Nvidia’s GeForce Now will be limited to 1080p on Samsung and LG TVs — for now
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Samsung and LG have embraced cloud gaming this winter with support for Google Stadia and Nvidia’s GeForce Now in their television sets — but neither brand of TV will include Nvidia’s best quality streams for now. Nvidia cloud gaming boss Phil Eisler confirmed to The Verge that TVs will start at 1080p, and it sounds like the company’s 4K HDR streams will stay exclusive to the company’s own Nvidia Shield TV set-top through the first half of 2022.
But afterward, that may change — depending on your TV’s processor.
“The TVs use many different SOCs with different performance levels capable of decoding our streams at 60 FPS, so we’re focused on 1080p first,” Eisler explains. “We’ve rolled that out with LG first in December and with Samsung...
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
"Unprecedented numbers of kids getting infected"
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/health/texas-childrens-hospital-covid-surge/index.html
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Thank you @sdrose!
You can still get a one year subscription for $9.99
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California state law now requires grocery stores and other food suppliers to donate all edible food waste to a food bank or food rescue. 🍎🍌🍇🥦🥕🌽 This will reduce food waste and address food insecurity for millions of people. California leads again!
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") wrote:
The Calendex is my only significant modification to vanilla #bujo and it’s definitely a great one. Finally finished filling it out with birthdays and anniversaries and adding week lines.
The main downside is that it takes like an hour to set up nicely 😭
Nvidia announces RTX 3090 Ti with faster memory and performance
Nvidia is announcing a new flagship GPU today, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. While the wait continues for Nvidia’s Ampere successor, the RTX 3090 Ti is here to prove Nvidia can still squeeze more performance out of its existing 8nm GA102 chip.
Nvidia is only teasing the RTX 3090 Ti today, and it’s the familiar-looking triple-slot design we’ve seen on the RTX 3090. Both cards may look identical, but inside, the new RTX 3090 Ti will include 24GB of GDDR6X running at 21Gbps. That’s the same amount of VRAM as the RTX 3090 but with a nearly 7.7 percent faster memory clock, providing additional performance for 4K gaming and AI tasks.
Nvidia says the RTX 3090 Ti will also include 40 teraflops of GPU performance, around 11 percent...
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What Should I Do If I’ve Signed A Marriage Contract With The Elven Princess
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@LouisatheLast ("Louisa 🌈👭") wrote:
COVID and NFTs happening at the same time in history is just breaking my brain. How are we this bad at staying alive and making decisions, as a species
HP announces new Elitebooks with Ryzen Pro 6000 processors and 16:10 screens
HP’s new Elitebooks have AMD’s latest mobile processors. | Image: HP
HP has announced a redesign of its Elitebook 805 laptops, which will soon include AMD’s Ryzen Pro 6000 processors and screens with the taller-than-standard 16:10 aspect ratio appreciated by businesspeople who spend their days scrolling through documents. HP has also announced a new Elitebook 605 series, which comes equipped with more mundane processors and screens (though for IT departments buying dozens at a time, that’s probably not such a bad thing).
This year’s Elitebook 805 G9 laptops come in three variations: the 835, 845, and 865. The middle number refers to the laptop’s screen size: the 835 has a 13.3-inch screen, the 845 has a 14-inch screen, and the 865 has a 16-inch screen, which is a new option for the series. Specs-wise, the...
Nvidia announces 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti laptop GPUs, says they can control your CPU, too
Nvidia’s virtual CES 2022 keynote is underway, and the company’s just announced a new slate of gaming laptop chips there — including mobile versions of the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti that’ll appear in laptops starting at $1,499 and $2,499, respectively. They’ll be out February 1st from the typical array of partners including Alienware and Razer.
While the company isn’t sharing a lot of specs just yet — only that they’ll offer Ultra-spec 1440p gaming at 100 and 120 frames per second, respectively, and that the 3080 Ti is faster than a desktop Titan RTX — Nvidia has something up its sleeves that might make this latest slate a little different than previous laptop gens. The company claims its fourth-gen Max-Q platform comes...
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
These are all good points. For the record, managers can tell people these things today. They are not controversial, and you shouldn’t wait until you quit.
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@LBacaj ("Louie Bacaj") wrote:
I managed multiple engineering teams before quitting big tech.
Now that I quit, I can speak freely.
Here are 12 things your manager may not be telling you, but I know for a fact will help you. 👇
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Exclusive montage from forthcoming UK remake of #DontLookUp
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@gcouprie ("Geoffroy Couprie") wrote:
Apparently the answer to "how many crimes can I commit by messing with serde_json?" is "a lot" 😁
EVE Online Is Being Invaded By Doctor Who’s Daleks
Grating electronic voices screeching “EXTERMINATE!” are coming to the New Eden star cluster come January 13, when one of the longest-running science fiction MMOs meets the world’s longest-running science fiction television show. EVE Online’s “Interstellar Convergence” event will give clone pilots a chance to be…
Nvidia’s new $249 RTX 3050 GPU offers ray tracing and DLSS on a budget
Nvidia has a new budget GPU king, announced at CES 2022: the RTX 3050, which starts at $249 and undercuts the company’s previous entry-level RTX graphics card, the $329 RTX 3060, by a solid $80.
As with the other RTX GPUs, the RTX 3050 is built on Nvidia’s Ampere architecture and promises to offer the company’s most affordable entry to ray-traced gaming at 60fps (albeit at 1080p), along with 8GB of GDDR6 memory. The RTX 3050 also offers Nvidia’s third-generation Tensor cores to enable things like its AI-based DLSS upscaling, despite the lower price.
A new entry-level GPU from Nvidia... if you can find one
According to Matt Wuebbling, Nvidia’s VP of global GeForce marketing, 75 percent of customers are still using the...
Nvidia’s new G-Sync monitors let you switch between 1440p and 1080p
Nvidia is launching new G-Sync monitors that let you pick between 1440p and 1080p modes. While the majority of PC gamers still use 1080p (67 percent according to Steam), many are considering the upgrade to 1440p. Nvidia is hoping its new G-Sync monitors could ease the transition, particularly for those looking for an esports display.
These new 27-inch esports displays include up to 360Hz refresh rates, support for Nvidia’s Reflex Analyzer system latency tool, an esports vibrance mode that uses mini LED backlights to enhance the color profile of the panel, and a special 25-inch 1080p mode.
These monitors are really designed for competitive players who play titles like Valorant, CS:GO, Overwatch, or Rainbow Six Siege. All of these games...
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Thank you! A big @PostOpinions team effort with the amazing @ChrisRukan leading the way!
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@LeaLovesUSA ("Léa - Sanity is a valuable possession nowadays 💞") replied to a tweet by @AnnTelnaes:
@AnnTelnaes I just subscribed to the WAPO again because of this cartoon. I love Ann Telnaes!
AMD’s new Radeon Super Resolution software promises to bring AI super-sampling to almost any game
AMD has announced a new gaming software feature at CES 2022: Radeon Super Resolution, which promises to bring AI-powered supersampling improvements to almost any game, even if it hasn’t been specifically updated to support AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution.
According to AMD, Radeon Super Resolution (RSR) is built on the same algorithm as FidelityFX Super Resolution, but it’s integrated into AMD’s Adrenalin software suite as a driver-based feature, allowing it to work on a far wider range of games.
Once it rolls out, gamers will be able to simply enable RSR in Adrenalin, lower the resolution in their games, and get the boosted performance benefits from the new software. RSR works on any of AMD’s RDNA-based GPUs, and promises to offer...
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
We're #1! We're #1!
Wait... 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/us-global-record-more-than-1m-daily-covid-cases
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@GunnelsWarren ("Warren Gunnels") wrote:
Elon Musk became $32,600,000,000 richer TODAY and $279,000,000,000 richer during the pandemic, but the corporate media tells us inflation is soaring because some dude at Taco Bell got a 50 cent raise last week and a $1,400 check 10 months ago. Never lose your sense of outrage.
@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") wrote:
this is super cool, actually
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🦀 I am so excited for std::thread::scope in the @rustlang standard library! 🤩
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3151
Coming to a Rust version Soon™. ✨ (Probably.)
AT&T is giving away six months of Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service
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At its CES 2022 virtual keynote, Nvidia is announcing a partnership with AT&T to offer six months of GeForce Now cloud gaming service for free. New and existing AT&T customers with a 5G-capable device and qualifying plan can claim the promotion through the service provider, allowing them to stream free-to-play titles and supported PC games they already own on the go with the cloud gaming service.
This promotional offer is for Nvidia’s Priority tier of GeForce Now, not the new RTX 3080 one we recently enjoyed. The Priority tier normally costs $49.99 for a prepaid six-month period (or $9.99 monthly) and includes enough GPU power to add raytracing to some older games at 1080p resolution and at up to 60fps (though you won’t see that in...
Mass Effect Legendary Edition comes to Game Pass this week
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Game Pass is starting the new year off strong with the announcement that Mass Effect Legendary Edition will be among the first games to arrive on the service in January. The alien dating simulator cleverly disguised as an epic space opera trilogy arrives on Game Pass console and PC on January 6th. So if you’ve ever wondered what a Garrus Vakarian is and why people are so obsessed with wooing what looks like a rock-plated chicken lizard, now’s your chance.
Other titles coming to Game Pass in January include roguelike cave explorer_Spelunky 2_, the award-winning, time-warping Outer Wilds, and a preview of the four-person co-op shooter The Anacrusis.
Coming with the enthusiastic endorsement of The Verge’s Andrew Webster, Gorogoa, a...
AMD’s new Radeon 6000S series GPUs are here to beef up thin-and-light gaming laptops
AMD is going for a full overhaul of its laptop hardware at CES 2022, with a full slate of new discrete GPUs for laptops: a new line of RX 6000S models designed for beefing up graphics on thin-and-light gaming laptops and an expanded line of RX 6000M GPUs for more traditional gaming laptops.
The RX 6000S series of chips is kicking off with three new designs: the RX 6800S, the RX 6700S, and the RX 6600S. AMD says that the new GPUs will enable powerful gaming laptops that are 20 percent thinner and under 4.5 pounds in weight, with a goal of maximizing power efficiency.
The 6000M series is getting a pair of new entry-level chips — the RX 6500M and RX 6300M — and souped-up versions of some of its existing models, including the...
Anyway I upgraded to #aspnet 6 and now Azure Auth is broken again. FML.
Lenovo’s new smart clock swaps the Google Assistant for Alexa
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Lenovo has a new smart clock, and unlike its prior models, the updated Smart Clock Essential comes with Alexa instead of Google Assistant — basically making it an Echo Dot turned smart clock. Most of the major changes to the clock have to do with Lenovo passing the baton to Alexa, but there are still some smaller changes worth noting as well.
You can still set an alarm, timer, and reminders, as well as control your smart home with the device; any product that’s compatible with Alexa will also work with the Smart Clock Essential. Additionally, you can stream audio from Amazon Music and other streaming platforms, which the smart clock plays from its 3W speaker, a spec that remains unchanged from the previous model.
The fabric case that...
Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z-Series targets — you guessed it — Gen-Z
Lenovo’s newest ThinkPads are thin, light, and ready for the boardroom.
Lenovo is trying to make ThinkPads cool to the kids. The company has launched the ThinkPad Z-series, a thin and light ThinkPad line with funky colors, eco-friendly packaging, and a distinctly modern look.
“If you’re currently buying, especially in the business market, a consumer-look-and-feel design, this is the product you should look at,” Tom Butler, executive director of the ThinkPad portfolio, told The Verge. “We’re going to bring in all the elements of a robust business-class device, but it’s going to be in more of this consumer, progressive, modern design.”
There’s a 13-inch model (the Z13) and a 16-inch model (the Z16). Both include some of the most recognizable ThinkPad features: namely, the light-up logo and the tiny red...
Intel’s Mobileye announces new EyeQ Ultra system-on-a-chip for autonomous driving
Mobileye, the advanced driver assist and autonomous driving company owned by Intel, announced the latest version of its EyeQ system-on-a-chip (SoC), which it described as its most advanced system yet. The announcement was made at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The new chip, dubbed EyeQ Ultra, is the latest version of Mobileye’s SoC that’s been in production since 2004. The company says the chip will be capable of 176 trillion operations per second (TOPS), putting it in competition with Tesla and Nvidia in the race to produce high-performing computer chips to power autonomous vehicles.
The EyeQ Ultra won’t go into production until late 2023
The EyeQ Ultra won’t go into production until late 2023 and is not expected to...
Alienware’s newest monitor features a 34-inch curved OLED from Samsung
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Alienware has an exciting new gaming monitor that’ll release in late March 2022. It has plenty of specs that gamers care about, but I’d be remiss not to mention any closer to the top of this post that it features a 34-inch Quantum Dot OLED panel manufactured by Samsung. LG Display has traditionally been the supplier of larger OLED panels (especially in TVs), so hopefully, Alienware’s gaming monitor is the first of many more big OLEDs to come out of Samsung, which has usually stuck with the smaller OLEDs found in tablets and phones.
The QD-OLED monitor, as it’s called, seems like a great PC gaming companion, marrying the immersion of a curved display with the unbeatable colors and fast response time that only an OLED can produce. The...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
added a GUI notification cat timer to my bashrc
timer() { sleep "$1"; notify-send "$2" "$(echo "$@" | cut -d' ' -f 3-)"; };
⟩ timer 15m Cat Let her in &
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
And here's the entire piece! Be sure to scroll down to see each character, information and links-->
The insurrectionists’ roll call https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/ann-telnaes-jan-6-capitol-cartoon/?tid=ss_tw
@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:
The Black Jacobins is one of the greatest works of history and historical writing you will ever read.
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@tribunemagazine ("Tribune") wrote:
Socialist historian C. L. R. James was born 121 years ago today. His landmark text 'The Black Jacobins' remains the authority on Haiti's slave revolution, and one of the greatest radical histories of all time.
Xbox Game Pass Is Starting 2022 Off With A Killer Lineup
Xbox Game Pass is kicking off 2022 with a bang. Joining a pair of terrific puzzle games and a hotly anticipated Left 4 Dead-alike is a remastered compilation of all-time classic RPGs. Plus, one of the greatest games of all time (that’d be Outer Wilds) makes a return. Here’s everything coming to Xbox Game Pass over the…
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Those wacky spiders and their peculiarly elaborate reproductive schemes…
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/04/the-mystery-of-silkhenge/
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@The_Reach_Out ("Julie Fleming") wrote:
Thank you to @fakedansavage @ByMikeJones @cbrennansports @TVAshleigh @SRuhle @mcuban @JoyceWhiteVance and the many others (https://juliefleming.substack.com/p/coming-up-in-the-reach-out) who have shared their exercise and fitness routines with me.🏋️🏊🏑⚾️
#fitness #exercise #active
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owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
*Lives on the top floor of a two storey co-op building*
Ah, penthouse life.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Yep, signal-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland looks crisp.
Reblogged by Lyrilith@mastodon.art:
alsternerd@social.tchncs.de wrote:
Retrocomputing ist Industriestandard.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Good thing I only have one of each of these crusty things.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Other than Electron, Gtk2 programs also look blurry with non-fractional scaling. I guess because it's running through xwaylamd. Oh wait maybe that's the problem with Electron too.
@bylgja_babylons ("Bylgjan🐝") wrote:
This is nothing, I once seen Ross kick a disabled pigeon in the balls while shouting "marry me Hitler"
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@RossLeslieComic ("ʀᴏꜱꜱ ʟᴇꜱʟɪᴇ ᴄᴏᴍɪᴄ") wrote:
Massive queue at the tip. everybody getting rid of their shite Xmas presents. I'm just trying to get rid of this cyclist I hit.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Tragedy. I got a brand new bottle brush, and I can't use it because the science building's water is broken.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/04/what-good-is-a-lab-without-water/
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@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:
I feel like spending 5 years arguing with people who wanted to make npm decentralized and assuming that would be a good idea and finding out, over and over, that it wasn't, has trained me to look at crypto and just go "nope".
Sony announces the world’s first QD-OLED 4K TV, coming later this year
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Sony is setting some pretty grand expectations with its 2022 TV lineup — led by the introduction of the world’s first consumer QD-OLED TV. The company’s current and well-regarded OLED sets use panels from LG Display that are tuned with Sony’s own processing. But the new flagship Bravia XR A95K TV will include a QD-OLED (quantum dot organic light emitting diode) panel manufactured by none other than Samsung Display. It’ll come in 65-inch and 55-inch sizes, with both coming in at 4K resolution.
It was rumored that Samsung Electronics might announce a QD-OLED 4K TV at CES 2022, but that hasn’t panned out so far. So it’s Sony that gets the prime spotlight instead. Samsung Display has been developing QD-OLED for a number of years, and the...
Sony made a camera for its TVs that can scold you for sitting too close
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Here’s the so-called “weird Sony” gadget for CES 2022: the Bravia Cam is a new video camera that will come bundled with the company’s very fanciest TVs (like the new QD-OLED A95K) and sold as an optional add-on for the rest of the lineup. You’ll be able to make video calls with it, but Sony is cramming in way more functionality than the simple stuff. The question is really whether any of the Bravia Cam’s many tricks will actually work worth a damn in the real world.
First, and this is the part I’m instinctively most wary of, the Bravia Cam will allow you to control 2022 Sony TVs with gesture controls from the couch. Want to power your TV off with a close of your fist? Have at it. Or you can pause your content or adjust the volume by...
TCL announces 98-inch XL QLED TV, and you can buy it today
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Last year, TCL announced an “XL” TV series that aimed to offer very big 85-inch displays for prices below what you’d pay for a similarly enormous set from, say, Samsung or LG. And in the first week of 2022, the XL lineup is going even larger. Today TCL is introducing a new 98-inch 4K QLED TV that’s available for purchase immediately. The 98R754 is a Google TV-based set that offers features like 4K gaming at 120Hz.
As for the price, TCL is only saying that the latest XL model “starts at under $8,000.” So, that probably translates to $7,999. Even at that asking price, TCL claims the 98-inch QLED is “accessible” and honors the company’s “commitment to deliver powerful picture performance and big-screen immersion at an accessible price...
Sony is joining the Mini LED TV bandwagon in 2022
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Sony makes arguably the best OLED TVs that you can buy. They outperform LG’s own OLED sets in picture quality despite the fact that both companies use very similar panels from LG Display. That’s because Sony applies its own image processing to everything that you see on-screen. Even when the company adopts a new display technology, it leans on decades’ worth of TV hardware expertise to fine-tune everything.
And now that Sony’s got a good handle on OLED, it’s time for a new challenge: Mini LED. As part of its 2022 TV lineup, which also features one of the world’s very first QD-OLED TVs, Sony is introducing its first Mini LED LCD TVs. The Z9K series will offer 8K resolution in 75- and 85-inch screen sizes, while the X95K sticks to 4K with...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
For a second I thought I would go and add that, since Bandcamp is the good one.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Podcast this weekend: we'll be talking about the plague sweeping the world.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/04/time-for-another-ftb-podcast-this-weekend/
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Found out that you can follow people on Bandcamp, because I got a spam follow, but it seems like they forgot to add the corresponding block function.
Colonialism still influences the earth sciences today — and that’s a big problem for research
“Amber hunters” on a quest for a Jurassic Park-style discovery of dinosaur remains sift through mounds of the precious resin in Myanmar — a lucrative trade that captivates palaeontologists but also fuels a decades-long conflict in the far north. | Photo credit should read LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images
Colonialism is so entangled in earth sciences that its ugly legacy still influences research today. Scientists are struggling to undo the damage that colonization has had on their fields, which have been dominated mostly by white men from wealthy nations over the years.
The latest evidence is a study published last week that finds that 97 percent of fossil data in a major, global database comes from authors based in North America and Western Europe— indicating that scientists from western nations hold a global “monopoly over palaeontological knowledge production.” The authors say it’s a symptom of researchers from those nations “parachuting” into other countries and taking what they find away with them.
Once researchers return to their...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
*looks at mögel maps*
yeah we can build a bridge from ume to vaasa, easy peasy
Google’s latest Nest Hub display is nearly half off
Google’s latest Nest Hub is on sale today for just $59.99, its second-best price to date. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
If you were secretly hoping for a smart home display for Christmas but didn’t receive one, today you can treat yourself to one of the best for almost half its usual price. Right now, you can grab Google’s second-gen Nest Hub — our pick for one of the best smart displays — for its second-best price to date at B&H Photo, Best Buy, and Adorama. Typically $99.99, it’s currently on sale for $59.99, which is only $10 shy of its all-time low during Black Friday. As mentioned in our review, Google’s small second-gen smart display remains an excellent digital photo frame for displaying images from Google Photos, and it offers automatic and reliable sleep-tracking features. It’s also a better speaker than its predecessor and grants you access to...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
In some places the snow is so vast and smooth and featureless that my brain can't really orient itself.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
It's because they put land colour on the water, normal map.
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@maosbot ("Michael A Osborne") wrote:
The fact that you were not hospitalised in the first few weeks is unlikely to be of great comfort if you develop permanent disability
Schlage announces first Apple Home Key-compatible smart lock
The Schlage Encode Plus is the first Apple home key smart lock. | Image: Schlage
At CES 2022 this week, lock manufacturer Schlage announced it is launching the first lock in North America to support Apple’s Home Key. The Schlage Encode Plus Smart WiFi Deadbolt is an updated version of the popular Schlage Encode WiFi smart lock, adding an NFC chip for the Home Key function, as well as a Thread radio to support HomeKit over Thread.
Home Key, introduced with iOS 15, lets you store a digital door key in your Apple Wallet and lock and unlock your door by tapping your device on the lock, similar to how Apple Pay or Apple Transit works. The system uses the iPhone’s or Apple Watch’s NFC chip to authenticate a user.
The Schlage Encode Plus will be available in spring 2022 for $300 (that Plus moniker comes with a $50 price...
This week in audio: podcast ads gone wrong and the news you missed
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Hello and welcome to 2022. It remains winter, y’all. I haven’t seen the sun in seemingly weeks, but we’re pushing through, surviving on podcast news for warmth and cheeriness.
Now, let’s get to the news. There’s not a ton to discuss today, but I do have a new report that I’m excited to share with you all. Let’s start there.
EXCLUSIVE: Podcast ads gone wrong
This morning, I published a story on The Verge about the ongoing push to make programmatic advertising work in podcasting and the struggles podcasters are already experiencing. The idea behind the transition is to allow advertisers to easily and automatically bid on podcast ad inventory and have those ads targeted against specific audiences. This is why we’ve seen podcast platforms...
TCL jumps from cheap TVs to cheap laptops with the $349 Book 14 Go
TCL’s new laptop, the TCL Book 14 Go. | Image: TCL
TCL, which is perhaps best known for its lower-cost TVs, smartphones, and tablets, is expanding into laptops with the TCL Book 14 Go. The company is also targeting an affordable cost with this new laptop, pricing it at $349— though that budget price means it doesn’t have the most impressive specs.
The new Windows 11 laptop has a 14.1-inch display with a 1366 x 768 resolution and a 16:9 aspect ratio, and TCL is promising its 40Wh battery will last for 10 to 12 hours. It’s an ARM-based laptop with a Snapdragon 7c CPU, and it also has an Adreno 618 GPU. And the laptop can connect to LTE networks, so you can get on the internet while away from a Wi-Fi connection. It only has 128GB of onboard storage, though you can expand that with an SD...
TCL wants its latest budget tablets to be easy on the eyes
The TCL Nxtpaper 10S tablet reduces blue light by 10 percent. | Image by TCL
TCL introduced a lineup of new tablets at CES this year, which includes its latest iteration of the NxtPaper and budget-friendly Tab series.
The NxtPaper 10S offers a similar “paper-like” display and a focus on combatting eye strain as its eight-inch predecessor. But this isn’t electronic paper. It’s a 10.1-inch IPS display that TCL says reduces blue light by 50 percent and has an anti-glare finish. Unlike the previously released NxtPaper tablet, the 10S comes with a proprietary T Pen to jot down notes and boasts a bigger 8,000mAh battery. The NxtPaper 10S is set to go on sale for $249 in Europe and China next month.
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The budget-friendly TCL Tab 8 comes with 4G LTE connectivity.
TCL’s Tab 8 4G is...
TCL is bringing two new budget 5G phones to US carriers
TCL will debut a total of eight new phones globally in 2022, but it’s kicking the year off by introducing two models coming exclusively to the US: the TCL 30 XE 5G and TCL 30 V 5G. The 30 XE 5G offers a 6.52-inch 90Hz display and will be sold initially at T-Mobile with other carrier availability later in the year. The 30 V 5G will be exclusive to Verizon, with sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G connectivity. With these new devices, TCL looks to be playing to its strengths in the budget market.
The TCL 30 V 5G boasts a slightly bigger 6.67-inch 1080p display with a standard 60Hz refresh rate. It uses a Snapdragon 480 5G chipset with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The 30 V includes a 50-megapixel main rear camera and a 5-megapixel ultrawide,...
Version two of TCL’s wearable display glasses are lighter and less dorky-looking
NxtWear Air is a personal secondary display for your phone or laptop embedded in a pair of glasses frames. | Image: TCL
TCL is preparing to launch a second iteration of the wearable personal display it released in limited supply last year. Version two, called NxtWear Air, offers the same secondary-display-in-a-pair-of-glasses function as the original but has been made 30 percent lighter — down to 75g compared to 130g. TCL has made some adjustments for the style-conscious, too, tweaking the design to look more like a normal pair of sunglasses and less like something you’d be embarrassed to wear in public.
NxtWear Air, like its NxtWear G predecessor, offers two 1080p Micro OLEDs embedded in a pair of glasses frames that should give the wearer the effect of viewing a 140-inch screen from about 13 feet away. Its lenses are opaque, and the glasses don’t offer...
JBL’s latest portable speakers bring the light show
Today JBL is taking the wraps off three new portable speakers. The diminutive Pulse 5 and more powerful PartyBox Encore feature integrated light shows, while the BoomBox 3 tries to split the difference with a more stoic, bass-focused design.
The waterproof and dustproof (IP67) JBL Pulse 5 ($249.95/£219.99/€249) is a portable Bluetooth 5.3 speaker that fires 360-degree sound and lighting for up to 12 hours on rechargeable battery. The lights can be customized via the JBL Portable app and work without playing any sound at all. The speaker can also be combined with other JBL PartyBoost-enabled speakers for bigger sound and more dynamic lighting.
Image: JBL
JBL PartyBox Encore.
JBL bills the 100 watt PartyBox...
Cync is trying to build an affordable smart home ecosystem, and it might work
Cync’s line of smart home products now includes new bulb options, an outdoor camera, and a smart thermostat. | Image: GE Lighting
Cync, the brand born from C by GE, showed off a huge expansion of its smart lighting line at CES 2022 (yes, in person). Eleven new smart bulbs join its already comprehensive offerings. Plus, the company is expanding further into the smart home with a new outdoor camera and the release of its first smart thermostat, complete with room sensors.
Cync also shared its commitment to the new Matter smart home standard, telling The Verge that its color A19 bulb and light strip will be Matter-compatible via a firmware update when the standard launches in mid-2022.
Cync’s products — which include light switches, indoor and outdoor bulbs, smart plugs, an indoor camera, and a motion sensor — use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Mesh for connectivity. They don’t...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
I was fooled.
It's actually an HTML email, w3m just renders the table as text that nicely.
Here’s a home robot that actually looks useful: a self-driving shelf
Most home robots unveiled at CES tend to over-promise and under-deliver. Every year, we’re treated to staged demos of prototype “robot butlers” that always fail to materialize as real products. But two new bots created by a startup named Labrador Systems look like they’ll break this cycle. Why? Because the company has kept things simple — extremely simple — by building what are essentially self-driving shelves.
The Caddie and Retriever robots are designed to move stuff from A to B
Labrador’s robots, named Caddie and Retriever, are designed to help around the house by ferrying goods around. They’re both about the size of a side-table and come equipped with wheels and sensors that let them navigate your home. Owners will set a number of...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
CSN do not accept quote characters in messages to them, very Bobby Tables.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Also remembered how The Pirate Bay was deemed legal by Swedish courts, but after threats from the US, server halls were raided anyway.
@zilmer ("Priidu Zilmer") wrote:
Klandorfi kalle, BMX track
https://goo.gl/maps/CMpwkiCD7JHxkStSA
Garmin’s newest smartwatches aren’t limited to fitness buffs
The Garmin Vivomove Sport (left) and the Venu 2 Plus | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge
When you think of Garmin wearables, you’re probably thinking of its running smartwatches — durable and a little bulky, but with excellent GPS, detailed metrics, and long battery life. The company has made strides in recent years to expandbeyondits fitness niche, but it seems to have finally hit its stride at CES 2022 with the Venu 2 Plus and the entry-level Vivomove Sport.
It might seem a bit soon for a Venu 2 Plus, given that the Venu 2 just launched last April. However, the device fixes one of the more glaring omissions from the Venu 2: voice capabilities. The Venu 2 Plus adds both a speaker and microphone, meaning the smartwatch is now capable of taking and making calls directly from the wrist, as well as adding voice assistant...
14,000 Chinese Game Companies Have Gone Out Of Business Due To Regulation Freeze
China’s freeze on video game licenses continues. South China Morning Post notes that the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) has not released a list of newly approved titles since July 2021. Because of this, state-run newspaper _Securities Daily_reports, approximately 14,000 small game studios and…
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
I saw that in English they called it a swap meet, meet and swap disks with each other. Made me think about it. I didn't think of it as a distinct thing since it's just what people tend to do with all kinds of things whenever possible.
@Extrawurst ("Stephan D.") replied to a tweet by @Extrawurst:
Also fun to realize where the name “Mozilla” came from -> mosaic killer
Intel and AMD tease big CPU announcements for CES
AMD CEO Lisa Su. | Image: AMD
Ahead of their press conferences at this year’s truncated and part-virtual CES, AMD and Intel are teasing big CPU announcements for the show. AMD’s “product premiere” is due to take place at 10am ET today, while Intel has a “digital-first live experience” scheduled for slightly later at 1pm ET.
Intel’s CES tease is focused on one key spec, 5.5GHz, which is expected to be the maximum boost clock speed its upcoming CPU will be able to reach. That’s a 300MHz improvement over the company’s current flagship, the Core i9-12900K, which was announced late last year and can reach a top boost clock speed of 5.2GHz. VideoCardz reports that the new processor could be called the Core i9-12900KS, and may release in late Q1 2022.
12th Gen #IntelCore...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Also there's "piracy" taxes in many places including here so you might as well do that sharing that you're paying compensation for anyway.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Thinking of when we were kids and copying Amiga software on floppies, copying VHS tapes, cassette tapes, and how it wasn't called piracy, we were just borrowing and sharing.
Piracy feels like a jaywalking kind of word now.
In 2022, Justin Wong Gets To Relive Evo Moment 37
One of the most famous esports moments in history happened way back in 2004 at Evo. Two now legendary Street Fighter players, Justin Wong playing Chun-Li and Daigo Umehara as Ken, were duking it out. Just as it seemed Wong was going to take the round, Daigo, with one pixel of health, parried 15 hits and came back for…
Are we ready for the smart front door? Masonite thinks so
The world’s first residential smart door, the Masonite M-Pwr Smart Door, features integrated power and Wi-Fi, a Ring video doorbell, and a Yale smart door lock. | Image: Masonite
Door manufacturer Masonite is showcasing the first residential smart door at CES 2022, highlighting the home building industry’s shift toward embracing connected technology. The concept was announced earlier in 2021, but CES is the first chance most will have to see the door in action.
A collaboration between Masonite, Ring, and Yale, the M-Pwr Smart Door is the first residential exterior door to integrate power, lights, sensors, a video doorbell, and a smart lock into the door system.
Image: Masonite
The Masonite smart door features strategically situated motion-activated lighting alongside a Yale door lock and Ring video doorbell.
The door, a premium fiberglass model available in a variety of styles, colors,...
@teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:
Respect to @rainsepp for penning this - it takes guts to write about why things didn't work out.
He has a great team looking for new challenge, ping Rain directly.
❤️🙇🏼
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@rainsepp ("Rain Sepp") wrote:
We have a bit different news about askRobin: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/story-askrobin-rain-sepp
The way Microsoft supports C can only be described as a sabotage. I got tired of fighting problems like this, and rewritten another project in #Rust:
Ford says it will double production of electric F-150 Lightning to 150,000 trucks per year
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Ford says its planning to double production of its upcoming electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, to 150,000 vehicles per year by 2023. The news comes as the automaker prepares to start making and shipping its new EV in the first half of 2022.
Production of both the F-150 Lightning and F-150 Lightning Pro for commercial customers has entered its final pre-build stage this week at the company’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Deliveries of the first trucks are expected to start in the spring.
The number of electric F-150s Ford planned on making in its first few years of production has been a bit of a shifting target. At first, the company was only targeting 40,000 vehicles annually, eventually telling...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Kråkan kommer in i köket: Nu har de förbannat pl… *ser snöovädret utanför fönstret* men vafan
@33mhz ("SIMD Crawford") wrote:
Q. In Reiwa 7 (2025), ?????? will become legal
- Murder?
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@Kurachang_666 ("くら") wrote:
あと3年
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It's so great that after you've blocked someone, all the replies from people who are making the mistake of continuing to engage with them still show up in your mentions.
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@gchampeau ("Guillaume Champeau") wrote:
Officiel : @clever_cloudFR annonce l'arrivée de Steven Le Roux (@GwinizDu) au poste de CTO, et la nomination de @cedricbiron en tant que COO. 👏👏👏
https://www.clever-cloud.com/fr/blog/presse/2022/01/04/clever-cloud-nomme-steven-le-roux-cto-et-cedric-biron-coo/
@Extrawurst ("Stephan D.") wrote:
Did you know almost all modern browsers impersonate to be Mozilla in the user agent? 😂 TIL https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/