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Apple is reportedly testing E Ink’s electronic paper display (EPD) for potential inclusion in future foldable devices and / or tablets. In a recent tweet, renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said E Ink’s color EPD has the potential to become a mainstream solution for foldable devices’ cover / secondary display. Companies like Samsung and Oppo have led the foldable movement but power players including Apple are no doubt experimenting with similar technology behind closed doors....

In response to the invasion, Apple has paused all product sales in Russia, limited Apple Pay, and removed RT News and Sputnik News for the App Stores outside of the country. It has also disabled traffic patterns and live incident reports in Apple Maps in Ukraine to prevent the monitoring of Ukrainian movements. “We are deeply concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and stand with all of the people who are suffering as a result of the violence,” Apple said in a statement on Tuesday....

Our imaginary computer is about the size of a biscuit tin or about 19x19 cm. (7x7 in) with a height of just 7 cm. (<3 in). This computer sounds like the perfect HTPC and truth be told, it is. No longer a mere a figment of our imagination, let’s get this thought out of the way. Despite paying little attention to the hype behind the Nvidia Ion, it turns out we loved Asrock’s implementation of the platform....

Pricing for that system was very reasonable, with the base unit set at $350. A more upscale version could be had for $440 that added a MCE remote controller and WiFi 802.11n. Meanwhile, the most complete package included a Blu-ray drive for $580, a bit on the steep side for a nettop but not to an extreme given the features on offer. The Ion 330HT’s hardware specs mirrored those of a powerful netbook and while the box performed up to expectations, it was considered to be light on horsepower by some....

LGA1156 Test System Specs - Intel Core i5 750 (2.66GHz) - x2 2GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 (CAS 7-7-7-20) - Asus P7P55D-E Premium (Intel P55) - Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 (1.5GB) - ATI Radeon HD 5850 (1GB) - Thermaltake Toughpower Grand (750 watt) - Seagate 500GB 7200-RPM (Serial ATA300) Software - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) - Nvidia Forceware 260.99 AM3 Test System Specs - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition (3....

On the right edge of the system we find a memory card slot (SD/SDHC/MMC), headphone jack, microphone jack, two USB 2.0 ports and an Ethernet port. The back side of the Eee is plain with only the battery compartment visible. Asus scores a design point here as the battery on the 1101HA does not protrude from the rear of the netbook like we have seen on systems such as the Acer Aspire One 11....

Performance-wise the new 890GX chipset appeared only slightly better than the 785G when using the OCZ Vertex 2 Pro, leaving room for the Intel platform to take over these tests.

The new Radeon HD 5450, code-named Cedar Pro, will be the most affordable graphics card belonging to the HD 5000 series. This is also the first on AMD’s latest wave of graphics products to do away with GDDR5 memory, replacing it with older GDDR3. Naturally, the Radeon HD 5450 is not designed exclusively for 3D gaming and certain versions will support advanced features such as Eyefinity. The Radeon HD 5450 is stepping in to replace the Radeon HD 4350 graphics card which currently retails for as little as $35 - $40 (512MB) and $45 - $50 (1GB)....

At present, the Radeon HD 5450 kicks things off at around $50, followed by the 5570 at $85. As we move towards the mid-range segment we find the Radeon HD 5670 for $100, which delivers just enough power to outclass Nvidia’s lackluster GeForce GT 240. Then things start to get interesting with the Radeon HD 5750 and 5770 graphics cards offering some decent gaming performance for $140 and $165, respectively....

With the system at idle, the Silent Base 800 performed solidly, keeping the CPU at just 25 degrees or only 4 degrees higher than the best result we have ever been able to record. Meanwhile, the GPU idled at 36 degrees, which is again close to the best result we have received being a mere 3 degrees warmer than the Thermaltake Level 10 GT, which features a large fan directly over the graphics cards....

To help you navigate the multitude of phone options and help in your decision, we’ve collected and organized our top picks into six categories, based on features, value and price… Masthead credit: Jeremy Bezanger Best for Most Apple iPhone 13 or Samsung Galaxy S22 Price: $799 Best Value Phones Xiaomi Poco F3… or OnePlus, Samsung, Apple Price: $389 Best Budget Phones Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 or OnePlus Nord N20 5G Price: $180 Best of the Best Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max or Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Price: $1,099 Best Foldable Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 Price: $599 Best Gaming Phones Asus ROG Phone 5s or ZTE Nubia Red Magic 7 Price: $699...

Years before OpenAI and other organizations started toying with AI to easily generate text, speech, artworks, malware, and videos, machine learning researcher Sean Vasquez was studying a 2013 paper by Google DeepMind’s Alex Graves to create “handwriting synthesis” experiments. Vasquez archived his code on GitHub along with his web-based demo. The experiment is available at Calligrapher.ai, which Hacker News recently rediscovered. The handwriting synthesis behind Calligrapher.ai employs a generative method built upon a recurrent neural network (RNN)....

While New York City schools have decided to ban ChatGPT from their network and devices, the internet criminal underground is looking into adopting the new technology to create malware faster. The machine learning-based chatbot was designed to interact in a conversational way, answer follow-up questions and admit its mistakes, and it seems OpenAI researchers made such a good job that the service can even write code that works with just a few adjustments here and there....

It’s no secret that China is building a very different Internet than the Western world. In fact, it is sometimes referred to as a “surveillance economy” due to its questionable policies. The Chinese government seeks to control its citizens’ online activity to the point of putting curfews on watching livestreams, recording the location of social media users, putting limits on how much time kids can spend playing online games, building a social credit system, and mandating direct access to user data stored on private cloud servers....

Starting at the bottom we have a bracket with two 120mm fans that cool the six hard drive bays in this area. The fan bracket is removable for hard drive installation or you can leave it out completely if you don’t plan to have any drives installed here. The drive doors pop out and allow you to slide each tray out for easy installation. In the photo above we have a good look at the toolless 5....

Those building more extreme desktop systems will no doubt be aiming for an NVMe SSD. The PCI Express bus provides much more bandwidth for unleashing these high-speed storage devices. However, not all NVMe drives are created the same, and we saw that last year when checking out Intel’s hopeless SSD 600p. That drive was plagued by poorly sustained write performance, which would see it drop even below hard drive-like performance....

The m4 mSATA reached a maximum read throughput of 514MB/s in Atto Disk Benchmark when working with 128K data, setting it above the Vertex 4 256GB and HyperX 3K drives. However, as demonstrated by previous benchmarks, the drive’s write performance is lackluster, and that trend continued here with a throughput of only 283MB/s compared to the Vertex 4’s 471MB/s and the HyperX 3K’s 528MB/s.

A fire at a single data center in South Korea caused an outage disabling chat and other web-based services for 90 percent of the population over the weekend. The seemingly small accident caused so much damage because two of the nation’s most important tech companies relied on the data center. The biggest problem was with Kakao, a service that handles chat, online payments, ride-hailing, gaming, log-in verification, retail, and other services....

Interesting to note how the LANParty JR X58-T3H6 consumed more power than the larger, more feature-rich LANParty UT X58-T3eH8 in both idle and stress tests. The LANParty UT X58-T3eH8 used roughly the same amount of power as the MSI X58 Pro-E, while the LANParty JR X58-T3H6 used slightly more than the Asus P6T Deluxe.

As it stands today, access to Disney+ commands $7.99 per month, or $79.99 per year when paid up front which works out to roughly $6.67 per month. There’s also the Disney Bundle, which consists of Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu (the ad-supported tier) for $13.99 a month or $19.99 a month if you want Hulu without ads. Rita Ferro, president of advertising at Disney, said advertisers have been clamoring for the opportunity to be part of Disney+....