Month: October 2024

Mit Wi-Fi, Streaming-Apps und hoher Auflösung: Amazon verkauft einen smarten Beamer von VOPLLS zum Tiefstpreis mit über 40 Prozent Rabatt. (Beamer, Heimkino)

This fall, thousands of fake albums were added to Spotify, with some appearing on real artist pages, where they're positioned to lure unsuspecting listeners into streaming by posing as new releases from favorite bands.

An Ars reader flagged the issue after finding a fake album on the Spotify page of an Australian psych rock band called Gong. The Gong fan knew that the band had begun touring again after a surprise new release last year, but the "latest release" listed by Spotify wasn't that album. Instead, at the top of Gong's page was a fake self-titled album supposedly released in 2024.

The real fan detected the fake instantly, and not just because the generic electronic music sounded nothing like Gong's experimental sounds. The album's cover also gave the scheme away, using a generic font and neon stock image that invoked none of the trippy imagery that characterized Gong's typical album covers.

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Earlier this year AYN launched two handheld game consoles under the Odin 2 brand. While both are Android-powered handhelds with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processors, the Odin 2 has a 6 inch IPS LCD display, while the Odin 2 Mini has a 5 inch mini LED screen. Now the company is back with a new model […]

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On Monday, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs), marking the first deal of its kind. The partnership aims to bring Kairos Power's initial SMR online by 2030, with additional reactor deployments planned through 2035. With the energy demands of AI growing, Google has not been alone in encouraging new development of alternative, no-emission power sources.

"The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies," Google Senior Director of Energy and Climate Michael Terrell said in a press statement. "This agreement helps accelerate a new technology to meet energy needs cleanly and reliably and unlock the full potential of AI for everyone."

If the Google-Kairos plan succeeds, it will reportedly enable up to 500 MW of carbon-free power to be added to US electricity grids. For Google, it's a key step toward making its headlong rush into power-hungry (and sometimes dubious) AI applications seem environmentally clean and ethical at a time when the world has seen devastating meteorological effects from climate change.

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Vor allem das Thema Sicherheit steht im Mittelpunkt der Neuerungen von Android 15. (Android 15, Smartphone)

The birth of a planet starts with a microscopic grain floating in a protoplanetary disk, a swirling cloud of gas and other particles surrounding a young star. How the gas and dust interact has implications for the formation of new worlds.

“Those teeny grains—those are the building blocks of planets,” said Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. He describes the shape of the grains as “potatoes.”

It’s hot and breezy in the interstellar cloud, but it's not entirely chaotic. Astronomical observations have found that the grains, instead of tumbling through space, are oriented neatly along their orbital trajectories. To explain how the grains float in formation, new research led by Lin leans on the working principle behind an Earthly object: the badminton shuttle.

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The new Dynabook Portégé X30L-M is a laptop with a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, support for up to an Intel Core i7 Meteor Lake processor (with 15 watt U-series and 28 watt H-series processor options available), and a sturdy but lightweight body. The laptop has a magnesium alloy chassis and has a […]

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Apple quietly announced a new version of its iPad mini tablet via press release this morning, the tablet's first update since 2021.

The seventh-generation iPad mini looks mostly identical to the sixth-generation version, with a power-button-mounted Touch ID sensor and a slim-bezeled display. But Apple has swapped out the A15 Bionic chip for the Apple A17 Pro, the same processor it used in the iPhone 15 Pro last year.

The new iPad mini is available for preorder now and starts at $499 for 128GB (an upgrade over the previous base model's 64GB of storage). 256GB and 512GB versions are available for $599 and $799, and cellular connectivity is an additional $150 on top of any of those prices.

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Bei Amazon gibt es eine drahtlose Ladestation mit Qi2 zum Bestpreis, wobei sich neben dem iPhone auch die Apple Watch und mehr laden lässt. (iPhone, Netzteil)

Apple is giving its smallest iPad a big update. The new 7th-gen iPad mini looks nearly identical to the 6th-gen version that first launched in 2021. But the new model features an updated processor which brings a 30 percent boost in CPU performance, 25 percent faster graphics performance, and twice the AI performance. Apple says […]

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