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The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending January 29, 2022, are in. The 4K SteelBook release of the 2014 vigilante action film, a Best Buy exclusive, was the week’s top-selling new release. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.
The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending January 29, 2022, are in. The 4K SteelBook release of the 2014 vigilante action film, a Best Buy exclusive, was the week's top-selling new release. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.
This probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it’s looking like you won’t be able to buy a 5G smartphone with the BlackBerry name on it anytime soon. A company called OnwardMobility had announced plans a few years ago to license the BlackBerry name and use it for an upcoming 5G Android phone with […]
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This probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it’s looking like you won’t be able to buy a 5G smartphone with the BlackBerry name on it anytime soon.
A company called OnwardMobility had announced plans a few years ago to license the BlackBerry name and use it for an upcoming 5G Android phone with a physical keyboard. Earlier this year, the company released a blog post to let us know… it’s not dead. But that BlackBerry-branded phone? It probably is.
CrackBerry founder Kevin Michaluk says that “multiple sources” tell him that the phone is dead “as of yesterday,” or February 9, 2022. And the folks at Android Police say they were able to independently confirm that with their own sources.
Apparently BlackBerry really, really wants out of the smartphone business. The company stopped developing its own operating system a while back, and released the BlackBerry Priv, the first and only BlackBerry-made smartphone to ship with Android software.
Then BlackBerry stopped making its own phones at all, instead licensing its name and some apps and services to third-party device makers who could produce Android phones and sell them under the BlackBerry brand. OnwardMobility was hoping to become the latest of those.
But it’s been a while since we’ve seen a new BlackBerry-branded phone, so far in 2022 we’ve seen BlackBerry:
Android Police suggests that the company wants “to further distance itself from its days as a smartphone vendor” and that the license granted to OnwardMobility to use the BlackBerry name has been canceled, and AndroidPolice indicates that without that license, the company has chosen not to continue working to bring its planned phone to market.
It’s possible that if global supply chain issues hadn’t caused delays in OnwardMobility’s plans to develop and bring a new BlackBerry phone to market, maybe it would have hit the streets by now. But a combination of those delays and BlackBerry’s shifting focus seem to have doomed the project.
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Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum reunite for the first time since 1993 film.
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum will reprise their 1993 roles in Jurassic World Dominion.
Cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely on the mainland as human beings face possible extinction in the official trailer for Jurassic World Dominion, the sixth installment in the hugely successful franchise. Universal Pictures describes the film as "a bold, timely and breathtaking new adventure that spans the globe," but what has everybody buzzing is the reappearance of the three stars of the original Jurassic Park.
That's right, Sam Neill's Dr. Alan Grant, Laura Dern's Dr. Ellie Sattler, and Jeff Goldblum's suave, black-clad Dr. Ian Malcolm will join Jurassic World co-stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in yet another thrilling battle between man and once-extinct beast. We haven't seen Neill's or Dern's characters since 2001's Jurassic Park III. Even better, they're major players in Dominion, not just making brief fan-pleasing cameos.
(Spoilers for prior films in the franchise below.)
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Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor in December, promising an enormous 85% performance boost over the company’s previous-gen chip for Windows laptops and tablets. So far no devices with the processor have officially launched. But leaked benchmarks for an unannounced Lenovo device suggested that the chip really might deliver on that promise, at […]
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Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor in December, promising an enormous 85% performance boost over the company’s previous-gen chip for Windows laptops and tablets.
So far no devices with the processor have officially launched. But leaked benchmarks for an unannounced Lenovo device suggested that the chip really might deliver on that promise, at least in synthetic tests. Now benchmarks for an unannounced Microsoft Surface device paint a similar picture. Unfortunately there’s no word on when you’ll actually be able to buy one, or if it will be competitively priced when compared to devices with latest Intel or AMD processors.
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Microsoft appears to be testing a Surface device with a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 processor, with performance that could rival a Core i7-1165G7… at least in benchmarks. Real-world performance remains to be seen. This comes a few months after a Lenovo device with the same processor showed up in a GeekBench listing with similar performance scores.
Some crowdfunding campaigns succeed. Others fail. And a lot fall in between, failing to fully deliver on their promises. Indiegogo has a new Trust-Proven Program to put a badge on campaigns from those with proven history of delivering.
The Precursor is a crowdfunded open hardware mobile device with a physical keyboard and an FPGA that was expected to ship in December, but delayed due to supply chain issues. Production began in December though, and it’s almost ready to go.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-22 is coming Feb 18 and UBports is looking for testers. Expected major Pixel 3a improvements, WebGL support on some devices, and other improvements.
Steam Deck teardown videos show that it’ll be fairly easy to add or replace the SSD or repair parts like the thumb sticks, one critical piece of hardware is glued down: the battery clearly isn’t designed to be replaced.
B&N is killing its standalone NOOK Audiobooks app and merging it with the B&N NOOK app and website, putting the company’s eBook, periodical, and audiobooks under a single brand.
Keep up on the latest headlines by following Liliputing on Twitter and Facebook and follow @LinuxSmartphone on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news on open source mobile phones.
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Shenzen-based Lilygo has added a slick new devkit to its product range, the TTGO T-Block. It’s a modular unit that lets makers add functionality by snapping different covers onto its diminutive base unit. The T-Block host measures roughly 1.5 inches square. Like a number of Lilygo’s dev boards, the T-Block utilizes an ESP32 low-power […]
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Shenzen-based Lilygo has added a slick new devkit to its product range, the TTGO T-Block. It’s a modular unit that lets makers add functionality by snapping different covers onto its diminutive base unit.
The T-Block host measures roughly 1.5 inches square. Like a number of Lilygo’s dev boards, the T-Block utilizes an ESP32 low-power SoC.
It’s clocked at 240Mhz and has 520KB of SRAM. It also offers 8MB of PSRAM and 16MB of onboard flash storage. SD and micro SD slots allow for expansion.
The T-Block also supports WiFi 4 Bluetooth LE 4.2 and 5.X. Power and programming are done via a single USB-C port which is located next a pair of buttons. One turns the unit on and off while the other is user-configurable.What makes the T-Block most interesting is the 20-pin connector on its top. It allows different covers that add a wide range of functions to be connected.Above, you can see the e-Paper display cover. Lilygo also offers an 8×8 LED cover, a rapid prototyping cover, a button cover, and a gas sensor cover.
There’s even a complete kit that turns the T-Block into a tiny turtle-like robot. It comes with collision sensors and a wheeled base that lets it scoot around.You can order a T-Block Host for just under $25 on ALiExpress, but you’ll need to purchase at least one cover. With the exception of the $16 e-Paper cover, they go for less than $3 a piece. The T-Block robot kit is listed at just under $40.via CNX Software
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Intel has been dividing its mainstream processors into two different pricing/performance tiers for years. There are mainstream and high-performance laptop, tablet, and desktop chips that are part of the company’s Core series (with the inclusion of some Celeron and Pentium Gold models at the cheaper end), and there are low-cost, low-power Celeron and Pentium Silver […]
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Intel has been dividing its mainstream processors into two different pricing/performance tiers for years. There are mainstream and high-performance laptop, tablet, and desktop chips that are part of the company’s Core series (with the inclusion of some Celeron and Pentium Gold models at the cheaper end), and there are low-cost, low-power Celeron and Pentium Silver chips based on Intel Atom architecture.
Now details about Intel’s next-gen low-power Celeron and Pentium Silver chips, code-named Alder Lake-N have started to leak.
These are the sorts of chips that are often found in Chromebooks and budget Windows laptops or mini PCs, and the most recent processors in this line are Intel’s Jasper Lake chips with Intel Tremont CPU cores, including the Intel Celeron N4500, Celeron N5100, and Pentium Silver N6000 processors.
But this year’s lineup could look a little different, with new chips featuring more CPU cores and higher-performance graphics. And you may be able to thank Intel’s new hybrid chips for that.
Intel’s 12th-gen Core processors, code-named Alder Lake, incorporate two different types of CPU cores: high performance CPU cores based on the new Golden Cove Core architecture and energy efficient chips based on the new Atom-based Gracemont architecture. The idea is that most Alder Lake chips can use the efficient cores to save power when they’re all that’s needed, use the performance cores when you need the extra power, and use all cores together for an even bigger boost in multi-core performance.
The new Gracemont CPU cores bring a pretty significant performance boost over Jasper Lake chips, offering the kind of horsepower you would have expected from a Core processor a few years ago. And Intel’s Alder Lake lineup pairs up to 8 of those CPU cores with one or more Golden Cove cores.
According to information gleaned from a partial boot log of an unannounced device with an Alder Lake-N processor, it looks like Alder Lake-N chips will basically be what you get if you take a 12th-gen Core processor and leave out the Golden Cove cores altogether.
That means you get up to 8 Gracemont CPU cores, with no support for hyperthreading, so an 8-core chip supports 8 threads.
It also looks like we can expect Alder Lake-N chips to feature Intel Gen12 integrated graphics with 32 execution units and support for encoding and decoding AV1, H.264, and H.265 videos as well as 8K video at 60 frames per second.
That could make laptops, tablets, or mini PCs with Alder Lake-N chips a good fit for home media center or digital signage applications, but you’re probably going to want to look elsewhere for gaming or video editing applications.
Intel hasn’t announce when Alder Lake-N chips will be available, but with the first laptops powered by 45-watt Alder Lake-H laptop processors just starting to ship and 28-watt Alder Lake-U and 9-15 watt Alder Lake-P devices having yet to ship at all, it will likely be a little while.
via Tom’s Hardware and Phoronix
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Who remembered that “Google Currents” was still available for businesses? Anybody?
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Google+ is dead—again! The consumer version of Google+ may have shut down in April 2019, but Google kept the service rolling as an enterprise-focused social network it rebranded "Google Currents." You need to pay for GSuite to use it, and only members of your organization can see the posts, so it is for private company announcements and discussions.
In the latest Google Workspace blog post, Google says that Currents is "winding down" starting in 2023. This is no surprise, since Google+ was a completely failed consumer product. Why Google thought pushing the dead service onto business would make Currents successful is unclear. (Hey, Google Stadia, does this sound familiar?) Google never really did anything with Currents after rebranding it as a business product. After rotting for years as a dead consumer product, Currents just rotted for a few more years with new business branding. What is surprising is that Google is pitching Google Chat as a replacement.
Google Chat is one of the latest Google messaging apps. Chat was originally conceived as a Slack competitor and later drafted into service as a replacement for the consumer Google Hangouts chat app. Google Chat is now also apparently a replacement for Google+, as Google will "bring remaining content and communities over to the new Spaces experience."
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New strategy aims to slash emissions without compromising readiness.
Enlarge / A US Bradley Fighting Vehicle drives during a joint military exercise between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria on December 7, 2021. The US Army is currently testing a version of the Bradley with a hybrid-electric drivetrain. (credit: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP)
The US Army released its climate change strategy this week, and it’s a lengthy document that shows how the largest and oldest branch of the military will not only prepare for climate change but will also zero out emissions from most of its operations and activities.
“We have a unique opportunity to improve our defense capabilities and become a more efficient force, while securing a better future,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said in an introduction to the report. “The Army is on track to build on the progress we’ve achieved to date and reach every aspect of the Army enterprise.”
The Army says that the goal isn’t just to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions—though that’s a key outcome—but also to make the force more resilient by “adapting infrastructure and natural environments to climate change risks.”
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A U.S. federal court has handed down a 40-month prison sentence to Gary Bowser, a member of the infamous Nintendo modding group Team-Xecuter. The prosecution requested a tougher sentence but celebrates the outcome as an important victory nonetheless. This is the first verdict in the Team-Xecuter case and two other defendants have yet to appear in a U.S court.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Hacking group Team-Xecuter has long been a thorn in the side of major gaming companies.
The group offered hardware and software solutions that allowed people to install and play games – including pirated copies – on various consoles such as the popular Nintendo Switch.
Nintendo had been trying to shut down the group for years but without much result. However, in 2020 the matter escalated when the US Government launched a criminal prosecution of three Team-Xecuter members, accusing them of facilitating copyright infringement.
Thus far only one of the three, a 52-year-old Canadian man named Gary Bowser, has appeared at a U.S. federal court. Bowser was arrested in the Dominican Republic, where he lived, and was later deported to the United States where he pleaded guilty.
According to the prosecution, Bowser was the “salesperson” of Team-Xecuter, where he dealt with resellers of the products. He was also known as “GaryOPA”, the operator of the website “MaxConsole”, which regularly reviewed Team-Xecuter hardware and other hacking tools.
As part of the guilty plea, Bowser accepted the possibility of a five-year prison sentence for conspiring to circumvent technological measures and trafficking in circumvention devices.
Last week, the U.S. Government stressed that a five-year prison term was indeed justified. Among other things, this would serve as a warning to others who are tempted to continue the work of Team-Xecuter.
Bowser’s attorneys disagreed and asked the court to limit the sentence to 19 months, of which 16 have already been served. They stressed that Bowser was not the mastermind behind the operation but was used by the people who earned the big bucks.
Today, District Court Judge Robert S. Lasnik chose the middle ground and sentenced Bowser to 40 months in prison. This comes on top of the $4.5 million in restitution he previously agreed to pay Nintendo.
“These are serious criminal offenses with real victims and harm to the community,” Judge Lasnik said.
In a press release, the U.S. Department of Justice describes Bowser as a prominent leader of the criminal enterprise. U.S. Attorney Nick Brown notes that during its lifespan the group caused an estimated $65 million in losses to gaming companies.
Today’s sentencing is seen as a key victory in the fight against gaming piracy. However, it doesn’t close the books on the criminal prosecution just yet, as the other two defendants have yet to be brought to justice.
This includes Max Louarn, a 49-year-old French national. He was reportedly placed in custody when the investigation was launched, but we haven’t heard any updates since. The third defendant, a Chinese man named Yuanning Chen, 36, is presumably still at large.
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