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A reliable leaker has just revealed that Nvidia might be abandoning the idea of releasing an RTX 4090 Ti. If the project hadn’t been canceled, the RTX 4090 Ti would have ended up becoming the best GPU by a mile — or at least the most powerful. That spot is currently held by Nvidia’s own RTX 4090. But don’t worry — if the report about the cancellation is true, it’s not such a bad thing at all. In fact, it might be for the best for pretty much everyone involved. Here’s why. I'm afraid there won't be RTX…

Since the famous mid-20th century experiments on “operant conditioning” by BF Skinner, people have been tempted to describe modern humans as a “rats in cages”, forever pressing levers for tiny pellets of pleasure. Before that, however, the dominant metaphor involved a different rodent. In the 19th century, caged squirrels were popular pets, getting their exercise from running on wheels. “The tendency of the entire national energy,” John Ruskin wrote, “is to approximate more and more the state of a squirrel in a cage.”The…

Andy Boxall/DigitalTrends The Samsung Galaxy Note changed the mobile industry when it arrived, and it became a firm favorite with a lot of people. Its committed, passionate fanbase is perhaps only rivaled by those who love the iPhone. But all that was a long time ago, and now in mid-2023, I’m very glad Samsung killed the Note when it did. The Samsung Galaxy Note needed to die Galaxy Note 10 Plus (left) and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra (right) Andy Boxall/Digital Trends In early 2022, Samsung said it wouldn’t continue the…

Leslie Van Houten was released from prison Tuesday, something I never believed would happen. Not because it shouldn’t, but because it has always seemed to be political suicide to allow it. Part of the notorious Manson “family,” she was serving a life sentence for murdering Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in 1969. She’d been recommended for parole five times before her release. Each time, the recommendation was reversed by either Gov. Jerry Brown or Gov. Gavin Newsom. However, earlier this month Newsom did not challenge an…

I’ve been using the Galaxy S22+ for almost a year and a half. Not only has it been my Samsung DeX machine, but my daily smartphone for the past sixteen months. And recently, after I had to downgrade to the old Galaxy Note 10 temporarily, I’ve become more convinced than ever that the mid-sized flat smartphone form factor is my perfect fit. My cravings for a powerful compact phone are virtually gone, and I could never willingly go back to the curved screen design. Even if it would be larger, as it is on the Galaxy S22…

Joe Maring/Digital Trends Motorola has finally admitted to itself that trading on the past for its Razr designs hasn’t been working. After Motorola took the sensible step of minimizing the once-iconic chin on the Razr (2022), it has completely disappeared from the new Razr (2023) and the Razr Plus. What we’re left with is an incredibly clean design that — especially in the case of the Razr Plus — gives the new compact folding phone a much-needed identity all of its own. Stop living in the past Riley Young /…

God spare us another millionaire actor who fancies themself as a bestselling author –unless the actor is Michael Caine, in which case good on him, raise your glass. The 90-year mainstay of British cinema spent lockdown writing his first novel, tapping away at his iPad every day, toiling to master the intricacies of the craft. “Paragraphs,” he said. “Punctuation, all that.” The book might be awful. It won’t trouble the Man Booker panel. But in finally completing the thing, Caine has indirectly written himself a happy…

Stephen Edelstein/Digital Trends Finally, we’re at a point where carmakers other than Tesla are moving on from their first generation of electric cars, and releasing their second and even third models. The Hyundai Ioniq 5 and its sister the Kia EV6 both made headlines for being stellar alternatives to the Tesla Model 3 or Model Y, thanks to their innovative designs and high-tech features. But with more models finally coming out, carmakers have a choice: Should they just build smaller and larger versions of the EVs…

A new photonic, functional memory based on tin oxide slanted nanorod arrays in which both the optical and electrical stimuli can be used to modulate switching characteristics shows potential for developing high-density and high-efficiency computing systems.Currently, various research groups worldwide are designing and realizing non-volatile, ultrafast, reliable, functional memory systems that outperform traditional silicon-based flash memories. In this big data era, a new class of data storage devices that can overcome…

Image via Marvel Studios/ Remix via Apeksha Bagchi Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is finally in theaters, marking the end of the Marvel road for James Gunn and — heartbreakingly — the majority of the original Guardians. And I just popped open a bottle (or six) of champagne to celebrate the fact that they will never return to the MCU.  Yes, yes, Gunn is one reputed Marvel director, and his Vol. 3 just revived the drowning MCU. But it does little to downplay the fact that Peter and team never got the respect other…