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The iPhone 16 could come in a green shade with the same color trick as the iPhone 15

Post author By lisa nichols
Post date May 1, 2024
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One of the more notable design features of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus is color-infused glass, which, as the term suggests, fully embeds the colors into the glass, leading to a matte finish with quite pale colors. It’s an effect that’s unlike anything you’ll find on other phones. Well, at least until the iPhone 16, as the latest leak suggests that this phone will use the same technique.

According to a leaker on Chinese social network Weibo (via Apple Insider), one of the upcoming iPhone models will come in a color-infused green shade. Now, they don’t say which model, but previously this leaker – who goes by Fixed Focus Digital – claimed the iPhone 16 Plus will be available in seven shades, including green.

The standard iPhone 16 will almost certainly be available in the same shades based on past form, and since we haven’t heard about a green iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro Max option, they’re probably talking about the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus here.

In any case, they sound impressed by this green shade, describing it (via Google translate) as “beautiful.”

That’s not surprising, because we were quite taken by the color-infused glass on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus. In our iPhone 15 Plus review, we described it as “one of the best-looking iPhone finishes in recent memory.”

Seven color-infused shades

So, this is a promising leak, especially because, if the green shade is color-infused, it’s likely that the other iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus colors will be too. These shades, for reference, are rumored to include pink, yellow, blue, black, white, and purple.

It’s less clear whether the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will use color-infused glass. Another Weibo leaker claims that they will, though their predecessors didn’t, so we wouldn’t count on it.

These phones have previously been rumored to land in Space Black, White, Gray, and Rose shades. So, color-infused or not, you’re likely to have less choice with Apple’s top phones.

Of course, we’d take all of this with a pinch of salt, especially the information from Fixed Focus Digital, as they don’t have much of a track record yet. But all should become clear in September, as that’s when all four rumored iPhone 16 models are likely to be unveiled.

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Another startup is taking on Nvidia using a clever trick — Celestial AI brings DDR5 and HBM together to slash power consumption by 90%, may already be partnering with AMD

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There’s no shortage of startups pushing technology that could one day prove pivotal in AI computing and memory infrastructure.

Celestial AI, which recently secured $175 million in Series C funding, is looking to commercialize its Photonic Fabric technology which aims to redefine optical interconnects.

Celestial AI’s foundational technology is designed to disaggregate AI compute from memory to offer a “transformative leap in AI system performance that is ten years more advanced than existing technologies.”

Lower energy overhead and latency

The company has reportedly been in talks with several hyperscale customers and a major processor manufacturer, about integrating its technology. Though specific details remain under wraps, that manufacturer is quite likely to be AMD since AMD Ventures is one of Photonic Fabric’s backers.

As reported by The Next Platform, the core of Celestial AI’s strategy lies in its chiplets, interposers, and optical interconnect technology. By combining DDR5 and HBM memory, the company aims to significantly reduce power consumption while maintaining high performance levels. The chiplets can be used for additional memory capacity or as interconnects between chips, offering speeds comparable to NVLink or Infinity Fabric.

“The surge in demand for our Photonic Fabric is the product of having the right technology, the right team and the right customer engagement model”, said Dave Lazovsky, Co-Founder and CEO of Celestial AI.

“We are experiencing broad customer adoption resulting from our full-stack technology offerings, providing electrical-optical-electrical links that deliver data at the bandwidth, latency, bit error rate (BER) and power required, compatible with the logical protocols of our customer’s AI accelerators and GPUs. Deep strategic collaborations with hyperscale data center customers focused on optimizing system-level Accelerated Computing architectures are a prerequisite for these solutions. We’re excited to be working with the giants of our industry to propel commercialization of the Photonic Fabric.”

While Celestial AI faces challenges in timing and competition from other startups in the silicon photonics space, the potential impact of its technology on the AI processing landscape makes it a promising contender. As the industry moves towards co-packaged optics and silicon photonic interposers, Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric could play a key role in shaping the future of AI computing.

256TB SSDs could land before 2026 with a surprisingly low price — but will most likely use a controversial and popular trick borrowed from tape technology

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ScaleFlux has announced its latest SSD controller in what could be a significant step up for the company.

The SFX 5016, the successor to the SFX 3016, incorporates several design advancements, including an upgrade from PCIe 4.0 to PCIe 5.0, doubling the host interface speed and bandwidth.

The new controller has been designed to support a maximum storage capacity of up to 256TB, a volume which JB Baker, VP of Products at ScaleFlux believes can be achieved sooner than expected, by taking a leaf out of tape technology.

256TBe drives are coming

Reaching 256TB is a big aim for SSD makers, and one that has some challenging hurdles to overcome. For starters, the physical space, determined by the size and form factor of the SSD, dictates how many NAND components it can accommodate. The density of these components also plays a part, with higher densities providing more storage capacity. The SSD’s overall capacity can be limited by the controller’s ability to handle a certain number of NAND chips and manage them effectively. Additionally, SSDs maintain a “logical to physical map” to track each byte of data stored, typically in DRAM for consistent performance in enterprise SSDs. The amount of DRAM that can fit in the drive can further limit the maximum drive capacity.

For all of those reasons, we likely won’t see a 256TB physical capacity drive arrive until 2026 at the earliest, with pricing expected to come in at around $25,000 each. But there is a solution that’s closer to hand. Baker says a “256T effective through compression drive could arrive by 2025 and cost a fraction of the price.”

While offering a 256TB SSD ahead of the competition, and at a lower price point, sounds great, the method of achieving this is not without controversy.

Transparent compression, a feature included in the SFX 5016 and carried forward from the SFX 3016, is a popular trick borrowed from tape technology that allows an SSD to store more data than its physical capacity by compressing it. As Baker explains “a 3.84TB SSD can store 7.68TB of 2:1 compressible data for ‘effective capacity’. Storage array vendors pitch the ‘TBe’ -Terabyte effective – capacity based on achieving a certain data compression ratio.”

Although there’s no firm timescale for it, if Baker is right, it’s possible we’ll start seeing the first 256TBe drives late next year.

Popular SSD vendor uses clever trick to make slower, less durable flash components perform much better — but don’t expect miracles

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Although QLC NAND is capable of storing substantial amounts of data, it falls behind in performance when compared to other NAND types. Because it’s denser (housing four bits per cell) than TLC (which accommodates three), it’s typically slower and less robust.

Western Digital has employed a smart method to improve the performance and durability of its new SN5000S QLC flash drive. Thanks to the integration of a high-speed pseudo-SLC cache, over-provisioning of raw cells, and a controller that minimizes write amplification, it surpasses its TLC predecessor, SN740.

While the older SN740 was built using WD and Kioxia’s fifth generation BiCS 112-layer vertically stacked 3D NAND, the newer SN5000S benefits from BiCS sixth generation 162-layer NAND.

Speed improvements

Due to the SLC caching, the SN5000S has shown a 1.4% increase in random read IOPS and a 12.5% improvement in random write IOPS. Its sequential reads and writes are reportedly faster by 16.5% and 15.5%, respectively.

The SN5000S comes in M.2 2280 “gumstick” and M.2 2230 form factors with capacities ranging from 512GB to 2TB.

While the SN5000S has shown significant improvements, it’s worth mentioning that it uses slightly more power at peak than the SN740. The 2TB model’s peak power is 6.9W compared to 6.3W with its predecessor.

Additionally, the SN5000S 512GB and 1TB models have lower endurance than the SN740 equivalents. This improves with the 2TB model though – SN5000S hits 600 TBW while SN740 is 500 TBW.

As the SN5000S drives are primarily for OEMs, no official prices are available.

AMD’s FSR 3.1 promises improved image quality – with less flickering, better motion – and a trick that’ll delight some Nvidia GPU owners

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AMD has announced its next-gen upscaling box of tricks to make frame rates smoother with PC games at GDC 2024.

This is FSR 3.1, and it sounds like a big step forward – and not just for the quality of the upscaling tech, since there’s a surprise in tow for Nvidia (and Intel Arc) GPU owners.

The basics outlined by AMD are that in terms of better image quality, FSR 3.1 will boast ‘improved temporal stability’ which means fewer flickering or shimmering effects and less ‘fizziness’ around objects that are moving. There’ll be a reduction in the level of ghosting seen, too.

FSR 3.1 will provide a cleaner image overall, in short, and we’ll also get better preservation of detail, AMD asserts.

What about the surprise we mentioned? This is “decoupling FSR 3 upscaling from frame generation” so they are separate entities, and as AMD makes clear, this means that frame generation (adding additional artificial frames for a smoother frame rate) could work with other upscaling solutions.

AMD tells us that the first game to use FSR 3.1 will be Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and it’ll be delivered in an update for the game later this year (sadly we don’t get any idea of a precise timeframe).

FSR 3.1 should be available to game developers from Q2, meaning next month.

Support for Vulkan and the Xbox Game Development Kit is also inbound, and AMD notes a new FidelityFX API will make it “easier for developers to debug” and provide forward compatibility with updated versions of FSR.

Analysis: DLSS turbocharger for older Nvidia GPUs

Better image quality is clearly welcome with FSR 3.1 – even if some feel AMD has been pretty slow to act implementing improvements on this front – but the decoupling of frame generation is equally important.

This means that a PC gamer using Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling could draft in AMD’s frame generation to further rev up frame rates. Okay, so Lovelace GPU owners get DLSS 3 frame generation anyway, but those who don’t have an RTX 4000 graphics card can use DLSS but layer AMD’s frame generation on top, at least in theory. (Remember, while DLSS 3.5 may support older Nvidia GPUs with ray reconstruction, Team Green’s frame generation is still only available to RTX 4000 graphics cards).

Or those with an Intel Arc graphics card making use of XeSS upscaling could do the same thing, of course. AMD has tried to stay as open as possible with FSR and this is another commendable move in that respect.

We’ll need to see all this in action before we can really draw conclusions about how far AMD has advanced with version 3.1 of FSR, and it might be a bit of a wait yet before that happens.

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Huawei may have used a very clever trick to make hard disks use less power — spin-on-demand disk drives may well compete with tape on performance, but at what cost?

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At MWC 2024, Huawei’s Dr. Peter Zhou took the wraps off a number of new data storage products, including the company’s next-gen 10 Petabyte OceanStor Arctic magneto-electric storage solution.

When we reported on it recently, details were incredibility light. We knew it would be a magneto-electric disk (MED) that probably spins, and the first generation of the disk would be used mainly for archival storage. Huawei also claimed that it could reduce TCO by 20% compared to tape, and reduce power consumption by 90% compared to hard drives.

Now, Blocks & Files has uncovered additional details on the MED drive, courtesy of a smartphone photo of a backup and archiving slide presented by Huawei at another event.

Spun-down disks

Taken by Digital Storage and Applications Analyst Tom Coughlin, the slide has an archiving solution section that reveals three visual elements for OceanStor Arctic: a rack, a 4 or 6RU chassis, and a disk.

Blocks & Files notes that some of the text on the slide appears to compare “450 W/PB HDDs vs 71 W/PB Magneto-electric Disk” and writer Chris Mellor says, “We have been pondering what the term magneto-electric disk might mean. Dictionary-wise the magneto-electric effect refers to any linkage between the magnetic and the electric properties of a material. That could conceivably describe a hard disk drive’s technology, which involves using electricity to change the polarity of a magnetic region on a disk platter’s surface.”

If that’s the case, the big question so far unanswered, is how it can spin yet consume 90% lower power than hard drives? The likely answer is that the OceanStor Arctic will use spun-down disks that power down or turn off to save energy and reduce wear when not in use.

Mellor asked Huawei if OceanStor Arctic used spun-down disks, but was told less than helpfully by a spokesperson, “My understanding is that the product line may not be in a position to disclose more information about the product as it’s not yet available in overseas market.”

OceanStor Arctic is expected to be available outside of China in the second half of 2025.

A simple trick to remember for using your Galaxy phone one-handed

Post author By miranda cosgrove
Post date March 15, 2024
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It’s Friday, and we would like to close the week with a short and sweet piece of advice. We’re aiming it at Galaxy phone users who became fans of One UI because of Samsung’s philosophy to make everything easier to reach with one hand.

The solution Samsung came up with a few years ago to make one-hand usability easier was very simple and clever. Samsung simply added a big title card at the top of nearly every menu and proprietary app. This title card would disappear as soon as users swiped up, making room for other UI elements. It also reappeared when users swiped down far enough.

That same philosophy exists in One UI 6, even though the new Quick Toggle panel seemingly goes against it. The only difference in more recent One UI versions is that the title card’s default state has changed. Upon opening menus on your Galaxy phone, the title cards are usually hidden by default.

However, Galaxy device users can still make their phones easier to use with one hand through a simple gesture we’re all very familiar with already.

Remember to always swipe down for one-hand usability!

It’s deceivingly simple, so much so that many One UI users seem to have forgotten this feature exists. But that is the key to using your Galaxy phone with one hand! Namely, you can swipe down in nearly every menu and sub-menu inside the Settings app or other Samsung apps to reveal a big title card at the top of the screen and push every other UI element closer to the bottom.

Here are many example screenshots of how menus look in One UI 6.1 by default and how they look when made one-handed-friendly with just one swipe-down gesture.

Don’t forget, you can try swiping down everywhere in One UI and Samsung apps, and you will likely get results in the vast majority of cases.

In addition to this simple solution, Galaxy device users mustn’t forget that they can swipe down on the gesture handle or home button to enable the true One-Handed Mode, which minimizes the entire UI for reachability.

If this gesture for One-Handed Mode doesn’t work for you, try opening Settings on your phone, accessing “Advanced features” and “One-Handed Mode,” and turning the feature ON. See the screenshots below for details.

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One simple trick to make your bedtime routine the best part of the day

Post author By lisa nichols
Post date March 11, 2024
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The best sleep hygiene tips tend to encourage giving things up: don’t use your phone in bed, don’t drink coffee in the afternoon, don’t eat at night… While good advice, it can make the bedtime routine feel like a chore. But it’s time to flip that thinking. By saving your favorite activities for the evening, settling down for bed becomes something you actually look forward to.

Social media is big on the idea of romanticizing your life; when you find new ways to see joy in the daily routine. When it comes to bedtime, that means more than adding cozy cushions to your best mattress. It means keeping your favorite activities exclusively for the wind-down, so you feel encouraged to put away your phone and make the most of the evening.

Not sure where to get started? I picked up this advice while attending the Sleep Charity‘s Sleep Conference, and the experts there provided me with some great tips on how to develop an evening routine that’s both sleep-friendly and fun.

Why save special activities for the evening?

Swapping doomscrolling for reading might seem like an obvious choice before bed, but actually making that change isn’t quite so easy. It can be very hard to pull away from the quick enjoyment of compulsive social media scrolling, even when we know that the blue light and stimulating content might end up keeping us awake.

A woman reads a book in bed before going to sleep

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But by keeping some of your favorite but low-key hobbies until just before bed, the wind-down routine becomes something you look forward to. This is the time when you can finally finish the next chapter of your book, or break out that new face mask, or get stuck into the Lego set that was a bargain on Black Friday. In comparison, your phone starts to look boring. So instead of damaging your sleep with procrastinating social media scrolls, you’ll prepare yourself for bed while doing something you love.

How to choose your evening activities

First of all, you have to pick activities you actually enjoy, not just hobbies you think sound relaxing. Coloring books are calming, but I don’t look forward to doing them, so I wouldn’t be convinced to put down my phone and pick up the pencils. While sleep-friendliness is a key consideration, if it takes priority over enjoyment, you’ll lose what makes this trick successful.

That’s not to say you can’t explore new things. If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at calligraphy, it might be the perfect activity to save for the evening. Just if, after a few weeks, you realize it’s not for you, put down the quill and pick up a new hobby.

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And don’t be afraid to get physical. Light exercise before bed can help you sleep, so try yoga or some gentle pilates. Mindful meditation can also help you feel calm before bed, and combined with light stretching, will help your body and brain wind-down.

Finally, don’t pick anything that gets you stimulated or alert, even if it sounds like it should be relaxing. Reading before bed is often recommended as the ideal low-key activity, but not if you’re sucked into the latest thriller. Sudoko might help you switch off, but if crosswords keep you up, stick to the numbers. There’s no one-size-fits-all choice, so really consider what works for you.

Get started with a bedtime box

Using a bedtime box can make these relaxing activities feel special and encourage putting down the phone. Originally developed for kids learning about sleep routines, bedtime boxes are useful for anyone who wants to add structure to their evening.

Bedtime boxes contain the essentials for your pre-bed wind-down, and that includes whatever you need to get stuck into the hobbies you’ve set aside. When you reach for the bedtime box, it signals you’re preparing for sleep. And it takes out the hassle of getting ready – instead of searching the house for your yoga mat, sketchbook, half-finished book, you simply have to grab the box.

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