Monthly Archives: June 2017

Amazon Echo Price Hits New Low As Echo Show Debuts This Week With Touch Display

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Amazon Echo Price Hits New Low As Echo Show Debuts This Week With Touch Display
If you do not care about having a fancy touchscreen on your smart speaker, you can score a pretty good deal on Amazon’s original Echo model. Amazon is currently selling its voice-controlled Echo speaker with Alexa integration for $130, down 28 percent from its regular retail price of $180. It is available at that discounted price in both black

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Echo Price Hits New Low As Echo Show Debuts This Week With Touch Display

Introducing the Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme

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An ever-growing number of companies take advantage of Raspberry Pi technology and use our boards as part of their end products. Raspberry Pis are now essential components of everything from washing machines to underwater exploration vehicles. We love seeing these commercial applications, and are committed to helping bring Raspberry Pi-powered products to market. With this in mind, we are excited to announce our new Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme!

Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme

Product compliance testing

Whenever a company wants to sell a product on a market, it first has to prove that selling it is safe and legal. Compliance requirements vary between different products; rules that would apply to a complicated machine like a car will, naturally, not be the same as those that apply to a pair of trainers (although there is some overlap in the Venn diagram of rules).

Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme

Regions of the world within each of which products have to be separately tested

Different countries usually have slightly different sets of regulations, and testing has to be conducted at an accredited facility for the region the company intends to sell the product in. Companies have to put a vast amount of work into getting their product through compliance testing and certification to meet country-specific requirements. This is especially taxing for smaller enterprises.

Making testing easier

Raspberry Pi has assisted various companies that use Pi technology in their end products through this testing and certification process, and over time it has become clear that we can do even more to help. This realisation led us to work with our compliance testing and certification partner UL to create a system that simplifies and speeds up compliance processes. Thus we have started the Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme, designed to help anyone get their Raspberry Pi-based product tested and on the market quickly and efficiently.

The Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme

The programme provides access to the same test engineers who worked on our Raspberry Pis during their compliance testing. It connects the user to a dedicated team at UL who assess and test the user’s product, facilitated by their in-depth knowledge of Raspberry Pi. The team at UL work closely with the Raspberry Pi engineering team, so any unexpected issues that may arise during testing can be resolved quickly. Through the programme, UL will streamline the testing and certification process, which will in turn decrease the amount of time necessary to launch the product. Our Integrator Programme is openly available, it comes with no added cost beyond the usual testing fees at UL, and there are companies already taking advantage of it.

Get your product on the market more quickly

We have put the Integrator Programme in place in the hope of eliminating the burden of navigating complicated compliance issues and making it easier for companies to bring new, exciting products to consumers. With simplified testing, companies and individuals can get products to market in less time and with lower overhead costs.

The programme is now up and running, and ready to accept new clients. UL and Raspberry Pi hope that it will be an incredibly useful tool for creators of Raspberry Pi-powered commercial products. For more information, please email compliance@raspberrypi.org.

Powered by Raspberry Pi

As a producer of a Pi-based device, you can also apply to use our ‘Powered by Raspberry Pi’ logo on your product and its packaging. Doing so indicates to customers that a portion of their payment supports the educational work of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Powered by Pi Logo

You’ll find more information about the ‘Powered by Raspberry Pi’ logo and our simple approval process for using it here.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Now Rumored For Mid-September Launch With $900 Price Tag

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Now Rumored For Mid-September Launch With $900 Price Tag
Never mark you calendars in Sharpie. Plans have a way of changing and if you use a permanent marker to highlight special occasions, you will inevitably end up scribbling over certain entries. One of those is the release date for Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy Note 8 phablet. It was previously rumored for an August 26th unveil, but now it is

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Now Rumored For Mid-September Launch With 0 Price Tag

Nokia 6 Android Smartphone Arrive Stateside As Amazon Exclusive In July

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Nokia 6 Android Smartphone Arrive Stateside As Amazon Exclusive In July
We were given our first glimpse at the Nokia 6 Android smartphone back in January. The Nokia 6, which is produced by HMD Global, was announced as a mid-range fighter, packing a Snapdragon 430 processor, 4GB RAM, 5.5-inch Full HD display, 64GB of internal storage, 16MP rear camera, 8MP selfie camera, 3000 mAh battery and a front-mounted fingerprint

Source: Hot Hardware – Nokia 6 Android Smartphone Arrive Stateside As Amazon Exclusive In July

Intel Coffee Lake 6-Core CPU Delivers Strong Multi Core Performance Via Leaked Geekbench Scores

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Intel Coffee Lake 6-Core CPU Delivers Strong Multi Core Performance Via Leaked Geekbench Scores
For the second time in less than a week, leaked benchmarks are giving us a glimpse of what to expect from Coffee Lake, which represents the fourth and latest iteration of Intel’s 14-nanometer process. The latest leaked benchmarks come courtesy of Geekbench. On display is a 6-core processor with 12 threads clocked at 3.19GHz. It also has 1.5MB

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Coffee Lake 6-Core CPU Delivers Strong Multi Core Performance Via Leaked Geekbench Scores

Watch SpaceX Nail Two Falcon 9 Rocket Launches And Landings In Weekend Doubleheader

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Watch SpaceX Nail Two Falcon 9 Rocket Launches And Landings In Weekend Doubleheader
SpaceX swung for the fences this weekend, and it came up with a homerun — twice. The company successfully launched and recovered two rockets within a 48-hour period span of time.

The first launch occurred on Friday, when SpaceX’s second ever recycled Falcon 9 booster was used to put a satellite into orbit for Bulgarian TV service provider

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch SpaceX Nail Two Falcon 9 Rocket Launches And Landings In Weekend Doubleheader

ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 1080 Ti Platinum Edition Part 1

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Air cooling? Liquid Cooling? How about both, the ASUS ROG Poseidon GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Platinum Edition hybrid video card can run them both. In Part 1 of our evaluation we will test the video card on “air cooling” and overclock it as high as possible. In Part 2, we pump liquid through its veins and compare overclocks.

Source: [H]ardOCP – ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 1080 Ti Platinum Edition Part 1

New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally

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An elevator that can move in any direction has been successfully tested by a German company named ThyssenKrupp. An anonymous reader quotes Wired UK:

The Multi is the first ropeless lift, built using the same magnetic levitation technology used in Japan’s bullet train and proposed for the Hyperloop. In the same way the train slides along a track horizontally, the lift travels both vertically, horizontally and diagonally around a building riding an electromagnetic field, a system known as a linear drive. “If you can run a 500-tonne train on magnets at 500km/h you should be able to elevate a cabin of 500 kilograms or 1,000 kilograms at a speed of five metres per second,” [ThyssenKrupp CEO Andreas] Schierenbeck said.

The elevator can cost 3 to 5 times more than a regular elevator — but can handle higher buildings than a conventional elevator.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Source: Slashdot – New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally

Yahoo to Change Access for AT&T Customers

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We have news from TechCrunch of Yahoo cutting support for users with certain AT&T owned domains accessing Yahoo websites. To ensure continued access for Yahoo sites, users will need to update their registered email address with a different domain or create a Yahoo ID. With the Verizon acquisition, a new Oath brand was launched with both Yahoo and AOL under the media branding while still retaining their names . Since I’m sure most of us act as personal IT support for friends and family, this will be a huge pain in the next coming week and future. Hit the link for a full list of sites affected by the change.



The following are domains losing access:
att.net, ameritech.net, bellsouth.net, flash.net, nvbell.net, pacbell.net, prodigy.net, sbcglobal.net, snet.net, swbell.net, and wans.net.

Users can transfer account data to a Yahoo ID for the following sites:


Flickr
Fantasy
Baseball
Fantasy Basketball
Fantasy Football
Fantasy Hockey
Yahoo Groups
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To change your registered email address, take the following steps:


In a web browser, click “Settings” under the account menu at the top of the dashboard (looks like a person’s silhouette).
To the right of your email address, click the pencil icon.
Update the email address and confirm your password.
Save your changes.



The move provoked some uproar among net neutrality advocates, but it seems to be less about creating walled gardens and more about cleaning up prior commitments and pre-existing partnerships.

Discussion

Source: [H]ardOCP – Yahoo to Change Access for AT&T Customers

Pandora CEO Tim Westergren Plans to Step Down

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Recode is reporting that Tim Westergren, co-founder and CEO of streaming music service Pandora, plans to step down from his post as leader of the company. There have been no word yet on his replacement. The company has been battling to keep up with market growth and mindshare, but unfortunately is trailing Spotify and Apple Music for the top spot meanwhile Tidal still tries to exit. Streaming music services have been generating $1 billion in sales the past couple of years. Earlier in June, SiriusXM said it would invest $480 million in the company. I’ve been using Spotify myself for streaming and have discovered bands that no longer exists



Pandora was an early pioneer in streaming music, and grew its user base to more than 80 million people, most of whom used the free version of its web radio service. But Pandora has struggled to generate enough advertising revenue to cover the cost of the free service.

Discussion

Source: [H]ardOCP – Pandora CEO Tim Westergren Plans to Step Down