A typical tenement on a multi-lane connecting road in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The mailboxes are taped up, not all apartments have been renovated. An unusual place for a premiere: For the first time, an “intelligent measuring system” consisting of a modern meter and a few centimeter communication unit “Smarty” aka smart meter gateway will be installed in the basement of the unglamorous five-storey building in the east of the capital.
What is missing: In the rapid world of technology, there is often time to rearrange the many news and backgrounds. At the weekend we want to take it, follow the sidewalks away from the current, try different perspectives and make nuances audible.
Silke – the “safe supply chain” The fitter appears shortly after 8 a.m. In the delivery truck there is a large black box with a striking locking unit. Unsuspecting observers could assume that pharmaceuticals were being delivered in a hurry, that an organ donation was being transported or that a well-shielded explosive charge was being carried out. The technician enters a one-time PIN on a separate keyboard unit and holds it up to a sensor on the box. After a beep, the lock opens with a click and reveals a view of a somewhat lost-looking smart meter.
Silke, the “secure supply chain”, is to blame for the cumbersome procedure. The metering point operator – in this case Discovergy – must adhere to this from the warehouse to the distribution box. As an alternative to the special delivery box, the installer could still carry the gateway on his man at best. On “Smarty” itself, the federal eagle is emblazoned above the abbreviation BSI along with a device number. The imprint indicates that the manufacturer Sagemcom Dr. Neuhaus had the gateway certified by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
Internet connection – too error-prone and expensive via power line After installation in the basement of the house, which takes around an hour one of the three LED lights on the left side lights up blue next to “TLS”. It signals that there is a channel secured with the encryption protocol Transport Layer Security to the central IT platform of Discovergy in Heidelberg via mobile radio.
The measured values transmitted in this way end up in a room equipped with surveillance cameras in development – and support center on the Neckar, to which “only authorized persons with extra keys” have access, as Dennis Nasrun, Head of Energy at Discovergy, explains. “There the data is stored in a strongly encrypted way, then it comes to our backend” and from there to a special portal via web or app for customers.
Dennis Nasrun – Head of Energy Management at Discovergy
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It is becoming apparent that roaming in a basement If there is no reception from the partner, the installer tries first with different antennas and extension cables in order to get out of the meter cabinet and, if necessary, from a warehouse shielded with a steel door. If none of this is of any use, there is still an Ethernet connection via a HAN connection (Home Area Network). Powerline doesn’t support Discovergy, says Nasrun. Even with the currently generated around megabytes per month, data transmission via power line is not only quite expensive, but also “very error-prone”.
Düsseldorf is taking an unusual approach to expanding the Internet. In the future, the city wants to lay pipes with its municipal companies, which the network operator Vodafone then rents and fiber optic cables in. The city announced a corresponding cooperation agreement on Sunday. In addition, Vodafone should have easier access to mobile phone locations in city buildings, such as fire stations, and the approval procedure should be shortened. According to the company, which operates nationwide, the cooperation has a pioneering role for Germany, only in Cologne there is a similar cooperation.
Scarce civil engineering capacities – city solves the problem So far, Vodafone has laid the internet lines itself, but sometimes finds civil engineering companies as contractors with great difficulty. By contrast, the city has easier access through its municipal operations. “The scarce civil engineering capacities slow down the expansion of fiber optics in this country,” said Vodafone Germany boss Hannes Ametsreiter. Now you can “release the brake” together. “We are now launching a new model with the city of Düsseldorf and are accelerating the process to quickly and easily launch LTE and 5G in urban areas,” said the manager.
Düsseldorf’s Mayor Stephan Keller (CDU) said: “An efficient and comprehensive broadband supply is the basis of all efforts in digitization.” The expansion of the digital infrastructure is a joint task for which his city enters into partnerships with telecommunications companies.
Gigabit connection of all households in Düsseldorf in 5 years The cooperation is intended to accelerate the expansion of the fiber optic network and thus both the gigabit-capable landline internet and the mobile network coverage – mobile radio stations also need a connection to the fiber optic network or a link via directional radio. In five years at the latest, all households, companies and institutions in Düsseldorf should have access to the fiber optic network and thus to the fast Internet. The network coverage in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia is already good overall, but especially in the peripheral areas there is still weak mobile phone reception or slow network connections in some places.
(Pocket-lint) – For many, the days of just building a spaceship out of Lego or playing a game of Monopoly are long gone.
Today, kids want interactive tech toys that are powered by an app or that connect to the internet. They want animals that learn and grow as you play with them, or robots that will answer back.
The best coding toys: From robots to iPad games, these toys will help teach your kids to code
And thankfully, toy manufacturers are happy to oblige. There are plenty of different tech toys to suit all ages – maybe even for yourself.
We’ve played, poked, crashed, and tested a wide range of crazy and sometimes scary toys, to bring you a list of the best tech toys around right now.
Our pick of the best tech toys to buy today
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Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
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This is an amazing new toy from the genius minds at Nintendo, and lets you have all the fun of playing Mario Kart but in your real-life home. You’ll set up tracks around your rooms before playing them out using the Nintendo Switch.
The karts have cameras on them to give you a Mario’s-eye view of things, and you can pick up Mario or Luigi karts for multiplayer racing, if you like. This looks like it might be one of the hot toys of the year.
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Upriser Ducati
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The humble remote control car has been around for years, and while we occasionally see remote-controlled bikes they’ve always got wheel-supports on them to stop them falling over. Spin Master has solved that problem with this new Ducati remote-controlled bike that has a number of gyros inside it to keep it upright no matter what you do with it. Capable of going up to 20km an hour and performing wheelies, it isn’t cheap, but by the eighth doughnut you won’t care.
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Tonies
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This toy brings the “Game-to-life” concept found in video games like Skylanders and Disney Infinity to storybooks. At its heart, it is a padded speaker that comes with various children’s book character figurines that can be placed on top to start reading the story. Tap the side and it skips to the next track – a game or song or such like, while removing the toy stops the book altogether.
There are two types of character figurines; ones with pre-loaded stories and others, called “creative-tonies”, that are blank so you can load your own MP3 tracks on them.
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Artie 3000
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A new coding robot that likes to draw, Artie 3000 can be programmed to draw a range of pre-programmed shapes, or simply whatever you can come up with. Reminiscent of the drawing turtle from the 1980s, it’s a simple to use and code robot. Kids will be able to program the robot via a PC, Mac, or tablet and Artie includes a number of games so it’s not all work, work, work.
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Osmo
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Bringing traditional play to iOS, Osmo creates a number of interactive games that use an iPad as the gaming board, while also using the tablet’s on board camera to see what you are doing. Games include Coding Jam, which uses physical coding blocks to solve on screen puzzles, and even gives your child the opportunity to manage a pizza shop, which encourages maths. Osmo also offers simpler, but still very clever learning apps, like drawing, basic maths and English.
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Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit
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With this coding kit, Harry Potter fans can follow step-by-step instructions to build a wand, which includes a gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer so that it can track location, speed, and the position of a hand. The sensors allow the wand to detect the motions of spells in the Harry Potter world, and then kids can use the wand to do Harry Potter-related challenges inside the Kano app.
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Beasts of Balance
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It’s a stacking game that uses an iPad, iPhone, or Apple TV app to help give it an extra dimension and marries brilliantly traditional gaming with a technological twist. The end result is great fun as you not only challenge of balancing the numerous array of beautifully crafted animals on the included scales, but as you do so seeing what creatures you can create by adding different counters and animals. Anyone for a Hogtopus? Yes, that’s a beast that’s half warthog half octopus if were wondering. The game ends when you can’t stack anymore.
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Furreal Roarin’ Tyler
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Roar at Roarin’ Tyler and he’ll answer back. The cute, fluffy tiger cub comes with 100 different sound and motion combinations and reacts to all manner of touches and noises. If that wasn’t enough to interest you, the tiger cub can also move his eyes, ears, head, mouth and tail. Hasbro even throws in a toy chicken so he won’t try to eat your TV remote control.
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Luvabella
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This very life-like baby doll will need feeding, putting to sleep and tickling if you are to get along. While that’s the same with most dolls, the difference here with Luvabella is the true-to-life facial expressions that will have you thinking she’s real – rather worryingly. She’ll even play peek-a-boo.
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Hatchimals Surprise
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With Hatchimals Surprise you get two little critters keen to break out of the shell rather than just the one. The aim of the toy is to nurture each Hatchimal with love in order to help it hatch. When they do come into the brave new world, the owner must help them progress from baby to toddler to kid. The twins, as they are known, can identify one another, share secrets, play games and dance.
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Sphero Mini
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Sphero Mini is a smaller version of the original app-enabled robot toy, only even smaller. The size of ping pong ball, you can control it with different modes in the Sphero Mini app, or you can just use your face thanks to a new feature called Face Drive. This uses your facial expressions to steer the ball.
Sphero Mini sports a little gyroscope, accelerometer and LED lights, as well as bright, interchangeable shells. It uses Micro USB charging and gives you about one-hour of play after an hour of full charging. It also comes with three mini traffic cones and six mini bowling pins for different games.
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Little Bits R2-D2
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Using LittleBits’ electronic blocks technology and the free Droid Inventor app, kids big and small will be able to teach their R2 Unite robot new tricks and take it on more than 16 missions across the Star Wars universe. Kids can even level-up their inventor expertise and reconfigure their droid to give it new skills, allowing it to be controlled by The Force or similar. The Droid inventor Kit comes with everything kids need to create and customise their R2 Unite straight out of the box.
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Boxer AI robot
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Boxer is not only is he diminutive and hand-sized, but he can pull off impressive tricks with a personality usually associated with larger and more expensive toys.
He has an expressive dot-matrix face that offers expressions and interactions with the player. He can detect movement in front of him and respond to it in a variety of ways. Following fingers or kicking a small ball around are just the tip of the iceberg. A range of cards can be scanned to set him playing a wide variety of games. Best of all you don’t need a smartphone to play with him.
We already knew that Spider-Cat was going to be the true hero of Spider-Man: Miles Morales, but with the PS5 game’s launch yesterday, we’re learning new things about this furry sidekick. Specifically, that he takes a pet, like no problem.
Video shared by the excellent and informative Twitter account @CanYouPetTheDog shows Spider-Cat getting a pet in-game, along with a very familiar line of dialogue. (You can also see the line at around 52 minutes in this playthrough video by YouTuber H20Delirious.)
If the phrase isn’t ringing any bells, it comes from this video below, itself from another excellent Twitter account, @Bodegacats_, in which an unseen New Yorker gives his authoritative review of one of the city’s feline vagabonds.
The phrase itself never quite hit full-blown meme status, but it’s recognizable enough for a certain section of the internet. Hell, in our original post about Spider-Cat in October, we even hoped it would feature in the game, noting: “Now if only some NPCs can approach Spider-Cat and declare that it ‘takes a pet, like no problem,’ things will really be looking up for 2020.” And well, what do you know, some things really have improved since then.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales launched on PS5 on November 12th. For more details about the game, you can check out our full review.
Many Mac users reported that their computers have been running slower than usual on Thursday — including a number of Verge staffers — with apps launching slowly or not at all, alongside other Apple service issues.
It appears that the problem is due to many people rushing to download macOS Big Sur, which was officially released today, which in turn seems to have crashed Apple’s OCSP (online certificate status protocol) service — which is used for several key aspects of macOS, including validating digital certificates for both Apple and third-party software on the Mac, as Ars Technica reports.
Hey Apple users:
If you’re now experiencing hangs launching apps on the Mac, I figured out the problem using Little Snitch.
It’s trustd connecting to https://t.co/FzIGwbGRan
Denying that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure.
(Disconnect internet also fixes.) pic.twitter.com/w9YciFltrb
— Jeff Johnson (@lapcatsoftware) November 12, 2020
Apple’s status site notes that the company had resolved an issue earlier today that may have prevented users from downloading macOS software updates, although it hasn’t been confirmed that the Big Sur update was the cause of the outage. The company also reported issues with iMessage and full-blown outages with Maps routing and navigation as well as its traffic tracking, which may have been related to the OSCP failure, too.
Mac and iOS developer Panic reports corroborates the reports, noting that the downed service had disabled Apple’s Gatekeeper technology, which checks validity of apps when you try to launch them. Panic also reports that the issue appears to be resolved, but it’s not clear if things have totally cleared up for everyone yet.
Looks like, when apps are launched, Gatekeeper is unable to check their validity over the internet, due to overwhelmed Apple servers. So, uh, let’s all hang in there! You got this, Apple devops!
— Panic (@panic) November 12, 2020
Apple didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
A US prime time outage of more than an hour on YouTube shocked users worldwide. Many initially suspected a problem with their WLAN or Internet provider, but according to information from heise online it was a failed configuration update of the Google server that made the user look down the drain in the figurative sense.
The problem occurred early Thursday morning around 1: 15 Clock German time presumably worldwide, we were able to verify the failure in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. While the web servers continued to work without any problems, so that the entry page, the search function, channel pages and also YouTube Studio were still available and functioning normally, no more videos could be played.
All videos from the platforms YouTube Video, YouTube Music and YouTube TV were affected. YouTube confirmed the problem for YouTube Video after a few minutes on its Twitter channel, and almost an hour later also explicitly for the YouTube TV platform, although, according to our research, no more videos could be viewed there from the start.
Redirects An analysis carried out by heise online during the incident revealed that Google had a problem with the redirector of its video platform googlevideo.com would have. The redirector is responsible for redirecting the player to the actual storage location of the video file via HTTP status code 15 (“Moved Temporarily”). Apparently the redirector could no longer access its video database and only provided the HTTP status code 502 (“Bad Gateway”) for more than an hour. Users only saw black or, if an ad was to be displayed, an indefinite error message on a dark gray background.
For YouTube Content Creators is not only able to see the downtime of more than an hour in the access statistics, it is also immediately reflected in their income.
The Google employees only succeeded after almost two hours to fix the problem. The incident cost content creators with a predominantly American audience a lot of money that they would normally have earned at prime time from access by their viewers – the break-in can be clearly seen in YouTube Analytics.
Google has not yet made any cause Information. As heise online learned from a trustworthy source, a configuration update was introduced at Google at the same time (“configuration push”), which obviously went wrong and could not be easily reversed. At three o’clock German time, YouTube was back on track. (mid)
Apple has finally introduced its first Macs with processors it designed itself: a 13-inch MacBook Air, a 13-inch MacBook Pro, and a Mac mini. Apple is promising significant performance benefits over Intel processors and, for the laptops, a huge increase in battery life. (To give you an idea of the level of improvement Apple is touting, Apple claims the new MacBook Pro can get up to 20 hours of battery life.)
They’ll also be able to natively run iOS apps, meaning Macs will theoretically have a lot more software options right from the jump. But before you turn those exciting promises into a preorder, you should know there’s still a big question mark hanging over the new computers.
A render of the Apple M1 embedded in a tiny MacBook motherboard.Image: Apple
The reason they can natively run iOS apps is because the new Apple M1 is based on the Arm instruction set, just like your smartphone, instead of the x86-64 instructions used in Macs and Windows PCs. But the reverse is also true: we’re currently taking Apple’s word that existing Mac apps will work well when they don’t run natively. Yesterday’s was the second presentation in a row where we saw canned demos and unlabeled graphs instead of actual benchmarks and performance comparisons.
We know what we’re getting with Intel. With Arm, we don’t. And while there are good reasons to think Apple has figured it out, history hasn’t always been kind to other manufacturers who have tried Arm-based computers.
Back in 2012, Microsoft launched an Arm-based version of its new-at-the-time Surface tablet, dubbed the Surface RT. It was a thin computer / tablet hybrid, and at $499, it seemed like a promising new Arm-based device.
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Confusingly, though, the Surface RT didn’t run the also-new-at-the-time Windows 8. Instead, it ran Windows RT, which was a stripped-down version of Windows 8 that couldn’t run traditional Windows programs. Even Microsoft support reps had trouble explaining what would and wouldn’t work on Windows RT. That confusion probably contributed to the Surface RT’s eventual failure. In its fiscal Q4 2013 earnings, Microsoft recorded a $900 million loss because of Surface RT “inventory adjustments.”
The Surface RT’s failure didn’t stop Microsoft from making more runs at Arm-based Surface computers, though. The company released the Surface Pro X last year, which has an Arm processor co-developed by Microsoft and Qualcomm. We thought the hardware looked great, and once again, the Arm processor let Microsoft make it thinner than the Intel-powered Surface Pro. But while Windows itself was well-optimized for Arm, many apps were slower than they would be on an Intel computer and some didn’t work at all.
Tom Warren found that a newer second-generation Surface Pro X had fewer app compatibility issues than the original, but some apps still didn’t work, including Adobe’s Creative Cloud (with Photoshop and Lightroom).
The Lenovo Flex 5G, one of the rare Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx laptops to make it to market.Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge
It’s not just Microsoft that has struggled with Arm-based computers. Samsung released the Surface-like Galaxy Book 2 in 2018, but you likely won’t be shocked to hear that The Verge’s Dan Seifert had problems running certain apps. My colleague Cameron Faulkner ran into similar issues while reviewing the Lenovo Flex 5G in July. Microsoft is still working to improve Windows’ app compatibility on Arm with x64 emulation. We’re optimistic, but we’re not close to recommending Windows on Arm over Windows on Intel options. And while budget Google Chromebooks can often run perfectly well on Arm, most have adopted Intel and AMD these days.
Apple seems extremely confident in its transition to Arm-based processors, though. Apple has already removed all Intel-based MacBook Airs from its product lineup — despite introducing a new Intel-based Air back in March. While Microsoft, Lenovo, Samsung, and others have always offered a choice between Arm and Intel, Apple expects to transition the whole Mac product line to Apple silicon in about two years.
The company’s sending a clear message that Arm is the future of Mac, and big software companies like Microsoft and Adobe are already listening: Photoshop is coming next year, Lightroom is coming next month, and Microsoft Office is on the way. Other developers who want to make Mac apps are also going to have to get on board.
Apple may be able to avoid some of the same app-compatibility traps other manufacturers have run into. Microsoft, for example, badly assumed developers would embrace its Windows Store by releasing universal apps that would work across both Arm and Intel. That’s an option for Apple developers, too, but the company also has its Rosetta 2 that can translate apps designed for Intel chips to Arm when you first install them, or on the fly afterward if necessary. Apple says some Intel apps can even run faster on its new chip that way, at least compared to the Intel chips in its previous-gen Macs.
And again, M1 is able to run the vast library of iOS apps natively, giving users access to a huge potential volume of functional apps — though you’ll need to sling a pointer around because the Macs don’t have a touchscreen.
I’m very interested to see if these new Macs are as good as Apple promises they’ll be, as I think I’m going to be in the market for a new Apple laptop soon. My personal Mac is an early 2014 11-inch MacBook Air. I love it, but it’s starting to chug on basic internet browsing and the battery can’t hold a charge for much more than an hour or two.
If the new MacBooks are as capable as Apple says they are and can run most apps without much issue, they might be hard for me to pass up. The MacBook Air, in particular, caught my eye, as I currently use my old MacBook Air mostly for surfing the web and writing.
But if there are just as many app-compatibility issues as other Arm-based computers have run into, I might try to squeeze another year out of my beloved personal machine and wait for developers to catch up. I wouldn’t consider an Intel-based Mac anymore, though, as Apple seems fully committed to this transition to its own silicon.
The Bonn Regional Court convicted the Internet company 1 & 1 for a data protection breach, but significantly reduced the originally imposed fine of 9.6 million euros. 1 & 1 should now 900. 000 pay euros, as the court decided on Wednesday. The fault of the company from Montabaur in Rhineland-Palatinate in the release of customer data is low, the court announced.
The data protection violation occurred to call a woman on the 1 & 1 hotline in the year 2018. The stalker got her ex-husband’s new cell phone number just by giving his name and date of birth – that shouldn’t have happened. The Federal Data Protection Commissioner Ulrich Kelber (SPD) saw this lax authentication process as a grossly negligent violation of articles 32 and imposed a fine of millions. The company went to court against this.
Only one individual case The General Data Protection Regulation requires companies to take appropriate technical and organizational measures to systematically protect the processing of personal data. 1 & 1 admitted the data protection violation, but presented it as an isolated case – and not as a systematic problem. In addition, the fine imposed by Kelber was disproportionately high.
In the matter there was a data protection violation, the court decided. However, it is only a matter of a minor offense, which could not have led to “the mass disclosure of data to unauthorized persons”. Since the authentication practice practiced at 1 & 1 for years was not objected to before the fine was issued, the necessary awareness of the problem was lacking. The court announced on Wednesday that the court followed the BfDI’s view on essential points. The judgment shows that data protection violations are not without consequences. “I am convinced that this decision will be noticed in the boardrooms of companies,” said Kelber. “I am still waiting for the written justification of the judgment, but it is already clear: No company can afford to neglect data protection any longer.”
Intel is now using the new graphics processor architecture Xe on the PCIe card H3C XG 265 for servers. This card as well as many other Intel computing accelerators with x 75, FPGA and KI processors can be controlled via the standardized oneAPI programming interface . OneAPI should appear as a gold release in December and make it easier for developers to work with many tools, including porting CUDA software.
Video streaming accelerator On Intel’s H3C-XG 310 there are four Xe-LP graphics processors and a PCIe switch.
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An estimated 75 percent of the total Internet data traffic is accounted for by video streaming; Cloud servers and the machines in the hyperscale data centers of the social networks are busy decoding, encoding and transcoding video data streams.
For this purpose, Intel has announced the server “graphics card” (Server GPU) H3C XG 310, which is equipped with four Xe-GPUs of the type Low Power (Xe-LP). It has hardware units for encoding and decoding MPEG-2, AVC (H. 264), HEVC (H. 265), VP9 and can decode AV1. A card should process around 60 video streams in parallel.
The Xe-LP-GPU is plugged in also in Intel’s Iris Xe MAX for notebooks alias DG1.
oneAPI and better Linux drivers Intel wants to better support programmers of AI and video streaming applications for servers, among other things with the mentioned oneAPI. In Intel’s DevCloud, developers can gain experience with hardware and programming examples. In addition, Intel has significantly improved the Linux drivers for the Xe GPU compared to older drivers according to their own information.
(Pocket-lint) – Fortnite is undeniably one the widest-reaching cultural phenomena of recent years — there’s no way you haven’t heard of it. It’s transcended games, in fact, and as a result we’re fully immersed in a boom of great merchandise from the game.
Best Battle Royale games: Winner winner, chicken dinner?
Want to pilot your very own battle bus around you back yard? No problem. Need your very own loot llama to get some more goodies to play with? We can sort you out.
We’ve gathered together a selection of the very best Fortnite gear we’ve spotted anywhere on the internet, all of it available for you to buy. There’s plenty here to put on your wish lists.
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Fortnite ATK Vehicle RC Car
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Long gone are the days of having to trudge around Fortnite’s map without a vehicle to speed up your progress. Ever since vehicles came in the game has sped up, and now you can have your own vehicular fun in real life, with this cheerful remote-controlled buggy.
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Nerf Fortnite Blasters
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Hasbro and Epic Games have entered into a partnership to build Nerf blasters based on in-game Fortnite designs.
Their first collaboration results in the Nerf Fortnite Elite AR-L and SP-L Blasters. The larger of the two features rapid-fire motorised blasting, flip-up sights, a 10-dart clip and 20 Elite darts, but there are a bunch more models to pick from if you prefer a different blaster.
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Fortnite Llama Popsocket
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Popsockets are neat little gadgets that make holding your phone in one hand much easier. There are several different options to choose from, including, of course, this Fortnite Popsockets stand, which features that ridiculous loot llama
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Fortnite Boogie Bomb Desk Lamp
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In the game, the Boogie Bomb is a projectile you toss into a room of enemies (they’ll hop around five seconds while you take up a position to kill them). This 3D holographic lamp gives you a groovy version of the weapon to place wherever you want it in your home.
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Fortnite Duvet Cover and Pillow Case
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If someone in your household is obsessed with Fortnite to the point where they’re dreaming about it, you could help out with this cute duvet cover and pillowcase set, to let them show their passion.
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Fortnite Monopoly
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Of course, Fortnite’s partnership with Hasbro resulted in an edition of the Monopoly game inspired by the game! With this, it’s not about what players own; it’s about how long they battle their opponents and avoid the storm to survive.
Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Max Freeman-Mills.
In December of this year Intel will publish oneAPI in its version 1.0, a new development software platform, announced last year, with which they want to unify different accelerators such as CPUs, GPUs, FGAs and other chips for more specific tasks. This release is part of the company’s new strategy and its approach towards what they call XPUs (CPUs, GPUS, FGAs and other accelerators) from their previous strategy of focusing on CPUS.
It will consist of a set of basic tools, called I ntel oneAPI Base Toolkit, where the core of the software is included, including different compilers, compatibility, debug and analysis tools, as well as high-performance libraries and other tools with which to get the most out of XPUs without the need for a software specific development for each one. All this under the umbrella of the Data Parallel C ++ programming language.
oneAPI will allow to port applications for other platforms such as CUDA in a simple way
Although the oneAPI language will be DPC ++, the compatibility tools will allow converting from other languages and environments.
For example, an application like EasyWave, written in CUDA for NVIDIA GPU accelerators, will be able to port to oneAPI quickly and will be optimized to work on all types of Intel architectures, from CPUs, to GPUs and FPGAs or even third-party architectures.
The OneAPI Toolkits include a tool designed for artificial intelligence (AI Analytics Toolkit), designed for researchers and developers of and AI. In addition, OpenVINO Toolkit will allow to take advantage of the acceleration in deep learning environments in the process of inference and computerized vision.
Additionally, the company will launch Toolkits specific to different environments, such as the oneAPI HPC ToolKit intended for high-performance computers and servers, with optimizations for environments and languages like Fortran, OpenMP, MPI and the like. Another Toolkit available will be oneAPI IoT, designed for Internet of Things devices and environments ranging from smart homes up to aerospace or medical industry.
Thought for graphics we will have the oneAPI Rendering Toolkit, with an orientation towards display systems, for both leisure and industry, entertainment, research, etc.
Specifically, oneAPI will support, within the Windows and Linux ecosystems, much of Intel’s architectures, from Intel Core to Atom and Xeon, in addition to its Gen 9 graphics, Iris Xe and variants and its Stratix and Arria FPGAs:
CPUs – Intel® Xeon®, Core ™, Atom, and supported processors
As expected, Intel has to make an announcement in the server area shortly before the end of the year. However, this is not the new Xeon generation based on Ice Lake, but an Intel server GPU. This has also been announced in the recent past, because like the integrated graphics unit of the Tiger Lake processors and the dedicated Iris-Xe-Max-GPU, it is based on the Xe-LP architecture.
With the initially meaningless server GPU, Intel is targeting the market for video and game streaming on the Internet. High growth rates are expected in this area in the coming years and in addition to Google Stadia, NVIDIA, Sony and Microsoft have also started corresponding services.
The server GPU now presented goes by the name of H3C XG 310. It is actually not a GPU, instead there are three Xe-LP GPUs on the PCI Express card. In addition to the hardware, Intel offers the associated software ecosystem, which consists of the necessary drivers, APIs and developer tools. Intel relies on a mixture of open source and licensed software.
For rendering, the focus is initially on services that offer Android games in the cloud. The games are rendered on the execution units of the GPU via Android in Container (AIC). An interface called Intel Cloud Rendering (ICR) receives the inputs of the Game Service Streamer – the rendered frames of the AIC are brought together and an audio and video stream is created from this, which is then delivered via the Game Service Stream.
On the video stream side, the GPUs or the server GPU support AVC, HEVC, MPEG2, VP9 (encode and decode) and AV1 (decode) as expansion cards. Intel can also offer a corresponding FFMPEG package with corresponding hardware acceleration for Xeon processors and the server GPU.
While the Iris-Xe-Max-GPU with 4 GB LPDDR4 on a 128 Bit wide memory interface, the Xe-GPU offers the server GPU an 8 GB LPDDR4 memory. Four of these GPUs are located on the XG 310 from H3C, which is a 3/4 Length – Full Height PCI-Express card that supports PCIe 3.0 and 16 Lanes is connected. The card or GPU is cooled passively and via the air flow from the server. The additional power supply is provided via an 8-pin connector. Four of these cards can be used per server / Xeon processor.
In a demo, Intel showed an Android RPG or the streaming of the same 60 Instances each with 30 FPS. Initially, only one XG 310 with four GPUs is used. With two XG 310 cards 120 instances / streams can be executed. Depending on the game and server configuration, 100 to 160 users can work on one server with a Xeon processor and two servers at the same time -GPUs play. This is of course particularly interesting for the operators of cloud streaming services.
One of the first customers for Intel’s server GPU is Tencent in China.
Another outlook on the Xe roadmap
Intel also gave another outlook on the Xe roadmap. The Xe-LP architecture is already used in the integrated and dedicated GPUs for notebooks. The server GPU is now the third area in which it is used.
In the coming year, the next generation of dedicated graphics solutions is expected with the Xe-HPG architecture, aimed at gamers and desktop systems. Intel has already announced that the first samples of this GPU will work in the laboratory. Xe-HP is the data center variant that is already delivered to partners in the form of samples. We are still working on Ponte Vecchio based on the Xe-HPC architecture, but we have already received the first revision of all chip sets for Ponte Vecchio from production.
AVM has a new laboratory version with the version number 07. 16 – 83272 for the FRITZ! Box 7590 released. With the update, users are now able to prefer individual network devices. In addition, if the primary Internet connection fails and the extended failure protection is subsequently activated, support data can now be transferred to AVM again. In addition to the improvement of the auto channel function after detection of sources of interference (5 GHz band), there is also a new message under “System / Events” when the maximum number of WLAN repeaters is exceeded.
In the Telephony area, the “E-Mail” and “RSS” tabs in the “Telephony / Telephony Devices” menu can now be hidden if DECT is switched off. The presentation and management of entries in telephone books has also been completely revised. The settings for sending and receiving faxes have now been combined under “Telephony / Telephony Devices”. In addition, it is possible to resend support data to AVM with the new laboratory version after the sending process has been completed without waiting.
As before, this update is a beta version. AVM points out that the firmware was tested in various standard environments before it was released. However, it is possible that it may malfunction after installation. The company assumes no liability for any damage resulting from the use of the laboratory version. However, users are always able to switch to the official FRITZ! OS software under System> Update> FRITZ! OS version.
If you already have a laboratory version on your FRITZ! Box 7590 receives the update via the router’s user interface. A manual download can be found on the official AVM website.
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The company SpotCam, which specializes in video surveillance, presents the Eva 2, a WLAN camera with 2-way audio and a night vision function (eight high-performance IR LEDs). The Eva 2 can be controlled both via the web browser and via a corresponding app on the smartphone or tablet (Apple & Android). The indoor camera has a resolution in 1080 p and a field of view of 130 degrees. In addition, it can be swiveled horizontally by up to 345 degrees. The vertical slope range is 90 degrees. In addition, the Eva 2 can be operated in combination with Amazon’s Alexa, Google Home, IFTTT and Conrad Connect. In addition to the camera itself, the scope of delivery includes everything for wall mounting, a power supply unit and a power adapter. The backend can be accessed with Internet Explorer as well as with the Firefox, Safari or Chrome browser.
The SpotCam FHD Pro is suitable for outdoor use and has an IP – 64 certification. Even with the FHD Pro, videos with a resolution of 1. 920 x 1. 080 pixels be included. According to the manufacturer, the diagonal field of view is 130 degrees. A total of twelve high-performance IR LEDs are used in night vision mode. The total weight is 275 g. The FHD 2 weighs 8 cm x cm only 95 g and can be used indoors. With the FHD 2, the field of vision is covered diagonally up to 140 degrees. In addition to a built-in loudspeaker and microphone, a siren can also be used.
The SpotCam Pano overlooks a total of 080 degrees (horizontal) and also records videos in Full HD resolution. As with the other models, the stream is encoded in H. 264. The weight is 94 g with a dimension of 7.9 cm x 12, 3 cm. The Pano’s twelve high-performance IR LEDs ensure sufficient visibility in the dark. The camera is designed for indoor use.
If you want to access a wireless surveillance camera, you can do so in the form of the SpotCam Solo. The outdoor cam comes with a 720 p-video resolution and an IP 65 -Weather resistance.
In addition to surveillance cameras, the company also offers video doorbells. With the SpotCam Video Doorbell 2, users get a detection angle of 180 degrees and videos in 1080 p. Motion detection is also on board. In addition to WiFi, the doorbell has Bluetooth.
On Patchday in November, Microsoft will take care of Defender, Internet Explorer, Teams and Windows, among other things. Overall 112 security patches are available via Windows Update. 17 Gaps are identified with the threat level ” classified as critical “. Most of the remaining vulnerabilities are classified as ” important “.
Attacks on Windows Now a patch is available for the kernel vulnerability (CVE – 2020 – 17087) available. However, the vulnerability is not considered critical, as attackers must already have access to vulnerable computers. If this is the case, attackers could acquire higher user rights. Of these are Windows 7 to 10 and different Windows server versions affected.
Microsoft has cleaned up the description of security holes. This should enable admins to better assess the danger posed by a vulnerability at a glance.
Further details on this and other vulnerabilities are not known. As can be seen from the warning message, Microsoft has revised the display and no longer describes detailed details on gaps and possible attack scenarios.
Even more vulnerabilities A vulnerability in the Windows Network File System (NFS), for example, is considered critical. Based on the classification, it can be assumed that attacks from a distance and without authentication are possible.
In addition, attackers could use the video codec extensions AV1 and HEVC as a starting point for remote code execution Take advantage of attacks. A vulnerability in teams could also leave malicious code on the computer.
Less is more? In a blog post Microsoft justifies the modified description of security vulnerabilities with the fact that the description the threat level of a vulnerability with the help of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) provides more tangible information for admins. In addition to the classification of a security vulnerability, Microsoft now also lists the individual parameters that make up a CVSS classification. So you can see at first glance whether attacks from a distance are possible and whether a victim has to play along or not.
Intel CPU gap Microsoft has also released microcode updates against the Intel CPU gap Playtypus.
Windows 10 Version 2004 and 20 H2 and Windows Server 2004 and 20 H2 Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 and Windows Server Version 1903 and 1909 Windows 10 Version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 Windows 10 Version 1803 Windows 10 version 1607 and Windows Server 2016 Windows 10 Version 1507
Note on microcode updates built into running text.
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