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The thing about buying stuff from AliExpress is that you can’t always trust the product descriptions. When I wrote about a $350 mini-laptop with an 8 inch display and an Intel N100 processor last week, I took the description at face value. But o…
The thing about buying stuff from AliExpress is that you can’t always trust the product descriptions. When I wrote about a $350 mini-laptop with an 8 inch display and an Intel N100 processor last week, I took the description at face value. But our source for the original story now tells us that the little […]
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We speak to Oliver Hoffmann, Audi’s head of technical development.
Enlarge / The prototype of the Q6 e-tron is the first on the new Premium Platform Electric (PPE) technology architecture. (credit: Audi)
One of the auto industry trends I'm most excited about these days is the move to clean-sheet designs for car platforms and architectures. For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and so on. Now engineers and designers are rationalizing the way they go about building new models, taking advantage of much more powerful hardware to consolidate all those discrete functions into a small number of domain controllers.
The behavior of new cars is increasingly defined by software, too. This is merely the progression of a trend that began at the end of the 1970s with the introduction of the first electronic engine control units; today, code controls a car's engine and transmission (or its electric motors and battery pack), the steering, brakes, suspension, interior and exterior lighting, and more, depending on how new (and how expensive) it is. And those systems are being leveraged for convenience or safety features like adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, remote parking, and so on.
Of course, this only works if that software is any good. "There is absolutely no question that software has been treated like a stepchild—I always say the fifth wheel in the car. So like a necessity, but not something that has been managed with care," said Maria Anhalt, CEO of the automotive supplier Elektrobit, which develops digital systems and software for OEMs.
Judge wary of AI “hallucinations,” says it isn’t acceptable for legal briefing.
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A federal judge in Texas has a new rule for lawyers in his courtroom: No submissions written by artificial intelligence unless the AI's output is checked by a human. US District Judge Brantley Starr also ordered lawyers to file certificates attesting that their filings are either written or reviewed by humans.
"All attorneys appearing before the Court must file on the docket a certificate attesting either that no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, Harvey.AI, or Google Bard) or that any language drafted by generative artificial intelligence was checked for accuracy, using print reporters or traditional legal databases, by a human being," according to a new "judge-specific requirement" in Starr's courtroom.
A certification must be submitted for each case and would cover all filings in the case. A sample certification says the requirements apply to any language in a filing, "including quotations, citations, paraphrased assertions, and legal analysis."
Amazon is running a sale on some older (but still pretty decent) Samsung tablets. Best Buy is selling an Asus 14 inch laptop with a 2.8K OLED display for $550. And MSI is selling a 14 inch notebook with entry-level discrete graphics, 16GB of RAM and …
Amazon is running a sale on some older (but still pretty decent) Samsung tablets. Best Buy is selling an Asus 14 inch laptop with a 2.8K OLED display for $550. And MSI is selling a 14 inch notebook with entry-level discrete graphics, 16GB of RAM and 512GB for $600. Here are some of the day’s […]
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And snag a new laptop from HP, Lenovo, and Apple.
Now that summer is unofficially underway following the Memorial Day weekend, you can try to boldly go where no man has gone before to escape the heat. If you can't seek out new life and new civilizations, try embracing our humble planet with some stellar deals on Star Trek merchandise, like the replica U.S.S. Enterprise Bluetooth speaker or a new trivia game for the ultimate Trekkie. If you want to keep cool, a new air purifier will help circulate air and trap contaminants in its filter.
And even though the laptops and tablets in today's Dealmaster may not be as advanced as the U.S.S. Enterprise's library computer, you can still get plenty of work done on models from Lenovo, Apple, and HP. And like the tidy cockpit of the Enterprise, you can keep your workstation clean with some of our cable management deals.
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down. (credit: CBS)
The old IBM ThinkPads used a red-green-blue IBM logo for models with color screens. As monochrome models got phased out, that meant that they all had the multicolor logo. Lenovo can't slap an IBM logo on the 25th Anniversary ThinkPad, so it offered this version of the ThinkPad logo instead. (credit: Lenovo)
Just because it's USB-C doesn't mean you know which USB standard it uses. (credit: Scharon Harding)
Unlike in the smartphone app, you can tap into your Training Readiness score on the watch to see further details and graphs for each factor. (credit: Corey Gaskin)
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The Milk-V Mars is a credit card-sized single-board computer that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi. But instead of an ARM-based processor, this little PC sports a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor based on RISC-V architecture. It’s the …
The Milk-V Mars is a credit card-sized single-board computer that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi. But instead of an ARM-based processor, this little PC sports a 1.5 GHz StarFive JH7110 quad-core processor based on RISC-V architecture. It’s the latest in a line of RISC-V systems from Milk-V, and the company has been teasing the […]
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Colt bringt eine neue Seekabelverbindung von Europa in die USA, die stärker in europäischer Hand ist. Statt in New York landet man in New Jersey. Doch Google und Facebook sind dabei. (Seekabel, Glasfaser)
Google’s most successful hardware product ever is no longer supported.
The original Chromecast. (credit: Google)
Rest now, little Chromecast. Google has announced the decade-old Chromecast 1 is finally hitting end of life. A message on Google's Chromecast firmware support page (first spotted by 9to5Google) announced the wind-down of support, saying, "Support for Chromecast (1st gen) has ended, which means these devices no longer receive software or security updates, and Google does not provide technical support for them. Users may notice a degradation in performance." The first-gen Chromecast launched in 2013 for $35.
The original Chromecast was wildly successful and sold 10 million units in 2014 alone. For years, the device was mentioned in Google earnings calls as the highlight of the company's hardware efforts, and it was essentially the company's first successful piece of hardware. The Chromecast made it easy to beam Internet videos to your TV at a time when that was otherwise pretty complicated.
Google does not really make "Chromecasts" anymore—or at least it doesn't make products that use the original Chromecast technology stack. The original 2013 Chromecast, 2015's second-generation version, 2016's Chromecast Ultra, and 2018's third-gen versions are all dead-simple streaming sticks. They run the Cast OS, which is an ultra-lightweight OS cobbled together from bits of Chrome OS and Android. They have no default interface, they can't run apps, and they have no control mechanism of their own. Old-school Chromecasts exist solely as media receivers for the cast button in various apps like YouTube. You press the cast button in an app, pick a TV, and the screen turns on and starts playing media. That's it.
The MINISFORUM Venus NPB5 is a compact desktop computer with an Intel Core i5-13500H processor, support for DDR5-5200 memory, and up to two storage devices thanks to an M.2 2280 slot for PCIe 4.0 storage and a 2.5 inch drive or a hard drive or SSD. An…
The MINISFORUM Venus NPB5 is a compact desktop computer with an Intel Core i5-13500H processor, support for DDR5-5200 memory, and up to two storage devices thanks to an M.2 2280 slot for PCIe 4.0 storage and a 2.5 inch drive or a hard drive or SSD. And if it looks familiar, that’s because the little […]
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$15 billion valuation after Fidelity lowers value of its Twitter stake again.
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Twitter's value has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, slightly more than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022. The $15 billion valuation is based on Fidelity's latest analysis of its stake in the company.
"Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund's stake in Twitter was valued at $6.6 million as of April 28, according to the fund's monthly disclosure released Sunday," The Wall Street Journal wrote today. "That is down from about $19.7 million at the end of October, shortly after Musk's takeover, and the third time Fidelity has marked down the value of its Twitter stake, public disclosures show."
Fidelity's new calculation "puts Twitter's overall valuation at about $15 billion, or roughly a third of the deal price," the WSJ wrote. Twitter is identified in the Fidelity filing as X Holdings, the Musk-owned holding company that owns X Corp., which merged with Twitter. Fidelity's new valuation of Twitter was previously reported by Bloomberg.
Colt bringt eine neue Seekabelverbindung von Europa in die USA, die stärker in europäischer Hand ist. Statt in New York landet man in New Jersey. Doch Google und Facebook sind dabei. (
