A worldwide material shortage is delaying cassette production

If you weren't racing out to buy the Stranger Things soundtrack on cassette, you might not have realized that cassette sales are growing. In 2016, sales jumped a whopping 74 percent, and they've continued to climb. In 2018, sales increased another 23 percent, reaching a total of 219,000 tapes, compared to 74,000 in 2015.Apparently, there's…

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Google wants to reduce Stadia lag with ‘negative latency’

Here's the excerpt from Edge:But latency is the thing that gets the most attention. And while it's already proven to be more than playable, [Madj Bakar, VP of Engineering] expects further improvements. "Ultimately, we think, in a year or two, we'll have games that are running faster and feel more responsive in the cloud that…

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Alex Garland’s ‘Devs’ explores free will in the age of predictive computing

On its surface, Devs is the story of Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno), a software engineer at the fictional Amaya Corporation. Amaya builds quantum computers, which are systems where the bits (called qubits) can exist in multiple states simultaneously, as opposed to traditional computers, which are limited to the binary of 0 or 1. Garland describes…

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Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 review: Better than the original

I'll admit I've been eager to test the XPS 13 2-in-1 ever since I got my hands on it earlier this year. It was one of those rare gadget love-at-first-sight moments: Just by looking at it, you can tell that it's more refined than the previous generation 2-in-1 and the plain XPS 13. It's impressively…

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