Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
A year after its Artemis 1 mission flew and returned from the Moon, NASA has shared new footage of how it feels to sit inside the Orion spacecraft while it returns to Earth. NASA's Artemis program will use Orion to transport astronauts from Earth to a near-moon orbit and then return them to the planet once the mission ends. It travels at a whopping 25,000 miles per hour and can touch temperatures as hot as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the return journey. This experience - auditory and visual - has been captured by cameras on the spacecraft. Loud Thumps Reverberate […]
With 2023 coming to a close, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is gearing up to see increased costs for its leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing processes. TSMC's most advanced process in mass production is the 3-nanometer semiconductor design technology and a fresh report quoted in the Taiwanese press speculates that the 3-nanometer and 2-nanometer nodes will see significant cost increases moving into the future. This bit of news comes just as markets remain closed for the Holiday Season of 2023, and analysts report that these potential cost increases could affect Apple, Inc.'s margins for its high- and low-end technology gadgets. TSMC's […]
With six days left to go before the year ends, SpaceX has now launched 94 rockets since January after launching a radar reconnaissance satellite for the German Ministry of Defence. The launch marked SpaceX's 182nd consecutive landing of an orbital class rocket booster through its workhorse Falcon 9 medium-lift rocket. After today's launch, the next one SpaceX's manifest is of three Falcon 9s bulked together as part of the Falcon Heavy System. SpaceX Flies Falcon 9 Rocket Booster For 8th Time After Previously Setting New Rocket Reusability Record Compared to SpaceX's Starlink satellite launches, which typically see the Falcon 9's […]
SpaceX's CRS-29 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) departed from the orbiting space laboratory in the evening yesterday while it was flying above South America. The mission had flows to the ISS in early October and it carried a variety of payloads including science and research experiments. The CRS-29 mission was one of the more important ones in NASA's manifest as it carried crucial experiments such as laser communication and Earth imaging equipment to the ISS. Its liftoff in November marked SpaceX's 80th mission in 2023, with the ascent leg carrying 6,500 pounds of cargo. After separating from the […]
After it shipped its first and second stage rockets to the launch site earlier this week, SpaceX successfully tested all six engines on its Starship second stage rocket in the evening yesterday. SpaceX is developing the Starship rocket in Boca Chica, Texas, and the ambition of the project is to make the rocket the largest of its kind in history. The second stage Starship is also the only rocket of its kind that is designed to be fully reusable apart from its heatshield tiles. It is also a part of NASA's Artemis program that plans to land the first humans […]
SpaceX's latest Starlink internet satellite launch that took place from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida late night yesterday marked the first time that humans have launched 200 rockets from Earth. This sets a new record in the global space industry, as SpaceX and Chinese rocket launches continue to launch countless satellites in an era of the space age that has seen a marked growth in global interest in astronautics that is unparalleled since the Apollo era, which saw the first humans land on the lunar surface. SpaceX Comfortably Beats Its 2022 Launch Cadence Even As It Falls […]
After an excitement filled orbital test flight in November, SpaceX is in no mood to wait as it is already transporting its rockets to the launch site. SpaceX's rocket complex in Boca Chica, Texas, dubbed Starbase, features production, launch and test sites. Footage from local media shows that a Starship rocket booster and a second stage spacracraft have made their way to the launch site, with SpaceX celebrating the holiday season by decorating their transporters. While simply moving a rocket to a launch site is not indicative of any potential tests, it shows confidence in the vehicles and leaves the […]
Artificial price controls have never worked in the long run, and never will. They do, however, create substantial distortions that often manifest in unexpected ways. Consider the curious case of McDonald's Big Mac burger and its near-absolute scarcity in Argentina. South America's second-largest economy, Argentina, has unfortunately turned into an emblematic example of how not to run a country's overarching economic policy. Facing a crushing sovereign debt load of over $400 billion, with $110 billion owed to the IMF alone, the besieged country appears to be heading toward its tenth sovereign default since gaining independence from Spain in 1816. 3/5 […]
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) chairman, Dr. Mark Liu, has hit back after multiple media reports hinted that the firm's next-generation 2-nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process was facing stiff competition from Samsung's foundry's similar product. TSMC and Samsung are the only two companies in the world capable of commercially manufacturing semiconductors that are used in smartphones. Dr. Liu assured the media that 2024 will be a good year for the semiconductor market as TSMC heads to close 2023 with annual revenue drops in eight out of 11 months. His comments were made before he was present in a meeting held […]
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service faced a setback yesterday after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upheld its order to cancel roughly $900 million in subsidies that Starlink had won to provide internet access in underserved areas. Starlink, which operates the world's largest satellite internet constellation, has faced a lot of resistance and trouble at the FCC, with multiple rivals questioning SpaceX's plans to build out the second phase of the constellation with the Starship rocket. These plans were also at the heart of the FCC's latest order, as the Commission cited Starship test flight failures to reject SpaceX's subsidy application. […]
After his first two digital card collections sold out within hours, Trump is now out with a third collection that will get you a chance to have dinner with the former US President at his Mar-a-Lago residence this holiday season. https://t.co/0TJzDIcOBP Watch This Video: Don't Miss Out! pic.twitter.com/vunSPlEY6Z — CollectTrumpCards (@CollectTrump) December 12, 2023 Dubbed the "Mugshot" edition, Trump fans can now buy 47 digital cards or NFTs for $99 each to get a physical card mailed to their given address. The physical card includes a piece of the suit that Trump wore when he got his infamous mugshot at […]
Don't ask OpenAI's most cutting-edge Large Language Model (LLM), the GPT-4 Turbo, to perform exhaustive tasks over the winter holidays. That's the conclusion that one can comfortably draw from a recent statistically significant test conducted by an LLM enthusiast. OpenAI claims that GPT-4 Turbo is capable of handling highly complicated tasks encased within a single prompt, courtesy of its much more exhaustive training. The model is also capable of processing 128,000 tokens courtesy of its expanded token context window, a measure of the richness or depth of input and output of a particular LLM. As a refresher, 1,000 tokens are […]
A year after its Artemis 1 mission flew and returned from the Moon, NASA has shared new footage of how it feels to sit inside the Orion spacecraft while it returns to Earth. NASA's Artemis program will use Orion to transport astronauts from Earth to a near-moon orbit and then return them to the planet once the mission ends. It travels at a whopping 25,000 miles per hour and can touch temperatures as hot as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the return journey. This experience - auditory and visual - has been captured by cameras on the spacecraft. Loud Thumps Reverberate […]
With 2023 coming to a close, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is gearing up to see increased costs for its leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing processes. TSMC's most advanced process in mass production is the 3-nanometer semiconductor design technology and a fresh report quoted in the Taiwanese press speculates that the 3-nanometer and 2-nanometer nodes will see significant cost increases moving into the future. This bit of news comes just as markets remain closed for the Holiday Season of 2023, and analysts report that these potential cost increases could affect Apple, Inc.'s margins for its high- and low-end technology gadgets. TSMC's […]
With six days left to go before the year ends, SpaceX has now launched 94 rockets since January after launching a radar reconnaissance satellite for the German Ministry of Defence. The launch marked SpaceX's 182nd consecutive landing of an orbital class rocket booster through its workhorse Falcon 9 medium-lift rocket. After today's launch, the next one SpaceX's manifest is of three Falcon 9s bulked together as part of the Falcon Heavy System. SpaceX Flies Falcon 9 Rocket Booster For 8th Time After Previously Setting New Rocket Reusability Record Compared to SpaceX's Starlink satellite launches, which typically see the Falcon 9's […]
SpaceX's CRS-29 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) departed from the orbiting space laboratory in the evening yesterday while it was flying above South America. The mission had flows to the ISS in early October and it carried a variety of payloads including science and research experiments. The CRS-29 mission was one of the more important ones in NASA's manifest as it carried crucial experiments such as laser communication and Earth imaging equipment to the ISS. Its liftoff in November marked SpaceX's 80th mission in 2023, with the ascent leg carrying 6,500 pounds of cargo. After separating from the […]
After it shipped its first and second stage rockets to the launch site earlier this week, SpaceX successfully tested all six engines on its Starship second stage rocket in the evening yesterday. SpaceX is developing the Starship rocket in Boca Chica, Texas, and the ambition of the project is to make the rocket the largest of its kind in history. The second stage Starship is also the only rocket of its kind that is designed to be fully reusable apart from its heatshield tiles. It is also a part of NASA's Artemis program that plans to land the first humans […]
SpaceX's latest Starlink internet satellite launch that took place from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida late night yesterday marked the first time that humans have launched 200 rockets from Earth. This sets a new record in the global space industry, as SpaceX and Chinese rocket launches continue to launch countless satellites in an era of the space age that has seen a marked growth in global interest in astronautics that is unparalleled since the Apollo era, which saw the first humans land on the lunar surface. SpaceX Comfortably Beats Its 2022 Launch Cadence Even As It Falls […]
After an excitement filled orbital test flight in November, SpaceX is in no mood to wait as it is already transporting its rockets to the launch site. SpaceX's rocket complex in Boca Chica, Texas, dubbed Starbase, features production, launch and test sites. Footage from local media shows that a Starship rocket booster and a second stage spacracraft have made their way to the launch site, with SpaceX celebrating the holiday season by decorating their transporters. While simply moving a rocket to a launch site is not indicative of any potential tests, it shows confidence in the vehicles and leaves the […]
Artificial price controls have never worked in the long run, and never will. They do, however, create substantial distortions that often manifest in unexpected ways. Consider the curious case of McDonald's Big Mac burger and its near-absolute scarcity in Argentina. South America's second-largest economy, Argentina, has unfortunately turned into an emblematic example of how not to run a country's overarching economic policy. Facing a crushing sovereign debt load of over $400 billion, with $110 billion owed to the IMF alone, the besieged country appears to be heading toward its tenth sovereign default since gaining independence from Spain in 1816. 3/5 […]
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) chairman, Dr. Mark Liu, has hit back after multiple media reports hinted that the firm's next-generation 2-nanometer semiconductor manufacturing process was facing stiff competition from Samsung's foundry's similar product. TSMC and Samsung are the only two companies in the world capable of commercially manufacturing semiconductors that are used in smartphones. Dr. Liu assured the media that 2024 will be a good year for the semiconductor market as TSMC heads to close 2023 with annual revenue drops in eight out of 11 months. His comments were made before he was present in a meeting held […]
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service faced a setback yesterday after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) upheld its order to cancel roughly $900 million in subsidies that Starlink had won to provide internet access in underserved areas. Starlink, which operates the world's largest satellite internet constellation, has faced a lot of resistance and trouble at the FCC, with multiple rivals questioning SpaceX's plans to build out the second phase of the constellation with the Starship rocket. These plans were also at the heart of the FCC's latest order, as the Commission cited Starship test flight failures to reject SpaceX's subsidy application. […]
After his first two digital card collections sold out within hours, Trump is now out with a third collection that will get you a chance to have dinner with the former US President at his Mar-a-Lago residence this holiday season. https://t.co/0TJzDIcOBP Watch This Video: Don't Miss Out! pic.twitter.com/vunSPlEY6Z — CollectTrumpCards (@CollectTrump) December 12, 2023 Dubbed the "Mugshot" edition, Trump fans can now buy 47 digital cards or NFTs for $99 each to get a physical card mailed to their given address. The physical card includes a piece of the suit that Trump wore when he got his infamous mugshot at […]
Don't ask OpenAI's most cutting-edge Large Language Model (LLM), the GPT-4 Turbo, to perform exhaustive tasks over the winter holidays. That's the conclusion that one can comfortably draw from a recent statistically significant test conducted by an LLM enthusiast. OpenAI claims that GPT-4 Turbo is capable of handling highly complicated tasks encased within a single prompt, courtesy of its much more exhaustive training. The model is also capable of processing 128,000 tokens courtesy of its expanded token context window, a measure of the richness or depth of input and output of a particular LLM. As a refresher, 1,000 tokens are […]