Monthly Archives: May 2018

California Begins Trial Rollout of Digital License Plates

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Car and Driver: California is taking its first steps toward America’s first digital license plate. Using display technology akin to the e-ink used in the Amazon Kindle, a Foster City, California, outfit called Reviver Auto has come up with a digital plate that is now available on a limited basis in California, with the first fleet trial taking place on a fleet of 24 City of Sacramento — owned Chevrolet Volt cars wearing plates supplied at no cost by Reviver. The new monochrome units — which were also just rolled out in Dubai — comply with reflectivity standards and are GPS enabled, allowing owners to track a stolen vehicle or at least its plate.

Owners accustomed to an otherwise-paperless lifestyle will appreciate that, thanks to the Reviver’s Rplate Pro, registration can be paid via the internet, assuring that one never has to make a last-minute trip to the DMV’s no-appointment Hell Line. It should also be a boon to companies with large fleets. What’s more, it’s easy to upgrade to a special-interest plate if one chooses to do so.

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Source: Slashdot – California Begins Trial Rollout of Digital License Plates

Gordon Moore’s Desk at Intel: 50 Years of Silicon Wafers

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Today was Intel’s Data Center Tech Summit, where the first Optane-based memory modules are officially disclosed, although a full launch is set for later this year. The Summit did not take all day, and our contacts at Intel offered to show us the desk of the eponymous Gordon Moore, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel. As described, it sits as he likes it, among a number of other Intel employees next to the window, but relatively unchanged across site renovations. For us, it was the wafers on display that showcase his place in the semiconductor space as one of the most important people that have ever been in this industry.


 



Source: AnandTech – Gordon Moore’s Desk at Intel: 50 Years of Silicon Wafers

Intel at last announces Optane memory: DDR4 that never forgets

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Enlarge / A stick of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. (credit: Intel)

Ever since Intel and Micron announced 3D XPoint memory in 2015, the world has been waiting for the companies to use it to build memory sticks.

3D XPoint blends the properties of flash storage and DRAM memory. Like flash, it’s persistent, retaining its value even when systems are powered down, and it’s dense, with about ten times the density of DRAM. Like DRAM, it supports low latency random access. Intel also claimed that its write endurance is substantially better than that of flash. This combination of features created the prospect of memory sticks that look like DIMMs and appear to the system as if they’re DDR4 RAM, but with much greater capacities, and with persistence: data written to “RAM” is retained permanently. Memory with these properties is exciting for a wide range of applications—for example, databases that no longer need to concern themselves with flushing data back to disk—and might one day provoke significant changes in the way operating systems and software are designed.

But while persistent memory was perhaps the most interesting application of 3D XPoint, the first products to hit the market were simply storage drives using “Optane” as their branding. There was a series of drives for enterprise customers, and some consumer-oriented M.2 sticks designed to be paired with a spinning disk to produce a high-speed hybrid. While 3D XPoint did offer some benefits over flash SSDs—in particular, the latency of the drives is significantly lower than that of comparable flash units, and the I/O performance is sustained even under heavy mixed read/write workloads—this wasn’t quite the revolution that we were hoping for.

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Source: Ars Technica – Intel at last announces Optane memory: DDR4 that never forgets

From Everything to Nothing: Cyberpunk RPG Announcement

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Its been an established mythos that great art can come from great pain. Van Gogh painted his greatest works while in emotional torment, Kahlos physical and emotional pain are subjects of her most recognized works, Lennon and McCartney forged their creative partnership following the death of their respective mothers. Matthew R. Walsh, of Logic Nine, poured his heart, soul and pain into Nothing: a third-person, open world cyberpunk RPG set in a dystopian Los Angeles….

From Everything to Nothing: Cyberpunk RPG Announcement

Source: PS4 News – From Everything to Nothing: Cyberpunk RPG Announcement

Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say

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madsci1016 writes: Frustrated with how long my Windows Server 2016 Essentials was taking to apply weekly updates, I turned to the web. A quick search revealed that I’m not alone. Many people are reporting similar experiences across the web. All sharing stories of weekly patching taking hours and sometimes ending in hung welcome screens. Some of these threads started a year ago and are still active, with no response from Microsoft addressing the issue. If you use Server 2016, have you experienced this problem?

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Source: Slashdot – Windows Server 2016 Has an Update Problem, Users Say

Feral's Former Linux Team Lead Is Now Working For Unity

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Earlier this month Feral’s Linux team lead left the company after a triumphant five years at the company leading the Linux game porting team through titles such as HITMAN, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Rise of the Tomb Raider. It turns out he’s now working for Unity Technologies…

Source: Phoronix – Feral’s Former Linux Team Lead Is Now Working For Unity

The Last Call For Testing Ahead Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.0, Early Work On Android

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The fifth and final development/test release of Phoronix Test Suite 8.0 is now available ahead of its official release planned for next week to further advance open-source Linux / macOS / BSD / Windows automated benchmarking…

Source: Phoronix – The Last Call For Testing Ahead Of Phoronix Test Suite 8.0, Early Work On Android

Switch vs PS4 vs Xbox One Global Lifetime Sales April 2018

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During the month of April 2018, the PS4 outsold the Switch by 337,046 units for the month and the Xbox One by 686,607 units. The Switch outsold the Xbox One by 349,561 units. When you compare monthly sales to a year ago, the Xbox One is up and the PlayStation 4 and Switch are down. The Xbox One is up 60,243 units, the PlayStation 4 is down 25,771 units and the Switch is down 75,537 units. Taking a look at the marketshare, the PlayStation 4 managed to achieve 50 percent. The Nintendo Switch…

Switch vs PS4 vs Xbox One Global Lifetime Sales April 2018

Source: PS4 News – Switch vs PS4 vs Xbox One Global Lifetime Sales April 2018