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Original Apple-1 PC Expected to Fetch a Huge Price at Auction [Updated]
John Moran Auctioneers in Southern California is taking bids on a functioning Apple-1 computer, designed by Steve Wozniak and built by Steve Jobs himself.
AMD’s Massive Milan-X CPUs Coming in Q1 2022 With 768MB of L3 Cache, 64 Cores
AMD's enormous L3-equipped Milan-X CPUs will ship in Q1 2022 and be compatible with existing Epyc motherboards.
AMD’s Zen 4 Roadmap Revealed: 96 Cores in 2022, 128 Core CPUs Arrive in 2023
AMD's got big-core plans for the next couple of years. Genoa will reach 96 cores, as rumored, with Bergamo hitting 128.
Walmart is Using Self-Driving Trucks in a 7 Mile Delivery Loop
It's the first time ever that an autonomous vehicle company has removed drivers from a delivery route's middle mile.
Facebook Considering Retail Stores as it Looks to Build its Metaverse
(Photo: Greg Bulla/Unsplash)By now we’ve all heard that Facebook is rebranding to Meta, with the hopes of building what it calls a Metaverse, where our avatars can interact with each other and hold meetings on top of mountains. To get there though, people are going to need VR and AR hardware, and there’s the rub;…
NASA Still Working to Repair Hubble After Latest Error
Hubble reported an error on October 23rd due to a loss of data synchronization messages. Two days later, another batch of messages were lost, causing the instrument to enter safe mode. Again.
Intel Pays VIA $125M For Centaur Technology’s x86 Design Team
VIA and Intel have signed a $125 million deal, reportedly for Via's Austin engineering team.
Australia Aims to Launch Water-Hunting Lunar Rover in 2024
The robot, designed in cooperation with the University of Technology Sydney, will search for signs of water on the lunar surface, which could help support future exploration efforts.
Verizon, AT&T Delay 5G C-Band Launch Over Aircraft Interference Concerns
The C-band rollout was previously set for December 5th, but the Wall Street Journal now reports it will be January 5th at the earliest. At issue is the potential interference with the safety systems of some aircraft.
Robbers Make Off With a Truckload of RTX 30-Series GPUs
Gamers hoping to score an RTX 30-Series GPU have so far had to battle with bots, miners, and scalpers in their quest to buy a new GPU, and now we can add one more enemy to the list: highway robbers.
Overwatch 2, Diablo IV Delayed Indefinitely
This is the second time the titles have been pushed out without a definitive release date.
Nintendo Will Produce 20% Fewer Switch Consoles Due to Chip Shortages
This means 6 million fewer Switch units will be on the market than originally expected.