So, while it absolutely isn’t a medical-grade or even commercial-grade solution, we took the DIY approach to experiment with a combination of built-in HVAC and portable air filters to see if we could how...
Extreme Saturday: How COVID-19 Travels, A Planet Nine Discovery, and More
How would COVID-19 travel in your home? Is China’s Zhaoxin prepping discrete GPUs? Could Planet Nine be an ancient black hole? We're breaking down the week's biggest stories in computing, science, and space, so grab your coffee, sit back, and enjoy.
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This Week in Computing
We’ve discussed the x86 CPU manufacturer Zhaoxin multiple times at ET, always with reference to the company’s CPUs and efforts to enter the mainstream x86 market, at least in China. Now, there’s evidence...
Earlier this month, WD promised it would release 16TB and 18TB of its EAMR drives, with a 20TB SMR drive to follow. This week, it made good on the first two promises: WD Gold EAMR drives are now available...
Lenovo is announcing a new Ryzen Threadripper workstation that’s also doubling as a debut of a heretofore unannounced AMD chip. The ThinkStation P620 is based on the previously unknown BXB-B chipset and...
This Week in Science and Space
Some scientists believe there’s another planet out there, often called Planet Nine. What if it’s not a planet, though? Researchers from Harvard University have published a paper that explores the possibility...
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) got together earlier this year to launch the aptly named Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The mission recently took up its position near the sun, and the agencies have...
For many years, scientists believed that the majority of supernovas resulted in one of three outcomes: black hole, neutron star, or nothing left at all. Now we’ve found a new star that isn’t any of those...