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Themen des Tages: Welche Dimension der Berliner Medienskandal eigentlich hat. Warum Krieg keinen Frieden bedeutet. Und wie ein Faschistenfreund rehabilitiert wird.

Themen des Tages: Welche Dimension der Berliner Medienskandal eigentlich hat. Warum Krieg keinen Frieden bedeutet. Und wie ein Faschistenfreund rehabilitiert wird.

More 2.8 inch mini PCs with Celeron N5105 chips for under $200

This year we’ve seen a handful of companies release tiny desktop computers measuring just 2.8″ x 2.8″ x 1.8″ and housing a 10-watt Intel Celeron N5105 quad-core processor, typically with prices in the $200 to $300 range at laun…

This year we’ve seen a handful of companies release tiny desktop computers measuring just 2.8″ x 2.8″ x 1.8″ and housing a 10-watt Intel Celeron N5105 quad-core processor, typically with prices in the $200 to $300 range at launch. But there are a growing number of products in this category, and some previously launched models […]

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LG’s 4K monitor physically adjusts itself so you don’t have to

LG claims a camera and AI help ensure good ergonomics.

https://www.lgnewsroom.com/2022/08/lg-ultragear-debuts-240hz-curved-oled-gaming-monitor-at-ifa-2022/

Enlarge / LG Ergo AI Monitor 32UQ890. (credit: LG)

LG last night announced plans to demo a 4K monitor that it claims will help workers maintain an ergonomically friendly view by automatically adjusting itself based on the user's positioning.

LG will demo its UltraFine Display Ergo AI 32UQ890 (which it first lightly announced with minimal details at CES 2022) at IFA 2022 in Berlin from September 2–6, it said.

The monitor gets its name because it uses AI via an integrated camera to interpret a user's eye level. It leverages an AI algorithm to collect and analyze video frames, using a neural processing unit to make what it determines are appropriate  adjustments to the screen’s height by up to 6.3 inches (160 mm) or angle by up to 20 degrees forward or backward. The monitor does not use deep learning, an LG spokesperson told Ars Technica.

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Die deutsche Mondlandung

Die heiteren Spiele und die weiteren Spiele: Die Münchner Olympiade 1972 war das wichtigste deutsche Nachkriegsereignis zwischen “Stunde Null” und Mauerfall

Die heiteren Spiele und die weiteren Spiele: Die Münchner Olympiade 1972 war das wichtigste deutsche Nachkriegsereignis zwischen "Stunde Null" und Mauerfall

MacBook self-repair program highlights Apple’s flawed repairability progress

Apple’s more amenable to self-repairs, but complex processes and designs are limiting.

The front of a closed, silver-colored laptop on a table

Enlarge / The 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon)

On Tuesday, Apple expanded its self-service repair program to M1-based MacBooks. Giving customers repair manuals and the ability to buy parts and buy or rent tools for M1 MacBook Airs and M1 MacBook Pros is a far cry from the Apple of yesteryear. After a few days of availability, the MacBook self-repair program shows welcome progress, but work is still needed before Apple is considered a true right-to-repair ally.

The past few days have seen numerous right-to-repair activists critique Apple's MacBook self-repair program. Perhaps most notable is a strongly worded blog from iFixit, which said the program "manages to make MacBooks seem less repairable." While iFixit found the MacBook Air repair manual to be "in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional repairability point," it was less impressed with the MacBook Pro repair manuals.

iFixit focused heavily on Apple's approach to MacBook Pro battery replacements, citing the natural degradation of lithium batteries. Apple's 13, 14, and 16-inch 2021 MacBook Pro self-repair manuals say that to replace the battery, you need to remove far more than just the battery. The manuals instruct users to remove the entire top case, bottom case, battery management unit, flex cable, lid angle sensor, the trackpad and its flex cable, the vent/antenna module, the logic board, display hinge covers, the display, the laptop's audio board, fans, the MagSafe 3 board, as well as the USB-C boards and Touch ID board.

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Rocket Report: At long last the SLS is ready, Alpha gets a launch date

“For the uncrewed demo, the goal is to have a safe landing.”

SLS rocket on the launch pad.

Enlarge / The SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft are ready for launch, NASA says. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)

Welcome to Edition 5.08 of the Rocket Report! This weekend I'll be traveling to the Artemis I launch in Florida on Monday. It's remarkable that launch day is finally here for NASA's big rocket and a big moment for the space agency, which has not launched its own rocket since 2011, and the final flight of the space shuttle. Here's hoping everything goes well with the launch and Orion's flight to the Moon.

As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Firefly sets September 11 launch date. The Texas-based launch company announced this week the launch window for the second flight of its Alpha rocket. The window for the launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California opens at 3 pm local Pacific time (22:00 UTC). Alpha's first test flight, in September 2021, ended in failure 150 seconds into the flight after a problem with one of the rocket's four main Reaver engines.

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