This cheap Acer laptop with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c chip can run mainline Linux software (mostly)

The Acer Aspire 1 (A114-61) is a cheap laptop with a 14 inch full HD display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 1 processor, it launched in 2021 as a budget notebook running Windows 10 in S Mode software. But dev…

The Acer Aspire 1 (A114-61) is a cheap laptop with a 14 inch full HD display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 1 processor, it launched in 2021 as a budget notebook running Windows 10 in S Mode software. But developers have been working to add mainline […]

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What would you do with a used Rolls-Royce Olympus engine from Concorde?

The engine, which sold for $718,000, cannot be flown again.

British Airways Aerospatiale BAC Concorde taking-off with afterburners blazing.

Enlarge / British Airways Aerospatiale BAC Concorde taking off with afterburners blazing. (credit: aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

If you're a bit of a plane nerd—and if you're reading this site, the odds are good that you are—a rather interesting eBay auction ended over the weekend. The auction site knows it as item number 116001533010; a less anodyne description would be a Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 turbojet engine, one of four that powered a Concorde—complete with afterburner attached.

The world's first and most successful supersonic airliner, Concorde was an ambitious and extremely expensive joint project developed by the UK and France. The initial plans started in 1956, with the first in a series of studies commissioned by the British Ministry of Supply, which set about exploring the idea of a supersonic transport plane—then, as now, the sole preserve of military jets.

A parallel effort was also underway across the Channel in France, with both countries coming up with fairly similar designs. At some point, bean counters on both sides of la manche realized that the cost of developing such an extreme aircraft was perhaps better shared than borne alone, and in 1962 the two projects—one headed by the British Aircraft Corporation, the other by Sud-Aviation combined—were merged.

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Autor über Tarantinos Star Trek: “Es wäre der großartigste Star-Trek-Film geworden”

Eine Zeitlang sah es so aus, als ob Quentin Tarantino den nächsten Star-Trek-Film machen würde. Autor Mark L. Smith erzählte nun, warum es nicht dazu kam. (Star Trek, Film)

Eine Zeitlang sah es so aus, als ob Quentin Tarantino den nächsten Star-Trek-Film machen würde. Autor Mark L. Smith erzählte nun, warum es nicht dazu kam. (Star Trek, Film)

Speicherrekord: Die erste 2-TByte-Micro-SD ist da – aber zu welchem Preis?

Kioxia hat die erste Micro-SD-Speicherkarte mit 2 TByte Kapazität angekündigt. Die Karte mit dem Namen Exceria Plus G2 soll ab dem ersten Quartal 2024 erhältlich sein. (Technik/Hardware, Toshiba)

Kioxia hat die erste Micro-SD-Speicherkarte mit 2 TByte Kapazität angekündigt. Die Karte mit dem Namen Exceria Plus G2 soll ab dem ersten Quartal 2024 erhältlich sein. (Technik/Hardware, Toshiba)

ASRock NUC Ultra 100 motherboards are 4×4 boards with Meteor Lake-H chips

Just a few days after introducing some of the first 4×4 mini PCs powered by Intel’s 14th-gen Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” processors, ASRock Industrial has unveiled an option for folks that want a little more flexibility (and …

Just a few days after introducing some of the first 4×4 mini PCs powered by Intel’s 14th-gen Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” processors, ASRock Industrial has unveiled an option for folks that want a little more flexibility (and possibly less convenience). The new ASRock NUC Ultra 100 Motherboard Series are a line of 104 x 102 […]

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Pornhub, Stripchat, XVideos: Große Pornoseiten müssen Altersverifikation einführen

Die Webseiten Pornhub, Stripchat, XVideos fallen künftig unter die höheren Auflagen des EU-Digitalgesetzes DSA. Das wirkt sich auch auf die Nutzer aus. (EU-Kommission, Soziales Netz)

Die Webseiten Pornhub, Stripchat, XVideos fallen künftig unter die höheren Auflagen des EU-Digitalgesetzes DSA. Das wirkt sich auch auf die Nutzer aus. (EU-Kommission, Soziales Netz)