Lorena Carter

Quartz journalists have listed Apple’s most failed products. The list of 12 devices is available on the media website.

The top was headed by the Newton pocket computer (PDA), which was “ahead of its time” but failed in sales and was canceled by Steve Jobs. A USB mouse shaped like a puck was ranked below: “the design was just awful, and the shape couldn’t have been less ergonomic”. In third place was the Pippin console, which was ignored by game makers and gamers.

Below were Ping, a social networking service for musicians, the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM), MacBook laptops with an unreliable butterfly keyboard, the Macintosh TV, the failed Apple III desktop computer, and the canceled AirPower wireless charger.

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Apple has revealed the set of its augmented reality glasses, which will go on sale in February. This is reported by the publication 9to5Mac.

Media journalists found out that the basic version of the device will have 256 gigabytes of built-in memory. The device was estimated at 3499 dollars, or about 318 thousand rubles. The cost of interchangeable lenses will be from 99 to 149 dollars. The company did not disclose how much will cost versions of augmented reality glasses with a larger drive.

In the Vision Pro kit, the American company will offer two interchangeable headband – to choose the optimal fit, two seals, removable battery, charging cable and USB-C adapter, cloth for cleaning the device, carrying case.

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Modern SSD drives can be overclocked and accelerated. This is reported by TechSpot.

Journalists of the media paid attention to the video published on the YouTube channel of Gabriel Ferraz. The user managed to overclock the frequency of his SSD, thanks to which the drive became faster, but also began to consume more electricity. Ferraza called his overclocking method a bit risky.

The blogger used a 240 gigabyte 2.5-inch SATA RZX drive based on Silicon Motion’s SM2259XT controller, which has read and write speeds of 540 and 450 megabytes per second, respectively. The author used a SATA-USB 3.0 adapter and third-party SMI Mass Production Tool software.

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In future gadgets Samsung should add a monitor that determines the level of sugar in the blood. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the head of mobile health Samsung Hong Park.

According to the specialist, the Korean corporation intends to create a non-invasive glucometer – a device that allows you to analyze blood sugar levels without puncturing the skin. “If we can continuously measure blood pressure and glucose levels, we will turn the game around,” Park emphasized.

The top Samsung executive estimates that a device for non-invasive glucose monitoring could be on the market in one form or another within five years. “We are looking at all options, from miniaturization to different technology platforms that can do some form of glucose monitoring or something in between,” Park stated.

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Journalists of the publication HotHardware collected information about the next Sony console. This is reported on the media site.

According to insiders, the improved version of the PlayStation 5 will be based on a processor with a video gas pedal AMD on the architecture Zen2 codenamed Viola. The processor will have a frequency of 4.4 gigahertz versus 3.5 gigahertz of the current PS5.

Also from the disclosed specs, it appears that the PlayStation 5 Pro will come with AMD’s XDNA2 neural processor. The chip will be responsible for scaling content: in particular, it will provide image transmission in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second.

Most likely, PS5 Pro will receive 16 gigabytes of GDDR6 RAM. The console’s performance will increase from 10.28 to 28.67 teraflops.

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