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Inside the Apple Pencil.
We checked out a sweet CT scanner, and we’re bringing you gadget scans each week! Here’s what you’d see inside the second-gen Apple Pencil if you had X-ray vision. More at our TikTok and Instagram.
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Scuttlebutt: Pico pulled the plug on a VR headset launch at GDC because of TikTok.
“A new journey begins,” the Meta Quest competitor teased three days ago. “Save the date: 22 March 2023.” But despite having one of the single biggest booths at GDC, Pico had nothing to reveal.
An employee there tells me Pico planned to release the promising Pico 4 in the US — but it’s waiting, because its parent company is currently getting grilled in Washington over a better-known product: TikTok.
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You can even upgrade the Framework Laptop’s battery life now.
The modular repairable laptop company has managed to create a new 61Wh battery that fits in the exact same space as its previous 55Wh pack, thanks to a new chemistry.
That’s only 11 percent better, but when’s the last time you made an old laptop last longer than when you bought it brand-new?
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The average Xbox Series X game draws 122 watts.
That’s an overall average — many 4K 60FPS games pull over 160W, and some are well over 180W. You also might be surprised when they’re gulping the juice: pause menus average 137W, far more than cutscenes and loading screens. Multiplayer lobbies average 122W. The company’s working on tools to help/shame developers into lowering those.
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