Acer Swift Edge is a 2.6 pound notebook with a 16 inch 4K OLED display and Ryzen 7 6000U

The Acer Swift Edge is a premium thin and light notebook that weighs just 2.6 pounds and measures just over half an inch thick. But it has a big, high-resolution display and plenty of horsepower thanks a 16 inch, 3840 x 2400 pixel OLED screen and supp…

The Acer Swift Edge is a premium thin and light notebook that weighs just 2.6 pounds and measures just over half an inch thick. But it has a big, high-resolution display and plenty of horsepower thanks a 16 inch, 3840 x 2400 pixel OLED screen and support for up to an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U or […]

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Neues SoC im Pixel 7: Googles Tensor G2 baut auf seinem Vorgänger auf

Googles neuer Tensor-Chip in den Pixel-7-Smartphones ähnelt dem ersten Modell. Verbesserungen gibt es unter anderem bei den Medium-Cores und der GPU. Eine Analyse von Tobias Költzsch (Google, Embedded Systems)

Googles neuer Tensor-Chip in den Pixel-7-Smartphones ähnelt dem ersten Modell. Verbesserungen gibt es unter anderem bei den Medium-Cores und der GPU. Eine Analyse von Tobias Költzsch (Google, Embedded Systems)

Herbst 2022: 85 Prozent der Deutschen ist die Zuversicht verloren gegangen

Die AfD-Anhänger erreichen fast die Marke von 100 Prozent “Beunruhigten”. ARD-DeutschlandTrend: Eine Hiobsbotschaft nach der anderen gräbt sich in die Befindlichkeit der Bevölkerung.

Die AfD-Anhänger erreichen fast die Marke von 100 Prozent "Beunruhigten". ARD-DeutschlandTrend: Eine Hiobsbotschaft nach der anderen gräbt sich in die Befindlichkeit der Bevölkerung.

What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution?

VR hasn’t taken over the world, but that doesn’t mean it has failed.

What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution?

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Six years ago, consumer virtual reality seemed set to be the next major tech breakthrough.

With the demonstration of his impressive prototype Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) in 2012, Palmer Luckey managed to instantly erase the poor image VR had garnered from ‘90s movies like The Lawnmower Man and woefully premature commercial curios like Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. This led the Kickstarter campaign for the first Oculus developer kit to balloon past its $250,000 funding goal on the way to a final haul of $2.4 million. Two years later, Oculus accepted a $2 billion buyout offer from Facebook.

The lead-up to the 2016 launch of the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift (the CV1) only raised consumer VR’s profile further. Analyst predictions were bullish, going so far as to say that the VR market would be worth $150 billion in just five years. Oculus’ co-founders were breathlessly profiled in glossy magazines, with Luckey landing on the cover of Time in August 2015. Google even partnered with Disney to give away its low-tech paper Cardboard sleeves, enticing fans of Star Wars and other mega properties with themed mobile experiences. Decades removed from the hangover of failed VR arcades and gimmicky consumer trinkets, things would be different this time.

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Rocket Report: Falcon Heavy launch on tap; South Korea seeks Russia alternative

Also, the Ariane 6 rocket is inching closer to the launch pad.

Collage of Crew-5 launch photos from Wednesday Oct. 5 2022.

Enlarge / Collage of Crew-5 launch photos from Wednesday Oct. 5 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)

Welcome to Edition 5.13 of the Rocket Report! Lots of news to discuss this week, as usual. Also, be on the lookout for a report from me early next week with some new information about a Washington-based startup, Stoke Space, working to develop a fully reusable rocket. They're beginning to make some credible progress.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Firefly reaches orbit, but ... Powered by four Reaver engines, Firefly's Alpha rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:01 am local time on Saturday, delivering several small payloads into low Earth orbit after relighting its upper stage. This success followed an initial launch attempt in September 2021, where one of the four Reaver engines failed during ascent. With this second launch, the Alpha rocket became the first of a new generation of rockets capable of lifting approximately one metric ton to reach orbit, Ars reports.

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