Month: February 2022

Daily Deals (2-07-2022)

Amazon is running Valentine’s Day sales on Fire tablets and TV streamers as well as Kindle eReaders – in addition to already-discounted prices, you can save an extra $20 when you buy two Kindle devices, presumably one for you and one for your partner (or anyone else). One of my favorite deals? The Kindle Paperwhite […]

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Amazon is running Valentine’s Day sales on Fire tablets and TV streamers as well as Kindle eReaders – in addition to already-discounted prices, you can save an extra $20 when you buy two Kindle devices, presumably one for you and one for your partner (or anyone else).

One of my favorite deals? The Kindle Paperwhite Kids is on sale for $120, which is $40 off its usual price.

Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Kids

While it costs $10 more than the standard Kindle Paperwhite, the Kids edition comes with a protective cover, a 2-year worry-free guarantee, and a a 1-year subscription to Amazon Kids+. It’s also physically identical to the regular Kindle Paperwhite – you just need to add a kid’s profile when you first set up the device, but then you can delete it and use the device like a normal Paperwhite, which is what I’ve been doing since I picked one up last year.

Overall, I think it’s well worth paying an extra $10 even if all you want is the protective case/cover.

Here are some of the day’s best deals.

Amazon Tablets

Other Tablets

eReaders

Wireless audio

Media Streamers

Downloads & Streaming

Other

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Google sued for €2.1 billion by shopping rival for unfair search placement

PriceRunner sues for business damages after Google loses EU Commission lawsuit.

Let's see, you landed on my "Google Ads" space, and with three houses... that will be $1,400.

Enlarge / Let's see, you landed on my "Google Ads" space, and with three houses... that will be $1,400. (credit: Ron Amadeo / Hasbro)

Google is being sued in the European Union again over anti-competitive shopping practices.

The EU Commission ruled in 2017 that Google's preferential treatment of its own Google Shopping product in search results was illegal, and it slapped the company with a record-setting fine of 2.4 billion euros. The penalty was upheld in an appeal in 2021. Now, price-comparison service PriceRunner is suing Google for the harm it says was caused to its business over the last 12 years. PriceRunner is starting the suit at 2.1 billion euros, but "since the violation is still ongoing, the amount of damages increases every day," the company said. "We expect the final damages amount of the lawsuit to be significantly higher."

In a press release, PriceRunner Chief Executive Mikael Lindahl said the company is suing Google for "the damage Google has caused us during many years." But the company also sees the lawsuit "as a fight for consumers who have suffered tremendously from Google’s infringement of the competition law for the past fourteen years and still today,” Lindahl wrote.

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Nissan is ending engine development, except for US-bound vehicles

The decision shows that full electrification of US vehicles is a long way off.

A composite photo showing a V6 under the hood of a Nissan truck

Enlarge / America loves pickup trucks too much to give up burning gasoline, Nissan thinks. (credit: Nissan)

Nissan is the latest automaker to pull the plug on its internal combustion engine development. Well, mostly.

According to Nikkei Asia, the Japanese automaker has looked at the likely next set of European emissions rules and has decided it would be too expensive to design a new generation of engines that comply. Nissan is also not planning on any new internal combustion engines for Japan or China, although it will apparently keep refining existing engines and continue to work on hybrid powertrains.

However, this new policy isn't a global one—it doesn't apply to the US. That's because here, the automaker expects continuing demand for internal combustion engines, particularly in pickup trucks.

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Anzeige: Datenströme beherrschen mit Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka ist erste Wahl, wenn es um die ausfallsichere, verteilte Verarbeitung großer Datenmengen geht. Das Onlineseminar der Golem Akademie hilft, die Einstiegshürden zu überwinden. (Golem Akademie, Server-Applikationen)

Apache Kafka ist erste Wahl, wenn es um die ausfallsichere, verteilte Verarbeitung großer Datenmengen geht. Das Onlineseminar der Golem Akademie hilft, die Einstiegshürden zu überwinden. (Golem Akademie, Server-Applikationen)

Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU

Stringent data privacy rules under GDPR have the company in a tight spot.

Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU

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Meta says it may have to abandon the European Union.

The note was buried in the company’s annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meta said that if officials on both sides of the Atlantic can’t reach an agreement on data transfers and warehousing, the company may have to pull its Facebook and Instagram platforms from Europe.

“If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted… we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe,” Meta said in its 10-K filing.

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Intel invests $1 billion in third-party chip development, joins RISC-V International

Intel is probably best known as a company that designs and produces its own chips. But the company has also been investing heavily in its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) recently in hopes of taking on rivals like TSMC and Samsung by manufacturing chips for other companies. Now Intel has announced a new $1 billion fund […]

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Intel is probably best known as a company that designs and produces its own chips. But the company has also been investing heavily in its Intel Foundry Services (IFS) recently in hopes of taking on rivals like TSMC and Samsung by manufacturing chips for other companies.

Now Intel has announced a new $1 billion fund to help spur development of chips that may make use of the companies foundry services… including x86, ARM, and RISC-V processors. And it’s placing a pretty heavy emphasis on that last one.

RISC-V is an open instruction set architecture that allows chip makers to use the core technologies without paying any royalties. The architecture’s been around for more than a decade, but which has really begun to pick up steam in recent years, although the fastest RISC-V chips today still trail far behind the latest Intel or ARM processors when it comes to performance (although this kind of investment could eventually close bridge the gap).

Intel says IFS is the only major global foundry that’s prepared to manufacture x86, ARM, and RISC-V chips and that it’s able to produce RISC-V processors for third-party partners as well as “chiplets” which are basically custom-purpose chip blocks that can be put together using 3D stacking to deliver a system-on-a-package with multiple blocks that each serve a specific purpose.

In other words, if I’m reading Intel’s announcement right, you could see packages that combine an x86 or ARM processor and a RISC-V co-processor.

As part of today’s announcement, Intel says it’s joined RISC-V International and announced partnerships with leading RISC-V companies including SiFive, Andes Technology, Esperanto Technologies, and Ventana Micro Systems.

While Intel has been practically synonymous with its x86 chips for decades, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the company’s interest in RISC-V. In fact, last year there were rumors that the company was interested in acquiring SiFive for $2 billion, but that deal eventually fell apart.

via Intel and RISC-V International

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Watch this mama chimp treat her son’s open wound by applying insect “poultice”

Observed behavior could be evidence of “prosocial” human-like empathy in primates.

A chimp named Suzee inspects a wound on the foot of her adolescent son, Sia, then catches an insect out of the air, puts it in her mouth, presses it between her lips, and applies it to the wound while her daughter, Sassandra, observes her. (Alessandra Mascaro)

In November 2019, Alessandra Mascaro was observing a community of chimpanzees in the Loango National Park in Gabon as part of her volunteer service with the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project when she noticed some unusual behavior. A chimp named Suzee was inspecting a wound on the foot of her son, Sia. Suzee suddenly caught an insect from a nearby leaf, put it into her mouth for a moment, and then pressed it to Sia's wound.

Mascaro caught the unusual interaction on video and forwarded it to two scientists on the project: Tobias Deschner, a primatologist with the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project, and Simone Pika, a cognitive biologist at Osnabrück University. The researchers thought the interaction could be suggestive of prosocial behavior among chimpanzees and the capacity for empathy—a question of heated debate in the field—and they spent the next 15 months looking for other examples of this type of wound-treating behavior. All told, they recorded 76 such instances and reported their findings in a new correspondence published in the journal Current Biology.

There are between 42 and 45 chimps in the Loango National Park community. According to the authors, the males are much more prone to open wounds than females (with a ratio of 63:13) since they tend to have more aggressive interactions. The wound-treating incidents (both self-applied and applying insects to the wounds of others) were filmed whenever possible, and that footage was transcribed into detailed written reports. In some cases, there was no video footage, so the researchers wrote a detailed report the same day it occurred.

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Beelink GTR4 mini PC with Ryzen 9 4900H now available

The Beelink GTR4 is a compact desktop computer powered by a 35-watt AMD Ryzen 9 4900H processor with 8 cores, 16 threads, and Radeon Vega 8 integrated graphics. It supports up to three displays, has a built-in fingerprint reader and microphone and the GTR4 supports WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.0. First announced in November, the […]

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The Beelink GTR4 is a compact desktop computer powered by a 35-watt AMD Ryzen 9 4900H processor with 8 cores, 16 threads, and Radeon Vega 8 integrated graphics. It supports up to three displays, has a built-in fingerprint reader and microphone and the GTR4 supports WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.0.

First announced in November, the computer went up for pre-order late last year through a crowdfunding campaign. But now you can buy it from retailers: the Beelink GTR4 is available from Banggood for $800.

For that price you get a 6.6″ x 4.7″ x 1.5″ computer with a Ryzen 4900H chip, 16GB of DDR4-3200 memory, and a 500GB M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe SSD.

The computer also has a 2.5 inch bay for an optional hard drive or SSD and two SODIMM slots for memory, which means users can upgrade the system with as much as 64GB of total memory.

Ports include:

  • 2 x 2.5 Gbps Ethernet
  • 1 x HDMI
  • 1 x DisplayPort
  • 1 x USB Type-C (with data and video support)
  • 3 x USB 3.0 Type-A
  • 2 x USB 2.0 Type-A
  • 1 x 3.5mm audio

The computer ships with Windows 11 software and comes with a 90 watt power adapter, an HDMI cable, and a VESA mount bracket that you can use to attach the computer to a wall, the back of a display, or a desk.

One thing to keep in mind before ordering a Beelink GTR4 from Banggood though, is that Beelink is a relatively small company from China that offers limited support for products sold and shipped internationally, and Banggood is an online store that specializes in offering that sort of item… and also provides customer support that could be described as limited, at best.

Other Beelink products have found their way to more mainstream Western stores like Amazon and Newegg, but the GTR4 is not yet available from those stores.

Beelink also introduced the Beelink GTR5 in November, with a newer, more powerful AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor. But that model does not yet seem to be available for purchase through retail channels.

via AndroidPC.es

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