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SpaceX made history recently when it launched a . Among the plethora of spacecraft were ten new Starlink internet satellites. According to CEO Elon Musk, these are the first nodes in SpaceX’s network that have , allowing the satellites to talk to each other without ground stations for faster, more expansive coverage. Last weekend’s launch was also notable because it deployed its payload in a polar orbit, which uses more fuel than placing things in an equatorial orbit. Objects in a polar orbit will eventually pass over the entire surface of the planet because their movement is perpendicular to the Earth’s rotation.
As the rages on, we’re all continuing to spend more time staying safer at home. And since it’s been almost a year since our lives changed, our computers might be in need of a serious upgrade. Most of us are working, distance learning, playing and even grocery shopping from home. That means our poor devices have been working over time. And even though there are a lot of negative things about the world in 2021, there is definitely something to be said about the ability to get things done from the comfort of our beds. Laptops have the advantage here, giving us the blessing of flexibility and the chance to move around while we get our tasks done.
This is the kind of topic we prefer not to revisit. But unfortunately, GPU prices have been terrible (again), leaving a lot of folks high and dry when it comes to sourcing a new GPU. While the coronavirus is responsible for driving up prices early last year, the back half of 2020 kicked off a semiconductor shortage across a range of markets, including consoles, PCs, and the automotive industry. It does not look as though things are going to improve any time soon; Nvidia and Microsoft have both warned that it’ll be late March, at best, before demand and supply equalize.
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Sony has never really been a major player in the smartphone market, but it’s been making niche devices for more than a decade, nevertheless. Now, Sony has found a way to burrow even deeper into a niche with the . This device is aimed at professional and enthusiast photographers who want a powerful accessory for their cameras. It’s also Sony’s first 5G smartphone in the US. But the price is positively jaw-dropping at $2,500. The Xperia Pro is a well-equipped smartphone, but it’s not running the latest 2021 hardware. You’re looking at a Snapdragon 865 chip with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is standard for a flagship smartphone in 2020 — not surprising as the Xperia Pro is based on the Xperia 1 II that launched last year.
If you have a pacemaker, Apple wants you to know the iPhone 12 might not mix well with your current hardware. The company has updated a support document to discuss the risks of pacemaker usage near an iPhone 12 after researchers found that the device could put a pacemaker into a suspended state. Medical devices such as implanted pacemakers and defibrillators might contain sensors that respond to magnets and radios when in close contact. To avoid any potential interactions with these devices, keep your iPhone and MagSafe accessories a safe distance away from your device (more than 6 inches / 15 cm apart or more than 12 inches / 30 cm apart if wirelessly charging).
Over the past few weeks, chatter has increased about Rocket Lake’s performance and corresponding benchmark leaks. We’ve seen a number of Geekbench results for various CPUs and written a few comparisons ourselves. Since the leaks keep coming, it seemed more helpful to round up expectations for RKL and how it’ll likely compare to Zen 3 / Ryzen 5000, rather than continue dissecting each leak individually. We’re comparing CPUs here rather than platforms, but Rocket Lake also introduces features like PCIe 4.0 for Intel CPUs. Rocket Lake uses Intel’s Cypress Cove CPU architecture. Cypress Cove is a backport of Intel’s 2019 Ice Lake architecture, built on the company’s older 14nm process.
Astronomers are getting very good at hunting for exoplanets with a little help from powerful ground and space-based telescopes. We’re no longer finding one planet here and there — we’re discovering entire solar systems. TRAPPIST-1 has been of particular interest with its system of seven planets, . A new study has confirmed that all these planets are small and rocky like Earth, and they’re all . The TRAPPIST-1 system was originally spotted using the TRAPPIST telescope in Chile. At the time, astronomers believed all the planets would turn out to be rocky, and several are in the habitable zone of the star.
