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We Tried the World’s Most Expensive Racing Simulator

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But to convince F1 teams to abandon their own super-expensive bespoke in-house simulators and also persuade car manufacturers to use Dynisma’s tech to hone potential road cars, Warne and his team had to develop a sophisticated driving simulator that could drastically reduce latency to a point where the brain cannot distinguish any lag at all. … Read more

Here’s one good reason you may want to ‘downgrade’ your SSD and lose capacity in the process — cheap QLC SSD can be transformed into expensive SLC to improve endurance but it’s not for the fainthearted

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We love crazy tech projects here at TechRadar Pro – Some of our recent favorites include an enthusiast getting ChatGPT to run on a NAS, and the person who transformed AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor into a storage device with read-write speeds to rival some of the best SSDs. The latest idea to cross our … Read more

Trek Fetch+ 2 Review: A Solid, Though Expensive, Cargo Ebike

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One of the things that can be intimidating about buying a cargo ebike is how unfamiliar they feel. Whether a bike is designed with weird geometry and wheel sizes or odd features for heavy hauling, every ride can feel unfamiliar. For traditional cyclists who want to haul a grocery store trip’s worth of groceries home … Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 Review: Too Dang Expensive

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Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Carbon line dates back to 2012, and now, in its 12th incarnation, the laptop has reached a level of maturity few other brands can boast. Today’s X1 Carbon has been honed to a fine point—yet it would be legitimately difficult to distinguish from the original. I’d know, because I reviewed it for … Read more

‘Wean itself off Nvidia’: Samsung signs $750 million agreement with South Korea’s largest online platform — Naver wants to replace Nvidia’s super expensive AI GPU with the more affordable Mach-1 chip

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In a move to cut its dependency on Nvidia‘s high-cost AI chips, Naver, the South Korean equivalent of Google, has signed a 1 trillion won ($750 million) agreement with Samsung.  The deal will see the tech giant supply its more affordable Mach-1 chips to Naver, by the end of 2024. The Mach-1 chip, currently under … Read more

1200TB SSD modules are in the pipeline thanks to Pure Storage — but you definitely won’t be able to plug one in your workstation PC and it will be shockingly expensive

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In March 2023, we reported that Pure Storage planned to sell 300TB SSDs within three years.  While 300TB is unquestionably an impressive amount of storage, the company has revealed that it expects to be able to deliver 1200TB SSD modules… eventually. Shawn Rosemarin, Pure VP for R&D, explained to Blocks & Files that the limitations … Read more

Santa Cruz Skitch Review: A Light, Versatile, and Expensive Electric Bike

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I stopped monitoring the range after about 30 miles, but the battery indicator on the top tube said that I still had about 30 percent of the battery left. (I weigh 115 pounds, so your mileage may vary.) You can also select drop handlebars if you plan on doing more bike commuting, or add suspension … Read more

Budget vs Expensive Android smartphones compared (Video)

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There is a big difference in price between budget Android smartphones and expensive Android smartphones, but is there really that much of a difference in their usability, a new video from Mrwhostheboss compares two handsets side by side. In the video below the Xiaomi Rdmi Note 13 which costs $349 is tested side by side … Read more