In recent years, the Amazon Kindle has only seen minor updates, getting advances like sharper E Ink screens and a welcome switch to USB-C charging ports, but today Amazon announced a major upgrade in the new Kindle Scribe, which turns the e-reader into an e-note device with an included stylus that never needs charging.
Source: Gizmodo – The Kindle Scribe Lets You Add Hand-Written Sticky Notes to Your eBooks
NZXT is gearing up for Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs with a new N7 Z790 motherboard that is dressed to the nines. As the model name implies, the latest entry in NZXT’s small but growing motherboard lineup is based on Intel’s flagship Z790 chipset. And as we’ve seen from NZXT in past releases, the N7 Z790 comes with a choice in wardrobe,
Source: Hot Hardware – NZXT Unveils Immaculate N7 Z790 Motherboard For 13th Gen Intel Raptor Lake CPUs
The Intel Innovation 2022 keynote address officially introduced the company’s 13th Generation Raptor Lake processors, but the conference is still in full swing. Following the address, we were privy to a demonstration of the Core i9-13900K’s productivity prowess running a variety of concurrent workloads. Intel showed us how the new flagship
Source: Hot Hardware – Hands-On Gaming And Megatasking With Intel’s Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K
Nearly 15 years after introducing the first Kindle, Amazon is finally adding a stylus to one of its e-readers. At its fall hardware event, the company introduced the Kindle Scribe. The device features a 10.2-inch, 300ppi display with an adjustable front light and a stylus that magnetically attaches to it. According to Amazon, you don’t need to charge or sync the Scribe’s stylus, and you can use it for jotting down notes, journaling and making annotations in books you’re reading. Starting next year, it will also be possible to send Microsoft Word documents to Kindle Scribe.
Kindle Scribe will start at $339 when it arrives later this year. In addition to different storage options, Amazon will let you choose between a “basic” and “premium” pen. The latter includes a customizable shortcut button and a dedicated eraser on the top. In the US, the e-reader will come with a complimentary four-month trial to Kindle Unlimited.
Follow all of the news from Amazon’s event right here!
Source: Engadget – Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is a 9 e-reader you can write on
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The Galaxy S23 is probably five months away, but we now have some idea of what it will look like. The ever-reliable OnLeaks has a new set of renders for the device. These are usually based on the CAD files released to case and accessory manufacturers, so while some small details like the placement of logos might be off, the major components should be correct.
OnLeaks has a render of the base model S23, and the big news is that it’s doing away with the camera bump. The S21 and S22 had a large raised block growing out of the corner, but this S23 render shows only three naked camera lenses popping out of the back. This design change would bring the base model (and presumably “Plus” model) phones in line with the S22 Ultra, which has a similar lens-only camera protrusion. The S22 Ultra’s individual camera lenses looked great in person, but like any corner camera setup, the bump makes the phone unstable if it’s lying on a flat surface.
The report has the phone at “roughly” 146.3×70.8×7.6 mm with a 6.1-inch display. It should come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, 120 Hz display, and hopefully an upgrade for the tiny 3700 mAh battery the S22 shipped with this year.
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Source: Ars Technica – Early renders show the Galaxy S23 ditching the camera bump
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 is here three months after Plasma Mobile Gear 22.06. Learn about the new release here.
The post Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 Is Out for Your Phone and Tablet appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 Is Out for Your Phone and Tablet
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Developers of the open source Matrix messenger protocol are releasing an update on Thursday to fix critical end-to-end encryption vulnerabilities that subvert the confidentiality and authentication guarantees that have been key to the platform’s meteoric rise.
Matrix is a sprawling ecosystem of open source and proprietary chat and collaboration clients and servers that are fully interoperable. The best-known app in this family is Element, a chat client for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, but there’s a dizzying array of other members as well.
Matrix roughly aims to do for real-time communication what the SMTP standard does for email, which is to provide a federated protocol allowing user clients connected to different servers to exchange messages with each other. Unlike SMTP, however, Matrix offers robust end-to-end encryption, or E2EE, designed to ensure that messages can’t be spoofed and that only the senders and receivers of messages can read the contents.
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Source: Ars Technica – Serious vulnerabilities in Matrix’s end-to-end encryption are being patched
This week’s Andor picks up on Cassian (Diego Luna) and Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård) getting out of dodge and leaving Ferrix behind for now. The Tony Gilroy showrun Star Wars Universe series picks up speed in “Aldhani”, which continues to set up the brewing rebellion in a thrilling episode directed by Susanna White.
Source: Gizmodo – On Andor, the Rebellion Is Slowly Rising
The stories we tell ourselves become the histories we live. What stories are we telling ourselves about women?
Source: Gizmodo – Want More Women in Tech? Read Better Sci-Fi
Instagram is going through an identity crisis. Should it be more like TikTok? More like Facebook? It hasn’t been itself for years now, and in the process, it’s annoying the hell out of everyone.
Source: LifeHacker – Use This App to Block Ads and Reels From Instagram
Ubisoft faces another massive delay. Earlier this year it was Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Now it’s Skull and Bones, the Assassin’s Creed publisher’s only major fall blockbuster. Previously set to come out in November, two sources familiar with the game’s development now tell Kotaku it’s been delayed again. Ubisoft…
Source: Kotaku – Ubisoft’s Big 2022 Pirate Blockbuster Delayed Yet Again
The second day of the Intel Innovation event in San Jose featured Intel CTO Greg Lavender talking up the greatness of open standards, open-source, and their wonderful oneAPI initiative. There were a few bits of oneAPI news as part of today’s keynote…
Source: Phoronix – Intel’s Codeplay Will Now Oversee The oneAPI Development Community
Unnecessary meetings are a $100 million mistake at big companies, according to a new survey that shows workers probably don’t need to be in nearly a third of the appointments they attend. From a report: The survey, conducted over the summer by Steven Rogelberg, a professor of organizational science, psychology and management at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, asked 632 employees across 20 industries to study their weekly calendars and gauge how much time they actually spent in meetings, what they got out of them and how they responded to invitations. Employees spend about 18 hours a week on average in meetings, and they only decline 14% of invites even though they’d prefer to back out of 31% of them. Reluctantly going to noncritical meetings wastes about $25,000 per employee annually, and projects out to $101 million a year for any organization with more than 5,000 employees.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Useless Meetings Waste Time and 0 Million a Year for Big Companies
Over the last year, Valve has been more forthcoming about plans for its biggest Steam sales, including by revealing the dates well ahead of time. The company says the cadence will change starting in 2023. It will replace the Lunar New Year sale (which debuted in 2016) with the spring sale, which will run from March 16th to 23rd.
Valve said a spring sale was a popular request from developers and publishers, many of whom believed that the Lunar New Year edition (which typically took place in late January or early February) ran too close to the December holiday sale. “It will allow us to create more space between our four major seasonal sales and provide more opportunities throughout the year for developers to expand and execute their discounting calendar,” Valve added in a blog post. “We think many publishers will still opt to discount games around the Lunar New Year holiday, using the custom discount tools. But we suspect customers will be better served by a little bit more time between the big Steam-wide seasonal sales.”
This makes sense, as the winter sale is arguably one of Steam’s two biggest events of the year, alongside the summer one. Spacing things out more could be helpful for developers and publishers (that said, there’s not much time between the autumn and winter editions). Moreover, this move will shorten what was a lengthy gap between the Lunar New Year and summer sales, which could be handy for those who receive a Steam Deck and don’t want to wait too long to pick up a ton of discounted games for it.
Meanwhile, Valve reiterated the dates for the next two major sales. The autumn edition will run from November 22nd to 29th, while the blockbuster winter sale will take place between December 22nd and January 5th.
Source: Engadget – Valve ditches Steam’s Lunar New Year sale in favor of a spring edition
System76’s Oryx Pro Linux laptop was just updated this summer and has now received another round of updated features. Learn more here.
The post System76’s Oryx Pro Linux Laptop Gets a 4K OLED Display, DDR5 RAM appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – System76’s Oryx Pro Linux Laptop Gets a 4K OLED Display, DDR5 RAM
Houseplants can be finicky. That’s because when they’re growing in a pot, they don’t get the same interaction with other species or the same type of soil as outdoor plants. Try as we might, we just can’t quite mimic the environment plants have outside. But there are some things we can do to ease the stress of the…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Transition Your Plants Indoors for Winter
With Hurricane Ian reaching Florida later today, NASA and SpaceX have wisely decided to postpone the launch of the Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.
Source: Gizmodo – Hurricane Ian Forces Delay of Next SpaceX Crewed Mission to ISS
There have been a fair number of complaints about Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder, but for the most part I’ve been having a blast. So it’s a major bummer that one of the main reasons to play right now appears bugged for the second week in a row. An upgrade that’s key to overcoming Destiny’s terrible crafting system…
Source: Kotaku – One Of The Biggest Reasons To Play Destiny 2 Right Now Is Bugged
You’ll soon have an alternative if the Monster Hunter games are feeling a bit stale. EA and Dynasty Warriors creator Omega Force have introducedWild Hearts, a feudal Japan-inspired twist on the beast slaying formula. You (and your friends, in co-op) take on giant creatures using not just the usual bows and swords, but gadgets you build on the spot. You can craft giant mines that explode when a monster draws near, or harpoons that hold these enemies in place.
Omega Force isn’t a stranger to the concept. It developed the monster-slaying Toukiden franchise in the 2010s. In that sense, the team is mainly refining an experience it has been developing for years.
Wild Hearts will arrive on February 17th, 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC (via Epic Games Store, Origin and Steam). You’ll learn more about the gameplay in an “extended” debut on October 5th. It’s too soon to say if the game will be derivative or a fresh take, but it could serve as a welcome fix for Monster Hunter fans who’ve exhausted the most recent titles and are looking for more.
Source: Engadget – ‘Wild Hearts’ is EA’s answer to Monster Hunter
