Google’s late 2019 Stadia launch was a bit of a slow start. There were only a handful of games, and most of the fancy cloud features Google promised were nowhere to be found. Google’s in-house game developers were supposed to lead the charge, but now most of them are out of work, and there’s for a brand new game. It’s just one more embarrassing misstep for Stadia. Until just a few weeks ago, Google was, by all appearances, investing heavily in developing original games for Stadia. It purchased Typhoon Studios in late 2019, merging it with the Stadia Games and Entertainment (SG&E) group.
High demand for the iPhone 12 allowed Apple to one-up Samsung in Q4 2020 smartphone sales, giving the Cupertino-based manufacturer its first leadership position since Q4 2016. Samsung still kept its position as the largest manufacturer based on full-year results, shipping 253 million smartphones against Apple’s 199.8 million devices. Samsung may have retained its full-year leadership position, but the company faced a tough competitive market this past year and its overall sales volume shrank by 14.6 percent. Gartner this to strong regional competition from brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo. Only Xiaomi and Apple posted yearly growth figures — Apple smartphone shipments increased 3.3 percent, and Xiaomi sales grew by 15.7 percent, to 145.8 million units.
In September 2018, the Equipment Dealers Association signed an agreement with John Deere in which the company would begin voluntarily making repair tools, software guides, and diagnostic equipment available for ordinary farmers to purpose beginning January 1, 2021. We’re now well over two months into 2021 and, as a new report details, John Deere isn’t keeping up its end of the bargain. The purpose of the agreement between John Deere and the EDA was to deal with the increasingly onerous software lockouts John Deere baked into its tractors. Farmers have been increasingly forced to visit a John Deere dealership for even trivial repairs because once-simple replacements now require dealer-authorized equipment to authenticate the hardware.
Concerning reports from Apple M1 Mac users have surfaced in the past few days, as different folks compare notes on how often their systems are writing to disk. Some comparisons display eye-popping levels of drive writes, especially given how long some of these systems have been in use. Evidence of a truly systemic problem, however, is limited — and I’m not sure how much we can trust some of the counters people are using to report data. The top-line results are somewhat alarming. Users like @David_Rysk report over 150TB of drive writes already performed in less than two months on a system with 16GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.
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Smartphone updates have been a mess for as long as the modern smartphone has existed, but Samsung just took a big step in the right direction. The company has decided to extend security update support . That’s longer than any other Android device maker, Google included, which previously matched Samsung with three years of guaranteed updates. To understand how significant this is, you only need to go back in time a few years. Major security flaws like Stage Fright prompted Google to make security updates more prominent. It began listing monthly patch levels in the system settings and requiring that OEMs release the occasional update.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars , giving the team here on Earth time to run system checks and download preliminary data from the robot. The agency has now released the first large batch of media from the mission, including hundreds of still images and the first video and audio ever recorded on Mars. Some past Mars missions have sent back “videos,” but those were actually GIFs stitched together from a handful of still frames. Perseverance has 23 cameras, several of which can record full-motion video. NASA used some of those cameras to capture the rover’s landing in incredible detail.
