Boosting the Steam Deck’s storage is remarkably easy, thanks to its standard M.2 slot.
Storage Reviews made it slightly harder, using a giant Solidigm P5336 61.44TB enterprise SSD. But only slightly, from the sound of it — it just took a U.2 to M.2 adapter, an enclosure for the SSD, and an external power supply.
A report in The Wall Street Journal talks about engineers’ efforts to break through modern microchips’ limits, using new, far better heat-dissipating materials, like diamonds or boron arsenide, than the metals we use now.
Someday, the microchips inside computers could consist of a glittering and improbable sandwich—glass on top for fast communications, a three-dimensional stack of silicon layers in the middle for processing, and a diamond wafer on the bottom to carry away all the heat, says Bechtolsheim.
This New York Times story catches up on Bezos’ now decade-old promise of ultra-fast airborne delivery. It’s not widespread yet, but there are people who can get it. Like smart homes and robot vacuums, the reality is less compelling than the vision.
Mr. Conner also ordered the free Skippy peanut butter but forgot to put out the landing target, so the drone went away. Then he ordered it again. Meanwhile, an Amazon delivery person showed up with the first jar. So now he and his wife, Belinda, have two jars.
A post on Fortnite’s official X account says the game had its biggest day ever yesterday, thanks to its nostalgic new season. According to the Fortnite team’s reckoning, the day saw almost 45 million players and over 102 million hours of play.
And I say that with love. Disney quietly refuses to host the second-season episode, which, as Polygon writes, lightly touches on gender as a concept.
With Bandit pretending to give birth as an entertaining, educational exercise, it sounds like it’s pretty standard Bluey fare. Here’s a YouTube clip from it.
Correction November 6th, 2023, 11:53AM ET: It was Bandit, not Bingo, who pretended to give birth. We regret the error.
I’m a touch miffed that the new iMacs still use Lightning accessories — that’ll change, but when? Next year, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s subscriber edition of Power On.
I suppose if Apple is waiting until the 11th hour to comply with the EU’s common charger rule, desktop input devices are the right ones to do it with. Still, it sure felt like last week would’ve been the right time for it.
Over on MKBHD’s The Studio, David Imel talked about the Leica M11-P. Or, more accurately, he used it to talk about Content Credentials, which the $9,000-plus camera attaches to photos as they’re taken so they can be verified through Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI).
It’s a good look at CAI and its potential benefits to the media using the first-ever camera to participate in an initiative intended to help onlookers identify real-world images in a sea of AI-generated ones.
Nilay, David, and Alex had a little aside on Friday’s Vergecast episode about how the combo of SEO and AI means Google thinks you can melt an egg. This morning, a listener showed what’s clearly the best way to experience this silly SEO flub.
I immediately tried it, and this was also my Nest Hub’s response to the question, “Can you melt an egg?”
Go try it before Google fixes it!
iPhones have been able to alert users to liquid in the Lightning port since the iOS 10 beta period, and now the ability to at least detect liquid is in macOS Sonoma 14.1.
9to5Mac reported that the update brought a new “Liquid Detection and Corrosion Mitigation Daemon,” though the outlet reports that it seems limited to analytics for now.
