Apple Patents Slimline Combined SD and USB Slot

Apple Patents Slimline Combined SD and USB Slot

Apple’s been imagining the things of the future again, with a newly-discovered patent showing it has plans to combine USB and SD card slots to save yet more space on the Macs of tomorrow.

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This Is Perhaps Possibly the New iPhone’s Rear End

This Is Perhaps Possibly the New iPhone's Rear EndMacRumors has laid its hands on a couple of images purporting to show the inside and rear shell of the next iPhone.

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3D Printing Graduates from Plastic Chunks to Incredible Micro-Batteries

3D Printing Graduates from Plastic Chunks to Incredible Micro-Batteries

3D printing is great for building lifeless husks out of plastic, but soon we’ll be able to start printing guts as well. Scientists have figured out how to coax a fully functioning lithium-ion battery out of nothing but some paste, and those small batteries could have big applications.

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Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft’s Surface RT

Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft's Surface RTBloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is planning to give its Surface RT tablet an overhaul using chips from Qualcomm.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Benchmarks: This Thing Has a Face-Melting GPU

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Benchmarks: This Thing Has a Face-Melting GPU

While most high-end Android phones currently sport Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600, there’s another chip announced earlier this year waiting to hit the scene: the Snapdragon 800. Now, the first benchmarks of that new chip are in—and its GPU promises to smoke the competition.

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This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone’s Screen and Guts

This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone's Screen and Guts

It’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called.

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Report: AMD Is Making Its First Ever ARM Chip

Report: AMD Is Making Its First Ever ARM Chip

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AMD is taking a leap into unknown waters, as it readies its first ever ARM chip.

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First Active Noise-Canceling Computer Fan Will Finally Shut Your Computer Up

If you’ve got a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you’re out of luck. They’re just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise canceling.

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The New Old Xbox 360’s Guts Shows What’s Old Is New Again

The New Old Xbox 360's Guts Shows What's Old Is New Again

The new old, curiously botoxed Xbox 360 was announced at E3 to a crowd of shrugs. Why add makeup and eyeliner to a walking zombie? Whatever. The ace surgical team at iFixit got their hands on the new old Xbox 360 to see if anything changed inside. Here are the guts.

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown: Easy to Fix By Design

Samsung barely tweaked the exterior design of the Galaxy S4. That plastic casing might not be much to look at, but as iFixit’s teardown reveals, that’s precisely why you can replace much of its guts without any hassle. More »