Vinyl records have a certain richness of sound and experience to them that CDs and digital recording simply don’t. For those who care about the quality of the music they listen to, having a quality record player that can handle your vinyl collections gently which playing them with great sound quality is of the highest priority. While many prefer to use out of date and older styles of record players, the technology to play vinyl records has thankfully developed over time, so as not to be left behind by newer technologies. And it’s easy to bring these newer devices into your home.
IBM shared new details on its upcoming Telum CPU at Hot Chips, and the new microarchitecture looks to be a significant advance over the older z15. This will be IBM’s first 7nm CPU built using Samsung’s EUV and a huge step forward for Samsung as far as demonstrating its EUV chops. IBM’s Telum is a mainframe CPU, which means it operates in a very different compute environment than an x86 chip. Both a mainframe and a server are an integrated platform with a large pool of nearby DRAM, various forms of attached storage, and a large number of CPU cores, but mainframes are architected for very different purposes than your typical x86 server.
Apple pioneered the modern mobile application model, and it’s been reluctant to make changes that don’t directly boost its bottom line. This has led to a spate of litigation with developers, most of which is still winding its way through the courts. While the Epic case is still ongoing, Apple has worked out a settlement on a class action filed by developers, . They are very minor changes, though, which serves as a reminder of how little power developers have in the relationship. The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed in 219 by two developers who accused Apple of abusing its monopoly over iOS software.
Few astronomical phenomena have been as vexing in recent years as fast radio bursts. These momentary flashes release as much energy in a millisecond as the sun does in three days, and the mechanism behind them is still a mystery. Astronomers have learned a lot about FRBs, but one of the leading explanations . It’s not quite back to the drawing board, but the remaining possibilities don’t entirely fit the data either. As with most things in the universe, FRBs existed before humans and will probably continue happening long after we are gone. However, we only noticed them in 2012 when researchers reviewed radio telescope data from 2006.
In the past 11 days, both Crucial and Western Digital have been caught swapping the TLC NAND used for certain products with inferior QLC NAND without updating product SKUs or informing reviewers that this change was happening. Shipping one product to reviewers and a different product to consumers is unacceptable and we recently recommended that readers buy SSDs from Samsung or Intel in lieu of WD or Crucial. As of today, we have to take Samsung off that list. One difference in this situation is that Samsung isn’t swapping TLC for QLC — it’s swapping the drive controller + TLC for a different, inferior drive controller.
(Image: Microsoft)Wednesday’s revealed that Microsoft Flight Simulator, the hyper-realistic sim that allows you to fly around the world, will soon feature a competitive multiplayer mode. Beginning this fall, players will have the option of racing against friends and other players online. Developer Asobo and the Reno Air Racing Association joined forces to bring the —called the “world’s fastest motorsport”—in-game. The new mode will become available via what Asobo is calling Flight Simulator’s “first major expansion,” which will also include a number of famous race planes capable of flying up to 500 mph at altitudes of 50 to 250 feet.
(Photo: Ken Sallot and Tom Gardner)A number of storage companies including Adata, Crucial, and Western Digital have recently been caught shipping a superior SSD configuration to tech publications for positive reviews, only to swap these SKUs with lower-performing products once positive review coverage has been obtained. We’ve against this practice , but today we’re revisiting the problem from a different angle. Enough time has passed since the events we’re going to discuss that they may no longer be common knowledge, and although it feels absurd to begin a story with the above headline, that’s the most straightforward way to describe the topic.
The age of storing your files locally on your hardware is over. It’s truly just common sense in the modern era to have a more reliable and robust method for storing your files. If you rely on the built-in storage hardware in your computer to hold your important documents, there’s a real chance that you could lose them – if the computer stops working or is stolen, so are your files, and they’ll likely be unrecoverable. Choosing to store your content, documents, photos, and more in a location off your device, and which you can access wherever you are, whenever you need them, can revolutionize your filing systems and also provide peace of mind and security for your files.
Windows users around the world were looking warily at their earlier this week. That’s when a security researcher noted the devices could be used to gain administrator privileges on Windows, and it turns out Razer is not alone. The same vulnerability exists in the SteelSeries ecosystem. Simply plugging in one of these devices grants the ability to install software without logging in as an admin. SteelSeries says it’s fixed the issue, but this is starting to feel like it’s more Microsoft’s fault than anyone else. To recap, this ongoing snafu is thanks to the way Windows supports third-party devices.
