Month: October 2024

Der Airrobo T20+ übernimmt Saugen und Wischen. Amazon bietet 38 Prozent Rabatt auf den Saugroboter. Günstiger war er noch nicht. (Saugroboter, Amazon)

Bei Dragon Age 4 setzt Bioware auf eine cartoonartige Grafik. Nun hat sich der Chefentwickler von Mass Effect 5 über sein Spiel geäußert. (Bioware, Rollenspiel)

Apple’s new Mac Mini features a brand new design that takes up half as much space on a desk, a major processor update that brings a whole lot more horsepower, and a versatile set of ports. Prices start at $599 for an entry-level configuration with an Apple M4 processor and three Thunderbolt 4 ports. But […]

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Today, Polestar electric vehicles gained access to the Tesla Supercharger network. That means US Polestar drivers have access to 17,800 more DC fast chargers than they did yesterday—once they get a NACS adapter, which can also be ordered today from their local Polestar service point. But right now, Polestar has bigger worries than expanding its charging options. Should proposed new rules banning Chinese connected-car software and hardware go into effect, they would effectively ban the automaker from the US market, the company says, including the EVs it builds in South Carolina.

The rule would ban Chinese connected-car software from US roads from model-year 2027 (midway through 2026) and Chinese connected car hardware from model-year 2030.

The ban on Chinese connected-car technology is the latest in a series of protectionist moves from the federal government and Congress. The revamped clean vehicle tax credit no longer applies to EVs made in China or with Chinese components in their battery packs, and the US Commerce Department has been pressuring Mexico to not offer generous incentives to Chinese automakers looking to set up shop nearby. Chinese-made EVs have also been subject to a 100 percent tariff since May.

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Apple stellt den Mac Mini mit M4 und M4 Pro vor. Er hat mehr Arbeitsspeicher und USB-C vorn und hinten. (Mac Mini, Apple)

Aufladbare Teelichter mit Fernbedienung und verschiedenen Leuchtoptionen werden bei Amazon im 12er-Pack aktuell für unter 30 Euro angeboten. (Technik/Hardware)

Apple's week of Mac announcements continues today, and as expected, we're getting a substantial new update to the Mac mini. Apple's least-expensive Mac, the mini, is being updated with new M4 processors, plus a smaller design that looks like a cross between an Apple TV box and a Mac Studio—this is the mini's first major design change since the original aluminum version was released in 2010. The mini is also Apple's first device to ship with the M4 Pro processor, a beefed-up version of the M4 with more CPU and GPU cores, and it's also the Mac mini's first update since the M2 models came out in early 2023.

The cheapest Mac mini will still run you $599, which includes 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage; as with yesterday's iMac update, this is the first time since 2012 that Apple has boosted the amount of RAM in an entry-level Mac. It's a welcome upgrade for every new Mac in the lineup that's getting it, but the $200 that Apple previously charged for the 16GB upgrade makes an even bigger difference to someone shopping for a $599 system than it does for someone who can afford a $999 or $1,299 computer.

The M4 Pro Mac mini starts at $1,399, a $100 increase from the M2 Pro version. Both models go up for preorder today and will begin arriving on November 8.

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It’s Halloween. You’ve just finished trick-or-treating and it’s time to assess the haul. You likely have a favorite, whether it’s chocolate bars, peanut butter cups, those gummy clusters with Nerds on them, or something else.

For some people, including me, one piece stands out—the Snickers bar, especially if it’s full-size. The combination of nougat, caramel, and peanuts coated in milk chocolate makes Snickers a popular candy treat.

As a food engineer studying candy and ice cream at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I now look at candy in a whole different way than I did as a kid. Back then, it was all about shoveling it in as fast as I could.

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Zettabytes—that’s 10²¹ bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is stable over millennia.

To date, people have encoded information into DNA the same way nature has, by linking the four nucleotide bases comprising DNA—A, T,  C, and G—into a particular genetic sequence. Making these sequences is time-consuming and expensive, though, and the longer your sequence, the higher chance there is that errors will creep in.

But DNA has an added layer of information encoded on top of the nucleotide sequence, known as epigenetics. These are chemical modifications to the nucleotides, specifically altering a C when it comes before a G. In cells, these modifications function kind of like stage directions; they can tell the cell when to use a particular DNA sequence without altering the “text” of the sequence itself. A new paper in Nature describes using epigenetics to store information in DNA without needing to synthesize new DNA sequences every time.

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Huawei soll für seine KI-Beschleuniger über Umwege Chips von TSMC gekauft haben. Ein anderer Fall zeigt, wie Huawei an die Chips gelangt sein könnte. (Halbleiterfertigung, TSMC)