Daily Telescope: A view of our star as Earth reaches perihelion
Enlarge / Sol, imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. (credit: NASA) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light,…
Ford raises — and lowers — prices on its F-150 Lightning pickups
The 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning trucks could be cheaper or more expensive than last year, depending on the trim. | Image: Ford Ford is making a number of pricing updates…
Dell’s XPS laptop line up is about to look very different
The new Dell XPS line up. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This might not be the biggest shake-up of the Dell XPS lineup ever, but between…
The Dell XPS laptop, as we know and love it, is no more
The 2024 XPS laptop lineup: 13-inch, 14-inch, and 16-inch. [credit: Scharon Harding ] Dell’s XPS laptop lineup has long been my go-to for an easy laptop recommendation. With an accessible…
Scenario planning in practice in an accelerating world
I have been helping clients implement scenario planning for a quarter century, since 1998, in a very wide variety of contexts. Therea are situations where scenario planning is more and…
The Xbox Series S toaster is real
Image: Walmart Have you ever wanted a kitchen full of memes? Well, the Xbox Series S toaster is here and ready to sit next to your Xbox Series X fridge.…
Dell’s new 120Hz ultrawide monitors max out at 40 inches and 5K
Dell has a pair of new ultrawide monitors it’s showing off ahead of CES, the 40-inch UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (U4025QW) and the 34-inch UltraSharp 34 Curved Thunderbolt…
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994
Enlarge / A rendering of Microsoft’s Copilot key, as seen on a Surface-esque laptop keyboard. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft pushed throughout 2023 to add generative AI capabilities to its software, even…
Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years
Image: Microsoft Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it’s kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs.…
B-100 and X-100 Nvidia AI Chips and Zettaflops AI Compute Clusters
The NVIDIA H100 GPU has 30 teraflops of peak standard IEEE FP64 performance, 60 teraflops of peak FP64 tensor core performance, and 60 teraflops of peak FP32 performance. It also…