Apple's event mostly focused on iPads, but the presentation also introduced the M4 – the company's next-generation in-house SoCs. As expected, the processors offer performance improvements over the M3 and M2, but Apple's rundown also delivered a preview of the company's AI PC strategy for 2024. Read Entire Article

The new Pixel 8a features Google's Gemini AI at its core. With seven years of OS updates and powerful hardware, the 8a emerges as a highly desirable mid-ranger. Read Entire Article

On Monday, NASA released a video showing what a camera would theoretically capture if it spiraled into a black hole (below). The clip is reminiscent of those Winamp music visualizations in the 90s (and today). It's a trippy trip into the weird math and physics of a black hole. Read Entire Article

The auction to get a piece of High-Performance Computing (HPC) history ended a few days ago, with the final bidder winning the Cheyenne supercomputer for $480,085 – a mere fraction of its $25-35 million development cost. The HPC system was one of the most powerful supercomputers ranked in the Top500... Read Entire Article

Speaking at a Google Security Threat Intelligence Panel at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco (via The Reg), Charles Carmakal, CTO of Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, said, "We saw situations where threat actors essentially SIM swap the phones of children of executives, and start making phone calls to executives,... Read Entire Article...

Stablecoins have been hailed as the future of blockchain-based digital money due to their financial stability compared to Bitcoin and other "traditional" cryptocurrencies. However, according to Visa, more than 90 percent of stablecoin transactions aren't actually generated by real users of the technology. Read Entire Article