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Sean Hollister

Sean Hollister

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    Dough doesn’t pass the smell test

    Eve, the monitor and tablet company that some accuse of walking away with their money, hasn’t fixed its reputation.

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    Sean Hollister
    Sean Hollister
    Your 2030 Intel processor’s ass is glass.

    Intel’s future chips will sit on a substrate made of glass instead of resin — allowing 10x the connections, less warping, larger chips, better power transfer, higher temps, and less mechanical breakage because silicon and glass expand at the same rate, reports CNET’s Stephen Shankland.

    One analyst told him the whole industry will go glass — a way to keep Moore’s Law going, perhaps.

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    Sean Hollister
    Modular gaming handheld.

    If you took a Framework Mainboard, added a battery, screen and speakers, and stuck it all inside a case with slots for a pair of Nintendo Switch-style detachable Bluetooth controllers, you wouldn’t just have a poor man’s Lenovo Legion Go.

    You’d have a gaming portable you can upgrade, potentially year after year, just by swapping that mainboard out. Why do I bring this up? Well:

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    Sean Hollister
    Google’s Pixel Tablet has an unusual amount of air inside.

    We knew the Pixel Tablet didn’t exactly belong in the premium Pixel lineup, but I didn’t expect it’d be quite this hollow in iFixit’s teardown photos!

    Ars Technica takes a harsher tone than I would; More battery would be nice, but I’m on board with a single layer of components as long as repairs are easy. Lots of glue here despite no water resistance, though...

    Photo by iFixit
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    Sean Hollister
    And speaking of incredible arms...

    Have we figured out yet whether Cloud’s arms are... augmented... in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth? Jay and I were just talking about a very important investigation he conducted back in the day.

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    Sean Hollister
    The new GoPro can give you Mrs. Incredible arms (or, you know, huge field of view).

    Becca goes all elastic to show off the Max Mod 2. It’s a $100 interchangeable lens that’s the most exciting part of the $400 GoPro Hero 12 Black — because it adds a 177-degree field of view.