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Zwei der Programmierer von Megaupload haben mit den US-Behörden einen Deal geschlossen. Sie werden in Neuseeland angeklagt, aber nicht in die USA abgeschoben. (Megaupload, Server)
Last year MIPS Technologies announced that it was going to stop designing MIPS processors. That might sound surprising given the company’s name, but maybe it was inevitable when looking at trends in the semiconductor industry. So MIPS pivoted to RISC-V architecture. And the company’s first chips based on that open instruction set are set to […]
Last year MIPS Technologies announced that it was going to stop designing MIPS processors. That might sound surprising given the company’s name, but maybe it was inevitable when looking at trends in the semiconductor industry.
So MIPS pivoted to RISC-V architecture. And the company’s first chips based on that open instruction set are set to launch later this year. MIPS is promising best-in-class performance, but we’ll likely have to wait until this fall to find out whether the company can deliver on that promise.
In other recent tech news from around the web, Intel has updated its rollout schedule for its Arc line of discrete graphics solutions for laptops and desktops, Microsoft is updating the Windows 11 Sound Recorder app, a company called Teracube that’s carved out a niche by producing sustainable phones with long warranties wants in on the subscription revenue business, so it’s launching a phone for kids, and ahead of this week’s Google I/O developer conference, Google has released a web-based I/O Pinball game that’s surprisingly good for a game that takes seconds to load in a web browser.
Ahead of the Google I/O developer conference, Google releases a web-based pinball game featuring some of the company’s mascots and designed with Google’s Flutter UI SDK. https://t.co/34bVQ4sSz2
After announcing a a pivot from MIPS architecture to RISC-V chips, MIPS Technologies is previewing its upcoming eVocore P8700 high-performance processor with up to 512 cores & 1024 threads, coming in Q4, and I8500 RISC-V energy efficient processor. https://t.co/h72eOyQ9Dgpic.twitter.com/pJzBZdYTGO
Intel says software and supply chain issues have led to a slower rollout of Arc mobile graphics than expected, but laptops with Arc 5 and Arc 7 GPUs should arrive in early summer. Desktop GPUs will roll out in Q2 and Q3. https://t.co/UArSoozdAz
Fedora 36 brings the GNOME 42 desktop environment, Wayland enabled by default when using proprietary NVIDIA graphics, and other updates for the desktop GNU/Linux distribution. https://t.co/4B1T9er70q
Teracube Thrive is a budget phone designed for kids & designed to last. Going for $99 and up during crowdfunding, plus $9 per month for parental monitoring software and a “forever warranty.” Accidental damage repairs are $49 in the first year or $89 after. https://t.co/bGNeAG3XDF
Microsoft plans to replace the Windows 11 Voice Recorder app with a new Sound Recorder featuring an updated design, audio visualization, and support for changing file formats and recording devices. Available now for Insiders in the Dev Channel. https://t.co/LxI4ewFMqtpic.twitter.com/NWUCfVo6Hm
FIFA promises to partner with other developers for “the only authentic, real game.”
Enlarge/ Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, but maybe that's just because it's new...
EA Sports announced today that the soccer title it publishes in 2023 would be part of the new EA Sports FC brand, doing away with the FIFA name the series has used since the days of the Sega Genesis and Super NES. The announcement marks a significant break for one of the oldest and most popular continuous franchises in video game history.
"We’re thankful for our many years of great partnership with FIFA," EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in a statement. "The future of global football is very bright, and fandom around the world has never been stronger. We have an incredible opportunity to put EA Sports FC at the heart of the sport, and to bring even more innovative and authentic experiences to the growing football audience."
EA's coming FIFA-less soccer game will still have "more than 300 individual licensed partners, giving players access to more 19,000 athletes across 700 teams, in 100 stadiums and over 30 leagues around the world." Those partners include major international leagues like the Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, UEFA, CONMEBOL, and more.
Elon Musk today said Twitter's decision to ban Donald Trump was "morally wrong," and that he would reverse the ban if he completes his pending acquisition of Twitter.
Financial Times reporter Peter Campbell asked Musk if he would reverse the Trump ban during a keynote session at an FT conference on Tuesday. "This is really the toupeed elephant in the room: Are you planning to let Donald Trump back on?" Campbell asked in an interview that otherwise focused mostly on the car industry.
"The answer is I would reverse the permanent ban," Musk said, adding that his deal to buy Twitter is not guaranteed to be completed.
There’s no dialogue or hints about the plot, but the visuals are as striking as ever.
Our favorite killer android, Delores (Evan Rachel Wood), is back in the upcoming fourth season of HBO's sci-fi series Westworld.
HBO dropped the first teaser trailer for the upcoming fourth season of its visionary sci-fi drama, Westworld, and it looks like we're in for another wild, convoluted ride.
(Spoilers for first three seasons of Westworld below.)
As I've written previously, the titular Westworld is one of six immersive theme parks owned and operated by a company called Delos Inc. The park is populated with a "cast" of human-looking androids, called hosts. The park's well-heeled visitors can pretty much do whatever they like to the hosts and don't generally view the hosts as anything more than unfeeling props in their private dramas. But the hosts' creator/co-founder and park director of Westworld, Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), "awakened" a host named Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to true sentience. The first season concluded with a bloody massacre, as the reprogrammed hosts rose up to take revenge on the guests.
Fairphone is a rather small fish in the big pond of phone makers. But the Dutch company continues to have one of the best track records around when it comes to supporting old hardware. Earlier this year Fairphone released a major operating system update for the Fairphone 2, a discontinued phone that was first released […]
Fairphone is a rather small fish in the big pond of phone makers. But the Dutch company continues to have one of the best track records around when it comes to supporting old hardware.
Earlier this year Fairphone released a major operating system update for the Fairphone 2, a discontinued phone that was first released in 2015. Now the company has followed up with another new software update for an old phone.
The company still sells the Fairphone 3+ as well as the newer Fairphone 4, but the original Fairphone 3 was discontinued last year. You can still buy spare parts for it though, and if you’ve still got one, now you can run Android 11 software on a phone that originally shipped with Android 9.
Sure, the update comes at a time when Android 12 is widely available and Google is getting ready to release Android 13 later this year. But for a small company, Fairphone has a pretty good track record with providing software updates… even going so far as to release updates for devices that are no longer officially supported by the chip maker in some instances.
The Fairphone 3 is a smartphone with a 5.65 inch, 2160 x 1080 pixel display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a few unusual features by modern smartphone standards including a 3,040 mAh removable battery, a microSD card reader, and a headset jack. It also has a USB-C port dual nano SIM slots, NFC, and dual rear cameras.
Like all devices from Fairphone, the 4G LTE-enabled phone is also made from ethically-sourced materials where possible, including fair trade cold and recycled plastic.
The slightly newer Fairphone 3+ is nearly identical, but it features a higher quality front and rear cameras, while the current-gen Fairphone 4 has a bigger display, a newer, faster processor, more memory and storage, a bigger battery, and 5G support… but no headphone jack.
Unfortunately all of Fairphone’s smartphones to date have been designed for the European market and have limited support for global cellular networks, which makes them less useful for customers in North America or other parts of the world.
Netflix has reportedly told employees it plans to roll out an ad-supported tier by the end of this year, sooner than expected. Additionally, Netflix's plan for an extra fee to fight password-sharing would roll out around the same time.
In a note to employees, "Netflix executives said that they were aiming to introduce the ad tier in the final three months of the year," according to a New York Times report on Tuesday. The memo "also said that they were planning to begin cracking down on password sharing among its subscriber base around the same time."
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last month said the company plans to launch a lower-priced subscription tier with ads and will continue offering ad-free options. Hastings didn't seem to think the ad-supported tier would roll out in 2022, saying it is something "we're trying to figure out over the next year or two."
The iPod Touch is only available “while supplies last.”
Enlarge/ A click-wheel video iPod, perhaps the most iconic iPod model. This one went away a long time ago, but its last living relative's days have come to an end, too. (credit: Aurich Lawson)
One of the most popular and iconic gadget brands in history is taking its last breath today. Apple has announced that it will no longer make the iPod Touch, the last device to carry the iPod name.
Apple says you'll only be able to buy the $199 iPod Touch from its stores until the current stock sells out. There's still a store page for the iPod on Apple's website, but it's not easily discoverable in the main site navigation, and it carries a "while supplies last" marker.
The current iPod Touch model isn't actually all that old—it debuted in 2019—but that was just a minor refresh, and Apple hasn't introduced a wholly new iPod model in many years.
The latest entry in our ongoing coverage of "cool phones you can't buy in the US" is the Sharp Aquos R7.
This phone hits Japan in July, and it's proof that you can make a differentiated smartphone in this day and age. Sharp is no stranger to unique designs, and with the R7, it is correcting many of the baffling design decisions coming from other smartphone manufacturers.
First, Sharp is continuing its trend of shipping absolutely massive camera sensors in its smartphones. The back of the phone is dominated by a single 47.2 MP camera with a 1-inch sensor and a large lens. Most smartphone manufacturers ship three to four questionably useful smaller rear cameras on the back of their devices, but Sharp is giving people one giant camera, which has the potential to produce better-quality pictures.
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