The 5G rollout in the US has been slow and uneven. While some countries had a wealth of mid-band spectrum to use for 5G, pickings were slim in the US. That’s why Verizon and AT&T leaned so heavily on millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G early on. Both carriers are anxious to fire up their newly acquired C-band frequencies. Unfortunately, a (FAA) delayed those plans. Now, they’ve got a plan that will allow C-band to move forward in early 2022. According to a letter sent to acting FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel , the parties have arrived at a compromise. AT&T and Verizon have agreed to limit the transmission power of their C-band equipment nationwide.
(Photo: Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)Every year after Thanksgiving a flurry of steals and deals takes America by storm, and discounts involving the newest gadgets—including pricey, hard-to-find video game consoles—enjoy a special level of anticipation. This Black Friday, the new Xbox Series S has beaten out every other console on the market. to the Adobe Digital Economy Index as reported by Business Insider, the Xbox Series S has proven itself the underdog this year, having unexpectedly overcome competitors from Sony, Nintendo, and even from within Microsoft. Based on “over one trillion visits to U.S. retail sites” that occurred during Black Friday 2021, Adobe calculated that the Xbox Series S was the best-seller.
It’s been rumored for some time now that Apple has been working on some type of Augmented Reality (AR) device to pair with its iPhone, and now we have some spicy new rumors to add to the mix. According to famed analyst and Apple product future-seer Ming-Chi Kuo of TFI Asset Management, Apple is about a year away from launching the glasses, and they will be just as powerful as its low-end MacBook computers thanks to the inclusion of Apple’s vaunted silicon, . As the report notes, it was previously assumed that Apple’s AR glasses would be similar to current AR offerings in that it would need to be tethered to another device, presumably an iPhone, to handle the actual heavy lifting involved in rendering 3D objects in space.
If there’s one thing the gaming world needs right now it’s another outrageously expensive and unobtainable graphics card, and Nvidia is heeding the call with reports of an alleged top-tier GPU waiting in the wings. Dubbed the , this full-blown Ampere card will offer the entirety of the GA102 die’s performance envelope, along with higher clocked memory from Micron to help distance the card from its lowly RTX 3090 predecessor. The rumor springs forth from Twitter user , who tweets the new GPU will feature new 21Gb/s memory from Micron, which is a bit of a boost from the memory used in the current RTX 3090, which runs at approximately 19.5Gb/s.
Here’s some more bad news for gamers; that outrageously priced GPU you can’t find in stock is about to get a little bit more expensive. Back in August, TSMC began that wafer costs would be going up soon, and we now have the first semi-official confirmation that is indeed happening. A post on the Board Forums alleges AMD has sent a notice to all of its Add-in Board Partners (AIB) that it’s increasing the price of its RX 6000 series GPUs by 10 percent across the board, according to . This pricing change will apparently occur in the next shipment of GPUs to its partners, which will apparently drive up the price of these GPUs by $20 to $40 USD.
Earth has been pelted by space rocks on a regular basis for the entirety of its existence, and there’s nothing stopping it from happening again. The next big Earth impactor is already out there, and eventually, it’ll make itself known. For the first time, there’s a chance we could stop such an object from clobbering the planet. NASA just launched the spacecraft early Wednesday morning (Nov 22) on a mission to test asteroid redirection technology. Next year, it will collide with a space rock called Dimorphos with the aim of changing its orbit. NASA partnered with SpaceX to launch DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
(Image: Getty Images)If you’ve been reading any news related to Cybersecurity in the past few years, you’ve certainly heard the name NSO Group before. The Israeli company has gained notoriety recently for its Pegasus software, which it licenses to governments and other nation-state clients to theoretically monitor terrorists, criminals, etc. However, recent investigations discovered Pegasus was installed on the smartphones of journalists, activists, and business leaders all over the globe. Due to this shocking discovery, Apple has announced a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company, seeking to prevent the group from using any of Apple’s services and hardware in the future, and thereby protecting its users from malicious attacks on their personal devices.
(Photo: Harrison Kugler/Unsplash)The world’s first “crypto city” is coming to El Salvador, and its cryptocurrency focus isn’t even the only thing that makes it exciting. With a good dose of fanfare, El Savador President Nayib Bukele announced this month that beginning in 2022, the country would be building a “bitcoin city” at the base of Conchagua, an oceanside volcano. The city will be backed by bitcoin-backed bonds with construction beginning 60 days after funding. During his announcement at the end of a weeklong bitcoin promotional event, Bukele postured the city as an ideal place for both residents and tourists, with restaurants, shops, homes, public transit, an airport, and other standard resources included.
For years, Windows PCs have flirted with ARM processors, but none of the hardware was good enough to compete with x86 chips from Intel and AMD. Now, we might know why. According to a new , Microsoft has an exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm that prevents other vendors’ ARM designs from integrating with Windows. That’s the bad news. The good news is it will expire soon. Microsoft and Qualcomm teamed up in 2016 to launch Windows 10 with support for ARM. Unfortunately, the difficulty of making software run well on Windows for ARM has impeded growth. This wasn’t even Microsoft’s first attempt at supporting ARM.
