As promised, President Trump this week announced he’s revoking California’s right to set its own auto emissions standards. And as promised, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headed to court because he doubts the President’s standing to unilaterally undo an act of Congress, the Clean Air Act passed in 1970 and signed by then-President Richard Nixon. So much is riding on the outcome that the case is almost certainly headed to the Supreme Court. California says its authority to set stricter emissions and fuel economy standards is well-established and, besides, automakers have world standards to meet that will be tougher than US standards.
When AMD launched Epyc in August, it unveiled a top-to-bottom product stack that was set to challenge the best Intel had to offer on the Xeon side of its product family. The highest-end CPU previously announced, the Epyc 7742, is a 64-core chip with a 2.25GHz base clock, 3.4GHz max, and 225W TDP for $6950. Now, for its European launch, AMD has unveiled a new high-end 64-core part. This is a specialty chip, intended for liquid-cooled environments. AMD is partnering with Atos to deploy these principally in 1U solutions, but the company has said that the chip will be available to other customers as well.
It’s been obvious for years that consumer devices cannot be trusted to secure user data, but there have been relatively few studies into exactly how poorly the modern ecosystem actually is. Researchers at Northeastern University and the Imperial College London have recently conducted a thorough analysis of 81 different IoT products to characterize what services they attempt to connect with, what communications can be inferred from these connections, and the degree of encryption used to protect customers. The findings include the following. Using 34,586 controlled experiments, we find that 72/81 devices have at least one destination that is not a first party (i.e.
If you’ve worked in an office at any point in the past thirty years, chances are you’ve at least dabbled with Microsoft Excel—that number-crunching powerhouse that can be found at the heart of small startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. But it’s also likely that you’ve only scratched the surface of what this powerful program can do, especially when it comes to data analysis and reporting. The bundle will get you up to speed with this increasingly valuable skillset, and it’s available for 90% off at just $19.99. With lifetime access to three hours of content led by best-selling Excel instructor Kyle Pew, this instruction will teach you how to take advantage of everything that Excel has to offer.
Tesla is attacking the race track. It claims to have a set a lap record at the famed Laguna Seca Track in California and now appears to be taking on the most famous track for sports cars, Germany’s Nürburgring. There are also reports a modified Model S lapped the Nürburgring this week in 7 minutes, 23 seconds, which would be 19 seconds faster than a Porsche Taycan EV prototype got around the 12.9-mile circuit. With the advent of the Taycan, Tesla is feeling the heat and is preparing a “Plaid Mode” performance Model S that is able to accelerate hard, brake, and run all out for extended periods.
Today’s top deal is a Seagate NAS HDD that’s able to hold an enormous amount of storage and is currently marked 23 percent off. Seagate built this 3.5-inch hard drive to hold an unusually large amount of data. With a storage capacity of 14TB, this drive is one of the largest 3.5-inch drives commercially available and it’s currently marked down from $569.99 to $439.99. Dell’s XPS 15 9570 features a fast Intel Core i7-8750H processor with six Hyper-Threaded CPU cores and a 4K IPS touch-screen display with support for 100 percent of the Adobe RGB color spectrum.
We’ve all wondered if Google will ever decide to release its own smartwatch as the Wear OS platform has continued to flounder. According to a new report, Google already tried to do that once, but it canceled the effort at the last minute because the experience . The Pixel Watch hardware eventually debuted as LG-branded Wear OS devices, and indeed, they were not good. The story begins in 2016 as Google was gearing up for the Pixel launch under the stewardship of its new hardware czar Rick Osterloh. The Pixel phones would replace the company’s Nexus devices with a new focus on elegance and ease of use.
Facebook launched its Portal smart displays almost a year ago, following a lengthy delay in the wake of the . Now, . For anyone who still inexplicably trusts Facebook enough to put one of its cameras in their homes, there are two new Portal displays, plus a TV accessory that adds video chat to the biggest and best screen in the house. The new smart displays are called simply Portal and Portal Mini. The Portal has a 10-inch display, and the Portal Mini is only a little smaller at 8-inches. As before, Facebook’s main pitch is video chat. You can place calls to other users via Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, and the cameras use facial recognition to follow you around the room.
The launch of the Epic Game Store has provoked a great deal of frustration and unhappiness from gamers who have felt forced to use a store with far fewer features than what Steam offers. At the same time, however, the EGS is forcing Steam to compete in ways the company has previously ignored. Valve has announced that it will be overhauling the way games are displayed in Steam, improving discoverability options, and making it easier for users to discover in-game events they’d like to participate in. Steam has used more-or-less the same library layout since its inception:
