Ending a Marvel movie is tricky. On the one hand, there has to be closure and growth for the story and characters at hand. On the other, there needs to be enough room to move forward to continue the overall franchise. Each film does its best to balance those two things, usually with post-credit scenes, and Chloé…
Source: Gizmodo – Marvel’s Eternals Once Had a Darker Ending, According to Chloé Zhao
A hard-to-kill, occasionally deadly fungus has once again popped up in a U.S. hospital. This week, Oregon health officials reported a hospital outbreak of the hardy fungus known as Candida auris. Though C. auris infections remain rare in the U.S., its presence seems to be growing, with these being the first ever…
Source: Gizmodo – Deadly Superbug Yeast Sickens Patients at Oregon Hospital
If you’re still using an older BlackBerry phone running BlackBerry OS, it’s time you upgrade devices. According to BlackBerry, it’s ending support for legacy services for BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry PlayBook OS on January 4, 2022. Liliputing reports: Among other things, that means that if you have a phone running BlackBerry 10 or BlackBerry 7.1 OS or earlier, then as of January 4, 2022 it will no longer reliably support: Phone calls; SMS; and 9-1-1 emergency calls. BlackBerry says WiFi and mobile data might also become unreliable, and applications including BlackBerry Link, BlackBerry Desktop Manager, BlackBerry World, BlackBerry Protect, BlackBerry Messenger, and BlackBerry Blend “will also have limited functionality.”
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is also reaching end-of-life status, which means that anyone hanging onto the 10-year-old tablet will also find it severely limited starting January 4th. But the fact that BlackBerry discontinued the tablet a year after launch suggests that there probably never were all that many PlayBook owners in the first place and that number has surely dwindled over the past decade. Folks who are still using a device with BlackBerry OS will want to check out the company’s FAQ for tips on migrating their data to other platforms while they still can.
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Source: Slashdot – BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022
Stand-up comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has invited his fair share of controversy over the past few years, but despite all that (or maybe because of it) he’s also managed to sit regularly across from some of the biggest names in science, entertainment, and politics. Possibly the two most dynamically opposed guests…
Source: Gizmodo – Watch Elon Musk Squirm Over His Taxes on ‘The Bernie Sanders Experience’
Do you let your browser store logins for websites like Twitter, Facebook, or HotHardware? Well, you probably shouldn’t. Not only does it let anyone who gets on your PC access your personal information, but it also opens you up to easy attacks from “info-stealer” malware.
South Korean cyber-security firm Ahnlab just put out a report warning
Source: Hot Hardware – Security Firm Warns Of RedLine Malware Plucking Passwords Saved In Your Browser
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC, written by Todd Haselton: Apple’s decision to ditch Intel paid off this year. The pivot allowed Apple to completely rethink the Mac, which had started to grow stale with an aging design and iterative annual upgrades. Following the divorce from Intel, Apple has launched far more exciting computers which, paired with an ongoing pandemic that has forced people to work and learn from home, have sent Apple’s Mac business soaring. It wasn’t always a given. When Apple announced its move away from Intel in 2020, it was fair to question just how well Apple could power laptops and desktop computers. Apple has used in-house chips for iPhones and iPads but had been selling Intel-powered computers for 15 years. It wasn’t clear how well its macOS desktop software would work with apps designed to run on Intel chips, or whether its processors would offer any consumer benefits and keep up with intensive tasks that people turned to MacBooks to run. Those fears were quickly quelled.
The first M1 Apple chip was launched in 2020 in a MacBook Air laptop. It was more powerful than Intel’s chip while offering longer battery life and enabling a fanless design, which helped keep Apple’s new MacBook Air even quieter. It proved to be an early success. In April 2021, CEO Tim Cook said during the company’s fiscal second-quarter earnings call that the M1 chip helped fuel the 70.1% growth in Apple’s Mac revenue, which hit $9.1 billion during that quarter. The growth continued in fiscal Q3, when Mac revenue was up 16% year over year. That quarter, it launched the all-new iMac, which offered a redesigned super-thin metal body that looks like a screen propped up on a stand. It’s slimmer than the Intel models that came before it, while offering other benefits, like a much better webcam, great speakers and a much sharper display than the models it replaced. And Apple made the launch more exciting by offering an array of colors for the iMac, which it hadn’t done since it shipped the 1999 iMac. There was a slowdown in fiscal Q4, when Mac revenue grew just 1.6%, as Apple, like all manufacturers, saw a slowdown from the burst of sales driven by the start of the pandemic and dealt with supply chain woes. But fiscal Q4 sales didn’t include revenue from its most exciting new computer of the year.
Apple’s fiscal Q1 earnings in January will give an indication of how well all its new computers are selling. But it’s clear the move from Intel has allowed Apple to move full speed ahead with its own chip development, much like it does for iPhones and iPads, the latter of which has yet to be matched by any other tablet on the market. It’s no longer beholden to delays that plagued Intel, which started to lag behind AMD with its new 7nm chips. And Apple has full control over its “stack,” which means it can design new computer hardware and software together, instead of letting the power of another company’s chips dictate what its computers can and can’t do.
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Source: Slashdot – Apple Ditched Intel, and It Paid Off
One of the straightforward hacks that developers can apply is caching servers like Memcached between app and database server with slight code modification. Learn how to install Memcached on OpenSUSE or SUSE Enterprise Linux server.
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Source: Linux Today – How to Install Memcached on OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux
When there are countless ride-hailing apps out there, there are only so many ways for newcomers to distinguish themselves from the Ubers and Lyfts of the world. Well, leave it to Alphabet’s self-driving car branch, Waymo, to do exactly that: on Wednesday, the company announced a new kind of ride-hailing vehicle…
Source: Gizmodo – Waymo Wants to Drive You Around Without A Steering Wheel
The most shocking moment in Halo Infinite isn’t about exploding a derelict ancient space station or accidentally awakening a once-slumbering threat. It’s a brief exchange between two main characters, one that reveals the extent to which Halo protagonist Master Chief would go to fulfill what he sees as his immovable…
Source: Kotaku – Halo Infinite Dev Dishes About The Game’s Most Shocking Moment
Enlarge / A SpaceX rocket ready for launch. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)
Elon Musk has hit back at criticism that his company’s Starlink satellites are hogging too much room in space, and has instead argued there could be room for “tens of billions” of spacecraft in orbits close to Earth.
“Space is just extremely enormous, and satellites are very tiny,” Musk said. “This is not some situation where we’re effectively blocking others in any way. We’ve not blocked anyone from doing anything, nor do we expect to.”
His comments, made in an interview with the Financial Times, came in response to a claim from Josef Aschbacher, head of the European Space Agency, that Musk was “making the rules” for the new commercial space economy. Speaking to the FT earlier this month, Aschbacher warned that Musk’s rush to launch thousands of communications satellites would leave fewer radio frequencies and orbital slots available for everyone else.
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Source: Ars Technica – Elon Musk rejects claims his satellites are squeezing out rivals in space
December still has a few days left, which means we still have a little bit more time to reminisce back on the year that was. In this case, Japanese publisher Nintendo released a punchy supercut of what are, apparently, the most popular smaller budget games on its portable platform.
Source: Kotaku – The Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch In 2021, According To Nintendo
The company that makes your iPhone is in trouble again. According to reports, Apple has put its long-running computer parts contractor, Foxconn, on probation, after a factory run by the notorious Taiwanese company accidentally made hundreds of its employees violently ill earlier this month.
Source: Gizmodo – Mass Food Poisoning Incident Leads Apple to Temporarily Shut Down iPhone Factory
Mattermost is a self-hosted and open-source online chat service designed to be used as an internal chat platform for companies and organizations.
Source: LXer – How to Install Mattermost on Debian 11
Kang the Conqueror is having something of a moment right now. Hot off the heels of helping to establish the multiversal concept that currently holds court in Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe in Loki—ahead of things to come in the next Ant-Man and the Wasp film—Nathaniel Richards is also the star of a new one-shot…
Source: Gizmodo – Kang’s Newest Challenge Might Bring a Surprising Comics Hero to the Marvel Universe
It’s no secret that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was an incredibly influential game. It spawned numerous copycats while shifting both our understanding and expectations of what open-world games can be. But what if you’ve scoured all the nooks and crannies of Hyrule and still want to explore something? Well,…
Source: Kotaku – 13 Games To Check Out If You Like Breath Of The Wild
Samsung device owners have been waiting with bated breath to get a revamped One UI operating system for their Galaxy devices. Based on Android 12, the first official One UI 4 updates had already begun to roll out when Samsung had to bring it to a halt. Finally, though, Samsung has resumed its rollout. Samsung One UI 4 features a completely
Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Is Rolling Out One UI 4 With Android 12 To These Galaxy Devices In The US
When the Webb Space Telescope successfully launched from Earth on Saturday, most everyone was just relieved that it didn’t blow up in the process. But now there’s even better news: The launch was precise enough that the spacecraft may have enough propellant to continue its scientific operations for longer than planned.
Source: Gizmodo – Webb Space Telescope Got a Lucky Boost From Its Christmas Launch
I’m not an accommodating video game critic. A game either sinks its hooks into me within the first hour, or I immediately bounce to something else. I’ve never had any patience for this “it gets good after ten hours” nonsense. A game either understands its own brilliance, or it doesn’t. And only titles that fearlessly…
Source: Kotaku – Sisi Jiang’s Top Ten Games of 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope should be able to remain in orbit for more than 10 years, thanks to a fuel-efficient launch on Christmas Day, according to NASA. From a report: The telescope was carried aboard the Arianespace Ariane 5. Despite two brief midcourse corrections, its launch used less propellant than initially expected. That will allow the $10 billion observatory “science operations in orbit for significantly more than a 10-year science lifetime,” the US space agency said in a release on Wednesday The first midcourse correction was a relatively minor, 65-minute post-launch burn, which bumped up the telescope’s speed by approximately 45 miles per hour. Another smaller correction on Dec. 27 added an additional 6.3 mph. That added boost also allowed the JWST’s solar array to unfold about a minute and a half after it separated from the Ariane 5, just 29 minutes after launch. The array was coded to automatically deploy either when the observatory reached a certain altitude or 33 minutes after launch, whichever came first.
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Source: Slashdot – James Webb Space Telescope’s Smooth Launch Extended Its Life Expectancy, NASA Says
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There’s been a steady stream of worries that artificial lights are steadily eroding our ability to see the stars. And a recent essay published in Science describes how artificial light affects the timing of events such as greening of plants in spring and autumn leaf-coloring. This is one of the many recent studies that demonstrate the direct or indirect impact of light pollution on plants and animals.
“People are getting aware that darkness is no [longer] darkness. This is one of the elements that is contributing especially to the decline in the species variety as well as the decline of biodiversity,” says Jacques Falcón, research emeritus at the French Scientific Research Centre (CNRS).
Now, thanks to a voluntary program in France, more communities are taking steps to limit light pollution.
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Source: Ars Technica – How ‘stars’ are helping the French keep the night sky dark
