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Online-only grocer Ocado was forced to cancel some customers’ orders last week following a This marks the second fire Ocado has experienced at one of its warehouses; this time, a three-robot collision is to blame. The company Friday that it would be canceling some orders due to a “major incident.” Soon after, the company released a statement disclosing that a fire had erupted at its Erith Customer Fulfillment Centre following the collision of three robots on Ocado’s automated grid. Thankfully, no employees were hurt. East of London, Ocado’s Erith CFC houses the company’s largest robotic grocery fulfillment grid.
(Photo: mlange_b/, CC BY-SA 2.0)The most common question I’ve been asked about my is whether there’s a way to make it work with files created via MakeMKV. MakeMKV is (and has been) a popular application for ripping DVDs for a very long time. I started with MakeMKV files and persisted in attempting to work with them without success for about six months. One of the most important pieces of advice I learned in this project came from the Doom9 forum, where I was advised to drop this approach and switch to DVD Decrypter. Once I did, I made more progress in six weeks than I had in six months.
While many gaming platforms come with recording technology built in to their hardware or software, you’ll never get the control you need with such solutions which are available out of the box. If you’re keen to record or live-stream your performance on video games or a range of other activities on screen, installing a professional-grade recorder is far more satisfactory, giving you more options, better output, and the ultimate control. All you have to do is figure out which one you need among the many options out there. Right now, you can get a for $9.99, a great discount of 66 percent off the full purchase price of $29, allowing you to record your activity on screen with higher precision and more options – and for a wonderful low price.
The beta for Amazon’s MMO, New World, dropped yesterday. It was quite popular, with reports of up to 187,000 simultaneous players at times. But if New Worlds was in the news for its popularity yesterday, it’s making waves today for an entirely different reason: It’s frying graphics cards. Strange New World It’s impossible to over-emphasize how odd this is. Back about 10 years ago, applications like Furmark were capable of damaging GPUs because they behaved more like thermal viruses than actual software. AMD and Nvidia both took steps to limit these kinds of workloads and built algorithms into their own drivers to detect them.
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Microsoft appears to be bending a bit in terms of which Windows 11 features will actually be supported in Windows 10. When it announced its upcoming operating system, the company told users that Windows 11 would be required if gamers wanted to take advantage of upcoming features like DirectStorage. Microsoft has now clarified that Windows 10 gamers will get many of the advantages of DirectStorage, though certain facets of the technology will still require Windows 11. There are three of DirectStorage, two of which will be coming to Windows 10. The DirectStorage API provides the option to batch I/O operations in DX12 style, “relieving apps from the need to individually manage thousands of IO requests/completion notifications per second.
In the information technology industry, it’s just not possible to let your information go out of date as well as continue to grow and succeed in the role you have, or land interviews for the role you want. Maintaining your industry and practical knowledge is a must, and achieving certifications offered by the relevant industry authorities is a necessary fact of working in the IT industry. Being proactive about achieving these certifications and keeping your knowledge up to date is an easy way to keep a competitive edge – it’s the best way to express the care you have for your career and your industry, priming you for promotions, new roles, and to even just enjoy the work you do a little more.
Blue Origin has successfully launched humans into space today on its New Shepard rocket. Wally Funk, Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos, and Oliver Daemen all traveled above the 100km boundary that marks the internationally accepted von Karman line, the point at which the atmosphere of Earth is said to give way to space. Richard Branson’s flight a few days ago reached 85km above sea level, which is high enough to qualify as space under NASA and the US Air Force’s definition of the term. Depending on how you choose to count, Bezos is either the first billionaire in space or the second.
