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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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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

Geologists reject the Anthropocene as Earth’s new epoch — after 15 years of debate

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After 15 years of discussion and exploration, a committee of researchers has decided that the Anthropocene — generally understood to be the age of irreversible human impacts on the planet — will not become an official epoch in Earth’s geological timeline. The ruling, first reported by The New York Times, is meant to be final, … Read more

How 19 years of Amazon Prime has satisfied our need for speed

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Just as Engadget was hitting publish on its first posts, I was putting a freshly minted English degree to use working at an indie bookshop in Los Angeles. In seemingly unrelated news, Amazon had just reported its first profitable year after switching from selling books to selling “everything” four years before. (It still sold a … Read more

Good news for coral reef restoration efforts: Study finds ‘full recovery’ of reef growth within four years

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While the majority of the world’s reefs are now under threat or even damaged potentially beyond repair, a new study reported in the journal Current Biology on March 8 offers some encouraging news: efforts to restore coral reefs not only increase coral cover, but they can also bring back important ecosystem functions, and surprisingly fast. … Read more

The Volkswagen Golf is 50 Years Old in 2024

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No matter which generation – the secret of success was and still is the sum of all its characteristics. This is because the Golf has always been a perfect companion for everyday life, embodying versatility, functionality, reliability and quality. Over the decades, the portfolio has been expanded to include further variants: whether Golf GTI, Golf Cabriolet … Read more

2.6 billion personal records have been compromised in 2 years

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An Apple-commissioned study has been released this week that reports threats to consumer data stored in the cloud have grown dramatically since the last report was published in December 2022. Report states that 2.6 billion personal records have been compromised by data breaches in past two years, highlighting the need for end‑to‑end encryption. The study, … Read more

Samsung celebrates 54 years with discounts for Samsung Week

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Samsung is celebrating its 54-year anniversary and the company is kicking off Samsung Week with a range of discounts on various Samsung devices. This included devices like the Samsung Galaxy Fold5, the 77-inch OLED TV, the Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor, and much more. Samsung is offering these discounts on their devices between the 23rd of … Read more

Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro to get 7 years of software updates

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The new Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones were made official last week, the handsets come with Android 14 and Google has also revealed that these new smartphones will come with 7 years of software updates. According to Google the 7 years of software updates for the latest Pixel smartphones will include Android … Read more