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A working Apple-1 computer, serial number zero one dash zero zero three three, is heading to auction at Sotheby's as part of its History of Science and Technology sale. Hand-built by Steve Wozniak in nineteen seventy six, this is one of the original fifty units, and it still runs. That combination of provenance and functionality makes it genuinely rare, and almost certainly very expensive.
From computing history to computing present — the debate around AI upscaling in PC gaming is intensifying. Nvidia's DLSS, Intel's XeSS, and AMD's FSR four are no longer optional extras; they're central to how modern games run. The uncomfortable truth is that as GPU prices climb, synthetic frame generation has become less a feature and more a crutch holding the industry upright.
And on a note that has nothing to do with silicon but everything to do with what we put in our bodies — a new study finds that most European strawberries contain PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals linked to hormone disruption. These compounds don't break down in the environment or in us, and their presence in a fruit as common as the strawberry raises serious questions about agricultural regulation across the continent.
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