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  • Facebooks current smart glasses have everything you might want in a pair of smart glasses, except a display.  The company's new glasses codenamed Orion, do.  (The Verge)

    They're rather chunkier than the current model, but they're still at the prototype stage, and they look like you're wearing ugly glasses rather your head being eaten by a robot crab.


  • Samsung's new 990 Evo Plus SSDs are 45% faster than the existing 990 Evo models.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Because the existing models were slow.  "Only" 5GB per second.


  • Intel's Lunar Lake is here and it's not terrible.  (Ars Technica)

    Battery life is solid, and performance is not terrible.  It is just an eight-core chip though, and on heavy workloads like video editing and 3d rendering AMD's current twelve-core chips leave it in the dust, completing tasks around 60% faster.


  • Speaking of AMD the company's 9900X3D desktop chip is expected next month.  (Tom's Hardware)

    That's a pretty fast follow-up to the launch of the mainstream versions of Zen 5, but sales of those have been slow.  They're not bad chips, but AMD is competing with itself as well as Intel.

    An eight core 9700X is the same price as the previous generation's twelve core 7900X, while being significantly slower.


Disclaimer: May her rest be long and placid, she drank fluoroantimonic acid.

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1 "Battery life is solid, and performance is not terrible"
It's funny because I've seen a bunch of tech article headlines like "Intel has retaken the crown!" that are full of comments pointing out the giant asterisks.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, September 26 2024 10:04 PM (pnaK4)

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