During the 2016 Rio Olympics’ closing ceremony, Japanese Prime Minister cosplayed
as Mario. Well, sorta. You probably thought it was cool. Beat Takeshi did not.
Source: Kotaku – Beat Takeshi Not Impressed With Japanese Prime Minister’s Mario Cosplay
Today’s podcast covers the show known as the Intel Developer Forum, or IDF for short. IDF is an annual event focusing on new Intel technologies and product visions, showcasing what is new from small maker-like ‘Internet of Things’ devices all the way up to server platforms and everything in-between. Ian and Ryan were at the show, with plenty of meetings on tap. We found some time to put our thoughts on the announcements in a microphone.
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Total Time: 47 minutes 57 seconds
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00:00 – Start
01:20 – Intel IDF Keynote
01:40 – Project Alloy, Untethered VR
08:13 – Intel Joule IoT Platform
15:35 – Intel Broxton SoC
20:50 – Knights Landing
22:15 – Knights Mill
25:20 – AMD Zen
37:40 – AMD Naples
47:57 – FIN
IDF 2016 Keynote Live Blog
Intel Announces Project Alloy: Untethered Augmented Reality in a VR Headset
Intel Unveils Joule: A High-Performance Atom-Powered IOT Module and Maker Kit
More Details on Broxton: Quad Core, ECC, Up to 18 EUs of Gen 9
Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning
AMD Zen Microarchitecture Part 1: Micro-op Cache, Schedulers and Memory Hierarchy
AMD Zen Microarchitecture Part 2: Extracting ILP, More Juicy Details
AMD Zen Server CPU and Motherboard Breakdown: 2P for Q2 2017
Unpacking AMD’s Zen Benchmark: Is Zen actually 2% Faster than Broadwell?
Source: AnandTech – The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 37: IDF 2016, Alloy, Joule, Broxton, and AMD Zen
Bear encounters are less like singing “The Bare Necessities” and more like “oh crap, I hope there aren’t any bear cubs around.” Here’s what you should do if you run into a bear in the wild who isn’t as friendly as Baloo.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Survive a Bear Attack
Built with flexibility in mind, this is can be installed as a backyard office, studio or guesthouse.
Source: TreeHugger – Solar-powered Sol Pod is a modern prefab mobile studio
The wind energy boom in South Africa has been rapid. And it bodes well for the rest of the world.
Source: TreeHugger – South Africa to become wind energy hot spot (and why we should care)
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BRUSSELS—Europe’s competition chief has ordered Ireland to reclaim €13 billion in back taxes from Apple.
It comes despite the US treasury department warning last week that it would “consider its options” in such an eventuality.
Speaking at the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, Margrethe Vestager said: “Member states cannot give tax benefits to selected companies—this is illegal under EU state aid rules.”
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Source: Ars Technica – Apple must pay Ireland .5 billion in taxes, rules European Commission
It seems hard to believe now, but for a long time the monitor market was stuck in a rut without any kind of real innovation taking place. That started to change with 4K Ultra HD gained steam, and monitor makers have been using the opportunity to release new models with fancy new features. Just this week alone we’ve seen Samsung launch a trio
Source: Hot Hardware – LG Announces 38-inch Curved UltraWide Monitor With Built-in Google Cast And USB-C
Kingdom Hearts III’s Japanese Xbox One page has vanished, it seems. As Twitter user @bKvEBVAvUq (via KH Insider) points out, there was previously a Japanese language page on Xbox.com, but it’s now gone.
Source: Kotaku – Kingdom Hearts III’s Japanese Xbox One page has vanished, it seems.
Budget, quality of deliverables and timescales are the project management’s main components.
Source: TG Daily – Benefits of Streamlining Project Management Processes
The European Commission has ruled that Apple was given up to €13 billion ($14.5 billion) in an illegal sweetheart tax deal with the Irish government. It’s one of the biggest, if not the biggest, figure a company has been charged with by the Comm…
Source: Engadget – EU Commission: Apple must repay its .5b Irish tax break
schwit1 writes: Astronomers have discovered several new objects orbiting the Sun at extremely great distances beyond the orbit of Neptune. The most interesting new discovery is 2014 FE72: “2014 FE72 is the first distant Oort Cloud object found with an orbit entirely beyond Neptune,” reports Carnegie Institution for Science. “It has an orbit that takes the object so far away from the Sun (some 3000 times farther than Earth) that it is likely being influenced by forces of gravity from beyond our Solar System such as other stars and the galactic tide. It is the first object observed at such a large distance.” This research is being done as part of an effort to discover a very large planet, possibly as much as 15 times the mass of Earth, that the scientists have proposed that exists out there.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects
Okay, so Ash is a big loser as a Pokémon Trainer. But damn, that kid is a physical marvel.
Source: Kotaku – Ash From Pokémon Is Insanely Strong
Today Samsung LSI launches a new 14nm SoC oriented at the budget and IoT segments. The new Exynos 7570 seems to be a a successor to the Exynos 3470 and Exynos 3475 found in a few of Samsung’s budget lineups such as the Galaxy S5 Mini. The chip is a quad-core A53 setup which is said to improve performance by 70% and power efficiency by 30% over its predecessor, although exact clocks weren’t publicized. Equally not specified was the GPU, although because of the advertised maximum 1280×800 resolution capabilities of the display pipeline, I wouldn’t expect anything more than a very small implementation of a low-end Mali series.
The more interesting aspects of this new SoC is its connectivity features as not only does it feature an integrated UE Category 4 modem with 2x carrier aggregation capabilities, but it also as far as I know for the first time for S.LSI integrates WiFi, Bluetooth, FM and GNSS capabilities, features that have traditionally been left in the charge of dedicated solutions such as Broadcom WiFi SoCs (Which following the acquisition by Avago have exited that business segment).
Earlier this year we were surprised to see Samsung announce a 14nm mid-range product as we weren’t expecting the economics of the new FinFET manufacturing processes to work out for anything other than flagships SoCs, but soon after Qualcomm followed suit with their own 14nm mid-range SoC. Today’s announcement seems to further dispell the doom & gloom over FinFET manufacturing cost as the Exynos 7570’s stictly low-end and IoT orientation makes it the first budget SoC on the new process and something as I see as a positive development as the industry continues to shift to full FinFET lineups.
Source: AnandTech – Samsung Announces Exynos 7570 14nm Budget SoC
It looks like our would-be robot overlords aren’t quite up to the task of running things all by themselves. In what could be considered a test run, Facebook recently announced less human intervention and more reliance on a computer algorithm to its Trending topics feature, a decision it made following a report alleging that its team of news
Source: Hot Hardware – Facebook Trending News Algorithm Promotes False Megyn Kelly Story In Absence Of Human Handlers
Over the past few months, AMD has been preoccupied with shoving its Polaris-based GPUs (GCN 4.0) out the door. Offering a 2x advantage in performance-per-watt compared to its predecessors, the Radeon RX 480, RX 470 and RX 460 offer great performance at reasonable prices.
But what about the follow-up to Polaris? Well, according to a leaked
Source: Hot Hardware – Leaked AMD Deck Shows High Performance Vega GPU Targeted For 1H 2017
The best Chromebook that money can buy is slowly disappearing. As VentureBeat notes, the second-generation Chromebook Pixel is now unavailable in the US, with a mere “out of stock” message displayed in the Google Store. Google has said it’s “committe…
Source: Engadget – Adieu, Chromebook Pixel 2
Intel is readying a new family of processors based on its next-gen Kaby Lake microarchitecture. We’ve heard quite a bit about Kaby Lake over the last few months, and were even able to show you it in action last week while covering IDF, but today we’ve got many more details to share on the microarchitecture that will be foundation of Intel’s…
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Kaby Lake Revealed: Higher Perf Per Watt, Enhanced Media Engine
If you’re looking to bolster your security skillset, we’ve got a deal running in the HotHardware Shop that will be of interest. An Ultimate Computer Security Bundle with certifications in CISSP, Encryption, Pentesting, and Ethical Hacking — among others — is currently discounted by over 95% and available for under $30.
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Source: Hot Hardware – 95% Off An Ultimate Computer Security Bundle In the HotHardware Shop
A Storm is Approaching. Venice, Italy. By Christian Astorga.
Source: Kotaku – A Storm is Approaching.
11 Bit Studios made a name for itself with This War of Mine, a powerful game about the civilian casualties of war, and now the company is back with a second experience that peers into the heart of humanity. Frostpunk is a dystopian look at society as…
Source: Engadget – ‘This War of Mine’ studio reveals a dystopian steampunk PC game