ECS GLKD-HTI is a PC motherboard half the size of a mini-ITX

ECS has unveiled a new PC motherboard designed for small form-factor computers. Measuring 6.7″ x 3.3″, the new ECS GLKD-HTI is half the size of a mini-ITX board. It’s listed on the ECS website under the SoC (system-on-a-chip) categor…

ECS has unveiled a new PC motherboard designed for small form-factor computers. Measuring 6.7″ x 3.3″, the new ECS GLKD-HTI is half the size of a mini-ITX board. It’s listed on the ECS website under the SoC (system-on-a-chip) category, likely because the board is designed to work with an Intel Gemini Lake processor that is not user […]

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Trump knickt ein und sein Veto wird überstimmt

Da er sich viele Feinde auch unter Anhängern gemacht hätte, unterzeichnete er das Corona-Hilfspaket doch und sein Veto gegen den Verteidigungshaushalt wurde, wie erwartet, überstimmt

Da er sich viele Feinde auch unter Anhängern gemacht hätte, unterzeichnete er das Corona-Hilfspaket doch und sein Veto gegen den Verteidigungshaushalt wurde, wie erwartet, überstimmt

Amazon still hasn’t fixed its problem with bait-and-switch reviews

Amazon has done little to stop sellers from gaming its search algorithm.

Our $24 drone. You can see the missing propeller on the right.

Enlarge / Our $24 drone. You can see the missing propeller on the right. (credit: Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica)

Like thousands of other parents, I decided to get my kids a cheap drone for Christmas. I spent $24 for a plastic flying machine with rudimentary collision-avoidance capabilities. A plastic cage mostly kept small fingers away from the four propellers. The kids were delighted for the first couple of hours.

Then my five-year-old daughter somehow managed to get one of the propellers stuck in her hair. The drone was never the same after that. Instead of hovering in the air, it started veering crazily to one side and falling to the floor. A couple of hours later, I noticed that another propeller—not the one that had grabbed my daughter's hair—had fallen off entirely. Now when you toss it up it immediately flips over and plunges to the floor.

The kids enjoyed the drone so much in its few brief hours of functionality that I thought I might buy them another one. (Hopefully this one would avoid my daughter's hair.) If I did more research and spent a bit more money, I hoped I could find a higher-quality model that wouldn't fall apart after a few hours.

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Gesundheits-IT: Tut mal kurz weh

Röntgenbilder auf ungeschützten Servern und aus dem Internet erreichbare Praxen: Die Gesundheits-IT hat viele Sicherheitsprobleme. Ein Bericht von Moritz Tremmel (Telematik, API)

Röntgenbilder auf ungeschützten Servern und aus dem Internet erreichbare Praxen: Die Gesundheits-IT hat viele Sicherheitsprobleme. Ein Bericht von Moritz Tremmel (Telematik, API)