Monthly Archives: July 2018

Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks

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Apple has worked with cinema company Blackmagic on an external GPU based around an AMD Radeon Pro 580 graphics card with 8GB of DDR5 RAM. The Blackmagic eGPU features “an HDMI port, four USB 3.1s and three Thunderbolt 3s, the latter of which makes it unique among these peripherals,” reports TechCrunch. From the report: The company says the on-board cooling system operates pretty quietly, which should fit nicely alongside those new, quieter MacBook keyboards. Many developers will no doubt prefer to configure their own, but for those who want an easier solution for playing resource-intensive games or graphics rendering on with a MacBook, this is a fairly simple solution. The [$699] eGPU is available now through Apple’s retail channels.

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Source: Slashdot – Apple Partnered With Blackmagic On An External GPU For MacBooks

Why Did Porn Mysteriously Appear on a 'New' iPhone? 

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There’s something magical when it comes to porn. At least when it comes to porn popping up in the most unintended of places, like the web browser of your brand-new smartphone. Luckily you have me to help you figure out how they got there. Because I know you never tapped, clicked, or typed in anything that you wouldn’t…

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Source: LifeHacker – Why Did Porn Mysteriously Appear on a ‘New’ iPhone? 

Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal shows how Copper Age people ate on the run

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In his final days, the Iceman ate a hearty mountaineer’s diet of red deer, wild goat, and whole grain einkorn wheat—but he may also have accidentally eaten toxic ferns.

Even after being chewed up, swallowed, partially digested in Ötzi’s stomach, and then frozen in a glacier for 5,300 years, some bits of Ötzi’s last meal are still recognizable, at least under a microscope. Frank Maixner of the Eurac Research Institute for Mummy Studies and his colleagues saw compact bits of fatty tissue and bundles of muscle fibers, mixed with pollen from a genus of wheat called einkorn, which grows wild in the region but also includes some of the earliest domesticated wheat species. Mixed in with the partly-digested food bits, however, were spores from a fern called bracken, which is toxic to humans and other animals if not properly prepared.

Red meat and healthy whole grains

Chemically, the remnants of Ötzi’s partially digested meal contained a compound called phytanic acid, which is a hallmark of fat or dairy products from ruminants like cattle, deer, and goats. There were also minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium, sodium, and zinc, all of which are found in red meat and dairy products. And among the 167 different animal and plant proteins in the samples, Maixner and his colleagues found six that are specific to structures in the long contracting threads in ibex skeletal muscles—leg of wild goat, perhaps. Another protein in the mix is found only in deer muscles.

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Source: Ars Technica – Ötzi the Iceman’s last meal shows how Copper Age people ate on the run

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Exposed Confirming Redesigned Rear Chassis And Bluetooth S Pen

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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Exposed Confirming Redesigned Rear Chassis And Bluetooth S Pen
The supposed leaks related to Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 9 handset are piling up. Whether they are actual leaks or part of a controlled campaign by Samsung to drum up excitement and generate buzz is up for debate. Either way, several of them point to the Galaxy Note 9 having an S Pen with Bluetooth support, including a ‘leaked’ poster.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Exposed Confirming Redesigned Rear Chassis And Bluetooth S Pen

How to Make Your Mac Play Nice with Your Android Phone

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Getting iPhones to play nice with Windows can be a challenge, but so can getting Android to play nice with Macs—and it’s that second setup we’re going to tackle here. Read on to find out how to get all your apps working together and your files seamlessly synced between a Google-powered phone and an Apple-powered…

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Source: Gizmodo – How to Make Your Mac Play Nice with Your Android Phone

What to Focus on as You Learn to Squat

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Squatting seems so complicated when somebody is telling you all the things that can go wrong—knees behind toes! Butt farther down! Head up! But not too up! If you’re following our challenge, you’re probably doing a lot more squats than you ever have before, so let’s talk about how we’re doing them.

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Source: LifeHacker – What to Focus on as You Learn to Squat

A Black Panther Star Could Join Star Trek 4 or Godzilla vs. Kong

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Duncan Jones is heading to the world of comics for his next film. Joaquin Phoenix talks about the long road to his Joker origin movie. Capcom wants to bring Monster Hunter to the world of animation. Plus, a look at young Newt Scamander in The Crimes of Grindelwald, and Legends of Tomorrow heads to the ‘60s. Behold,…

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Source: Gizmodo – A Black Panther Star Could Join Star Trek 4 or Godzilla vs. Kong

Ransomware Technique Uses Your real Passwords to Trick You

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Those crafty internet thieves have come up with another way to get your money and it’s pretty clever. Scammers are sending email to people that tells them they know their password, displays said password, and then goes on to claim malware is on their computer. The email also claims they have accessed their webcam and know they were on a pr0n site watching video. After it lays all of this out it tells the recipient to send them some Bitcoin and they’ll keep the secret or else tell everyone on their contact list (that was stolen also) they are a pr0n freak. However, the passwords in question appear to be from an old list that was stolen in the past. Regardless, even though the passwords are old you know some people never change their password. Those are the folks that will probably pay up. Don’t be one of those people.



To be clear there is very little possibility that anyone has video of you cranking it unless, of course, you video yourself cranking it. Further, this is almost always a scam. That said, the fact that the hackers are able to supply your real passwords – most probably gleaned from the multiple corporate break-ins that have happened over the past few years – is a clever change to the traditional cyber-blackmail methodology.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Ransomware Technique Uses Your real Passwords to Trick You

More Mutter Performance Tuning Work Landing For GNOME 3.30

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GNOME 3.30 is looking like Mutter will be quite fit with the ability to remove its dependence on X11 code and various performance tuning optimizations. On top of already landed performance work in recent months, more optimizations have just landed and it looks like more could still be on the way…

Source: Phoronix – More Mutter Performance Tuning Work Landing For GNOME 3.30

The FCC Is Changing Up the Country's Emergency Alert System

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The FCC announced today that it’ll bolster the country’s Emergency Alert System to prevent unexpected false alarms, like the one that happened in Hawaii earlier this year. State and local officials will now be able to conduct “live code” tests that’ll use the same alert codes and processes that would be required in an actual emergency. The idea is that officials will better learn the system while the public will get used to responding to alerts and know what to expect. Everyone in the area will get a test message, like a real alert. The agency also says that public service announcements about the Emergency Alert System will now be able to use the same alert sounds as an actual emergency. (The alerts will include a disclaimer about what’s happening, and officials will have to actually tell people beforehand.) Finally, anyone who uses the emergency system will be required to tell the FCC if it accidentally triggers a false alert.

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Source: Slashdot – The FCC Is Changing Up the Country’s Emergency Alert System

Comma.ai's driver assist system is a robot chauffeur for the rest of us

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Autonomous vehicle technology is just starting to go mainstream, which means, for the most part, it’s still only available to those who can afford a Tesla with Autopilot or a Cadillac with SuperCruise. Both of those cars start at around 60 to 7…

Source: Engadget – Comma.ai’s driver assist system is a robot chauffeur for the rest of us

The ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac Motherboard Review: Mini-ITX with Thunderbolt 3

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There’s a lot of love for mini-ITX, and our next review is the ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac. This gaming-centric board offers users a number of features which make it highly competitive in the small-form-factor overclocking space at $180. Despite the small size, the board includes Thunderbolt 3, Intel-based Wi-Fi and LAN, USB 3.1 support, M.2 storage, and six SATA ports – a rarety on a small motherboard. If everything else goes right, it could be a good contender for a sharp build.



Source: AnandTech – The ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac Motherboard Review: Mini-ITX with Thunderbolt 3

Celebrate Bad Hacks on the DiWHY Subreddit

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Geek to live, we’ve always said at Lifehacker. Don’t live to geek. That means you shouldn’t let your “life hacking” get in the way of your actual life. And the DiWHY subreddit shows you why. These hacks should not exist. They’re more ugly, wasteful, useless, or time-consuming than whatever normal product or method…

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Source: LifeHacker – Celebrate Bad Hacks on the DiWHY Subreddit

Eight Critically Endangered Black Rhinos Are Dead After Botched Translocation [Updated]

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In news that is appalling even by the standards of 2018, multiple outlets are reporting that eight black rhinos are dead after an attempt to translocate them to a wildlife park in southern Kenya last month.

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Source: Gizmodo – Eight Critically Endangered Black Rhinos Are Dead After Botched Translocation [Updated]