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Apple hardware geniuses reversed the capacitor
Published in News
Tuesday, 03 December 2024 09:41

Apple hardware geniuses reversed the capacitor


Jobs’ Mob loved the smell of ozone in the morning

Engineers at the fruity cargo cult Apple were so clever that they installed the capacitors upside-down, but the Tame Apple Press did not notice.

US electronic prices to increase by $357
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 13 November 2024 09:21

US electronic prices to increase by $357


Trump’s plan to punish China

Donald Trump’s plan to tariff all foreign imports, especially goods from China, is projected to cause PC laptops to increase by an average of $357 in the US buyers.

Vole sees a boost in software gaming revenues
Published in News
Thursday, 31 October 2024 09:44

Vole sees a boost in software gaming revenues


Hardware declines

Software King of the world, Microsoft, has released its first quarter 2025 earnings, revealing a significant rise in software gaming revenues despite declining Xbox hardware sales.

IBM shares fall on mixed results
Published in News
Friday, 25 October 2024 09:49

IBM shares fall on mixed results


Propped up by Red Hat

Biggish Blue shares dropped more than six per cent yesterday as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were worried about the outfit’s mixed earnings report for the third quarter.

Flawed hardware is the silent security industry killer
Published in PC Hardware


Stanford University electrical engineer warns

Servers are packed with undetectable hardware flaws caused by the fact they have shrunk too much.

Google admits “hardware is hard”
Published in News
Friday, 22 May 2020 11:35

Google admits “hardware is hard”



But we will still make Pixels


Google CEO Sundar Pichai has moved to quash rumours that the search engine might be getting ready to stop making Pixels as sales slump.

Torvalds warns hardware management is about to get tricky
Published in News


Blame Intel flaws and Moore's Law

IT's Mr Sweary and Linux founder Linus Torvalds has warned that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging.

Global notebook sales increase
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 01 August 2018 12:17

Global notebook sales increase


At least a bit

Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that notebook sales have slightly increased.

Apple man in Tesla's self-driving car seat
Published in Transportation
Thursday, 26 April 2018 09:48

Apple man in Tesla's self-driving car seat


Pete Bannon takes Keller's driving wheel

Now that Jim Keller left Tesla for Intel, the new chap in control of Tesla's self-driving car is former PA Semi and Apple apostate Pete Bannon.

AMD admits it is vulnerable to both versions of Spectre
Published in PC Hardware


So much for saying that the second one was low risk

After days of saying that there was a "near zero" chance of its chips being hit by the two Spectre bugs, AMD has finally admitted it's vulnerable to both of them.