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For the iPhone 14 Apple asked its customers, “Do you like big phones, or bigger phones?” In 2022 Apple decided to change its iPhone lineup for the first time in years. Instead of offering a standard-sized phone and a mini… Continue Reading →

Spectricity was founded in 2017 to create compact, low-cost sensors for smartphones. It’s been working quietly to develop that hardware ever since and revealed its first product, the S1 multispectral sensor, earlier this month. It may be a few years… Continue Reading →

(Credit: AMD) AMD has published a new blog post attempting to convince people of its status as a GPU industry leader. Along the way, it seems to have inadvertently admitted its older GPUs are a better value than the newest… Continue Reading →

The Lightyear 2. (Image: Lightyear)Lightyear, the Dutch automaker responsible for the world’s first production solar electric vehicle, is undergoing quite a transformation. Just two months after shipping the Lightyear 0, Lightyear has announced that it’s suspending production of its flagship… Continue Reading →

We all know the top results in a Google search are ads, but they can also look like exactly what you’re searching for, too. If you’re feeling too lazy to scroll down a bit, it can be tempting to just… Continue Reading →

Back in April last year, Dell introduced an all-new type of memory module for some of its mobile workstations. It was dubbed CAMM, which stands for Compression Attached Memory Module. We publicly complained that it was something “proprietary” to Dell… Continue Reading →

A year ago, Tesla was riding high with robust demand and a stock price running well over $300. Now, Tesla faces more competition than ever from other electric vehicles, and its stock value has plummeted to barely $100. Tesla’s response… Continue Reading →

Over the past few years, many people have given up on using a single router in favor of a mesh network. A mesh configuration can allow for more complete coverage in large homes, with several access points a user can… Continue Reading →

Hello readers, and Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Space of 2023. It’s the twelfth day of Christmas — and the first full moon of the year, the Wolf Moon, rises tonight. And TGIF,… Continue Reading →

Last month, NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite headed into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Once fully online, the spacecraft will provide height measurements of Earth’s surface water with unprecedented detail. Before it can do that,… Continue Reading →