In a nutshell: This year’s SXSW kicked off last Friday, and over the weekend, Reggie Fils-Aimé spoke with Bloomberg on various topics, including the metaverse. While Fils-Aimé believes the metaverse is coming, he doesn’t think that Facebook’s current idea of it will succeed. Former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé is not a big fan…
In brief: This week, Chinese authorities seized a shipment of XFX GPUs at a port on the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It contained 5,840 GPUs that local media identified as mostly AMD Radeon RX 6700 XTs headed for XFX’s Chinese sales partners. According to a report from Chinese customs, the shipment was seized…
Why it matters: Three vulnerabilities were recently discovered affecting uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) made by APC. The vulnerability, classified as critical and high severity, is related to APC’s SMT, SMC, SCL, SMX, SRT, and SMTL product lines. The TLS-based attacks can result in impacts ranging from physical damage of the device itself to unauthorized access…
In brief: Reports indicate Foxconn is planning to build a new $9 billion factory to manufacture various electronics in the Middle East. Most odd is that one of the locations in consideration is a Saudi Arabian city that doesn’t exist yet. Sources recently told the Wall Street Journal that the Saudi government is negotiating with…
Rumor mill: Philips is best known for making consumer electronics, like smart light bulbs, TVs, sound systems, and more. However, it would seem the company wants to expand its business even further. According to some allegedly-leaked pictures taken from the BoardChannels message board, Philips is working on PC and laptop memory kits. According to Tom’s…
In brief: Ford is no different than other automakers struggling to meet demand during the ongoing chip shortage. Rather than wait around for the requisite semiconductors to roll off the assembly line, the automaker has decided to go ahead and ship some partially built vehicles to dealers and have them sold with an IOU. Automotive…
Razer Laptops with both fast and beautiful displays are rare. Razer has announced a version of its Razer Blade 15 that meets both criteria in stunning fashion, with a 240Hz, 1440p OLED panel that will debut by the holidays. No other laptop has ever offered those specs before. On paper, this Razer Blade ticks almost…
Michael Crider/IDG Amazon might be feeling the competition in the e-reader market for the first time since…well, ever. Kindle e-readers use their own proprietary Amazon format to display e-books, AZW3, which keeps most users from loading up a bunch of copyright-free books in the most common ePub format. But thanks to a new software rollout,…
Bottom line: One of Samsung’s top consumer-facing solid-state drives is on sale for the lowest price we’ve seen to date. Inventory probably won’t last long at this price, so if you’re interested, I would go ahead and pick it up now. The 2TB version of Samsung’s 980 Pro SSD is currently marked down to just…
In context: In 2005, a render of a portable handheld called the “Nintendo GameCube Advance” began circulating the internet. It was relatively quickly dismissed as a fake and slipped into obscurity. However, someone has gone through the effort to create the real deal based on that nearly twenty-year-old render. YouTuber GingerOfOz, whom you may remember…