Google Photos’ free unlimited storage ends tomorrow — here’s what you need to know, including a few alternatives.
Source: Engadget – Google Photos’ free unlimited storage ends tomorrow
Monthly Archives: May 2021
Quic Gives the Internet's Data Transmission Foundation a Needed Speedup
One of the internet’s foundations just got an upgrade. From a report: Quic, a protocol for transmitting data between computers, improves speed and security on the internet and can replace Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, a standard that dates back to Ye Olde Internet of 1974. Last week, the Internet Engineering Task Force, which sets many standards for the global network, published Quic as a standard. Web browsers and online services have been testing the technology for years, but the IETF’s imprimatur is a sign the standard is mature enough to embrace fully.
It’s extremely hard to improve the internet at the fundamental level of data transmission. Countless devices, programs and services are built to use the earlier infrastructure, which has lasted decades. Quic has been in public development for nearly eight years since Google first announced Quic in 2013 as an experimental addition to its Chrome browser. But upgrades to the internet’s foundations are crucial to keep the world-spanning communication and commerce backbone humming. That’s why engineers spend so much effort on titanic transitions like Quic, HTTPS for secure website communications, post-quantum cryptography to protect data from future quantum computers, and IPv6 for accommodating vastly more devices on the internet.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Quic Gives the Internet’s Data Transmission Foundation a Needed Speedup
Remote Desktop with Linux: 5 Apps You Can Use
With more people working from home than ever before, having the right remote desktop access software has become very important.
Source: Linux Today – Remote Desktop with Linux: 5 Apps You Can Use
54 Brand New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your June Reading List
June is upon us, which means it’s time to fill your summer reading list with all the brand-new sci-fi and fantasy books you can stuff into a beach bag. Good thing we’ve got 54 titles to choose from, with time travelers, reluctant heroes, people who can talk to the dead, and carnival stories among the highlights.
Source: Gizmodo – 54 Brand New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Add to Your June Reading List
California's Drought Is So Bad, Farmers Are Ripping Up Almond Trees
Farmers in California are beginning to feel the heat. As the state plunges into a worsening drought, water deliveries have drastically fallen in much of California’s farmland. That’s forcing farmers to make tough decisions about the future of their operations. Some farmers are ripping up certain crops to plant less…
Source: Gizmodo – California’s Drought Is So Bad, Farmers Are Ripping Up Almond Trees
Intel And MediaTek Make Huge Push To Add 5G Connectivity To More Laptops
Earlier this morning, we brought you news about two new additions to Intel’s Tiger Lake-U family: the flagship Core i7-1195G7 and the Core i5-1155G7. But that isn’t the only big news happening in the laptop world from Intel. The company also announced the latest developments in its partnership with MediaTek and Fibocom to deliver 5G modems
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel And MediaTek Make Huge Push To Add 5G Connectivity To More Laptops
[$] eBPF seccomp() filters
The seccomp()
mechanism allows a process to load a BPF program to restrict its future use
of system calls; it is a simple but flexible sandboxing mechanism that is
widely used. Those filter programs, though, run on the “classic” BPF virtual
machine, rather than the extended BPF
(eBPF) machine used elsewhere in the
kernel. Moving seccomp() to eBPF has been an often-requested
change, but security concerns have prevented that from happening. The
latest attempt to enable eBPF is this patch
set from YiFei Zhu; whether it will succeed where others have failed
remains to be seen.
Source: LWN.net – [$] eBPF seccomp() filters
NASA Budget Request Revives Science, Maintains Focus on Lunar Landing
NASA’s first budget request under the Biden administration seeks funding increases toward science, STEM education, and the environment while maintaining its commitment to a lunar landing in just three years.
Source: Gizmodo – NASA Budget Request Revives Science, Maintains Focus on Lunar Landing
This bag has lasted me nearly 20 years
How do you know if a bag is really going to stand the test of time? You don’t, and so you often have to take the maker’s claims of longevity at face value. This is why we felt it was important to take a look at a backpack that really has lasted beyond any reasonable expectation. Senior Editor Dan Cooper bought this The North Face backpack before he went to college. 17 years later, and it’s only now starting to show its age.
Source: Engadget – This bag has lasted me nearly 20 years
Super Cub Anime Is A Love Letter To Adolescent Freedom
Teenagers in many countries look forward to the day they get the freedom of their driver’s license, letting them explore their increasingly widening world. In rural and suburban Japan, where trains and busses may not be reliable or common, this freedom is given form in a moped, scooter, and motorbike license,…
Source: Kotaku – Super Cub Anime Is A Love Letter To Adolescent Freedom
Xiaomi 200W HyperCharge Tech Takes Your Phone Battery From Empty To 100% In 8 Minutes
It seems our smartphone batteries are always running out of juice before we want them to, and quite frankly, that might always be the case until a true battery breakthrough materializes and is adopted at mass scale. In the meantime, fast charging is our ticket to minimal downtime. And remarkably, Xiaomi has demonstrated a smartphone going
Source: Hot Hardware – Xiaomi 200W HyperCharge Tech Takes Your Phone Battery From Empty To 100% In 8 Minutes
Instant Pot Ultra cookers are 50 percent off at Amazon for Memorial Day
Instant Pot Ultra cookers are half price at Amazon as part of a Memorial Day sale.
Source: Engadget – Instant Pot Ultra cookers are 50 percent off at Amazon for Memorial Day
Save over $100 on this portable personal air conditioner
The EvaSMART 2 is a compact portable AC unit that doubles as an air purifier and humidifier.
Source: Engadget – Save over 0 on this portable personal air conditioner
Scientists Are Racing to Save These Sea Stars From Extinction
Since 2013, a disease exacerbated by overheating oceans has been decimating sea star populations, especially those of one particularly striking variety: sunflower sea stars. Over the course of three years, the illness killed off nearly 91% of the sunflower species’ global population. Now, scientists are fighting to…
Source: Gizmodo – Scientists Are Racing to Save These Sea Stars From Extinction
RIP Paul Soles, the Original Voice of Spider-Man
Peter Parker’s status as one of the most iconic superheroes of the western canon has meant that, as he web-slinged his way out of the comics medium and into alternate formats, many writers, actors, and voice artists have leant their interpretation as to who Spider-Man is. But now, one of the first to do so outside…
Source: Gizmodo – RIP Paul Soles, the Original Voice of Spider-Man
Two Point Hospital's Follow-Up Two Point Campus Accidentally Leaked By Microsoft
I think we’re now officially at the point where more games are announced by online store mishaps than by carefully cultivated PR campaigns. Today, Microsoft’s store revealed to the world that there’s to be a follow-up to Two Point Hospital called Two Point Campus, a comedy university management sim.
Source: Kotaku – Two Point Hospital’s Follow-Up Two Point Campus Accidentally Leaked By Microsoft
Get started with Kubernetes using chaos engineering
Kubernetes is turning 11, so I[he]#039[/he]ll be celebrating its birthday by giving you some open source tools that will help you cause chaos. Chaos engineering is part science, part planning, and part experiments. It[he]#039[/he]s the discipline of experimenting on a system to build confidence in the system[he]#039[/he]s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. Before I start passing out the gifts, in this introductory article, I will explain the basics of how chaos engineering works.
Source: LXer – Get started with Kubernetes using chaos engineering
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week
This week on 5 June marks 17 years since starting Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and also 13 years since the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 for advancing open-source/Linux benchmarking…
Source: Phoronix – Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old This Week
Intel Continues Apple M1 Assault Claiming Its PC Platforms Crush All Macs In Gaming
Now that Apple has broken up with Intel as part of a two-year transition plan to move away from x86 Core processor in favor of ts own Arm-based silicon, its former partner is free to speak its mind, and boy does Intel have some things to say. Intel did not hold back at Computex 2021, saying systems based on its CPUs deliver a “better gaming
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Continues Apple M1 Assault Claiming Its PC Platforms Crush All Macs In Gaming
Sigma fp L hands-on: Tiny camera, big sensor, enormous compromises
Sigma has crammed a 61-megapixel full-frame sensor into the tiny fp L body, but that has meant some big compromises to handling and performance.
Source: Engadget – Sigma fp L hands-on: Tiny camera, big sensor, enormous compromises