The first developer units of its PinePhone Pro and PineNote have shipped. The PinePhone Pro was announced earlier this year as a successor to the free and open OS-friendly PinePhone that went on sale in 2019. The PineNote is also designed to run free and open source software, but instead of a phone it’s an […]
Lee Mathews
Computer tech, blogger, husband, father, and avid MSI U100 user.
Google Pixel Watch may launch in 2022 to challenge Apple’s dominance
Google Pixel Watch rumors just won’t go away, but a new round claims that the company will finally put one up for sale in 2022. Currently referred to by its codename Rohan, the smartwatch may be the same device that was revealed to tech analyst Jon Prosser earlier this year. One reason that Google may […]
NVIDIA’s $40 billion ARM purchase hits another roadblock as the FTC files suit
The Federal Trade Commission is suing to prevent NVIDIA from acquiring ARM for $40 billion. NVIDIA and Softbank agreed to the deal in September of 2020, but regulators in the U.K., EU, China and now the U.S. have all raised concerns. NVIDIA had originally hoped to close the deal in 2022, but that seems to […]
Raspberry Pi OS gets a legacy version to offer extended stability
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the release of its first Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy). It’s a new-but-old OS aimed at giving developers a platform that won’t see major changes quite as often as the main branch of the operating system. Legacy will be based on the Debian oldstable release — which is currently Debian […]
SiFive Performance P650 RISC-V processor revealed as a challenger to ARM Cortex-A77
At the RISC-V Summit in California today, chip designer SiFive revealed its new Performance P650 processor. According to SiFive its latest offering is 50% more powerful than the Performance P550, which was just launched in June. The 64-bit Performance P650 utilizes the same “thirteen-stage, triple-issue, out-of-order pipeline” as the P550. Instruction-issue width has been increased […]
The latest RISC-V specifications open new AI and IoT possibilities
RISC-V International has announced the ratification of 15 new specifications for the RISC-V ISA that it says will speed the pace of adoption in a variety of markets. The organization highlighted three of those specifications — Vector, Scalar Cryptography, and Hypervisor — in a press release issued just ahead of this year’s RISC-V summit in […]
Project Ironman is an AR headset that may land on Verizon’s 5G network
A previously unrevealed AR headset has Surfaced on Twitter this morning. Dubbed Project Ironman, the device is reportedly being developed by Lenovo and Motorola as a flagship device for the Verizon 5G network. This doesn’t appear to be a totally new collaboration. Lenovo’s product page for the ThinkReality A3 specifically mentions tethering the glasses to […]
MINISFORUM JB95 is a compact PC with an Intel Celeron N5095
The MINISFORUM JB95 is a compact desktop PC powered by a 15-watt quad-core Intel Celeron N5095 processor based on Intel’s Jasper Lake architecture. The system measures five inches square and is just under two inches thick. It features HDMI and DisplayPort connections and supports 4K output at up to 60fps on both. Rounding […]
Android 12 launched a month ago and Amazon Appstore still won’t run on it
As much as we’d like it to be, Installing a major operating system update isn’t always the most trouble-free process. Even if everything does go well with the update itself, there’s still the possibility that some of your go-to apps aren’t going to be too happy about the change. That’s what some users of the […]
Surface Laptop Studio aims at creatives with easel-like display
There was a lot of refreshed hardware at Microsoft’s Surface event today, but there was also one totally new device. The Surface Laptop Studio was unveiled, and it’s here to target the same performance-hungry types who Microsoft targeted with the Surface Book. It’s not a detachable device like the Surface Pro or Surface Book. Instead, […]