Month: November 2024

Like a lot of children of the '80s, my early gaming nostalgia has a huge hole where the Atari 7800 might have lived. While practically everyone I knew had an NES during my childhood—and a few uncles and friends' older siblings even had an Atari 2600 gathering dust in their dens—I was only vaguely aware of the 7800, Atari's backward compatible, late '80s attempt to maintain relevance in the quickly changing console market.

Absent that kind of nostalgia, the Atari 7800+ comes across as a real oddity. Fiddling with the system's extremely cumbersome controllers and pixelated, arcade-port-heavy software library from a modern perspective is like peering into a fallen alternate universe, one where Nintendo wasn't able to swoop in and revive a flailing Western home video game industry with the NES.

Even for those with fond memories of Atari 7800-filled childhoods, I'm not sure that this bare-bones package justifies its $130 price. There are many more full-featured ways to get your retro gaming fix, even for those still invested in the tail end of Atari's dead-end branch of the gaming console's evolutionary tree.

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SoulScircuit’s Pilet line of computers are handheld PCs powered by a Raspberry Pi 5 and featuring retro-inspired designs with beige, orange, black, and grey color schemes. The Pilet 7 is a modular tablet computer with a 7 inch display an add-on slot that lets you connect a keyboard, game controller, or other accessories. And the Pilet […]

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After Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States earlier this month, the world’s largest democracy confirmed a big win over Kamala Harris and a second term in the White House for the Republican.

Over in New Zealand, Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom had spent much of November 5/6 posting to his account on X. Despite never having set foot in the United States, the outcome of the election had become increasingly important.

A Trump win would not only represent defeat for Dotcom nemesis Joe Biden, but also a slither of hope that his extradition to the United States wouldn’t necessarily be seen as a foregone conclusion by the Republicans.

As Dotcom became increasingly confident of a Trump win and excitement continued to build, in his own inimitable style, Dotcom decided to call it.

“It’s over!”

In the hours that followed, Dotcom celebrated Trump’s win, the rising value of Bitcoin, Biden’s demise, the apparent forthcoming demise of leaders in Europe. Only then did he sign off.

After that November 6 post, Dotcom’s account fell silent for the next three weeks.

Kim Dotcom Suffers “Serious Stroke”

On Monday, a post made in Dotcom’s name but most likely not by him personally, revealed that Dotcom had been hospitalized.

“UPDATE: I am recovering from a serious stroke. I have the best health professionals helping me to make a recovery. I will be back as soon as I can. Please be patient and pray for my family and I,” it reads.

According to NZ Herald, Dotcom suffered a stroke on November 7 and was taken to a local hospital. From there he was rushed to Dunedin Hospital for urgent treatment and remained there for more than two weeks. He’s now said to have been moved to a different hospital where his rehabilitation will continue.

Dotcom’s lawyer Ron Mansfield KC predicted that Dotcom is likely to remain in hospital for some time.

“It’s been very serious and we honestly did not know whether he would survive or what that looks like and we still don’t,” Mansfield told NZ Herald.

“Very little is known by us. We’re waiting for reports to come through, but we’re just taking everything day by day at the moment.”

Dotcom’s US Lawyer Confirms News, Declines to Elaborate

When reached by Newsweek, Dotcom’s US lawyer, Ira Rothken, confirmed the accuracy of the statement posted to X but declined to provide additional information. Rothken wouldn’t or couldn’t say whether Dotcom himself published the statement but during the last few hours, the question was answered by Dotcom’s New Zealand lawyer, Ron Mansfield KC.

“Kim’s health prevents him from communicating effectively,” Mansfield said. “Liz, his wife, is with him and she released the tweet.”

Mansfield said that further recovery “is likely” but what recovery will look like is currently unknown.

“Obviously we’re shocked by what’s happened. Hence why the legal team, but more importantly his young family, have been dealing with the health issues before we made it public,” Mansfield added.

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When you compare SpaceX to the world's other space enterprises, it's probably easier to list the things SpaceX hasn't done instead of reciting all of the company's achievements.

One of these is the launch of nuclear materials. SpaceX has launched a handful of planetary science missions for NASA, but these spacecraft have all used solar arrays to generate electricity. In this century, NASA's probes relying on nuclear power have all flown on rockets built by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

This is about to change with a $256.6 million contract NASA awarded to SpaceX on Monday. The contract covers launch services and related costs for SpaceX to launch Dragonfly, a rotorcraft designed to explore the alien environment of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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A recent firmware pushed to QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices left a number of owners unable to access their storage systems. The company has pulled back the firmware and issued a fixed version, but the company's response has left some users feeling less confident in the boxes into which they put all their digital stuff.

As seen on a QNAP community thread, and as announced by QNAP itself, the QNAP operating system, QTS, received update 5.2.2.2950, build 20241114, at some point around November 19. After QNAP "received feedbacks from some users reporting issues with device functionality after installation," the firm says it withdrew it, "conducted a comprehensive investigation," and re-released a fixed version "within 24 hours."

The community thread sees many more users of different systems having problems than the shortlist ("limited models of TS-x53D series and TS-x51 series") released by QNAP. Issues reported included owners being rejected as an authorized user, devices reporting issues with booting, and claims of Python not being installed to run some apps and services.

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Bosch-Mitarbeiter in Leonberg protestieren gegen massiven Stellenabbau. Während in Deutschland 3.800 Jobs wegfallen sollen, fließt eine Milliarde Dollar nach China. (Bosch, Silicon Valley)

DJI bietet ein neues Funkmikrofon als Einzel- oder Doppelset mit Ladeschale an. Damit sollen vor allem Youtuber angesprochen werden. (Audio, Film)

On Tuesday, the Biden-Harris administration finalized a CHIPS award of up to $7.865 billion to help fund expansions of Intel's commercial fabs in the US. By the end of the decade, these fabs are intended to decrease reliance on foreign adversaries and fill substantial gaps in America's domestic semiconductor supply chain.

Initially, Intel was awarded $8.5 billion, but it was decreased after Intel won a $3 billion subsidy from the Pentagon to expand Department of Defense semiconductor manufacturing. In a press release, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo boasted that the substantial award would set up "Intel to drive one of the most significant semiconductor manufacturing expansions in US history" and "supercharge American innovation" while making the US "more secure."

For Intel, the CHIPS funding supports an expected investment of nearly $90 billion by 2030 to expand projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon. Approximately 10,000 manufacturing jobs and 20,000 construction jobs will be created "across all four states," the Commerce Department's press release said. Additionally, Intel estimated that the funding will create "more than 50,000 indirect jobs with suppliers and supporting industries."

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Bei Amazon gibt es zum Black Friday ein beliebtes USB-SSD-Gehäuse zum neuen Tiefstpreis zu kaufen. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit ein attraktives Angebot zum Navimow i105E. Der Bestseller-Mähroboter ist zum neuen Bestpreis erhältlich. (Mähroboter, Technik/Hardware)