Here’s why SpaceX’s competitors are crying foul over Starship launch plans
Enlarge / SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rockets from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The company plans to develop Starship launch...
View ArticleLanner NCA-1515A Review This is the Home Lab Deal of the Year
In our Lanner NCA-1515A review, we see how this box with awesome networking options might be one of the better home lab buys we had this year The post Lanner NCA-1515A Review This is the Home Lab Deal...
View ArticleFirst Asus ROG NUCs feature Intel CPUs and discrete Nvidia RTX GPUs
Asus agreed to build its own NUC PCs under a non-exclusive agreement with Intel, and the original line of mini PCs is now evolving further by merging with the ROG family of gaming products. After...
View ArticleChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text
Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. (credit: Samuel Axon) OpenAI announced its Mac desktop app for ChatGPT with a lot of...
View ArticleITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034
Enlarge / One of the components of the reactor during leak testing. (credit: ITER) On Tuesday, the people managing the ITER experimental fusion reactor announced that a combination of delays and...
View ArticleWhat we know about microdosing candy illnesses as death investigation underway
Enlarge / The Birthday Cake flavored bar. One person may have died from eating Diamond Shruumz microdosing candies, which were recalled last week amid a rash of severe illnesses involving seizures,...
View ArticleRocket Report: Firefly delivers for NASA; Polaris Dawn launching this month
Enlarge / Four kerosene-fueled Reaver engines power Firefly’s Alpha rocket off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. (credit: Firefly Aerospace) Welcome to Edition 7.01 of the Rocket...
View ArticleElon Musk denies tweets misled Twitter investors ahead of purchase
Enlarge (credit: Marc Piasecki / Contributor | Getty Images Entertainment) Just before the Fourth of July holiday, Elon Musk moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he intentionally misled Twitter...
View ArticleApple authorizes sideloaded Epic Games store after blocking it for a third time
Epic Games recently announced that its sideloaded iOS game store has passed Apple’s submission checks, but not without encountering some final obstacles. According to the Fortnite maker, Apple held up...
View ArticleBizarre Japanese Apex Legends club promises female companions that cheer your...
A Japanese “Overwatch Hostess Club” account was recently banned, only to be replaced by another one for Apex Legends. The clubs are raising eyebrows with their overtly adult-oriented services. The new...
View ArticleAMD engineer tells the tale of when the PlayStation 4 saved the chipmaker...
A LinkedIn resume footnote has brought renewed attention to AMD’s dark days during and after 2008 financial crisis. According to the CV and comments from an engineer, sales of consoles based on the...
View ArticleIncredibly detailed scam relabels RTX 3080 Ti cards as RTX 4090
The GPU inside wasn’t Nvidia’s latest AD102 “Ada Lovelace” chip powering the RTX 4090. Instead, it was an older GA102 die from the RTX 3080 Ti, repackaged and relabeled to look like the new flagship....
View ArticleMicrosoft celebrates Windows 11’s new Outlook app growth after forcing people...
Microsoft says people are migrating to the new Outlook in a “much shorter time” because it’s better than the Mail & Calendar apps on Windows 11. According to Microsoft, the new Edge-based...
View ArticleResearch team creates process to grow sub-nanometer transistors
A South Korean research team led by Director Jo Moon-Ho of the Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids within South Korea’s Institute for Basic Science has made a significant advancement in...
View ArticleMicrosoft says Windows 11 24H2 will address animation stuttering
Windows 11 version 24H2 is set to arrive in September or October, but it’s still under development, which means there are several rough edges. Microsoft is trying to patch the underlying performance...
View ArticleU.S. Universities Warn Students about Limewire and Kazaa… in 2024
At the turn of the century, piracy was booming at university campuses across America and far beyond. Seemingly unlimited broadband connections and the presence of many tech-savvy students provided an...
View ArticleIntel’s ‘Fast Throttle’ tech will allow per-core throttling on Arrow Lake
An X user who goes by “Jaykihn” claims that “Intel Per Core Thermal Throttle” officially debuts with Arrow Lake. Fast Throttle gives Intel’s CPUs some added thermal headroom by providing more granular...
View ArticleMicrosoft PowerToys’ new feature could upgrade Windows 11 context menu with...
Creating a new file is the most common action you frequently do on your Windows PC. The sub-context menu of the New option allows you to create text files, folders, shortcuts, etc. However, an...
View ArticleOur Top 96GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM Kit Crucial 2x 48GB Kit
This is Crucial 2x 48GB set is our top 96GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM kit that we have been using in many of the systems you see on STH The post Our Top 96GB DDR5-5600 SODIMM Kit Crucial 2x 48GB Kit appeared...
View ArticleBig Tech needs to generate $600 billion in annual revenue to justify AI...
Analyst at Sequoia Capital, David Cahn, noted last September that there was a very significant gap between the revenue expectations implied by the AI infrastructure build-out and the actual revenue...
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