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Today’s Tech Spot Roundup
After 12 years with TSMC, Apple explores new partners for chip manufacturing
Sources have told The Wall Street Journal that Apple has begun exploring the idea of sourcing certain processors from other foundries. The discussions appear to focus on the lower end of its product lineup – chips where absolute performance and power efficiency are less dependent on bleeding-edge fabrication technology. No…
Sony is exploring a buttonless, touchscreen-only PlayStation controller
Originally filed in February 2023, Sony’s patent was issued last week (spotted by Insider Gaming).
Apple could follow iPhone Fold with a flip-style model
In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reiterated that the book-style foldable is on track to be released in the second half of this year. He also claimed that the clamshell device will likely be the second foldable in the company’s portfolio.
LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market
When LG introduced the 88-inch Z9, it became the face of 8K OLED innovation – a rare product that combined cutting-edge self-emissive technology with a linear resolution twice that of 4K.
Former Google engineer convicted of trade secret theft and China-linked economic espionage
From May 2022 through April 2023, Ding exploited his privileged access as a Google engineer to move more than 2,000 pages of confidential internal documents from Google’s secure networks into his personal Google Cloud account.
The NFL is testing a tactile device that lets blind fans feel the Super Bowl in real time
The technology, developed by Seattle-based startup OneCourt, resembles a thick tablet etched with raised outlines of a football field. Beneath those lines, sensors pulse in patterns that reflect what’s unfolding on the gridiron: the snap of the ball, a quarterback’s throw, a tackle, a touchdown. In the same moment, synced…
Latest Steam survey: RDNA 4 enters GPU chart, Intel CPUs make rare gains
AMD hit a record CPU share in the Steam hardware and software survey in December. The 43.53% (a figure that had been higher before Valve corrected it) of participants with Team Red processors in their devices meant AMD was closer than ever to passing the 50% milestone and overtaking Intel.
Apple's hidden AI partner: the company heavily relies on Anthropic's Claude internally
Speaking on podcast TBPN, Gurman said Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point,” describing custom versions of Claude, Anthropic’s flagship large language model, running on Apple’s own servers.
Cherry Xtrfy MX 8.2 Pro TMR Keyboard Review
Cherry’s MX 8.2 Pro TMR is its first magnetic keyboard using tunnel magnetoresistance tech instead of Hall Effect, promising ultra-fast wireless performance and rare hot-swap support for mechanical switches.
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