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Yubico’s Security C NFC brings a USB-C security key at a lower price.
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Because of its power delivery, high transfer rates, and Thunderbolt capabilities, USB-C has become ubiquitous on modern devices. The European Union even wants to force the use of USB-C. So security keys that serve as a form of multi-factor authentication or passwordless login need to play well with the port. Hardware authentication company Yubico is addressing that need with an inexpensive security key that allows logins via USB-C—or with just a tap of the key to a PC or phone.
The Security C NFC costs five dollars more than the USB-A option ($29 versus $24). That's still cheaper than Google's Titan USB-C/Security Key, which is $35—if you can find it in stock.
No matter how you connect it to your PC, the Security Key NFC supports the FIDO U2F and FIDO2/WebAuthn authentication standards, which isn't surprising, as Yubico contributes to both. The key lets you log in to many well-known websites and apps, including Gmail, YouTube, Twitter, Dropbox, Office 365, and Xbox Live.
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Qualcomm is adding four new chips to its mid-range smartphone lineup with new members of the Snapdragon 400, 600, and 700 families. Three of the processors feature built-in support for 5G networks, while fourth tops out at 4G speeds, which Qualcomm notes is in “continued demand” while the global 5G rollout is still ongoing. The […]
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Qualcomm is adding four new chips to its mid-range smartphone lineup with new members of the Snapdragon 400, 600, and 700 families.
Three of the processors feature built-in support for 5G networks, while fourth tops out at 4G speeds, which Qualcomm notes is in “continued demand” while the global 5G rollout is still ongoing.
The most powerful of Qualcomm’s new chips is the Snapdragon 778G+, which is basically a modest update to the Snapdragon 778G chip that launched earlier this year.
It’s unusual to see Plus models in the Snapdragon 700 series of mid-range processors, but given the similarities, it’d also probably be disingenuous to call the new processor anything else. It has the same Kryo 670 CPU cores, Adreno 642L graphics, Spectra 570L image signal processor, and Snapdragon X53 modem, among other things.
The key difference, as far as I can tell, is that the Snapdragon 778G+ can hit CPU frequencies as high as 2.5 GHz, while the non-plus version tops out at 2.4 GHz.
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 695 chip, meanwhile, packs Kryo 660 CPU cores, Adreno 619 graphics, a Spectra 346T ISP, and a Snapdragon X51 5G modem.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 480+ is aimed at even more affordable 5G phones, with Kryo 460 CPU cores, Adreno 619 graphics, a Spectra 345 ISP, and Snapdragon X51 5G modem. This is another small spec bump over an existing model – the original Snapdragon 480 runs at up to 2 GHz, while the Snapdragon 480+ hits speeds up to 2.2 GHz. It also supports faster upload speeds (up to 1.5 Gbps over 5G networks, compared with 660 Mbps).
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 680 4G chip sports Kryo 265 CPU cores, Adreno 610 graphics, a Spectra 346 ISP, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon X11 4G LTE modem with support for download speeds up to 390 Mbps and upload speeds up to 150 Mbps.
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Chairwoman Rosenworcel and advocate Gigi Sohn nominated after baffling 9-month wait.
Enlarge / FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Communications and Technology Subcommittee on December 05, 2019, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla)
President Biden finally made his picks for the Federal Communications Commission today, ending a baffling delay that forced Democrats to operate in a 2-2 deadlock with Republicans instead of the 3-2 majority that the president's party typically enjoys.
The names themselves are familiar. Jessica Rosenworcel, who has been acting FCC chairwoman since January, was today designated the permanent chair. Biden will also fill the empty Democratic slot on the commission by nominating Gigi Sohn, a longtime consumer advocate who was an FCC official during the Obama years. Then-FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler chose Sohn in 2013 to serve as his counselor, a role in which she advocated for strong net neutrality rules and Title II common-carrier regulation of Internet service providers.
Biden was able to promote Rosenworcel from acting to permanent chair immediately because the president can choose any sitting commissioner as chair. But Rosenworcel's current five-year term already expired, and she would have to leave the FCC entirely in January if she doesn't get a new term. That means Biden has to submit nominations to the Senate for both Rosenworcel and Sohn, and the Senate has to confirm them to avoid giving Republicans a 2-1 majority at the beginning of 2022.
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All-in-One braucht weniger Energie und Platz. Telefónica setzt die Blade AAU & Dual Band FDD 8T8R in München ein. (Telefónica, Long Term Evolution)
All-in-One braucht weniger Energie und Platz. Telefónica setzt die Blade AAU & Dual Band FDD 8T8R in München ein. (Telefónica, Long Term Evolution) Samsung’s Galaxy Book Pro 2-in-1 will start at about $300 extra for 5G.
With Windows 11 out, PC makers have an excuse to update their lineups, and Samsung is hoping that consumers pick up one of its three new Galaxy laptops announced this week to try out the latest operating system. The company is offering a few buzzy features to help entice customers.
The Samsung Galaxy Pro 360 5G and Samsung Galaxy Book Odyssey will release on November 11, with identical starting price tags of $1,400. The Samsung Galaxy Book is out now and starts at $750.
Samsung already makes a Galaxy Pro 360 two-in-1 with an AMOLED screen, and you can even get it preloaded with Windows 11. But the upcoming Galaxy Pro 360 5G adds—you guessed it—5G.
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Wundertreiber gibt es nicht – wohl aber behobene Fehler: Mit der Radeon Software 21.10.3 läuft Age of Empires 4 drastisch schneller. (Age of Empires, Raytracing)
Wundertreiber gibt es nicht - wohl aber behobene Fehler: Mit der Radeon Software 21.10.3 läuft Age of Empires 4 drastisch schneller. (Age of Empires, Raytracing) 
Microsoft has been losing market share in the education space to cheap Chromebooks for years, but according to a new report from Windows Central, the company may have a new strategy for competing in the K-12 education space. Microsoft is allegedly developing a low-cost Surface laptop with the kind of specs you’d expect from a […]
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Microsoft has been losing market share in the education space to cheap Chromebooks for years, but according to a new report from Windows Central, the company may have a new strategy for competing in the K-12 education space.
Microsoft is allegedly developing a low-cost Surface laptop with the kind of specs you’d expect from a low-cost Chromebook, but instead of Google’s Chrome OS, this laptop would run an education-optimized version of Windows called Windows 11 SE.
Windows Central’s Zac Bowden reports that the laptop is code-named Tenjin, and its features include:
The low-res display and 6-watt, quad-core processor based on Intel Gemini Lake Refresh architecture are pretty much par for the course with cheap Chromebooks, while support for up to 8GB of RAM is a little more rare (but also possibly a little more necessary on a device running Windows).
All of that would seem to point to a laptop that will likely sell for under $400, making it smaller and cheaper than the $550 Surface Laptop Go, which is currently Microsoft’s lowest-cost laptop.
But the rumored model, which could be called something like the Surface Laptop SE, would also likely have limited appeal outside the education market, since it’s expected to ship with a version of Windows 11 that’s optimized for low-end hardware and for use in classroom settings.
This wouldn’t be Microsoft’s first attempt to take a more Chromebook-like approach to Windows. Windows RT, Windows in S Mode, and the discontinued project that would have been called Windows 10 X were all efforts to launch a simplified, secure, and locked-down version of Windows that would take a bit of the same less-is-more approach that Google used when developing Chrome OS.
Maybe this time it’ll stick?
Keep in mind that Microsoft hasn’t officially announced anything yet, so there’s a chance that Bowden’s sources are incorrect (although he’s usually pretty diligent about checking these things). It’s also possible that the leaked information is accurate… for now. But Microsoft’s plans could change, which means we don’t know if Tenjin will ever actually see the light of day.
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Das Reality 12K QLED von Pimax kann am PC oder autark verwendet werden. Allerdings ist schon das Basismodell des VR-Headsets sehr teuer. (Head-Mounted Display, Snapdragon)
Das Reality 12K QLED von Pimax kann am PC oder autark verwendet werden. Allerdings ist schon das Basismodell des VR-Headsets sehr teuer. (Head-Mounted Display, Snapdragon) Clarity can perceive depth from 0.01-1,000 m at megapixel resolution.
Enlarge / Light's depth perception relies on trigonometry and allows it to measure the distance to each pixel out to 1,000 m. (credit: Light)
So far, almost every autonomous vehicle we've encountered uses lidar to determine how far away things are, just as the winners of the DARPA Grand Challenges did back in the early 2000s. But not every AV will use lidar in the future; there are other sensors reaching maturity, some of which may even do a better job. One sensor that recently caught my eye is developed from smartphone camera tech by a company called Light.
Light pivoted from its original position as a provider of cameras for smartphones to become a company that uses imaging technology for automotive applications like advanced driver assistance systems (aka ADAS) and AVs.
Specifically, Light developed an optical camera system, called Clarity, that can also calculate the distance to every pixel it sees. Knowing the exact distance to objects means there is no need for a separate lidar sensor, and it also means more accurate data for machine-learning algorithms (a billboard of a face wouldn't be recognized as an actual human by Clarity, for example).
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