BYOB, add water, insert Urban Leaf device, and enjoy growing some of your own food in a small space.
Source: TreeHugger – World’s smallest garden is a self-watering pot made from a repurposed glass bottle
Monthly Archives: May 2017
The only thing stopping 4G on the Tube is finding someone to deliver it
Londoners’ dreams of using their phone on the Tube may soon become a reality after it emerged that Transport for London (TfL) is preparing to invite bids from companies to build a public underground 4G network. According to the Financial Times, the r…
Source: Engadget – The only thing stopping 4G on the Tube is finding someone to deliver it
Gigabyte Wields Explosive Intel Core-X Power With Aorus Gaming X299 Motherboards
Enthusiast system builders have a lot to be excited about this summer. New high-end CPUs and GPUs are on the horizon and it doesn’t even matter where your allegiance lies—Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA have all announced some exciting new products. For Intel, the big news is its Core i9 line of processors. In preparation for those chips reaching retail,
Source: Hot Hardware – Gigabyte Wields Explosive Intel Core-X Power With Aorus Gaming X299 Motherboards
Acer’s Nitro 5 is a flashy but forgettable gaming laptop
Acer’s Nitro 5 is the company’s attempt to reach out to those folks who don’t game often, but still want to have fun once in a while. The result is a laptop with a variety of middle-of-the-road configurations that you can take all the way up to a Cor…
Source: Engadget – Acer’s Nitro 5 is a flashy but forgettable gaming laptop
President Trump Pretends Like He Meant to Tweet 'Covfefe'
Last night at 12:06am Eastern time, President Trump sent out a cryptic tweet that read, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. The internet spent the next six hours utterly confused. And, of course, there were memes. So many memes. And even an Urban Dictionary definition.
Source: Gizmodo – President Trump Pretends Like He Meant to Tweet ‘Covfefe’
Utility offers $450 rebate for electric cars—even used ones…
So far, most incentives have rewarded new car buyers. Southern California Edison is now helping out second hand buyers too…
Source: TreeHugger – Utility offers 0 rebate for electric cars—even used ones…
Qt 5.9 LTS Released With Its OpenVG Back-End & Much More
Qt 5.9.0 has made it out on time as the newest Qt5 tool-kit Long-Term Support (LTS) release…
Source: Phoronix – Qt 5.9 LTS Released With Its OpenVG Back-End & Much More
HDR Support Is Being Worked On For Linux's DRM Code
With more HDR monitors hitting the market, Intel developers are working on plumbing support for High Dynamic Range displays into the Linux kernel’s DRM layer…
Source: Phoronix – HDR Support Is Being Worked On For Linux’s DRM Code
ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC Gaming Laptop Rocks AMD Ryzen Desktop CPU And Radeon RX 580 GPU
Thinner and lighter gaming laptops are on the horizon, though do not mistake that to mean under powered. As we saw with the unveiling of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus, a gaming notebook packing an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU and Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU in a chassis measuring just 0.7 inches, gamers can have it all. Following up on that announcement,
Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Strix GL702ZC Gaming Laptop Rocks AMD Ryzen Desktop CPU And Radeon RX 580 GPU
Tesla Model 3 about to start production (& other electric car news from Fully Charged…)
Two blokes sit in a field. And they share some very exciting news about the future of transportation.)
Source: TreeHugger – Tesla Model 3 about to start production (& other electric car news from Fully Charged…)
AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain
the_newsbeagle writes: Many of today’s fanciest artificial intelligence systems are some type of artificial neural network, but they bear only the roughest resemblance to a biological brain’s real networks of neurons. That could change thanks to a $100M program from IARPA. The intelligence agency is funding neuroscience teams to map 1 cubic millimeter of rodent brain, looking at activity in the visual cortex while the rodent is engaged in a complex visual recognition task. By discovering how the neural circuits in that brain cube get activated to process information, IARPA hopes to find inspiration for better artificial neural networks. And an AI that performs better on visual recognition tasks could certainly be useful to intelligence agencies.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain
The Morning After: Wednesday, May 31st 2017
It’s the end of May, and we’re still feeling the late Spring rush of tech news. Asia’s biggest PC show continues, this time centered around the likes of Intel, Qualcomm and Windows — and mobile computing’s next steps. The Father of Android, Andy Rub…
Source: Engadget – The Morning After: Wednesday, May 31st 2017
Epson's AR glasses give your drone a virtual playground
It’s fun learning how to fly a drone, but a company called EdgyBees recently launched an AR game that could make honing your piloting skills even more fun. Now, you can download that AR game onto Epson’s Moverio Drone Edition smart glasses, made spec…
Source: Engadget – Epson’s AR glasses give your drone a virtual playground
Radeon RX Vega Launch Postponed To SIGGRAPH
While there had been much rumor and speculations about the highly anticipated Radeon RX Vega launch happening at Computex Taipei this week, it isn’t happening and it’s now been reported that the consumer Vega launch has been postponed to SIGGRAPH…
Source: Phoronix – Radeon RX Vega Launch Postponed To SIGGRAPH
Intel Core i9-7900X Overclocked To 5.7GHz, Shatters Cinebench World Records
Intel officially rolled out its brand new Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X processors earlier this week as part of its Core-X family. Processors range from the “lowly” $242 Core i5-7640X to the monster Core i9-7980XE, which is priced at $1,999.
Right smack dab in the middle of the lineup is the Core i9-7900X, which has a base clock of 3.3GHz,
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i9-7900X Overclocked To 5.7GHz, Shatters Cinebench World Records
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Attacks Prey At 4K, Quad Vega GPUs Shred Blender, Radeon RX Vega Hits In July
AMD brought along its big guns to the Computex convention in Taipei with demonstrations of both its mighty 16-core Threadripper CPU, and no less than four Radeon Vega Frontier Edition graphics cards running in tandem. We also got our first look at Threadripper, a physically large processor with 16 cores and 32 threads with support for quad-channel
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen Threadripper Attacks Prey At 4K, Quad Vega GPUs Shred Blender, Radeon RX Vega Hits In July
These subtle smart gloves turn sign language into words
A startup that spun out of Taiwan’s University of Science is working on gloves that can translate sign language gestures into text. Such a concept isn’t new by any means, but the elegance of Yingmi Tech’s hardware deserves some special attention.
Source: Engadget – These subtle smart gloves turn sign language into words
Here's our first look at Harman Kardon's Cortana speaker
We first heard about Harman Kardon’s smart speaker earlier this month, but haven’t gotten a chance to try it out or even see what it looks like in person. That is, until now. The Cortana-powered Echo rival made an oh-so-brief appearance here at Micro…
Source: Engadget – Here’s our first look at Harman Kardon’s Cortana speaker
Microsoft shows off Windows VR headsets from ASUS and Dell
We’ve already seen Windows 10 VR headsets from HP, Acer and Dell — now, you you can add ASUS to the mix. During its Computex keynote today, Microsoft revealed ASUS’ headset for the first time, along with a new look for Dell’s entry. They both share…
Source: Engadget – Microsoft shows off Windows VR headsets from ASUS and Dell
Playstation Plus Monthly Games
PS PLUS subscribers may have found out which games will be free in June 2017,
Life is Strange PS4: “Follow the story of Max Caulfield, a photography senior who discovers she can rewind time while saving her best friend Chloe Price.
“The pair…
Playstation Plus Monthly Games
Source: PS4 News – Playstation Plus Monthly Games