Month: April 2025

We've known for a few months now that the Nintendo Switch 2 will support backward compatibility for older Nintendo Switch games, and as of today's presentation, we also know that some Switch games will get special Switch 2 Editions that add new features and support higher resolutions and other features.

Nintendo's product pages for the Switch add more details, including the status of backward-compatibility testing for original Switch games and a small handful of first-party Switch games that will get "free updates" to enhance them for Switch 2.

First, some good news. There will be a second tier of updates for original Switch games that Nintendo says "may improve performance or add support for features such as GameShare in select games." These won't include the extra features or higher resolutions of Switch 2 Edition games, but they'll be available for free, and they ought to improve playability. Nintendo lists a dozen first-party Switch games that will benefit from free Switch 2 updates:

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Mit dem Prozessor kommen Schnittstellen wie Wi-Fi 7 und Bluetooth 6.0 in die browserbasierten Notebooks. ARM-typisch hohe Akkulaufzeit kommt dazu. (Mediatek, Prozessor)

Actor Val Kilmer—star of Top Gun, The Doors, and Batman Forever, among other roles—has died at the age of 65 of pneumonia, Deadline Hollywood reports.

Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 and while chemotherapy and two tracheotomies helped him defeat it, the procedures destroyed his voice. He spoke in a rasp or used an electric voice box for the remainder of his life and largely left acting. (He made a brief cameo in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, for which his voice was digitally altered.) The 2021 documentary Val, narrated by his son Jack Kilmer, followed his life and health struggles.

Kilmer had a reputation for being eccentric and difficult to work with, but he also had his champions, and his talent was undeniable. “While working with Val on Heat, I always marveled at the range, the brilliant variability within the powerful current of Val’s possessing and expressing character," Michael Mann, who directed the actor in 1995's Heat, told Deadline. "After so many years of Val battling disease and maintaining his spirit, this is tremendously sad news.”

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Mit der EU-KI-Verordnung gelten neue Vorgaben für den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz. Diese Onlineschulung zeigt, wie Unternehmen KI-Tools rechtskonform und effizient nutzen können - inklusive Zertifizierungsprüfung. (Golem Karrierewelt, KI)

Die Menschen sind nicht bereit, für Glasfaser mehr zu bezahlen. Der Netcologne-Chef warnte davor, sich vor der Kupferabschaltung zu fürchten. (Glasfaser, Mobilfunk)

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “This is how pandemics start.”

This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every continent except for Australia. Around the world, it has also affected diverse mammals including cats, goats, mink, tigers, seals, and dolphins. Thus far, the United States is the only nation with H5N1 in cows; it’s shown up in dairies in at least 17 states.

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In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle.

A dangerous bird flu, in other words, was suddenly circulating in mammals—mammals with which people have ongoing, extensive contact. “Holy cow,” says Thomas Friedrich, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “This is how pandemics start.”

This bird flu, which scientists call highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, is already at panzootic—animal pandemic—status, killing birds in every continent except for Australia. Around the world, it has also affected diverse mammals including cats, goats, mink, tigers, seals, and dolphins. Thus far, the United States is the only nation with H5N1 in cows; it’s shown up in dairies in at least 17 states.

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MediaTek’s ARM-based processors are often found in entry-level Chromebooks. But the company is taking aim at the premium Chromebook Plus platform with a new chip for high-performance laptops. The MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 is the first chip in the new Kompanio Ultra family, and it features 8 high-performance CPU cores, Immortalis-G925MC 11 graphics with support for […]

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The Nintendo Switch has been a wildly successful game console since it first launched in 2017. So what’s Nintendo planning for its next game console? Something similar… but bigger in just about every way that matters. The Nintendo Switch 2 will be available June 5 for $450. It goes up for pre-order on April 9. And it has […]

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Amazon bietet 33 Prozent Rabatt auf die Lexar NS100 SATA-SSD mit 256 GByte. Weitere Versionen sind ebenfalls günstiger. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)