happy with anything they've done. This is a very expensive purchase for Nvidia and they can't afford to mess things up too much. The goal is to add the best of Nvidia to Arm, and anyone not happy with that prospect should not be at the forefront of tech innovation.
    1 point
  48. Now i'm kind of glad I hadn't played W3 yet!
    1 point