Speed imposes a handling problem on us: The faster we are on the move, the stronger the increasing energy we have to be careful with. Because it is energy that can be dangerous to us if handled improperly. The former TopGear icon Jeremy Clarkson makes his very own contribution to the discussion: “Speed has never… Read more
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Speed kills? – traffic, speed and energy
AMD thinks of a CPU with integrated FPGAs: Xilinx effect?
The acquisition from 35 billions of dollars of Xilinx opens up new perspectives for AMD and its CPUs. The company, in a patent, talks about how to integrate FPGA elements into processors to accelerate specific features or perform other tasks. by Manolo De Agostini published 06 January 2021 , at 15: 01 in the Processors… Read more
read more...AMD's FPGA performance unit and GPU Chiplet patents tear the veil of the future
AMD’s Programmable Execution Unit (PEU) is intended to be placed in the processor core alongside existing integer and floating point units, and multi-chip GPU problems are to be solved with an interposer. AMD has recently released two new patents that shed light on the company’s current research areas and future plans. However, with regard to… Read more
read more...Top PCIe 4.0 SSDs of 2020!
2020 was the year that PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSDs truly arrived on the scene, bringing with them blisteringly fast performance. Unsurprisingly they make up the best SSD drives we seen this year. The only rather large fly in the ointment with PCIe Gen 4 drives, is that you need to (at the time of… Read more
read more...New in 2021: EU drone regulation requires registration
With the turn of the year, the EU regulation 2019 / 250 entered into force. This regulates the operation of “unmanned aircraft”, as it is called in official German. Specifically, we mean model airplanes, but above all the popular drones. The regulations now apply uniformly for the entire EU, as well as Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein… Read more
read more...Best drones for kids 2021: Get them flying with these beginner drones
(Pocket-lint) – Drones are absolutely loads of fun – they’re amazing ways to get stunning angles on landscapes you might know perfectly well, while also being frankly exhilarating to fly when they’re up to speed. However, many of them are also really expensive and fiddly to control. The best drones: Top rated quadcopters to buy,… Read more
read more...Crucial Ballistix Max DDR4-5100 C19 2x8GB Review: Blazing Speed Demon
Our Verdict The Ballistix Max DDR4-5100 could easily be anybody’s dream memory kit. However, the hardware requirements and the kit’s eye-watering price tag make it an extremely niche product. For Fastest memory kit on the market Fantastic XMP performance Fun to overclock Against Costs a small fortune Plug-n-Play is out of the question Steep hardware… Read more
read more...Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy
This past week, the US government made the single biggest, most impactful set of changes to drone law we’ve yet seen — ruling that almost every drone in US airspace will need to broadcast their locations, as well as the location of their pilots, in order to “address safety, national security, and law enforcement concerns… Read more
read more...“It must become unprofitable to breed a lot of cows!”
“It’s not about having to replace everything that people appreciate in a cow. But we have to replace enough of the profitable products of a cow that it becomes unprofitable to raise many cows. “Pat Brown, founder of the US company Impossible Foods, which produces plant burgers, is no longer just about an alternative to… Read more
read more...2020 Winners and Losers: Huawei and Honor
2019 was particularly bad for Huawei due to obvious reasons and at least some of us thought that 2020 would. Still, against all odds, Huawei managed to stay afloat and was even able to launch some great products ranging from headphones and smartwatches to smartphones and notebooks. Huawei had a big shift in its strategy… Read more
read more...Are jetpacks and flying bikes the future? Yes, according to Tim Draper (Tesla and SpaceX investor)
VTOL technologies could be the future of individual transport: investor Tim Draper is convinced of this and decides to invest in two companies that develop futuristic concepts of Andrea Bai published on 28 December 2020 , at 18: 21 in the Science and Technology channel Tim Draper , US investor known for financially participating in… Read more
read more...In 2023, you won’t be able to fly most drones in the US without broadcasting your location
If you intend to fly a drone in the US, you’re going to want to pay attention: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) just issued the single biggest set of changes to US drone law since the agency first took an interest in the technology. With the proper license, you’ll soon be able to fly at… Read more
read more...Space probe Solar Orbiter flies past Venus
On its mission to the sun, the Solar Orbiter probe flew very close to Venus. According to the European space agency Esa it was on Sunday at 11: 39 clock (and 20 seconds) Central European Time only 7448 kilometers from Venus. “Everything went smoothly, there were no problems,” said the head of the Esa mission… Read more
read more...rC3: Cory Doctorow warns of “digital equivalents of the atomic bomb”
Science fiction author Cory Doctorow called for stricter antitrust regulations, especially for interoperable online services, at the remote Chaos Communication Congress (rC3) on Sunday in order to maintain competition in the digital age. With the five greats of US surveillance capitalism – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (GAFAM) – “the worst nightmares” of the… Read more
read more...Forty years have passed as one day, that is, the favorite games of a forty-year-old once again. They used to make good games
Just over twenty years ago, PC owners did not have an easy life, especially if they were players. On the one hand, the entire market departed from MS-DOS, on the other hand, the fifth generation of consoles (mainly Sony PlayStation) was mixed up a lot, and on the third, the most popular PC software platform,… Read more
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