Japanese company Cooyou has launched a tiny USB scroll wheel that can be used as a dedicated device for either vertical or horizontal scrolling on a PC. Appropriately called the Crazy Small Wheel, it’s little enough to easily hold in your fingers while scrolling through presentations or other content. But you can also place it […]
Japanese company Cooyou has launched a tiny USB scroll wheel that can be used as a dedicated device for either vertical or horizontal scrolling on a PC. Appropriately called the Crazy Small Wheel, it’s little enough to easily hold in your fingers while scrolling through presentations or other content. But you can also place it on the floor and use your foot to scroll.
That can come in handy if your hands are busy with a keyboard or other input device, or for folks with physical impairments that might make it difficult or impossible scroll with an input device designed for hands and fingers.
The Cooyou Crazy Small Wheel measures just 46 x 38 x 26mm (1.8″ x 1.5″ x 1″) and weighs 22 ounces (1.4 ounces). It’s available in Japan for about $27 and works with a standard USB-C cable (which is not included).
Since it’s recognized as a standard mouse by most operating systems including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iPadOS, you should be able to adjust settings like scroll direction and sensitivity using the native operating system settings. But keep in mind that this is just a scroll wheel, not a full-fledged mouse, so it’s not going to be much good for things like clicking or moving a cursor.
If you’re looking for a more full-function input device that can be operated with your feet and don’t mind something that’s not “crazy small,” there is a niche category of foot mouse devices including DIY models and commercial gear from companies like 3drudder and Boomer.
One Twitter bot has been removed, but the threat remains.
Enlarge/ Artist's conception of Wordle players trying to avoid foreknowledge of tomorrow's puzzle solution. (credit: Adam Drobiec / EyeEm)
If you're one of the many, many people hooked on Wordle—and especially if you're someone who likes to share your spoiler-free results publicly each day—we have a word of warning for you. There are people who are determined to spoil your good time by shoving tomorrow's Wordle answer in your face.
The spoiler Twitter account Wordlinator was one of the most prominent trolls on the scene, describing itself as "sent from the future to terminate wordle bragging." @Wordlinator would reply to seemingly random Wordle-results tweets with impolite messages designed to "teach you a lesson" by including the answer to the next day's game (as archived here).
It’s not hard
Wordlinator and its ilk take advantage of Wordle's less-than-secure Javascript coding, which lists the answer to all 2,315 of the game's five-letter puzzles in daily order in a plaintext array buried in publicly viewable files referenced in the webpage's source code.
3D-Visualiserung hat den Bereich des Game Developments längst hinter sich gelassen. Die Golem Akademie bietet sechs virtuelle Workshops zum Themenfeld. (Golem Akademie, Microsoft)
3D-Visualiserung hat den Bereich des Game Developments längst hinter sich gelassen. Die Golem Akademie bietet sechs virtuelle Workshops zum Themenfeld. (Golem Akademie, Microsoft)
Intel’s 12th-gen Core processor lineup introduces a brand new (for Intel) hybrid architecture that combines high-performance (P) CPU cores with energy-efficient (E) cores in an effort to balance performance and power consumption while offering more total CPU cores and threads than Intel has ever used for consumer-class chips. After launching the first 12th-gen chips for […]
Intel’s 12th-gen Core processor lineup introduces a brand new (for Intel) hybrid architecture that combines high-performance (P) CPU cores with energy-efficient (E) cores in an effort to balance performance and power consumption while offering more total CPU cores and threads than Intel has ever used for consumer-class chips.
After launching the first 12th-gen chips for desktops in late 2021, Intel unveiled its mobile lineup during the Consumer Electronics Show. And now the first notebooks powered by Intel’s Alder Lake processors are up for pre-order… and early reviews show that the new chips deliver on their promise of bringing more performance to laptop-class hardware than ever before – but since the first chips are aimed at gaming laptops and mobile workstations rather than thinner, lighter general-purpose systems, don’t expect amazing battery life.
Here are some of the first laptops available with 12th-gen Intel chips based on the 45-watt Alder Lake-H architecture:
Alienware x15 R2: Core i7-12700H or Core i9-12900H and up to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for $2199 and up
Alienware x17 R2: Core i7-12700H or Core i9-12900HK and up to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for for $2449 and up
MSI Raider GE76 17.3″ laptop: Core i9-12900HK and up to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for $2800 and up (ships April, 2022)
MSI Stealth GS77 17.3″ laptop: Core i7-12700H or Core i9-12900H and up to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for $2700 and up (ships April, 2022)
Razer Blade 15 (2022): Core i7-12800H or Core i9-12900H and up to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for $2500 and up (ships Feb 22, 2022)
Razer Blade 17 (2022): Core i7-12800H or Core i9-12900H and up to GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for $2700 and up (ships Feb 22, 2022)
In the meantime, if you’re wondering what kind of performance to expect from these laptops, the answer is “a lot.” Reviewers that have tested these notebooks note that Intel’s new mobile chips earn top marks in most synthetic benchmarks, real-world tests, and gaming tests.
Alienware x15 r2
While Windows can automatically send tasks to just the Performance or just the Efficiency cores depending on your needs, the laptops score particularly high in multi-core performance tests thanks to the new hybrid design that results in chips with up to 14 cores and up to 20 threads.
The Performance cores all support multi-threading, while the Efficient cores do not. But these Efficient cores aren’t the same sort of sluggish chips you might have expected from older Intel Atom processors. These single-threaded CPU cores offer performance on par with Intel’s Skylake architecture, which means that tasks that can leverage all 20 CPU cores at once will get a significant performance boost.
Where the laptops fall short is battery life. Once upon a time we would have said that these chips have a 45W TDP, but Intel has stopped using that metric and is instead now using the more honest Processor Base Power and Maximum Turbo Power to indicate that these are chips that will use between 45 and 115 watts. For the most part you’re only going to see power consumption spikes up to 115 watts for very brief periods, but under load you can expect these chips to consume as much as 85 watts for an extended period of time. And that’s just the processor.
12th-gen Intel Core H-Series (45W)
Chip
Cores / Threads
P / E Cores
L3 Cache
Base / Max Turbo P-cores
Base / Max Turbo E-Cores
GPU (EU / Max Freq)
Base Power
Max Turbo Power
i9-12900HK
14 / 20
6P / 8E
24MB
2.5 GHz / 5 GHz
1.8 GHz / 3.8 GHz
96EU / 1.45 GHz
45W
115W
i9-12900H
14 / 20
6P / 8E
24MB
2.5 GHz / 5 GHz
1.8 GHz / 3.8 GHz
96EU / 1.45 GHz
45W
115W
i7-12800H
14 / 20
6P / 8E
24MB
2.4 GHz / 4.8 GHz
1.8 GHz / 3.7 GHz
96EU / 1.4 GHz
45W
115W
i7-12700H
14 / 20
6P / 8E
24MB
2.3 GHz / 4.7 GHz
1.7 GHz / 3.5 GHz
96EU / 1.4 GHz
45W
115W
i7-12650H
10 / 16
6P / 4E
24MB
2.3 GHz / 4.7 GHz
1.7 GHz / 3.5 GHz
64EU / 1.4 GHz
45W
115W
Since these laptops are aimed at gamers, they also have power-hungry discrete graphics cards, high-quality displays with high refresh rates and/or resolutions, and other gear that will eat into battery life.
Razer Blade 15 (2022)
AnandTech reports that you should only expect around 5.3 hours of web browsing time from the MSI Raider GE76, for example, or about 6 hours of video playback time. That’s pretty underwhelming for a notebook with a 99.9 Wh battery.
We’ll have to wait until later this year to see whether laptops with lower-power Alder Lake-U and Alder Lake-P chips (with Processor Base Power ratings in the 9 to 28 watt range) offer longer battery life in thinner, lighter laptops.
Want more reviews? Here are some of the first we’ve seen for laptops with 12th-gen Intel Core H-series processors:
Nvidia may be walking away from its acquisition of Arm Ltd., the British chip designer, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The blockbuster deal faced global scrutiny, and Nvidia apparently feels that it hasn’t made sufficient progress in convincing regulators that the acquisition won’t harm competition or national security. “Nvidia has told partners that it doesn’t expect the transaction to close, according to one person who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private,” Bloomberg reported.
In a further sign that the deal is likely to be abandoned, SoftBank is also working to take Arm public, according to the report.
Der Widerstand der Regulierungsbehörden bezüglich der ARM-Übernahme durch Nvidia ist zu groß, ein Börsengang ARMs wird in Frage gestellt. (Nvidia, FTC)
Der Widerstand der Regulierungsbehörden bezüglich der ARM-Übernahme durch Nvidia ist zu groß, ein Börsengang ARMs wird in Frage gestellt. (Nvidia, FTC)
Der Stahlkonzern Salzgitter und der dänische Energiekonzern Ørsted wollen bei grünem Wasserstoff und Stahl zusammenarbeiten. (Klimakrise, Erneuerbare Energien)
Der Stahlkonzern Salzgitter und der dänische Energiekonzern Ørsted wollen bei grünem Wasserstoff und Stahl zusammenarbeiten. (Klimakrise, Erneuerbare Energien)
Nur 35 Prozent der Jugendlichen sind mit den Online-Angeboten ihrer Schulen zufrieden. Viele fühlen sich einsam und verbringen mehr Zeit am Handy, als sie eigentlich geplant hatten
Nur 35 Prozent der Jugendlichen sind mit den Online-Angeboten ihrer Schulen zufrieden. Viele fühlen sich einsam und verbringen mehr Zeit am Handy, als sie eigentlich geplant hatten
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