Monthly Archives: May 2018

No Thank You: Video Of Mayflies Swarming Gas Station Pumps

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This is a video from a gas station in Slidell, Louisiana of a mayfly swarm (mayflies swarm in the spring during mating season and bone in mid-air just like I’ve always dreamed of) at a gas station. Apparently the insects were so numerous they made pumping gas impossible, or at least very uncomfortable. I feel like gas stations should have some sort of system for dealing with this. And, obviously, that system should involve automated flamethrower turrets. “At a gas station.” Don’t hate just because you didn’t think of it first. “At a GAS station.” What are you getting at?

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Source: Geekologie – No Thank You: Video Of Mayflies Swarming Gas Station Pumps

The 24 Biggest Questions We Have After Seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Did everyone do their homework? Did you see Solo: A Star Wars Story over the long weekend? (Obviously, not everyone did.) Either way, we have some lingering questions about the movie and how it affects the Star Wars universe. We have some educated guesses, but there are two dozen answers we’d very much like to get.

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Source: Gizmodo – The 24 Biggest Questions We Have After Seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story

Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs

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Samsung on Wednesday introduced its first consumer products based on its 16 Gb DDR4 memory chips demonstrated earlier this year. The new SO-DIMMs are aimed at high-performance notebooks that benefit from both speed and capacity of memory modules.


Samsung’s new 32 GB DDR4 SO-DIMMs based on 16 Gb DDR4 memory ICs (integrated circuits) are rated for a 2666 MT/s data transfer rate at 1.2 V. Because the 16 Gb memory chips are made using Samsung’s 10 nm-class process technology, the new module is claimed to be 39% more energy efficient than the company’s previous-gen 16 GB SO-DIMM based on 20 nm-class ICs. According to Samsung, a laptop equipped with 64 GB of new memory consumes 4.578 W in active mode, whereas a notebook outfitted with 64 GB of previous-gen DDR4 consumes 7.456 W in active mode.



Samsung did not say when exactly it plans to start shipments of the 32 GB DDR4 SO-DIMMs. Meanwhile, DRAM producers usually make announcements after they ship the first batch of new products. Therefore, it is highly likely that Samsung’s customers among makers of high-end notebooks have already received the new 32 GB modules.


Samsung is gradually expanding its portfolio of 16 Gb (2 GB) memory chips for PC applications. Earlier this year the company introduced 16 Gb GDDR6 for graphics adapters and then demonstrated its server RDIMMs based on 16 Gb DDR4 chips. This week Samsung also mentioned 16 Gb GDDR5 chips for video cards.



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Source: AnandTech – Samsung Unveils 32 GB DDR4-2666 SO-DIMMs

New View of the Tarantula Nebula Is the Space Picture We All Need Today

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It’s already been quite a year for space porn, so sometimes I feel excessive by posting yet another new picture and saying “Look at this! It looks really cool!” But you know what, we’re hard-working people who deserve a break to marvel at the universe. So take in this incredible new image of the Tarantula Nebula, a…

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Source: Gizmodo – New View of the Tarantula Nebula Is the Space Picture We All Need Today

Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World's High-Tech Trash, Police Say

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Thailand is a new dumping ground for scrap electronics from around the world, say police and environmentalists, the latest country to feel the impact of China’s crackdown on imports of high-tech trash. From a report: Police at Laem Chabang port, south of Bangkok, showed on Tuesday seven shipping containers each packed with about 22 tonnes of discarded electronics, including crushed game consoles, computer boards and bags of scrap materials. Electronic refuse, or e-waste, is turning up from Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, police said, some of it imported by companies without the required permits. “This … shows that electronic waste from every corner of the world is flowing into Thailand,” Deputy Police Chief Wirachai Songmetta said as he showed the containers to the media. While “e-waste” — defined as any device with an electric cord or battery — can be “mined” for valuable metals such as gold, silver and copper, it can include hazardous material such as lead, mercury and cadmium. Police said they filed charges against three recycling and waste processing companies in Thailand. Anyone found guilty could be jailed for up to 10 years.

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Source: Slashdot – Thailand is New Dumping Ground For World’s High-Tech Trash, Police Say

SemiAccurate Says Intel 10nm Launch a PR Stunt

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Charlie Demerjian always has an interesting opinion to share, and today is no different. Charlie is suggesting that Intel’s recent 10nm “launch” is simply a PR stunt to save its stock price. I highly suggest going over and giving his supporting hypothesis a read as he has put together a very good article. Is a 10nm part that only half works a testament to moving production to the process in the future, or is it broken as he suggests?



This is entirely consistent with what SemiAccurate has been telling you for years now about the problems with the 10nm process, it was broken then, is broken now, and will be broken for far longer than Intel is admitting to. And they know it.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – SemiAccurate Says Intel 10nm Launch a PR Stunt

Dreams PS4 Exclusive Shows off Over Twenty Minutes of World Building Gameplay

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PS Underground has released a gameplay walkthrough for Media Molecule’s upcoming Dreams title. The walkthrough lasts for over twenty minutes and it includes commentary by Mark Healey, Creative Director for Dreams to help explain elements of the demonstration as it progresses.

To give you an idea of Dreams, it finds players taking control of an Imp that can interact with the world by manipulating it or creating new items and characters. This is achieved by taking control…

Dreams PS4 Exclusive Shows off Over Twenty Minutes of World Building Gameplay

Source: PS4 News – Dreams PS4 Exclusive Shows off Over Twenty Minutes of World Building Gameplay

Zero Dawn Was Beyond Boring At First, Playtesters Said; Initially Larger Than WoW, Skyrim…

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Horizon Zero Dawn has been an amazing success ever since its launch, but publisher Sony actually had its doubts about the game.

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Source: PS4 News – Zero Dawn Was Beyond Boring At First, Playtesters Said; Initially Larger Than WoW, Skyrim…

What is Fallout 76? Bethesda’s pre-E3 tease has few answers

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Another Fallout game needs your help. I’ll mark it on your map.

Since yesterday morning, Bethesda has been drawing over 100,000 Twitch viewers to a static “Please Stand By” screen with a Fallout Pip-Boy in the foreground. Today, those patient fans were rewarded with a rather cryptic, gameplay-free trailer for Fallout 76, the next game from Bethesda Game Studios.

Opening with a cover of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” the teaser slowly leads us through the interior of Vault 76, which we know from past games was built in the Virginia area. According to the in-game lore, Vault 76 is one of Vault-Tec’s “control vaults,” designed to be one of the first to open up to the outside world 20 years after the 2077 apocalypse. Judging by the dates in the trailer, that opening might have been delayed—there’s a Pip-Boy in a few shots that displays a date of “27 Oct 2102,” five years behind “schedule.”

Pip-Boys, Solo cups, and party hats. Must have been a wild night.

Pip-Boys, Solo cups, and party hats. Must have been a wild night. (credit: Bethesda)

Still, the teaser appears to show the someone gearing up for a red-letter day. The vault—which appears pristine and functional—is littered with the remains of a huge party, and the character appears to have set his or her alarm in order to get up early for “Reclamation Day,” which we assume is when the doors open and the vault’s inhabitants emerge to take back a world cleansed of Commies and rich with oil.

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Source: Ars Technica – What is Fallout 76? Bethesda’s pre-E3 tease has few answers

The egg cooker is the laziest way to make hardboiled eggs (and maybe the best)

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Hardboiled eggs are un-fuckup-able, they said. They’re so easy, they said. They were right, mostly, in what they said, but they were not accounting for me. I am not special, nor am I pretending that my inability to successfully hard-boil eggs is some sort of adorable quirk. I’m a mess, it’s not cute, and no one has…

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Source: LifeHacker – The egg cooker is the laziest way to make hardboiled eggs (and maybe the best)

Oculus Venues tries to cram the stadium experience into a VR headset

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For the past couple of years now, Oculus and parent-company Facebook have been really pushing the concept of social VR. Oculus debuted Parties, a built-in voice chat app, and Rooms, a virtual hangout space, back in 2016, while Facebook launched its o…

Source: Engadget – Oculus Venues tries to cram the stadium experience into a VR headset