Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-dif…
Internal memo: CBS Mornings top producer Shawna Thomas will leave her role; a source says CBS News executives are eager to find a way to keep working with her (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cbs-mornings-top-produce…
As an added bonus, Apple calls the two ports on the left “USB-C” (which is a type of connector) and the two other ports “Thunderbolt 5” (which is a type of interface).
It’s not specified what protocols the USB-C ports support (presumably USB up to USB4 and maybe some alternate modes).
In 1991 the Fly’s Eye detector,
which monitored the sky for the glow caused by energetic particles slamming into our atmosphere,
detected a flash so huge it defied belief:
the cosmic ray that sparked it had an energy of 320 quintillion eV,
or 320 billion GeV.
That’s millions of times the kinetic energy of protons we can spin up in our most powerful particle accelerators.
It’s so energetic, in fact, that it actually has a decent macroscopic equivalent:
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EU-Safety-Gate: 4671 Produktwarnungen in nur einem Jahr
Seit 2020 haben sich die Warnmeldungen im EU-Portal für Produktwarnungen mehr als verdoppelt. Vor allem Kosmetik, Spielzeug und Elektronik bereiten Sorgen.
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