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Die Ampel-Koalition wird vermehrt Elektroautos nutzen, doch für einige Regierungsmitglieder gibt es weiterhin Verbrennerfahrzeuge. (Bundesregierung, Elektroauto)
Die Ampel-Koalition wird vermehrt Elektroautos nutzen, doch für einige Regierungsmitglieder gibt es weiterhin Verbrennerfahrzeuge. (Bundesregierung, Elektroauto) Viel Holz und viel Arbeit sind in ein Umbauprojekt geflossen, bei dem ein Tesla Model Y zu einem Ein-Mann-Camper wurde. (Tesla, Elektroauto)
Viel Holz und viel Arbeit sind in ein Umbauprojekt geflossen, bei dem ein Tesla Model Y zu einem Ein-Mann-Camper wurde. (Tesla, Elektroauto) Arm owner SoftBank will instead spin the business off via an IPO.
SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Monday after regulators in the US, UK, and EU raised serious concerns about its effects on competition in the global semiconductor industry, according to three people with direct knowledge of the transaction.
The deal, the largest ever in the chip sector, would have given California-based Nvidia control of a company that makes technology at the heart of most of the world’s mobile devices. A handful of Big Tech companies that rely on Arm’s chip designs, including Qualcomm and Microsoft, had objected to the purchase.
SoftBank will receive a break-up fee of up to $1.25 billion and is seeking to unload Arm through an initial public offering before the end of the year, said one of the people.
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Boosting with an omicron-specific vaccine didn’t offer more protection against omicron.
Enlarge / A vial of the current Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | Ivan Romano)
In a small group of monkeys, an omicron-specific version of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine did not protect against the omicron variant better than Moderna's current, highly effective booster. This finding casts doubt on whether a switch to variant-specific doses is necessary.
The study was led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and posted on a preprint server last Friday. The study has not been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal. It also has all the limitations of an animal study and only involved eight monkeys. The study's findings will have to be verified in human trials, which are currently underway.
Still, there's good reason to think the finding will hold up. As the authors of the study note, this isn't Moderna's first variant-specific booster. The company had previously developed a booster against the concerning variant beta. As with the omicron-specific booster, the beta-booster didn't outperform the original vaccine at protecting primates from beta. And that finding later held up in human trials.
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Theranos co-founder Holmes was recently convicted of fraud and awaits sentencing.
Amanda Seyfried stars as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu's new original series, The Dropout.
Regular Ars readers have no doubt been following our ongoing coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial. The disgraced Theranos founder's meteoric rise and equally rapid fall has already been the subject of a 2018 nonfiction book and the HBO documentary feature, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. Now Hulu has released the official trailer for The Dropout, the streaming platform's new original limited series starring Amanda Seyfried as Holmes. (Kate McKinnon was originally slated to star but left the production early on for undisclosed reasons.)
It's certainly one hell of a story. Holmes famously dropped out of Stanford (hence the series title) to found Theranos in 2003. The company claimed its technology was going to revolutionize medical diagnostic testing by reducing the amount of blood required for analysis down to a single finger prick. Based on that potential promise, Theranos raised over $900 million from investors, most of whom had no experience in biomedical startups. Forbes magazine named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the US in 2015, valuing Theranos at $9 billion.
Amanda Seyfried stars as Elizabeth Holmes. (credit: YouTube/Hulu)
As Ars' Tim De Chant reported last month, Theranos could never deliver on its signature promise that it could perform more than 1,000 tests with a drop of blood. In reality, it could do 12. The company’s proprietary devices—first the Edison, then the MiniLab—were unreliable and had to be rigged with "null protocols" during investor demos to avoid raising red flags.
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The Valve Steam Deck handheld gaming PC is set to begin shipping later this month, and ahead of that official launch, the first real-world reviews are starting to arrive. And for the most part, they’re good. Very good. YouTuber’s The Phawx, Gamers Nexus, and Linus Tech Tips have been spending time with the Steam Deck, […]
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The Valve Steam Deck handheld gaming PC is set to begin shipping later this month, and ahead of that official launch, the first real-world reviews are starting to arrive. And for the most part, they’re good. Very good.
YouTuber’s The Phawx, Gamers Nexus, and Linus Tech Tips have been spending time with the Steam Deck, and they’re starting to share performance notes, impressions of the hardware, and some other key details — although there are a few things that they’re not talking about yet, because Valve is still tweaking the software.
For that reason, the video reviews don’t dig into the Steam Deck’s operating system, which is a custom Linux distribution called Steam OS. And Valve asked reviewers to only test 5 certain games which are known to run well (including some games that are Windows games running on Linux thanks to Valve’s Proton software).
Within those confines though, reviewers were able to look at things like real-world battery life (which seems to range from 90 minutes to 6 hours, depending on the game and graphics settings), game play, thermal performance, and hardware.
Compared with other recent handhelds like the ONEXPLAYER Mini (with an Intel Core i7-1195G7), GPD Win 3 (Intel Core i7-1165G7) and AYA Neo Next (AMD Ryzen 7 5825U processor), the Steam Deck appears to deliver on its promise of higher frame rates thanks to the higher-performance RDNA 2 GPU. It also gets longer battery life.
The display and controllers are said to be very good, but the Steam Deck is a pretty large device which could make it a little uncomfortable to reach some buttons. Haptic feedback, on the other hand, is said to be underwhelming at the moment (although Valve says that could be improved with software updates).
One of the things I’m most encouraged to see is that Valve’s promise that games would load nearly as quickly from a microSD card as they do from built-in storage, seems to be true (at least for the titles reviewers were aloud to test), which could be good news for folks who decided to opt for the entry-level $399 Steam Deck, which has just 64GB of eMMC storage (higher priced models have 256GB or 512GB PCIe NVMe SSDs).
Later this month we can probably expect to see more Steam Deck reviews after another embargo lifts and testers are allowed to talk about the software, test additional games, and maybe even install Windows or other software.
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| OS | Steam OS (Arch Linux with KDE Plasma) |
| Dimensions | 298mm x 117mm x 49mm 11.7″ x 4.6″ x 1.9″ |
| Weight | 669 grams 1.5 pounds |
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Most recent Raspberry Pi single-board computers have 64-bit processors, but up until recently the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s custom Linux distribution designed for the small, inexpensive PCs was only available in a 32-bit version. But last week saw the official release of Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit, which is compatible with the Raspberry PI 3 and newer […]
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Most recent Raspberry Pi single-board computers have 64-bit processors, but up until recently the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s custom Linux distribution designed for the small, inexpensive PCs was only available in a 32-bit version. But last week saw the official release of Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit, which is compatible with the Raspberry PI 3 and newer devices.
It turns out that the move to 64-bit can make a big difference in performance, at least for some tasks. Phoronix ran a series of benchmarks and found that across the board, a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM was nearly 50% faster when running the 64-bit version of the operating system.
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
When announcing last week that Raspberry Pi OS is now available in 64-bit, the developers may have undersold the performance gains – benchmark performance shows a 48% average improvement, although real-world results will vary depending on the task.
The Debian-based mobile Linux distribution is currently available for a handful of devices including the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, Purism Librem 5, and OnePlus 6. But developers have begun porting it to the Fairphone 4, a smartphone designed with repairability and sustainability in mind.
Less than 1hr from the start of our @fosdem talk, we wanted to share a small surprise: this, ladies and gentlemen, is a @Fairphone 4 running @MobianLinux
Still far from full support, but kudos to @z3ntu for their work on mainlining this device!#fosdem2022 #mobilelinux pic.twitter.com/W0ot3FYO2a— Mobian (@MobianLinux) February 5, 2022
A few months after announcing plans to split into three companies, Toshiba now plans to divide in half instead by spinning off its devices (including chips) business and selling “non-core” assets.
The makers of GrapheneOS, a security-hardened fork of Android, says it’s working with a hardware vendor to on a secure device (probably a phone) that could ship with GrapheneOS, but which will be open to alternate operating systems.
We’re going to be collaborating with a hardware vendor to get a device produced with comparable security and support for alternative operating systems as Pixels.
We can’t publish details right now but we’re optimistic about it and hope to have real news about it in a few months.
— GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) February 7, 2022
AOSC OS/Retro is a GNU/Linux distro designed to run on old hardware. Here it is running on an IBM Palm Top PC 1100, a handheld with a 4.7 inch screen, a 33 MHz 486SL processor, and 20MB of RAM.
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