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uArm Swift Desktop Robotic Arm Lets You Be Tony Stark for Only $209
You may not have Tony Stark’s billions, his genius or his workshop full of tools, but this new $290 desktop robotic arm called uArm Swift can help with any project and be better at it than most third arm options. Sure, it may not actually be as advanced as J.A.R.V.I.S.…
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Apple Reportedly Planning More ARM Co-Processors For MacBook
With the new Touch Bar MacBook, Apple introduced their first ARM processors to their laptop lineup. The T1 chip is meant to help offload Touch Bar functionality from the CPU to reduce the performance impact and provide a low power state for the Touch Bar. According to a new report out today, Apple…
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Microsoft Brings Windows to ARM For Real
Ever since mobile became a thing, Microsoft has been trying to break into that market. Generally, the company has not been met with great success. One of the major impediments is that mobile devices tend to use ARM chips and not x86. Robbed of their dominance over the x86 market, Microsoft’s…
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Microsoft Reportedly Prepping x86 Emulator For 2017
After missing the boat on the mobile revolution, Microsoft has persistently tried to get onboard. One of the major challenges is that mobile devices tend to use ARM-based processors. This has meant Microsoft has been unable to leverage their dominance in the x86 Windows space. In order to get around…
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Woman Suffers 2nd Degree Burns After Falling Asleep On Her iPhone
While Samsung is the company that has been in the news lately with their mobile phone issues, they aren’t the only ones that seem to have trouble in that regards as it looks like the iPhone 7 also could have heat issues under certain usage scenarios. According to a report…
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Buffalo Announces 2 and 4-Bay TeraStation 5010 With Built-In 10GbE
Buffalo announced a new NAS series designed to make the entry into 10 Gigabit Ethernet easier and more cost-effective. The new NAS series is called the TeraStation 5010 and consists of three models. There is both a 2-bay and a 4-bay desktop model as well as a 4-bay rackmount…
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QNAP Announces Cost-efficient TS-x31P NAS Series
QNAP released a new NAS series for the budget minded people that still want a powerful all-around solution. The new TS-x31P series includes three models: The TS-131P 1-bay, TS-231P two-bay, and TS-431P four-bay NAS powered by an Amazon AnnapurnaLabs Alpine AL-212 dual-core 1.7GHz processor. The new series is designed to provide…
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Samsung’s New Chromebook Pro Leaked
It looks like Samsung is about to make the jump up the big leagues for their new Chromebook, leaving their more budget-focused models behind for their Chromebook Pro, which was recently uncovered by some internet sleuths. Their upcoming Chromebook Pro looks set to tick all the high-end Chrome OS boxes,…
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Linux Kernel Founder Explains Why he Prefers X86 Over ARM
Linus Torvalds, the Linux Kernel creator is one of the most influential figures of the technological age and paramount to the Linux’s success. During the Linaro Connect conference, Linus answered a question quite directly about his favourite chip architecture and said: “What matters is all the infrastructure around the instruction set,…
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Intel Opens Up 10nm Fabs to ARM SoCs
One of the big headline problems for Intel is the increasing cost of reaching new nodes. As we get ever closer to the limitations of silicon, it is taking longer and costing more to reach the next lower level. Combined with a slowing CPU market, the company embarked on their…
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New Prosthetic Arms Inspired by Deus Ex
When it comes to video games there are quite a few that feature cybernetics, the idea of robotics designed to act as a replacement for a hand or an arm has featured in many games, but most will remember it as the kind used by Adam Jensen, the main character…
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Intel Scraps Broxton SoC
Following lower-than-projected earnings last quarter, which marked a huge drop from its record 2015 Q4 revenues, Intel has announced that it is pulling the plug on its Broxton Atom SoC processor family. Broxton was pitched by Intel as its entry into the high-end mobile processor market, competing against the likes…
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QNAP TAS-268 QTS and Android Combo NAS Review
Introduction In today’s review, I am taking a look at a NAS that comes with a twist that we previously haven’t seen out-of-the-box. I’m talking about QNAP’s TAS-268 NAS which is a 2-bay hybrid NAS that runs both QNAP’s QTS and Android at the same time. The TAS-268 doesn’t just…
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AMD Finally Launches Datacenter Opteron ARM Chips
Nearly 4 years after AMD first revealed their ARM plans, their first ARM-based Opteron chips are finally ready. Shipping today, the octa-core Opteron A1100 server SoC and platform is already able for purchase from several partners and is available in 3 SKUs. Despite such a late launch, the A1100 may yet…
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ARM Displaying Their Latest Technologies @ CES 2016
CES 2016: ARM are one of the biggest tech companies in the world, chances are you’re using dozens of their products right now and you don’t even know it! They make the tiny processors, sensors and more that go into so many pieces of technology all around the world. At CES,…
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