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AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU

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AMD has plans to support a little known chip for at least another 16 years — and no, it is neither a Ryzen, nor a Threadripper or an Epyc CPU

Spartan UltraScale+ is the latest addition to AMD‘s extensive portfolio of cost-optimized Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and adaptive SoCs. It has been introduced to replace the Xilinx Spartan 6 and Spartan 7 lines. The new Spartan UltraScale+ devices are designed for a wide range of I/O-intensive applications at the edge. AMD says its latest … Read more

I was sick of forgetting files, but this app lets me access my devices from anywhere in the world

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I was sick of forgetting files, but this app lets me access my devices from anywhere in the world

What do you do when you forget to load a file onto your laptop and it’s now languishing at the other end of your house on a different device? In my case, I usually end up pausing whatever I’m doing, getting up and marching over to the file location, uploading it to a cloud server, … Read more

Want to cut your screen time? Try these new Fallout, Disney, and Star Wars trading card games

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Want to cut your screen time? Try these new Fallout, Disney, and Star Wars trading card games

While I know first-hand how awesome the digital world of technology is – if I didn’t love it then I’d be in the wrong profession – I’m also the first to admit it can all get a little overwhelming. Between new LG OLED TVs announcements, almost daily blockbuster show and film launches, and the phone … Read more

Google may have accidentally revealed the Pixel 8a is coming soon

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Google may have accidentally revealed the Pixel 8a is coming soon

The next phone we’re expecting from Google is the Google Pixel 8a, and while there’s been no official word in regards to the upcoming mid-ranger, we may have the next best thing, from the Android bug tracker that’s publicly available online. On a thread referring to battery stats (via 9to5Google), a Google software engineer says … Read more

Adapt to survive: how a former Disney animator and director rode the wave of digital transformation

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Adapt to survive: how a former Disney animator and director rode the wave of digital transformation

It’s been almost 120 years since the  first cartoon animation, Émile Cohl’s Fantasmagorie, was made, and the contemporary art form has come a long way since then.  That’s especially true for the last 50 years of animation, which has seen illustrators and animators alike embrace a plethora of new hardware and software tools, including some … Read more

HP’s lightest laptop could be the most powerful sub-1Kg notebook released yet — Aero 13 ultrabook has a tiny price tag, a super fast Ryzen 7 CPU but you have to wait till May to buy it

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HP’s lightest laptop could be the most powerful sub-1Kg notebook released yet — Aero 13 ultrabook has a tiny price tag, a super fast Ryzen 7 CPU but you have to wait till May to buy it

Last year we called the HP Pavilion Aero 13 “probably the best value-for-money light laptop on the market right now” and it’s about to get an upgrade that will make it ever better. The Pavilion Aero 13 2024 model, which could potentially be the most powerful sub-1Kg notebook on the market, packs a punch with … Read more

Grado Reference Series The Hemp headphones review: sonically spot on

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Grado Reference Series The Hemp headphones review: sonically spot on

Grado Hemp: Two-minute review The Reference Series Hemp headphones started out as a limited edition – but thanks to popular opinion, Grado has decided to make them a permanent part of its catalog. How likely are the Grado Hemp to feature in our best wired headphones buying guide? Very, with just a few caveats.  In … Read more