Enlarge/ A screenshot from Fallout 4, the most recent main entry in the game franchise. (credit: Bethesda)
Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of the Fallout franchise of video games is entering production this year, and its two lead writers have been named, according to reports in Deadline and Variety.
It was previously known that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy (who worked together on HBO's Westworld) would be executive producers, and Variety and Deadline both report that Nolan will direct the first episode of the show.
But Nolan and Joy will not be the primary creative leads on the series. Rather, Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner have been attached as showrunners.
Over the past few weeks, over 300 readers have contributed almost $38,000 to either the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Child's Play as part of the charity drive (EFF is now leading in the donation totals by about $8,000). That's still a bit off from last year's record haul of over $58,000, but it's quickly approaching the previous record of $38,861.06 set in 2015.
If you've put it off this long, don't do so any longer! There are only a few hours left to get your entry recorded and help a good cause at the same time.
Die Telekom tauscht ohne größere Ansage den Technology Officer des Konzerns aus. Abdu Mudesir steht für offene Plattformen im Festnetz und auch für Open RAN. (Open RAN, NEC)
Die Telekom tauscht ohne größere Ansage den Technology Officer des Konzerns aus. Abdu Mudesir steht für offene Plattformen im Festnetz und auch für Open RAN. (Open RAN, NEC)
There’s no shortage of ways to play classic Nintendo games these days, but most of them rely on emulation and/or illegally downloading game ROMS from the internet. The TinyNES takes a different approach. It’s a brand new micro-console that has the same processors as the original Nintendo Entertainment System, which means it has native support […]
There’s no shortage of ways to play classic Nintendo games these days, but most of them rely on emulation and/or illegally downloading game ROMS from the internet. The TinyNES takes a different approach. It’s a brand new micro-console that has the same processors as the original Nintendo Entertainment System, which means it has native support for the original game cartridges, despite the console itself being about the size of a cartridge.
The TinyNES went up for pre-order via a Crowd Supply crowdfunding campaign in December, and the developer hopes to begin shipping the micro-console to backers before the end of May.
Since the new system has the same Ricoh RP2A03 CPU and Ricoh RP2C02 picture processing unit as the NES, you shouldn’t run into any compatibility issues when playing NES games on the TinyNES. The new device also isn’t region locked.
Like the original NES, it has two ports for game controllers on the back, analog RCA audio and video ports, an on/off switch, power input, and a reset button. And that’s about it.
There’s no support for upscaling, HDMI output, internet connectivity, or any other modern features. If you want to use the TinyNES with a modern TV, that means you’re probably going to need some sort of video adapter.
If you’re wondering why you’d drop up to $199 on a new console with the same limitations as the original rather than hunting down a used NES on eBay, the TinyNES does have a few things going for it.
First, it’s a lot smaller than an NES, at just 138.5 x 130 x 32.5mm (5.45″ x 5.12″ x 1.28″) compared with 256 x 203.2 x 88.9mm (10.08″ x 8″ x 3.5″) for the original. Incidentally, a Nintendo cartridge is 133 x 120 x 20mm (5.25″ x 4.75″ x 0.75″).
Second, the TinyNES uses less power than the original. And third, the hardware is fully open source, which means anyone can access the design files to inspect, modify, or make your own version of the console or even produce and sell their own derivative system, as long as it keeps the open source licensing.
The developer has obtained a limited supply of the Ricoh RP2A03 and RP2C02 chips, which are no longer manufactured. But the TinyNES mainboard is designed so that the chips can be fitted into sockets without any soldering, which makes it possible to upgrade the board or replace the processor.
And if $199 is a little too steep a price for you, there is a slightly cheaper option: a limited number of TinyNES systems will use UMC UA6527 CPU and UA6528 PPU chips instead of the original Ricoh chips. These are basically clones of the original chips with nearly identical functionality and if there’s enough demand for the TinyNES for the developer to continue making units after the supply of Ricoh chips has been exhausted, future models will most likely only be available with these chips.
You can find more information and/or reserve a TinyNES at Crowd Supply.
Autonomous Buzzes powered by Argo AI are already testing in some German cities.
Enlarge/ A VW ID Buzz prototype equipped with Argo AI's autonomous driving hardware and software, on the streets of Munich, Germany. (credit: Argo AI)
This week, Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess set a date for the launch of what might be the most eagerly anticipated of VW's new battery electric vehicles. The retro-styled ID Buzz concept car blew so many socks off when we first saw it in 2017, and we'll get our first proper look at the production version on March 9, according to Diess' Twitter feed.
Intentionally or not, Volkswagen's ID Buzz concept might be the most successful aspect of the company's post-Dieselgate charm offensive. VW has had to pivot hard into electrification, applying its proven strategy of building many different styles of vehicles from the same family of parts and designs.
Most of those vehicles have been pretty conventional, like the ID.3 hatchbacks that are starting to get thick on the ground in Europe or the designed-with-the-US-in-mind ID.4 crossover. Then there are the less conventional concepts—try as they might, the engineers couldn't make a business case for the ID Buggy.
Two “smoking guns” helped jury decide Holmes’ fate.
Enlarge/ Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, and her family leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and US Courthouse after the jury found her guilty on four counts in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, January 3, 2022. (credit: Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News)
When jurors deliberated the case of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of failed medical diagnostic startup Theranos, two pieces of evidence helped them convict her of fraud: a faked pharmaceutical company report and inflated financial projections.
Holmes was convicted earlier this week of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud, all involving investors. She was acquitted of defrauding patients, and the jury deadlocked on charges that she defrauded three other investors. The four women and eight men who served as jurors reached their decision after more than 50 hours of deliberations.
On the four guilty counts, jurors found the evidence clearly convincing, with one juror describing two pieces as “smoking guns” in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. One piece was a Theranos-authored report that Holmes gave to investors; it had a Pfizer logo at the top of every page, making it look like the pharmaceutical company had either written or approved its findings. The second was a set of financial projections that Holmes shared with investors, including Lakeshore Capital Management, the DeVos family office.
Die Halbleiterfertigung in Taiwan läuft anders als in den USA, weshalb sich TSMC-Angestellte der Fab 21 in Arizona ebenfalls umstellen müssen. (TSMC, Halbleiterfertigung)
Die Halbleiterfertigung in Taiwan läuft anders als in den USA, weshalb sich TSMC-Angestellte der Fab 21 in Arizona ebenfalls umstellen müssen. (TSMC, Halbleiterfertigung)
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Die Halbleiterfertigung in Taiwan läuft anders als in den USA, weshalb sich TSMC-Angestellte der Fab 21 in Arizona ebenfalls umstellen müssen. (
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