Fairphone 5 schematics, repair, and recycling documentation is now available

Fairphone has been putting an emphasis on the repairability and sustainability of its phones for much of the past decade. The company has a long track record of delivering software updates for old phones, offering phones with user-replaceable batterie…

Fairphone has been putting an emphasis on the repairability and sustainability of its phones for much of the past decade. The company has a long track record of delivering software updates for old phones, offering phones with user-replaceable batteries, and selling spare parts for users that want to perform their own repairs. Starting with the […]

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Security: Wann wurde Anydesk gehackt?

Zum Andydesk-Hack gibt es wenig offizielle Antworten – aber immer mehr Hinweise. Die deuten darauf hin, dass der Angriff schon im Dezember erfolgte. Ein Bericht von Günter Born (Security, Malware)

Zum Andydesk-Hack gibt es wenig offizielle Antworten - aber immer mehr Hinweise. Die deuten darauf hin, dass der Angriff schon im Dezember erfolgte. Ein Bericht von Günter Born (Security, Malware)

Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas seems to have an ocean, too

The ocean must have formed relatively recently, but we don’t know how.

Greyscale image of a moon lit on one side, with its face dominated by a giant crater.

Enlarge / That is actually a moon. (credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

The once-exclusive club of Solar System objects that host oceans is getting increasingly crowded. On Wednesday, Nature released a paper providing evidence that Saturn's moon Mimas has a subsurface ocean beneath its heavily cratered crust. The evidence for this ocean comes in the form of orbital oddities that are seemingly impossible to explain by anything other than the presence of an ocean.

Solid looks

Of Saturn's seven major moons, Mimas orbits closest to the planet, taking less than a day to complete an orbit. It's also the smallest of the major moons, with a diameter of just under 400 kilometers (about 250 miles). Despite its diminutive size, Mimas hosts the second-largest crater on any moon in the Solar System. The Herschel Crater dominates the surface of the moon, giving it an appearance that evokes the Death Star.

Even outside of Herschel, the moon's surface is heavily pocked by craters, suggesting it has been static for most of the moon's history. That's in sharp contrast to moons like Europa and Enceladus, where the subsurface oceans allow the constant remodeling of their surfaces, leaving them with much sparser crater histories. So Mimas seemed like a very poor candidate for hosting an ocean.

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AMD Embedded+ architecture combines AMD Embedded with Versal Adaptive chips

AMD is launching a new platform called Ryzen Embedded+ that combines two of the chip maker’s existing technologies into a “single integrated board” for products that leverage AI features for on-device processing from sensors, cameras…

AMD is launching a new platform called Ryzen Embedded+ that combines two of the chip maker’s existing technologies into a “single integrated board” for products that leverage AI features for on-device processing from sensors, cameras, and other hardware. In a nutshell, Embedded+ boards combine an AMD Ryzen Embedded processor with an AMD Versal adaptive, software-programmable […]

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Smartphone: Oneplus-Smartphones bekommen keine längeren Update-Zeiträume

Oneplus ist gerade wieder auf dem Markt in Deutschland zurück – und erklärt in einem Interview, dass Kunden nicht sieben Jahre lang Updates bekommen werden. (Oneplus, Smartphone)

Oneplus ist gerade wieder auf dem Markt in Deutschland zurück - und erklärt in einem Interview, dass Kunden nicht sieben Jahre lang Updates bekommen werden. (Oneplus, Smartphone)

Toyota invests another $1.3 billion for EV production in Kentucky

The automaker will build a three-row EV in the US in 2025.

An aerial photo of Toyota's factory in Georgetown, Kentucky

Enlarge / Toyota Kentucky currently churns out Camry sedans, but from next year it will also make electric vehicles. (credit: Toyota)

Toyota's factory in Georgetown, Kentucky, is getting an additional $1.3 billion investment, the automaker says. Last year it announced that the Georgetown plant would build its forthcoming three-row electric SUV; now it says it's also adding a battery pack assembly line, among other improvements.

"Today's announcement reflects our commitment to vehicle electrification and further reinvesting in our US operations," said Kerry Creech, president of Toyota Kentucky. "Generations of our team members helped prepare for this opportunity, and we will continue leading the charge into the future by remaining true to who we are as a company and putting our people first for generations to come."

Toyota has lagged behind industry rivals in its electrification plans; here in the US its sole battery EV offering is the stolid bZ4x electric crossover. The company's slow-rolling of EVs led to a change of leadership in 2023 as Akio Toyoda was replaced as CEO by former Lexus head Koji Sato.

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