MSPoweruser predicts Windows 10’s Start Menu will be getting redesigned because. As support continues to decrease from both Microsoft and Windows developers, the core portion of which revolves around live tiles. Windows Central, which broke the news on Windows Lite, is convinced the concept is dead due to lack of updates. The reason I bring this up is because I've been speaking to quite a few internal sources about Windows Lite, and it's looking like Windows Lite doesn't even have live tiles. It appears Microsoft is entirely omitting this feature in favor of the more common app launcher with static icons as seen on iOS, Android, and Chrome OS. If Windows Lite launches without live tiles, where is the incentive for developers to continue supporting such a feature on desktop? Grab the salt: a redditor on r/xboxone teased the last week, and while it has since been removed,.
There will be two Xbox consoles; the successor to the X (Anaconda) will be priced at $499 (Navi @12+ TFLOPS, 16GB GDDR6), while the all-new streaming box ( Lockhart? ) will cost $249 (NAVI @4+ TFLOPS, 12GB GDDR6). Both will feature. The PS5 has slightly lesser guts compared to the X2, but is priced at $399. 'The hardware is partially true,' the post reads.
'Storage is true. Raytracing is true. Lockhart is not streaming box. Xbox SoC codename is Anubis, check AMD's plan.
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MS AI is not a part of the hardware, in other words, never heard of TPU or ASIC like it. How to implement Raytracing?
See GDC 2019. Why they make a decision like Lockhart? See GDC 2019.
Why there still no DevKit? After GDC 2019.'
Now if this is the day-1 experience that BioWare and EA are promising for Anthem, then count us out. It makes little sense to buy the game at launch day and we may suggest Anthem fans to wait a month (yes, a month) until all of the game’s connection issues have been resolved (or until there aren’t a lot of gamers playing it). Again, this isn’t a beta but a demo and EA and BioWare had more than enough time to fix the game’s connection issues (it doesn’t even have a queue line) and were fully aware of the amount of keys that would be available for this VIP demo. Backblaze has released a year’s worth of hard drive statistics for those who are convinced certain brands fare considerably better than others. While the backup company’s latest charts do bolster the reputation of certain drives (e.g., HGST/Hitachi), the lowest the company has ever recorded.
As of December 31, 2018, we had 106,919 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,965 boot drives and 104,954 data drives. This review looks at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers. In addition, we’ll take a look at the new hard drive models we’ve added in 2018 including our 12 TB HGST and 14 TB Toshiba drives. Along the way we’ll share observations and insights on the data presented and we look forward to you doing the same in the comments. Apple’s plans for a self-driving car may be either dead, or severely downgraded: CNBC was told the company 'cut over 200 employees from Project Titan, its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative.' Those who weren’t laid off have been Comments by Tim Cook suggest the priority is now healthcare technologies.
In August, Apple enlisted a Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, to lead the Titan team alongside Bob Mansfield. This week's dismissals from the group were seen internally as anticipated restructuring under the relatively new leadership. Other employees who were impacted by the restructuring of Project Titan are staying at Apple, but moving to different parts of the company.
'Although this is very regrettable, we must let you know that the current development progress has not reached the standards we seek in a sequel to Metroid Prime series,' Takahashi said. 'Nintendo always strives for the highest quality in our games and in our development phase, we challenge ourselves and confront whether the game is living up to that quality on a daily basis.
From this perspective, we have determined that the current development status of Metroid Prime 4 is very challenged, and we had to make a difficult decision as a development team. We have decided to re-examine the development structure and change it.' According to a new study released by the Brookings Institution, the only workers who should fear the robot revolution are those employed in the, which comprise 25% of occupations in the US. These positions are considered 'high risk,' as they involve 'routine and predictable' tasks easily performed by non-humans. 'Most occupations will see specific tasks assumed by machines, but much of their labor will likely be enhanced, rather than fully replaced.' The workers most vulnerable are in transportation, production, food preparation, and office administration, which, combined, make up about 36 million jobs, or 25% of the total jobs in the US today.
In these occupations, roughly 70% of tasks were considered routine and predictable, prime targets to be managed by machines. The most vulnerable were 'packaging and filling machine operators' (100% exposure to automation), food preparation workers (91%), payroll and timekeeping clerks (87%), and light-truck and delivery drivers (78%).
Earlier this week, an associate with EB Games claimed the Australian game retailer was pulling physical copies of Fallout 76 from shelves, which. One fan threatened he’d want his money back because it’d be a 'slap to the face,' to which Bethesda replied, Nevertheless, critics are convinced it is inevitable and will serve as one of the game’s few welcome updates. Bethesda itself stated 'there is no truth to this rumor,' while Australian store EB Games confirmed it still planned on supporting the boxed edition of the game both in-store and online.
'This information is categorically incorrect. EB Games will continue to support Fallout 76 both brand new and preowned, and it remains an active product through both our stores and website. Customers can now pick up the EB Exclusive Tricentennial Edition for $79.95.' For advertising its last-generation, FX-series 'Bulldozer' CPUs as an eight-core chip.
While this is arguably correct on a technical level, the novel implementation of two discrete cores in a single module led to that argued otherwise, claiming it really had four. A California judge has now determined the argument has merit and is allowing the class-action lawsuit to go forward. The so-called 'eight core' chips contain four Bulldozer modules, the lawsuit notes, and these 'sub-processors' each contain a pair of instruction-executing CPU cores. So, four modules times two CPU cores equals, in AMD's mind, eight CPU cores.
And here's the sticking point: these two CPU cores, within a single Bulldozer module, share caches, frontend circuitry, and a single floating point unit (FPU). These shared resources cause bottlenecks that can slow the processor, it is claimed. An original scripted series based on Resident Evil is in development at Netflix. Deadline has heard the show will but whether it’ll be faithful to the games is anyone’s guess: the studio responsible for the Milla Jovovich-led films, Constantin Films, is also behind this production. I hear the series will keep the basic premise, which also served as a setup for the movie franchise.
The drama series will explore the dark inner workings of the Umbrella Corporation and the new world order caused by the outbreak of the T-virus. While the project is in early stages, the series is expected to incorporate all of Resident Evil’s signature elements, including action sequences and 'easter eggs.' Analysts were convinced Nintendo was preparing a new Switch console for release this year, but their assumption was wrong: in a recent interview with The Sankei News, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa revealed He also confirmed the console wouldn’t be getting a price cut. Neither is surprising, as the Switch has been selling extremely well. Furukawa commented on a few different topics, including Switch’s success towards the end of 2018. He also weighed in - yet again - on looking to sell 20 million units by the end of the fiscal year, and it’s here that something interesting was said. According to Furukawa, Nintendo is trying to focus on selling Switch and is 'not considering a successor or a price cut at this time.'
Given the system’s success, perhaps that isn’t an overly surprising statement. So after we got done with the new system which we did a on, some things did not work out so well. It was not the fault of the case we used, but rather it being stuffed under my desk with about zero ventilation. So I headed down to Microcenter and bought a since it had huge fans in front that could draft a lot of ambient air into the chassis. We went back and did some, and it worked out very well.
Having a FLIR camera is a huge benefit trying to figure things out as well. Those things, but they are not over a grand any more either. We were seeing CPU package power restrained to about 165 watts using the Enermax LiqTech II 240mm cooler, which is to be expected from our previous testing. So this week we switched in a LiqTech II 360mm to see if it would make any different in our Threadripper clocks. Testing with Premiere Pro encoding, it did not net me better clocks/wattages on the 2950X, however it did drop the temps a few degrees. So no real net gain on performance in the real world. The previous mounting did have a great TIM mating footprint.again.
So it seems the mount system on the LiqTech II is very solid. It all mounted up very nice though and surely supplies a bit more airflow through the case. The other issue I had with the MSI MEG X399 Creation was with the AERO EXPANDER card. I did not like the sound profile it made while I had it on the test bench, so I stripped off the heatsink and fan thinking it would not be a big deal. Well, after I saw temps hitting 100C on the NVMe drives on it, I thought differently, and put the HSF back on. The AERO card also 'required' a 6-pin PCIe cable, which seemed a bit much.
I did take the time this time around to see if the fan on the card would function without the 6-pin PCIe cable connected. Works just fine. It seems the 6-pin in on there for no other reason than to make this look like a video card.which is exactly what MSI said their goal was with its aesthetic design.
Obviously an electrical X16 PCIe slot can deliver enough wattage to run 4 NVMe and a small fan. With the case under my desk and the sides on, I do not hear the fan like I did during testing, so all seems very good there so far. No distractions. There is no access to a fan profile, but you can turn the fan off and on with a switch on the card if you want.
With the heatsink in place, and the fan on, my SSD transfer temps dropped 30C! I did not take the labels off the SSDs as I did not want to mess up any warranty on those. I will give those a while then remove those as the labels cannot be helping heat transfer to the heatsink itself.
Even with the '500 watt' 360mm Enermax Liqtech II, we still have CPU package powers limited even while using Precision Boost 2, which is no real surprise to us. We did however want to see how it worked in a real-world configuration. The 2950X is limited to 180 watts under PB2 and we are pushing 165W, so we are close. As all of our cooling testing has shown us for months now, if you want to push into the 250W Precision Boost Overdrive territory, we still need to move to.which we will do assuredly. However, the Thermalright Silver Arrow TR4 did get us up to 231W.if you wanted to listen to it for long stretches of time while encoding videos. 4A Games has released its without DXR or NVIDIA RTX features turned on.
Only an NVIDIA GTX 670 or AMD Radeon HD 7870, Intel CORE i5-4440, and 8GB of ram is needed to achieve 1080p 30 FPS. An NVIDIA RTX 2060 or AMD RX VEGA 56, Intel CORE i7-4770K and 8GB of ram is need to run at 1080p 60 FPS. High settings are going to require an NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti / RTX 2070 or AMD RX Vega 64, 16GB of ram paired with an Intel CORE i7-8700K to achieve 1440p 60 FPS.
For Extreme settings, PC gamers are going to need a beastly system that consists of an Intel CORE i9-9900K, 16GB of ram and an NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti. This will allow those enthusiasts to achieve 4K 60 FPS gaming nirvana. Click through the image below to see a larger spec chart.
Epic Games has announced that it is going to allow consumers to see what is inside the new before purchasing them. These were previously known as V-Buck Llamas. Also consumers will no longer get duplicate items from loot boxes unless they own all of the possible items. The new 'X-Ray' Llamas loot boxes will rotate on the store every 24 hours.
So if a consumer doesn't want the currently displayed item for purchase; they have to wait 24 hours for the store to refresh. Epic Games will disable the ability to purchase multiple V-Buck Llamas at once so that the consumer can see what they are getting one Llama at a time.
The has ruled in favor of consumer protections and privacy in a case that has related to the collection of Stacy Rosenbach sued Six Flags Great America over the to use a season pass. She cited the which is considered one of the 'nation's most strongest for safeguarding identifiers such as facial features, fingerprints and iris scans.' Initially lower courts wouldn't allow her to cite the law in her case against the amusement park as 'Rosenbach never demonstrated a direct injury or adverse effect' from the collection of biometric data.
But the Illinois Supreme Court 'ruled that violation of the law is damage enough.' 'This is no mere 'technicality,' as the appellate court suggested, Chief Justice Lloyd Karmeier wrote in the opinion.
'The injury is real and significant.' ' Companies such as Facebook have vested interest in the case as the social media giant collects biometric data to scan and tag photos for example. Through the Act, our General Assembly has codified that individuals possess a right to privacy in and control over their biometric identifiers and biometric information. The duties imposed on private entities by section 15 of the Act (740 ILCS 14/15 (West 2016)) regarding the collection, retention, disclosure, and destruction of a person's or customer's biometric identifiers or biometric information define the contours of that statutory right. 'biometrics are unlike other unique identifiers that are used to access finances or other sensitive information. For example, social security numbers, when compromised, can be changed.
Biometrics, however, are biologically unique to the individual; therefore, once compromised, the individual has no recourse, is at heightened risk for identity theft, and is likely to withdraw from biometric-facilitated transactions.' Is a Silicon Valley based, national scale, autonomous drone delivery service that specializes in delivering medical supplies.
In Rwanda, Zipline delivers medical supplies such as blood bags for blood transfusions, to doctors in remote villages to treat mothers during childbirth. Zipline uses planes that fly at 100 km/h instead of quadcopters as planes are faster. It only takes 5 minutes from the time that an order is received by text message until the flight is launched. The GPS is attached to the battery pack so it is always 'on' as this eliminates boot time.
This measure saves lives as it cuts 10 - 15 minutes off preflight check time. An app uses machine learning and computer vision to check the movement parts such as the rudders and flaps during the preflight check. A QR code on each surface of the plane is scanned by the app which in turn allows the app to communicate with the plane to perform an automated safety check. Finally the plane is launched and it uses GPS to autonomously navigate to the drop zone.
There the medical supplies are parachuted to the earth in a cardboard box, the clinic is notified that the drop is completed, and the plane returns home. If you're reading this, you're probably desensitized to bad news about Facebook by now. But, according a, Facebook was allegedly involved in a class action lawsuit over duping 'game-playing kids and their parents out of money,' and this particular rabbit hole seems to go deeper than usual. The documents, which seemingly contain internal Facebook correspondence, paint a picture of Facebook actively encouraging developers to make deceptive games.
A document alleges that some children didn't even know they were spending money on their parent's credit card, and that Facebook was aware of that fact. Others claim that some Facebook employees not only recognized the issues, but developed solutions to solve them, yet Facebook chose not to implement them over fears of lost revenue. One document even says that Facebook developed an automated 'dispute button' to automatically handle credit card chargeback requests, and another says they encouraged developers to give out in-game rewards instead of offering angry customers monetary refunds. The accusations go on and on, and Reveal says that Facebook fought to get most of the files related to the case sealed, before finally settling in 2016, though the publication also mentions they somehow got involved in the case last year. Thanks to Schtask for the tip.
As of 2014, Children and their parents were still clawing back money from Facebook at extremely high rates. About 9 percent of the revenue Facebook made off kids was eventually charged back by the credit card companies as recently as March, 2014.
That is nearly identical to the extraordinary rates Facebook first noticed more than three years earlier. In effect, the company had done nothing to change it.
In 2016, Facebook decided to settle the case, and agreed 'to dedicate an internal queue to refund requests for in-app purchases made by U.S. Facebook issued this statement in response to a request for interview: 'We were contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting last year, and we voluntarily unsealed documents related to a 2012 case about our refund policies for in-app purchases that parents believe were made in error by their minor children. We intend to release additional documents as instructed by the court. Facebook works with parents and experts to offer tools for families navigating Facebook and the web.
As part of that work, we routinely examine our own practices, and in 2016 agreed to update our terms and provide dedicated resources for refund requests related to purchased made by minors on Facebook.' Today, that they're 'strengthening' their senior leadership team. Darren Grasby is in charge of all global sales and go-to-market activities across all product lines now, and the company hired Dr. Sandeep Chennakeshu as the executive vice president of Computing and Graphics. The press release mentions that Chennakeshu served multiple leading, and technical, roles at Ericsson, Sony and Blackberry, while, who spotted the release, mentions that he worked with AMD's current CEO while they were at Freescale. Mark Papermaster is also getting promoted to the positions of executive vice president and CTO. The leadership change is already updated on AMD's website, which has more information on all the executives.
'2019 marks an important inflection point for AMD as we prepare to launch our next-generation high-performance 7nm products,' said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and CEO. 'I am excited to strengthen and align our leadership team around our customers and end markets to sharpen our focus on continued growth and market share gains.' In response to player requests for 'greater challenge, fewer restrictions, and more incentives when it comes to PVP combat,' that they're developing a 'Survival' mode for Fallout 76. In the main menu, players soon be given a choice between 'Adventure' mode, which is Fallout 76 as it exists now, or the new PvP mode. Existing characters from Adventure mode will carry over, but unlike Adventure mode, all players outside your team will automatically be flagged as hostile.
Bethesda notes that Survival mode will be in beta when it launches, and that they'll tweak the death mechanics and make other balance changes if necessary. There are no 'invitations' to PVP combat in Survival mode. You can attack other players without restriction from the first shot you line up, meaning every encounter you have with a stranger could turn deadly in the blink of an eye. Further, level scaling in Survival mode will work the same way it does in Adventure mode today. This will help to level the playing field a bit and give newer characters a fighting chance against high-level players they might encounter during their adventures in the Wasteland.
As a result, you'll need to keep your wits about you during every hostile encounter, because even low-level characters can pose a real threat. Currently, players who die in Survival mode will be unable to use the seek revenge respawn option against their aggressors and can only choose to respawn at their C.A.M.P.
We're also planning to award you double the Caps when you kill another player, and they may drop their Aid or other items in addition to their Junk. The oblique lighting of this image reveals new topographic details along the day/night boundary, or terminator, near the top.
These details include numerous small pits up to about 0.4 miles (0.7 kilometers) in diameter. The large circular feature, about 4 miles (7 kilometers) across, on the smaller of the two lobes, also appears to be a deep depression.
Not clear is whether these pits are impact craters or features resulting from other processes, such as 'collapse pits' or the ancient venting of volatile materials. Awhile ago, Volvo spun off a company called Polestar that seems dead set on competing with Tesla and electric offerings from other companies. While the Polestar 1 is a hybrid that's already been and seen out in the wild, the more mysterious Polestar 2 is set to be Polestar's first all-electric car, and a direct competitor to the Tesla Model 3. This week, Polestar an extensive partnership with Google, claiming that the Polestar 2 will be the first car to offer a 'full' Android experience. Instead of being at the mercy of auto manufacturers, maps, software updates, and even the car's voice assistant will all come straight from Google, and it'll apparently be compatible with regular Google Play apps. Polestar even released an of the user interface, which offers the first full (top down) view of the car we've seen. Thanks to for the tip, and the app screenshot.
It will also come equipped with other features sorely missing in automotive UI. The first of which is a digital voice assistant that is as helpful as it is conversational: Polestar 2 comes with an embedded Google Assistant. From optimising the temperature to picking a song, the Google Assistant lets you control things with your voice, leaving you free to focus on driving. With significant advancements in machine learning, language understanding, and speech recognition, the Assistant can understand and respond to you naturally.