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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’ve seen the movie Elysium, then this rotating space colony concept probably is still fresh in your mind, but did you know that this concept was first brought up in the 1970s, by NASA? The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents. The […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes MediaTek, a chipset manufacturer based out of Taiwan, has been making some huge moves lately. Just over two months ago, it came out with the “world’s first true octa-core” processor, which consisted of eight Cortex-A7 cores capable of operating simultaneously. Now that ARM has announced Cortex-A17 technology, however, MediaTek is ready to start sampling a new octa-core chip […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The newest branch line of the London Underground doesn’t go anywhere. But it does produce a lot of nice food to eat. It’s an aquaponic farm, 100 feet below the surface, set to open this March. With sky-high rents in central London, it made sense for the startup behind the project, Zero Carbon Food, to […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes The good part of the teardown of a product is that we know much more about it than when looking only at the “official” specs tables. This is what happened exactly with the Playstation 4 showing a secondary processor and extra RAM chips that weren’t on any “official” specs list. The secondary processor seems a […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes In an interview with Japanese tech site AV Watch, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia Senior Vice president and Director of Business Unit 1 Masayasu Ito shared more info about some technical aspects of the PlayStation 4, including the console’s noise level, its power consumption, etc. While being always online is not necessary, a network connection is important to […]