Month: March 2025

Anzeige: Moderne Webentwicklung mit React, Typescript und Next.js

Moderne Webanwendungen müssen performant, skalierbar und SEO-optimiert sein. Ein Workshop zeigt, wie mit React, Typescript und Next.js produktionsreife Applikationen entstehen – mit Hands-on-Übungen und Best Practices. (Golem Karrierewelt, Programmiers…

Moderne Webanwendungen müssen performant, skalierbar und SEO-optimiert sein. Ein Workshop zeigt, wie mit React, Typescript und Next.js produktionsreife Applikationen entstehen - mit Hands-on-Übungen und Best Practices. (Golem Karrierewelt, Programmiersprachen)

Google solves its mysterious Pixel problem, announces 9a launch date

Google has sorted out its Pixel problems and will begin the 9a rollout on April 10.

Google revealed the Pixel 9a last week, but its release plans were put on hold by a mysterious "component quality issue." Whatever that was, it's been worked out. Google now says its new budget smartphone will arrive as soon as April 10. The date varies by market, but the wait is almost over.

The first wave of 9a releases on April 10 will include the US, Canada, and the UK. On April 14, the Pixel 9a will arrive in Europe, launching in Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland. On April 16, the phone will come to Australia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

You may think that takes care of Google's launch commitments, but no—Japan still has no official launch date. That's a bit strange, as Japan is not a new addition to Google's list of supported regions. It's unclear if this has anything to do with the previous component issue. Google says only that the Japanese launch will happen "soon." Its statements about the issue that delayed release are also vague, with representatives noting that the cause was a "passive component."

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MeLE Quieter 4C fanless mini PC gets an Intel N150 “Twin Lake” spec bump

The MeLE Quieter 4C is a fanless mini PC that’s small enough to fit in a pocket, but versatile enough to be used for a wide variety of applications. It can be connected to up to three displays, supports up 32GB of onboard RAM, and has an M.2 2280…

The MeLE Quieter 4C is a fanless mini PC that’s small enough to fit in a pocket, but versatile enough to be used for a wide variety of applications. It can be connected to up to three displays, supports up 32GB of onboard RAM, and has an M.2 2280 slot for user-replaceable PCIe 3.0 NVMe storage. […]

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Rebellion: Atomfall strahlt ordentlich

Konkurrenz für Fallout und Stalker: Das in einer offenen Welt angesiedelte Atomfall startet mit guten Nutzerbewertungen und Tests. (Atomfall, Steam)

Konkurrenz für Fallout und Stalker: Das in einer offenen Welt angesiedelte Atomfall startet mit guten Nutzerbewertungen und Tests. (Atomfall, Steam)

Corning’s new Apple-like ceramic glass might save your next phone from disaster

Gorilla Glass Ceramic will be appear on its first phone in the coming months.

As a society, we have decided to carry expensive electronic devices that are made out of glass. It's a real problem, especially if you have butter fingers. Gorilla Glass maker Corning has announced a new material that might help save the day the next time you drop a phone. The company claims its latest Gorilla Glass Ceramic can withstand drops that would shatter lesser materials.

As the name implies, Corning's new glass incorporates ceramic components to improve strength compared to other types of hardened glass. Corning has offered a bit of data to support this claim. In its lab tests (PDF), Gorilla Glass Ceramic withstood 10 drops from one meter onto surfaces that closely resemble asphalt. Why Corning does not use real asphalt for this test is unclear. Regardless, the company says an unspecified "competitive" type of aluminosilicate glass would typically fail on the first drop.

Chemically strengthened glass has been a key component in the proliferation of smartphones across the world. Since the company provided the glass for that first iPhone back in 2007, it has made glass for more than 7 billion devices. That makes Corning the largest glass supplier in the mobile industry, but it does face increasing competition in the budget and midrange segments.

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Trump annoyed the Smithsonian isn’t promoting discredited racial ideas

New executive order slams museum for recognizing “race is not a biological reality.”

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order that took aim at one of the US's foremost cultural and scientific institutions: the Smithsonian. Upset by exhibits that reference the role of racism, sexism, and more in the nation's complicated past, the order tasks the vice president and a former insurance lawyer (?) with ensuring that the Smithsonian Institution is a "symbol of inspiration and American greatness"—a command that specifically includes the National Zoo.

But in the process of airing the administration's grievances, the document specifically calls out a Smithsonian display for accurately describing our current scientific understanding of race. That raises the prospect that the vice president will ultimately demand that the Smithsonian display scientifically inaccurate information.

Grievance vs. science

The executive order, entitled "Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History," is filled with what has become a standard grievance: the accusation that, by recognizing the many cases where the US has not lived up to its founding ideals, institutions are attempting to "rewrite our nation's history." It specifically calls out discussions of historic racism, sexism, and oppression as undercutting the US's "unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness."

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