Facebook’s Oversight Board has today made judgments on its first five cases, which were selected for consideration on December 1st. This includes rulings on hate speech, as well as the right of users to post images of breasts without falling foul of…
Source: Engadget – Facebook’s oversight board’s first judgments overturn four moderation decisions
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Robinhood Clients Say Platform Has Removed GameStop and AMC, and is Only Allowing Holders To Sell
Robinhood removed GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia from its trading platform on Thursday, leaving investors unable to buy the highly volatile stocks. From a report: The discount brokerage informed clients they can close out positions in the affected stocks but cannot purchase additional shares, according to numerous screenshots shared on Twitter. The move came before markets opened on Thursday. The stocks that were removed have all surged in recent trading sessions as day-traders united in Reddit forums like WallStreetBets frenetically buy the names to push their share prices higher. The phenomenon has already fueled massive losses for numerous hedge funds and caught the attention of regulators and the White House. Joshua Topolsky, a technology reporter and commentator, said: “Literally Robinhood just told the world that you can play until someone bigger than you doesn’t like the game anymore. Brand suicide.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Robinhood Clients Say Platform Has Removed GameStop and AMC, and is Only Allowing Holders To Sell
Updates From Spider-Man 3, The Suicide Squad, and More
Corey Hawkins has joined a very peculiar take on a Dracula adaptation. More of Thor: Love & Thunder’s cast makes their way to Australia. Get a new look at Netflix’s adaptation of the Grishaverse. Plus, what’s to come on Riverdale and Nancy Drew. To me, my spoilers!
Source: Gizmodo – Updates From Spider-Man 3, The Suicide Squad, and More
11 Recipes to Help You Clean Out Your Fridge
Until very recently, I lived in a small apartment with a European-made, European-sized fridge. I tried to like it. I wanted to be the type of person who embraced the tiny fridge lifestyle, but my job (and maximalist personality) made that a little challenging. I have since moved into a house with a normal-sized…
Source: LifeHacker – 11 Recipes to Help You Clean Out Your Fridge
Tails 4.15 Anonymous OS Released with Tor Browser 10.0.9 and Thunderbird 78.6
The Tails project released today Tails 4.15 as a monthly maintenance release to the amnesic incognito live system based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system and used for anonymous communications.
Source: LXer – Tails 4.15 Anonymous OS Released with Tor Browser 10.0.9 and Thunderbird 78.6
New Cyberpunk Patch Fixes The Old Cyberpunk Patch
CD Projekt Red released a patch last week that inadvertently introduced a new game breaking bug, preventing some players from finishing Cyberpunk 2077. Today it released a new patch to fix that issue, as well as address some recent problems with loot randomization.
Source: Kotaku – New Cyberpunk Patch Fixes The Old Cyberpunk Patch
Make an Affordable Home Theater Upgrade with Vizio’s $70 2.0-Channel Soundbar
Vizio 2.0-Channel Soundbar | $70 | Amazon, Best Buy
Source: Gizmodo – Make an Affordable Home Theater Upgrade with Vizio’s 2.0-Channel Soundbar
Get Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game – Complete Edition for $12 and Stuff
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game (Switch) | $12 | Ubisoft Store
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game (PC) | $12 | Ubisoft Store
Source: io9 – Get Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game – Complete Edition for and Stuff
Double Up on RAVPower 20W iPhone 12 Wall Chargers for Just $17
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Source: Gizmodo – Double Up on RAVPower 20W iPhone 12 Wall Chargers for Just
Get a $100 Xbox Gift Card for $90 and Put That Extra $10 Towards More Xbox Games
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Source: Kotaku – Get a 0 Xbox Gift Card for and Put That Extra Towards More Xbox Games
The best Pixel 4a 5G accessories
Google turned out three new phones this past year, and we were particularly fond of the $459 Pixel 4a 5G. It has nearly all the same features as the budget-friendly Pixel 4a, but packs in a bigger screen, a second wide-angle camera and a 5G radio, ma…
Source: Engadget – The best Pixel 4a 5G accessories
Spotify gives NYU students the chance to learn how to podcast like a pro
There’s no doubt podcasts are having a moment. They have been for a while, and it started before we were all stuck at home. Music services, production companies and more are betting big on the format, by either snapping up platforms and high-profile…
Source: Engadget – Spotify gives NYU students the chance to learn how to podcast like a pro
Corsair Launches MP600 CORE and MP600 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSDs
Corsair is launching a new round of PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSDs based on the latest reference designs from Phison plus Corsair’s own heatsink designs. Starting off, the Corsair MP600 CORE is their first PCIe 4.0 SSD with QLC NAND flash memory. This uses the older Phison E16 controller so peak performance only pushes a little bit beyond what would be possible with PCIe 3.0, but it’s still a step up from the Corsair MP400.
| Corsair MP600 CORE Specifications | |||||
| Capacity | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB | ||
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 PCIe 3 x4 | ||||
| Controller | Phison E16 | ||||
| NAND Flash | 3D QLC | ||||
| DRAM | 1 GB | 2 GB | |||
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 4700 | 4950 | |||
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 1950 | 3700 | 3950 | ||
| Random Read IOPS (4kB) | 200k | 380k | 630k | ||
| Random Write IOPS (4kB) | 480k | 580k | |||
| Power Consumption | Read | 5.6 W | 6.3 W | 6.0 W | |
| Write | 5.7 W | 6.8 W | 7.4 W | ||
| Warranty | 5 years | ||||
| Write Endurance | 200 TB 0.1 DWPD |
400 TB 0.1 DWPD |
800 TB 0.1 DWPD |
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| MSRP | $154.99 (15¢/GB) |
$309.99 (15¢/GB) |
$644.99 (16¢/GB) |
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We have a sample of the 2TB MP600 CORE in hand, waiting for its turn to run through our new SSD test suite.
Next is Corsair’s new top of the line SSD, the MP600 PRO based on the Phison E18 controller and TLC NAND flash memory. The MP600 PRO takes over the top spot from the original MP600, Corsair’s Phison E16 + TLC product that launched in 2019 alongside the first AMD Ryzen CPUs to support PCIe 4.0. The new MP600 PRO will be available with either the standard aluminum heatsink, or with a water block in a variant sold as the MP600 PRO Hydro X.
We don’t have full specs for the MP600 PRO yet, but performance should be basically the same as other Phison E18 drives using 96L TLC, meaning peak sequential transfer rates around 7 GB/s for both reads and writes. The MP600 PRO will be available with capacities up to 2TB. Since Corsair isn’t ready with review samples of the MP600 PRO quite yet, we expect retail availability will be a bit later than for the MP600 CORE.
Source: AnandTech – Corsair Launches MP600 CORE and MP600 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSDs
Navistar, GM, OneH2 Combine Forces For Long-Haul Hydrogen-Electric Trucks
Thelasko shares a report from CNET: Navistar, the company formerly known as International Harvester, announced on Wednesday that it’s partnering with GM and OneH2 for a “complete solution for customer implementation of a zero-emission long-haul system,” which is a fancy way of saying an entire ecosystem devoted to electric trucking. The group will work together on the trucks themselves, in addition to the ancillary stuff required to keep them operating.
It starts with the trucks, which in this case will be International RH Series hydrogen fuel-cell electric trucks. Each RH Series semi will get two GM Hydrotec fuel cell power cubes, each of which contains more than 300 hydrogen fuel cells in addition to the management systems that run the whole show. Navistar plans to have these trucks ready for commercial purchase in the 2024 model year, with test models operating in a pilot phase by the end of 2022. The hope is that these trucks will pack a range of 500 miles or more with a fueling time of less than 15 minutes and Navistar hopes that its propulsion system will sport a per-mile cost similar to diesel.
When it comes to the fuel itself, that’s where OneH2 comes into play. Navistar will rely on the company for the production, storage and safe delivery of the compressed hydrogen required to power the trucks. To deepen the partnership, Navistar announced that it will purchase a minority stake in OneH2, as well. OneH2 doesn’t just deal in gas-station-style fill up locations; the company has a mobile fueling solution, too, which should help in the early stages as the US’ hydrogen fuel infrastructure is still very much in its infancy. […] Navistar has chosen J.B. Hunt Transport to be in charge of its vehicles during the pilot program. J.B. Hunt, a name you’ve likely seen on the highway, will put Navistar’s GM-powered International models on dedicated routes to see how these vehicles perform in place of traditional diesel-powered semi trucks.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Navistar, GM, OneH2 Combine Forces For Long-Haul Hydrogen-Electric Trucks
Save $30 on HyperX Cloud Alpha Headsets and Hear Not Just the Blips, but the Bloops Too
HyperX Cloud Alpha Pro | $70 | Best Buy
HyperX Cloud Alpha S | $100 | Best Buy
Source: Gizmodo – Save on HyperX Cloud Alpha Headsets and Hear Not Just the Blips, but the Bloops Too
Raspberry Pi engineers on the making of Raspberry Pi Pico | The MagPi 102
In the latest issue of The MagPi Magazine, on sale now, Gareth Halfacree asks what goes into making Raspberry Pi’s first in-house microcontroller and development board.
“It’s a flexible product and platform,” says Nick Francis, Senior Engineering Manager at Raspberry Pi, when discussing the work the Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) team put into designing RP2040, the microcontroller at the heart of Raspberry Pi Pico.
It would have been easy to have said, well, let’s do a purely educational microcontroller “quite low-level, quite limited performance,” he tells us. “But we’ve done the high-performance thing without forgetting about making it easy to use for beginners. To do that at this price point is really good.”
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Nick Francis, Senior Engineering Manager
“I think we’ve done a pretty good job,” agrees James Adams, Chief Operating Officer at Raspberry Pi. “We’ve obviously tossed around a lot of different ideas about what we could include along the way, and we’ve iterated quite a lot and got down to a good set of features.”
A board and chip
“The idea is it’s [Pico] a component in itself,” says James. “The intent was to expose as many of the I/O (input/output) pins for users as possible, and expose them in the DIP-like (Dual Inline Package) form factor, so you can use Raspberry Pi Pico as you might use an old 40-pin DIP chip. Now, Pico is 2.54 millimetres or 0.1 inch pitch wider than a ‘standard’ 40-pin DIP, so not exactly the same, but still very similar.
“After the first prototype, I changed the pins to be castellated so you can solder it down as a module, without needing to put any headers in. Which is, yes, another nod to using it as a component.”
Getting the price right
“One of the things that we’re very excited about is the price,” says James. “We’re able to make these available cheap as chips – for less than the price of a cup of coffee.”
“It’s extremely low-cost,” Nick agrees. “One of the driving requirements right at the start was to build a very low-cost chip, but which also had good performance. Typically, you’d expect a microcontroller with this specification to be more expensive, or one at this price to have a lower specification. We tried to push the performance and keep the cost down.”
“We’re able to make these available cheap as chips.”
James Adams
Raspberry Pi Pico also fits nicely into the Raspberry Pi ecosystem: “Most people are doing a lot of the software development for this, the SDK (software development kit) and all the rest of it, on Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 400,” James explains. “That’s our primary platform of choice. Of course, we’ll make it work on everything else as well. I would hope that it will be as easy to use as any other microcontroller platform out there.”
Eben Upton on RP2040
“RP2040 is an exciting development for Raspberry Pi because it’s Raspberry Pi people making silicon,” says Eben Upton, CEO and co-founder of Raspberry Pi. “I don’t think other people bring their A-game to making microcontrollers; this team really brought its A-game. I think it’s just beautiful.
“What does Raspberry Pi do? Well, we make products which are high performance, which are cost-effective, and which are implemented with insanely high levels of engineering attention to detail – and this is that. This is that ethos, in the microcontroller space. And that couldn’t have been done with anyone else’s silicon.”
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LLVM 12.0-RC1 Available For Testing This Latest Open-Source Compiler
Following the LLVM 12 code branching earlier this week, the first release candidate of the forthcoming LLVM 12.0 is now available for testing…
Source: Phoronix – LLVM 12.0-RC1 Available For Testing This Latest Open-Source Compiler
NPU-equipped Rockchip RV1109 debuts on dev boards and cameras
JWIPC unveiled three “R19x” SBCs that run Linux on Rockchip’s dual -A7, 1.2-TOPS NPU equipped RV1109 camera SoC. Meanwhile, Firefly released two “CAM-C11x” cameras based on the RV1109 and similar quad-core, 2.0-TOPS RV1126. Shenzhen-based JWIPC, which we last covered back in 2014 with its Intel Bay Trail based S015 Dual System signage player, has posted […]
Source: LXer – NPU-equipped Rockchip RV1109 debuts on dev boards and cameras
Jeanette Maus, Actor For Resident Evil Village, Dies At 39
Jeanette Maus, who lent her talents to Resident Evil Village, died this weekend. She was 39.
Source: Kotaku – Jeanette Maus, Actor For Resident Evil Village, Dies At 39
The Morning After: Tesla revamped the Model S and Model X
Tesla notched its first full year of profitability and said it delivered nearly 500,000 cars, but right now, I’m going to talk about that steering wheel. As previously seen on prototypes for the Cybertruck and Roadster, Tesla is rolling out a “steeri…
Source: Engadget – The Morning After: Tesla revamped the Model S and Model X