The three drives in the showdown are Samsung Portable SSD T9, SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4, and Crucial X10 Pro. Samsung T9 uses USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) with up to 2000 MB/s read and 1950 MB/s write on 1TB/2TB, and 2000 MB/s read/write on the 4TB model. SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 uses USB4 (40…
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JBL Charge 6 launched in April 2025 at $199, with IP68 durability, USB-C powerbank-out, Bluetooth 5.4 with Auracast, multipoint pairing, and a 7-band EQ accessible in the JBL Portable app. Ultimate Ears Epicboom debuted in 2023, is priced around $299, has IP67 rating and floats, delivers 360° sound with Outdoor Boost, supports NFC, and can…
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Matter 1.3, released in mid-2024, expanded support to kitchen appliances, EV chargers, and water leak sensors, and added energy usage reporting plus a universal casting feature. Matter is an application-layer protocol that runs over IP on Wi‑Fi or Thread, requires a CSA-issued secure element and a unique X.509 certificate, and uses AES-128-CHACHA-Poly1305 with SPAKE2+ (CASE)…
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As of August 2025, Arlo has not officially released a Pro 6, with coverage basing expectations on the Pro 5S 2K and the Secure 6 platform. Arlo Pro 5S 2K records up to 2K HDR video at 24 fps (dropping to 15 fps at night) with a wide 160° field of view and a built-in…
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The IEEE 802.11bb Li-Fi standard was ratified in mid-2023, providing a global framework for interoperable Li-Fi devices. PureLiFi’s Light Antenna One module can deliver about 1 Gbps at distances from 20 cm to roughly 3 m using standard LED sources. Lab demonstrations have surpassed 100 Gbps with Li-Fi, with a cited test reaching 224 Gbps…
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Apple launched Emergency SOS via satellite in late 2022 with the iPhone 14, becoming the first mainstream phone to offer satellite messaging. Apple’s satellite system uses Globalstar’s LEO satellites (about 1,400 km altitude) with custom hardware and extremely low bandwidth, delivering a few bytes per second and requiring the user to point and hold the…
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NVIDIA’s Blackwell B200 features 180 GB of HBM3e memory per GPU with up to 8 TB/s bandwidth, 18 PFLOPS FP4 tensor throughput, 9 PFLOPS FP8, and 4.5 PFLOPS FP16, plus a second-generation Transformer Engine. NVIDIA claims DGX B200 delivers about 3× the training performance and 15× the inference performance of DGX H100 in end-to-end workflows.…
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Sora can generate videos up to 20 seconds at 1080p for ChatGPT Pro users and 10 seconds at 720p for ChatGPT Plus, with a research version capable of about 1 minute. Sora outputs at 24 fps and supports widescreen, vertical, and square aspect ratios, with visible watermarks by default. Sora excels at photorealistic imagery and…
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Tesla introduced its own charging connector with the Model S in 2012 and opened it as NACS in late 2022. Tesla’s V3 Superchargers deliver up to 250 kW (about 1000 V, 250 A) to compatible vehicles, enabling about 80% charge in roughly 20 minutes under ideal conditions. Ford announced NACS ports for 2025 models in…
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CATL unveiled the world’s first mass-produced sodium-ion EV battery, named Naxtra, in 2023 and began deploying it in cars by late 2023. Sodium-ion cells typically deliver 140–160 Wh/kg, with CATL’s best prototypes around 175 Wh/kg and a second-generation cell expected to exceed 200 Wh/kg. All-solid-state lithium batteries are projected to store 50% to 100% more…
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