If you’re in the market for a new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT, you may want to double-check your model’s specs. A recent round of benchmarks from Chinese hardware tester 51972 (h/t Uniko’s Hardware) found that models shipping with Samsung VRAM modules score on average 2% worse than their siblings with SK hynix VRAM modules. […]

from the golden-era-of-hyper-surveillance dept We’ve noted many times that there are two major reasons the U.S. doesn’t have a functional privacy law for the modern internet era. One, we’re too corrupt and greedy to do the right thing, causing us to prioritize making money over literally everything else — including public safety. And two, the […]

TL;DR Xreal’s Android XR glasses will come with a puck-like processing device. The puck will feature an unspecified Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. The glasses will have the largest screen the company has ever made. There’s been plenty of talk about Google, Apple, and Meta all working on AR glasses, but they aren’t the only players in […]

Android phones that support Qi2 wireless chargers that are magnetically secured in place might finally be hitting the market. reports that Google plans to add Qi2 charging with the upcoming Google Pixel 10. The at CES in 2023, and was developed with substantial contributions from Apple. The new design iterated on the Qi standard by […]

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while […]