Apple Smartphone Sales Slump Puts Samsung Back on Top: Apple saw a nearly 10% year-over-year decline in sales this Q1 year.
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Quick Glance: iPhone sales plummet. Here's why
- Apple’s smartphone sales dropped by 10% last quarter, primarily due to a sharp decline in sales in China.
- Samsung had been the top smartphone manufacturer for 12 years, but Apple briefly took the top spot last year.
- The global smartphone market is showing signs of recovery with a 7.8% increase in smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2024.
- Despite expectations for Apple and Samsung to maintain their market dominance, the rise of Huawei and other Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi and OPPO/OnePlus may continue.
US Cybersecurity Agency Will Review Malware Samples Sent by the Public: Previously reserved for government employees, Malware Next-Gen now allows submissions ...
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Samsung to Receive $6.4 Billion in CHIPS Act Funding: The company plans to use the funds to produce 2nm wafers at its facility in Texas.
extremetech.com/computing/samsung-to-receive-64-billion-in-chips-act-funding
WD Unveils Portable Server With 368TB of Flash Storage: The Ultrastar Transporter is like a rolling server with a ton of high-speed storage.
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'Snow Farming' Helps Ski Resorts Circumvent Unpredictable Weather: This centuries-old strategy can supplement conventional snowmaking to conserve water and ...
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MIT Develops Medical AI Model That Embraces Nuance, 'Talks' to Itself: Rather than spitting out a one-and-done answer, Tyche accounts for anomalies it's ...
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Microsoft Displaying Full Screen Windows 11 Ads in Windows 10
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Intel Allegedly Investigating Core i9 CPU Instability in Some Games: Lowering the clocks seems to solve the issue, but nobody wants to do that on an expensive ...
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Intel Announces Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator to Compete With Nvidia: Intel says its newest accelerator is superior to Nvidia's current H100 while costing much less.
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Nvidia GPU Partners Expect RTX 5090, 5080 to Launch Later This Year: The company is rumored to launch 50-Series RTX GPUs earlier than expected.
extremetech.com/gaming/nvidia-gpu-partners-expect-rtx-5090-5080-to-launch-later-this-year
Google to Bring AI Photo Editing Tools to More Devices for Free: You'll soon be able to refocus your images and remove unsightly photobombs without buying a ...
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NASA Prepares to Test Next-Gen Solar Sail Technology: The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is both strong and flexible.
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Twitter Tries, Fails, to Swap its URLs for X.com: The company had to give up after accidentally giving a gift to phishers.
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iPhone Users in 92 Countries Receive Warning About 'Mercenary Spyware Attack': Though Apple wasn't able to share any details about the alleged attackers ...
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EPA Finalizes Limits on Certain PFAS In Public Water Supply: Utility companies will be required to test for and mitigate five 'forever chemicals.'
extremetech.com/science/epa-finalizes-limits-on-certain-pfas-in-public-water-supply
Satellite Internet Startup Astranis Announces More Powerful Omega Satellite: Astranis Omega will offer up to 50 Gbps of bandwidth, five times as much as the ...
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NASA Publishes Calendar of Future Eclipse Events: Already looking forward to the next eclipse? Use this calendar to make sure you're in the right place at the ...
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TSMC Reportedly Targeting 2025 and 2027 for Next-Generation 2nm and 1.4nm Processes
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Synchron Begins Planning Brain Chip Human Trials: The company hopes to attract dozens of volunteers for testing as it seeks FDA approval.
extremetech.com/science/synchron-begins-planning-brain-chip-human-trials
FCC's Broadband 'Nutrition Labels' Finally Go Into Effect Today: Now you can get all the facts in one place.
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Quick Glance: Broadband customers receive detailed price and performance information
- Starting today, the transparency of broadband services for internet users is being enhanced.
- The Federal Communications Commission has mandated that broadband providers must display all details regarding the pricing and performance of their services in clear labels.
- These labels provide clear and easily understandable information about price, speed, data allowances, and other aspects of high-speed internet service.
- The Affordable Connectivity Program has already enrolled over 23 million households across all 50 states, territories, and federally recognized tribal lands.
Microsoft Testing Ads in Windows 11 Start Menu: Microsoft just can't seem to help itself.
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NASA Decodes the Reason Behind Voyager 1's Garbled Transmissions: For the first time since November, we know why Voyager 1 has had a difficult time communicating ...
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Google Announces Axion Arm Chip: Google's first Arm chip for servers promises a 30% performance boost compared with Amazon and Microsoft Arm chips.
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Gravitational Wave Detector Spots Unknown Object Merging with Neutron Star: The LIGO project spots another mass-gap object, suggesting the gap could be more ...
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Microsoft Targets Xbox Backward Compatibility With New Game Preservation Team: Microsoft's Sarah Bond also promises a significant hardware upgrade for the ...
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New Technique Allows Smartphones to Detect Heart Failure: Your phone's built-in motion sensors might be able to pick up cardiac vibrations more easily than your ...
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New Map of the Universe Challenges What We Know About Dark Energy
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Intel Claims Massive Performance Boost With XeSS Upscaling Version 1.3: Intel is promising big frame rate gains for its upscaling tech as it seeks to catch up to ...
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TSMC Will Receive $11 Billion in CHIPS Act Funds: The company says it'll use the money to create a third fab at its existing Arizona site.
extremetech.com/computing/tsmc-will-receive-11-billion-in-chips-act-funds
Quick Glance: Billion-Dollar Deal Strengthens US Semiconductor Production and National Security
- The world's largest chipmaker is planning cutting-edge facilities in Arizona with substantial subsidies.
- From 2028, TSMC will produce its most advanced products in Arizona to boost US semiconductor production.
- The $65 billion investment in the US drives 2nm chip production and enhances national security.
- This move supports the goal of relocating 20% of global advanced semiconductor manufacturing onshore by 2030.
Upcoming Windows 11 24H2 Might Disable Some Third-Party UI Apps: The company says these apps cause 'security or performance issues.'
extremetech.com/computing/upcoming-windows-11-24h2-might-disable-some-third-party-ui-apps
Gemini AI Is Coming to the Android Google App, Will Replace Assistant: The Google app is already on your phone, and it's about to start pushing Google's new AI ...
extremetech.com/mobile/gemini-ai-is-coming-to-the-android-google-app-will-replace-assistant
Stars Maintain Their Youthful Appearance Using the Remains of the Stars They Devour
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New Window Film Blocks Heat-Producing UV Light Without Compromising the View: The film could be a game-changer for those who want to keep their homes or offices ...
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Blazing Fast PCI Express 7.0 Gets Updated to Version 0.5, Is Launching in 2025: The new standard will deliver an incredible 512GB per second.
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NASA's DART Mission Accidentally Redirected Space Rocks at Mars: Fragments of Dimorphos liberated by the impact test could eventually fall on Mars ...
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Confirmed: Tesla Cancels Low-Cost Model 2 EV, Will Shift to Robotaxis (Updated): The Model 2 will be repurposed as a robotaxi, but you won't be able to buy one.
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Quick Glance: Elon Musk to Unveil Tesla 'Robotaxi' on August 8
- Elon Musk announced that Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on August 8, despite past promises and delays with self-driving cars.
- Musk plans to develop a car without controls for human use and gradually enhance Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving capability.
- Currently, buyers can add the Full Self-Driving feature for an additional cost, but experts note that the system is not fully autonomous yet.
- Other companies like Waymo and Cruise are also working on autonomous ride-sharing services, despite safety concerns and incidents.
Razer Announces Blade 18 Gaming Laptop With Thunderbolt 5, 4K 200Hz Panel: The world's first Thunderbolt 5 laptop is loaded to the gills with high-end hardware.
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Apple Is Shifting Away from EVs, Toward Home Robots, Sources Say: After abandoning the super-secret 'Apple car,' the company is hoping to make waves with a ...
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Quick Glance: Farewell Apple Car, Welcome Apple Household Robots
- After discontinuing its electric vehicle project, Apple seems to be shifting focus towards developing household robots.
- Reports suggest Apple is working on an advanced tabletop device utilizing robotics to move a display, resembling a responsive TV screen.
- The household robotics market has seen limited success, with Amazon's Astro receiving underwhelming responses, raising questions about Apple's potential success.
- With a history of innovation but recent setbacks like the Vision Pro VR and cancellation of the Apple Car, the future of Apple's domestic helper remains uncertain.
Webb Telescope Sees Starburst Galaxy in a New Light: M82 displays a 'frenzy of star formation,' and Webb is learning why.
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Gigabyte Shows Off Motherboard With Golden CPU Socket, Tons of Bling: The size of the M2 heatsink is a bit flashy as well.
extremetech.com/gaming/gigabyte-shows-off-motherboard-with-golden-cpu-socket-tons-of-bling
Eclipse Watch: Top Tips From a Professional Astrophotographer: ExtremeTech spoke with a veteran astrophotographer from National Geographic to hear his best ...
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Intel CEO: Foundry Business Won't be Profitable Until 2030: Pat Gelsinger has finally pulled the covers back a bit on its fledgling foundry business.
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Quick Glance: Intel's Billion Dollar Plan to Combat Taiwan's TSMC
- Intel shares details of its Intel Foundry division to cut costs and boost margins
- New model links investments with product groups to reflect fair market prices
- Battle between Intel and TSMC for the latest manufacturing technologies
- Intel aims to become world's second largest foundry by 2030, driven by EUV technologies
Samsung Unveils Plans for 3D and Stacked DRAM: The company says 3D DRAM could arrive within just a few years.
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Engineers Complete the Largest Astronomical Camera Ever Constructed: The 3,200-megapixel camera was built for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
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Astronomers May Have Found a Dark Matter Dwarf Galaxy: The object currently known as UMa3/U1 is the faintest star cluster known, and it may be rich in dark ...
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Users to Get Improved GPT-4 Turbo Model: For $30 per month, you can get unlimited Copilot conversations across almost all Microsoft ...
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Debris That Collided With Florida Home Thought to Be ISS Space Junk: A two-pound tube can do quite a bit of damage when it's flung from space.
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Qualcomm Says Its Snapdragon X Elite SoC Will Destroy Intel's Meteor Lake: The company had previously only compared it with Intel's 13th Generation processors.
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NASA to Launch 3 Rockets During April 8 Solar Eclipse: The spacecraft will help NASA understand how Earth's ionosphere reacts to a sudden reduction in sunlight.
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Powerful Taiwan Earthquake Results in Shutdown for TSMC: Add seismic activity to the list of concerns over TSMC's geographic location.
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Curiosity Rover Could Force Scientists to Rethink How Mars Lost Its Water: Curiosity discoveries suggest a series of dry and wet cycles.
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Apple's Local AI Model 'Substantially Outperforms' GPT4, Researchers Boast: The model reportedly considers conversational variables for a more natural and ...
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SSD Prices are About to Soar: Analysts: The NAND flash industry is trying to recover from last year's downturn by raising prices.
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TSMC: One Trillion Transistor GPUs Will Be Possible in a Decade: 3D-stacking chiplets will be the standard to increase compute power going forward.
extremetech.com/computing/tsmc-one-trillion-transistor-gpus-will-be-possible-in-a-decade
Apple Has Silently Removed the UltraFusion Interconnect on M3 Max: The move by Apple means the M3 Ultra could have its own interconnect, for a quad-Max 'Extreme' ...
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Cells Know When They Had Difficult Upbringings, Study Reveals: If a cell's parent had a hard time dividing, the daughter cell might stop dividing to prevent that ...
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NASA Successfully Tests Autonomous Moon Rovers: The CADRE rovers are destined for a future CLPS commercial payload mission.
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Intel Arrow Lake CPUs to Adopt Core Ultra 200-Series Branding: The next-generation Raptor Lake refresh mobile will also get Core 200H branding.
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Intel Battlemage GPUs Appear Primed for Launch in the Second Half of 2024: Two Battlemage GPUs have been spotted in a shipping manifest, indicating they're about ...
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AMD RDNA 4 GPUs Once Again Rumored to Be Midrange Only: AMD reportedly wants to capitalize on the AI boom by saving its big Navi dies for AI cards.
extremetech.com/gaming/amd-rdna-4-gpus-once-again-rumored-to-be-midrange-only
US House of Representatives Bans Employees From Using Microsoft Copilot: House employees using Windows devices can no longer run its AI assistant over security ...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Creates 100 kW Wireless EV Charger: It's as powerful as a Level 3 charger and is up to 96% efficient.
extremetech.com/cars/oak-ridge-national-laboratory-creates-100-kw-wireless-ev-charger
What Is Dark Matter?: Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?
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Microsoft Announces New Safety System to Filter Malicious AI Output: The tools will be built into the company's Azure AI Studio.
extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-announces-new-safety-system-to-filter-malicious-ai-output
Google Says RCS Messaging Will Come to iPhone This Fall: Google let the timeline slip in an image posted to its RCS landing page.
extremetech.com/mobile/google-says-rcs-messaging-will-come-to-iphone-this-fall
MSI's New PCIe Gen 5 SSD Features Oversized Performance, Cooling: The company's latest SSD is one of the fastest we've seen thus far.
extremetech.com/computing/msis-new-pcie-gen-5-ssd-features-oversized-performance-cooling
The Windows Format Dialog Remains Unchanged After 30 Years: Microsoft vet Dave Plummer says he wrote the Format tool 30 years ago as a temporary solution.
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Microsoft Says Copilot Users Would Love It More If They Wrote Better Prompts: Rather than improving its product—or admitting people don't want it—Microsoft is ...
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Europa Clipper Spacecraft Survives Extreme Environmental Testing at JPL: This is the last opportunity to detect major flaws before launch.
extremetech.com/science/europa-clipper-spacecraft-survives-extreme-environmental-testing-at-jpl
Milky Way's Central Black Hole Stuns in Most Detailed Image Yet: Captured by the Event Horizon Telescope, this polarized Sagittarius A* glamor shot features ...
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Intel Lunar Lake CPU Appears With Embedded LPDDR5X Memory: The compute tile is also made by TSMC, according to this (usually reliable) source.
extremetech.com/computing/intel-lunar-lake-cpu-appears-with-embedded-lpddr5x-memory
Euclid Space Telescope's Vision Instantly Restored by De-Icing Operation: The ESA only got around to heating one mirror when Euclid's vision cleared.
extremetech.com/science/euclid-space-telescopes-vision-instantly-restored-by-de-icing-operation
New 'Silicon Spikes' Can Destroy Almost All Virus Particles: The spikes rip apart some viruses while preventing others from replicating. Both could help prevent ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Image of a Protoplanetary Disk: Astronomers hoped the telescope would be able to see the seeds of exoplanets ...
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TSMC's 3nm Business to Surge in 2024 Thanks to Apple, AMD, and Intel: Nvidia is notably missing from this list of big clients.
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Neolithic Burial Mounds Discovered on Site of Future Intel Fab: Archaeologists hope to have all the remains excavated by next month.
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Intel: 40 TOPS Is the New Baseline for an NPU: At the same event, Intel and Microsoft defined 'AI PC' more sharply, and Intel added that elements of Copilot will ...
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Boeing Is Preparing for the Starliner's First Crewed Spaceflight: Perhaps the $116 billion aerospace giant is hoping this will fix its botched reputation.
extremetech.com/aerospace/boeing-is-preparing-for-the-starliners-first-crewed-spaceflight
Hubble Spots Young Star Putting on 'Cosmic Lightshow': FS Tau B is only a few million years old, but it's already making its mark on the cosmos.
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Samsung to Battle Nvidia in 2025 With Its New Mach-1 AI Chip: The company is pouring billions into R&D with plans to disrupt the AI market in the near future.
extremetech.com/computing/samsung-to-battle-nvidia-in-2025-with-its-new-mach-1-ai-chip
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