Perhaps several generations from now, concerns over battery life will no longer exist as technology continues to evolve. As it stands now, however, battery life is certainly a concern for pretty much any powered device designed for mobility, and that includes smartphones like the recently introduced iPhone 15 series. And looking to the more
Source: Hot Hardware – Why Apple’s iPhone 17 Could Set The Standard For Smartphone Battery Life
Monthly Archives: November 2023
Intel Races To Catch Rivals as AI Boom Supercharges Chip Competition
U.S. chip group Intel is on track to deliver five upgrades to its advanced manufacturing process in four years, CEO Pat Gelsinger said on Tuesday as the company faces pressure to reassure PC and server-making clients that its technology will remain competitive. From a report: Speaking at Intel Innovation Day in Taipei, Gelsinger said the company’s most advanced chip design, the 18A, will move into the test production phase by the first quarter of 2024. “For 18A, we have many test wafers coming out at this moment,” the CEO said. “The invention phase of the 18A is now complete, and now we’re racing to production.”
This production node represents Intel’s big bet to reclaim semiconductor manufacturing leadership by 2025. The company also announced it will use this production technology to make chips for outside customers such as Ericsson, instead of using it only for its own products. Its two biggest rivals, Samsung of South Korea and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., are racing to put their own most advanced chips into production in 2025. These 2-nanometer chips are seen as being at a similar level as Intel’s 18A. Gelsinger said his company has been aggressively pursuing its “five nodes in four years” plan since he returned to the company in 2021. It usually takes at least two years for a chipmaker to move forward to a new production node.
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Source: Slashdot – Intel Races To Catch Rivals as AI Boom Supercharges Chip Competition
AI bots can do the grunt work of filling out job applications for you
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In July, software engineer Julian Joseph became the latest victim of the tech industry’s sweeping job cuts. Facing his second layoff in two years, he dreaded spending another couple months hunched over his laptop filling out repetitive job applications and blasting them into the void.
Joseph specializes in user interface automation and figured someone must have roboticized the unpleasant task of applying for jobs. Casting about online, he came upon a company called LazyApply. It offers an AI-powered service called Job GPT that promises to automatically apply to thousands of jobs “in a single click.” All he had to fill in was some basic information about his skills, experience, and desired position.
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Source: Ars Technica – AI bots can do the grunt work of filling out job applications for you
NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates Historic Martian Milestone Of 4000 Sols On Mars
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has spent an incredible 4,000 sols (Martian days) on the Red Planet since it first landed on the Martian surface in 2012. Curiosity completed its primary mission objective in 2014 and is still going strong.
Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August 5, 2012, and has remained busy ever since. At launch, the Curiosity
Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Curiosity Rover Celebrates Historic Martian Milestone Of 4000 Sols On Mars
Google's Latest Pixel Update Fixes Display And UI Issues, Touch Bugs And More
Google’s latest November Android 14 stable software update has dropped with seven welcomed fixes for Pixel devices. Read on to see what has changed and which phones are affected.
Even though there’s an expected major QPR (quarterly platform release) update in December, November’s Android 14 update comes with some nice fixes and tweaks to
Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Latest Pixel Update Fixes Display And UI Issues, Touch Bugs And More
Fedora 39 released
Fedora
39 has been released, one day after the Fedora project’s 20th
anniversary. See the list of
approved changes and this Fedora
Magazine article for more information.
As always, we’ve updated many, many other packages as we work to
bring you the best of everything the free and open source software
world has to offer. Fedora Linux 39 includes gcc 13.2, binutils
2.40, glibc 2.38, gdb 13.2, and rpm 4.19. It also has updates to
popular programming language stacks, including Python 3.12 and Rust
1.73.
Source: LWN.net – Fedora 39 released
Final trailer for The Marvels recalls past Avengers as a new threat looms
Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel takes on a new Kree villain named Dar-Benn in The Marvels.
For whatever reason—superhero fatigue, disappointing performances by Marvel’s last few films, the ongoing Hollywood strikes, or the general depressing state of the world—The Marvels doesn’t seem to have generated the same kind of palpable anticipation that preceded the franchise’s most successful releases. That’s despite a fun, promising trailer back in July. Directed by Nia DaCosta, the movie opens this weekend, and the studio has dropped one last trailer with nods to past Avengers in their battle against Thanos, perhaps to remind us all why we fell in love with the MCU to begin with.
(Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame below.)
As previously reported, Brie Larson and Iman Vellani reprise their respective roles as Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel and Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel for the film, along with Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, daughter of Carol/Captain Marvel’s BFF Maria. Monica grew up to become a SWORD agent, but thanks to the events of WandaVision, she can also absorb and manipulate energy as Spectrum. As for Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, she’s a teenage Pakistani American who lives in Jersey City. She’s a major comic books fan, worships Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, and fantasized about becoming a superhero someday. Her powers stem from the Terrigen Mists, released globally in a crossover storyline, the “Inhumanity.” The mists activated dormant Inhuman cells in several people, Kamala included.
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Source: Ars Technica – Final trailer for The Marvels recalls past Avengers as a new threat looms
The 11 Biggest (But Not Always Best) Moments From 20 Years Of Call Of Duty
This year, the Call of Duty series turns 20. Few video game franchises are as popular or successful as Activision’s yearly war shooter series. Even if you don’t like the games or stopped playing them years ago, millions of people around the world continue to buy and play each new entry—and it’s not just because of its…
Source: Kotaku – The 11 Biggest (But Not Always Best) Moments From 20 Years Of Call Of Duty
Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
While delayed by several weeks compared to their initial release goals, today marks the availability of Fedora 39 as a wonderful upgrade to this popular Linux distribution…
Source: Phoronix – Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers
Kubescape 3.0 Elevates Open-Source Kubernetes Security
Targeted at the DevSecOps practitioner or platform engineer, Kubescape, the open-source Kubernetes security platform, has reached version 3.0.
The post Kubescape 3.0 Elevates Open-Source Kubernetes Security appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Kubescape 3.0 Elevates Open-Source Kubernetes Security
The best retro gaming gifts for the 2023 holidays
The stream of new video games seemingly never ends but, for some of us, nothing beats the classics. If you don’t feel like hunting through eBay and local game shops for old cartridges to add to your loved one’s collection, we’ve got some other gift ideas for the nostalgic gamer in your life — from video upscalers for old consoles to retro-themed books and artwork.
Oregon Trail Card Game
Analogue Pocket
Miyoo Mini+
8BitDo Retro Receiver for PS
RetroTink 5X-Pro
The 100 Greatest Retro Videogames
SEGA Genesis Mini 2
Nintendo Switch Online
8Bitdo Nintendo mechanical keyboard
Grid Studio artwork
Launchbox Premium
FAQs
Why do people buy retro games?
Because they’re fun! Or because video game companies have generally had a spotty record of preserving their own history — and (legally) saving art, even in a minuscule way, is important. Or because, deep down, collectors just want to stave off the ceaseless march of time and hang onto any way to relive their youth before it dissipates for good. Or because they’re jaded with modern game design and crave shorter, more distinct or altogether different experiences that aren’t being served by today’s market. Or because they want to flip the games they collect for a quick buck on eBay. Or because… well, you get the idea. — J.D.
Why is retro gaming so expensive?
To put it simply: supply and demand. Companies aren’t making old games and consoles any more, yet a growing number of gaming enthusiasts want them. And as retro game collecting has grown more popular, sellers have become more acutely aware of how high they can price their goods. Not every retro game costs an arm and a leg, however: Popular games from relatively recent consoles are usually more affordable than lesser-selling titles for older hardware, and you can still find a good bargain every now and then by digging through local yard sales, individual eBay sellers and the like. — J.D.
Are retro games a good investment?
It depends on how you define “good.” Is it a good idea to buy a bunch of old games in the hopes that their value will skyrocket and make you a tidy profit? No, there’s little rhyme or reason to determining exactly which games will shoot up in value and by how much. There are much safer ways to invest if all you care about are financial returns. Is it a good idea to drop a bunch of cash on 40-year-old video games if you have pressing financial responsibilities? Probably not! But hey, it’s your life. If collecting retro games makes you happy, and you can budget for them within reason, that’s a good thing. Have fun. — J.D.
What qualifies as a retro game?
There’s no set definition for when a video game becomes “retro.” Personally, I think of it as any game that’s at least 10 years old and was originally released on a console that’s two or more generations old (or, for PC games, during that generation). But many others would stretch the timeline back farther, and the growing advent of “live service” games has complicated things. For instance, Grand Theft Auto V was released in 2013, while World of Warcraft arrived in 2004 — are those “retro games” when millions of people still play them today? Maybe not. With games from the ‘90s or earlier, though, the distinction is clearer. — J.D.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/best-retro-gaming-gifts-2023-holidays-140016461.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – The best retro gaming gifts for the 2023 holidays
The Ars Technica staff guide to the mobile apps we can’t live without
Enlarge / Behold, a collection of apps we love. (credit: Oscar Wong / Getty Images)
Senior Reviews Editor Samuel Axon
Todoist basically runs my life—but that’s OK, because it’s a very well-designed app. There are a ton of to-do apps on the iPhone, but I went with this one because it’s very flexible.
For example, yeah, you can see a top-to-bottom to-do list like with many others, but you can view that same data as a Trello-like Kanban board, too.
I’ve also found that Todoist is better at understanding natural language settings for projects, times, and so on than a lot of other to-do apps, so, for example, I can type “Edit next article at 2 pm on Tuesday #ArsTechnica” to add a to-do within the Ars Technica project with a due time of 2 pm on the following Tuesday. A lot of to-do apps support that, but I feel Todoist does it best.
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Source: Ars Technica – The Ars Technica staff guide to the mobile apps we can’t live without
WeWork Files For Bankruptcy
Flexible office-space firm WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, listing over $18.6 billion of debts in a remarkable collapse for the once high-flying startup co-founded by Adam Neumann and bankrolled by SoftBank, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. From a report: The New York-based firm, which raised over $22 billion and was valued at $47 billion at its peak, has listed assets of over $15 billion in the petition it filed in a New Jersey federal court.
WeWork chief executive David Tolley said about 90% of the company’s lenders have agreed to convert their $3 billion of debt into equity. WeWork’s bankruptcy filing is limited to locations in the U.S. and Canada, it said. WeWork India has emerged as one of the strongest units in the WeWork franchise, and is largely insulated from the bankruptcy as majority of it is owned by Embassy Group. The India unit makes money and doesn’t need external capital to operate, the India head said in a statement today.
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Source: Slashdot – WeWork Files For Bankruptcy
How to Clear the Cache on Your iPhone
Your iPhone does a pretty good job of managing memory and RAM on its own. It’s so good, in fact, that you don’t need to quit running apps (unless the act of flipping apps is your way of relaxing). But there’s one place where unnecessary junk and cache does build up—and it can potentially slow down your phone and your…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Clear the Cache on Your iPhone
TCL's 85-Inch TV And 5.1 Soundbar Bundle For $1069 Is A Steal And More Early BF Deals
Generally speaking, the two best times of the year to buy a TV are the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, which is still a few months out, and right now when retailers trip over themselves shoving Black Friday bargains out the door. Driving home this point, TCL is serving up some excellent deals on big screen televisions ahead of the actual
Source: Hot Hardware – TCL’s 85-Inch TV And 5.1 Soundbar Bundle For 69 Is A Steal And More Early BF Deals
Canonical Brings Intel TDX Tech Preview To Ubuntu 23.10
Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle dubbed the “Moble Numbat”, Canonical is making a technology preview of Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) available for Ubuntu 23.10…
Source: Phoronix – Canonical Brings Intel TDX Tech Preview To Ubuntu 23.10
You'll Have to Learn New Names for These American Birds
The American Ornithological Society announced this week that, next year, North American birds named for people will no longer be, as the society seeks to instead name the birds for themselves—and remove any negative human connotations from the domain of avifauna.
Source: Gizmodo – You’ll Have to Learn New Names for These American Birds
These DIY Room Dividers Can Help Break Up Your Open Floor Plan
If your open floor plan is a little too open, or if you want to carve out some defined space for focused use, room dividers can come in handy. Since most types of room dividers are much simpler and less expensive than a renovation, they’re a good solution for a tight budget. In addition, room dividers can often be…
Source: LifeHacker – These DIY Room Dividers Can Help Break Up Your Open Floor Plan
Install Debian 12 "Bookworm" Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
This beginner’s guide explains the steps to install Debian 12 “Bookworm”. The following process includes the step by step guide with screenshots and prepared to be followed by any user.
Source: LXer – Install Debian 12 “Bookworm” Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Daily Telescope: Pumping up the volume with the Headphones nebula
Enlarge / A view of the “Headphones” nebula. (credit: Bill McLaughlin)
Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light; a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’re going to take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.
Good morning. It is November 7, and today’s photo brings the “Headphones nebula” into brilliant clarity. The origin of this name seems rather obvious, no?
This is a planetary nebula, and I well remember studying these as an astronomy major decades ago. Why? Because the name is so damn confusing. Planetary nebula are formed when dying stars—including our own Sun one day—expand and form a glowing shell of ionized gas. They were given the name “planetary” nebula because, when first observed by astronomers about 250 years ago through rudimentary telescopes, they looked somewhat like planets.
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