Everything you were wondering about Apple’s new M1 chip Specifications The M1 processor has eight cores — four high-performance and four efficiency — with a claimed 3.5x performance boost. It also features a 12MBL2 cachewhich makes data processing faster. The chip has whopping 16 billion transistors, made possible by the 5nm fabrication process.Anandtechnotes that this might result in roughly a120mm²sized processor. There’s also an eight-core GPU with advertised 6x performance overhead....

You might have heard peopletalking about hyperloop technology. Most likely, they’re wondering why they are still talking about it and when/if it will arrive. It’s a big topic, but we’ve got you covered with an easy-to-understand explanation of all you need to know. Where has hyperloop tech come from? The hyperloop idea came into public consciousness in 2013 when Elon Musk introduced the concept in aresearch paperthat posited the Hyperloop as “a fifth mode of transport after planes, trains, cars, and boats....

If you think that checking your Facebook account once a day and following Lady Gaga’s latest musings on Twitter makes you a social media geek, think again. We’re now entering an era where quite literally everything we do has the potential to besocial– from running a mobile phone network, to buying a can of Pepsi. And I’m not talking about having a conversation with the checkout operator at your local grocery store either – I’m talking social in the digital ‘online’ sense....

There may be new Mac Pro and MacBook Air models coming this week featuring upgrades like Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt ports, a source has informed9to5Mac. The source supplied model numbers for four new MacBook Airs and four new Mac Pro’s. The MacBook Air model numbers almost certainly represent two 11-inch models and two 13-inch models. This would mirror the current lineup somewhat, with the ‘upper’ options likely being available with beefed up specs....

Apple has been building support for theiMessageservice into OS X Lion’s iChat application, reportsMacrumors. The site says that a developer has shared two properties buried inside the framework for the Lion version of iChat that indicate that the cross-device messaging service will be making an appearance on the Mac as well as iOS devices. The two strings,timeDeliveredandtimeRead,are signs of two features that only appear in iMessages, not iChat. The delivery notification and ‘message read’ notifications are two core features of iMessage that are not currently present in iChat....