Samsung’s new 980 NVMe SSD costs less to make, so it costs less to buy

From The Verge: Samsung has announced its newest SSD, a follow-up to the 970 Evo called the 980. The drive is a NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 drive, and it’s an affordable one, too. It costs up to $129.99 for the 1TB version and as little as $49.99 for the 250GB model.

There’s a reason for the low price — it’s...

SK Hynix Is Mass-Producing 18GB LPDDR5 Memory Modules for Phones

From PC Mag: The latest smartphone models are set to get a major boost, both in terms of the amount of RAM they have available and how fast that memory is, thanks to SK Hynix.

Volume production of the industry's largest capacity LPDDR5 mobile DRAM modules is underway, the South Korean memory...

Report: Apple Event Expected March 23

From PC Mag: The pandemic has meant Apple's new product reveals aren't done in front of a live audience, instead relying on video to show off the latest iDevices. The next one of those, in whatever form it takes, is thought to be happening on March 23.

As 9To5Mac reports, if this Apple event does...

Google TV is adding kids profiles this month in the US

From The Verge: Google today announced that it’s adding a popular customer request to its Google TV software: separate profiles for kids. Kid profiles will let you choose which apps are available to young viewers. If a Google account for the child already exists, you can add that as a kid profile —...

Western Digital WD_BLACK AN1500 2TB Review (Page 1 of 10)

A few months ago, I was listening to a lecture on commercial network communications technology. For the most part, the presentation was very informative and well-researched, but the presenter made some errors when in his discussion of wireless channel conditions. I talked to him after the presentation complimenting him on a great lecture and also let him know how some of these wireless channel conditions actually worked. Usually, from my...

ROCCAT Vulcan TKL Pro Review (Page 1 of 3)

"My sister got a bleeding nose while picking her nose with her toe". This was said out of the blue in a Discord group chat with a few of my friends while playing a game. You may be wondering why I would bring this up in a review of a keyboard. There is a popular quote that says that truth is stranger than fiction. This quote is attributed to multiple people with Mark Twain being the most prominent one. However, I am not convinced this is always...

Unannounced Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti GPU appears on Asus’ website

From The Verge: Nvidia might be preparing to launch a new RTX 3050 Ti GPU, according to a leak from laptop maker Asus. VideoCardz reports that Asus has published updated specifications for its latest TUF Dash F15 gaming laptop, and it mentions an unreleased Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU...

Twitter 'Undo Send' Feature Discovered

From PC Mag: For as long as Twitter has existed, users have been crying out for an edit button. We may never get one, but Twitter is experimenting with similar features including the ability to unpublish a tweet for a few seconds after posting it.

As The Verge reports, the unannounced "Undo Send"...

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