Tesla has had its share of ups and downs over the years with exploding cars, autopilot mishaps, and CEO Elon Musk saying and doing foolish things on the internet. But this week was a big “up” for the electric car maker. Tesla’s latest quarterly report includes a at 95,200. Tesla’s stock rose as expected following the news, gaining 7 percent after falling 35 percent since early 2019 when it reported slower than expected sales. Tesla has benefited from a full quarter selling the Model 3, its most affordable vehicle, in Europe and China. The Model 3 previously launched for US buyers in 2018, after taking reservations for years.
AOC has announced a new pair of high-end gaming displays designed for ultra-low-latency gaming and quick response times. The AOC Agon AG251FZ2 and AG271FZ2 feature 1080p resolutions, 400 nits of brightness, and a dynamic refresh rate up to 240Hz, with FreeSync supported from 48Hz – 240Hz. AOC also includes features like Shadow Control, to increase the contrast of dark areas, low lag input (to reduce latency caused by the display itself) and a low-light mode to reduce blue light output without causing the panel’s overall color temperature to change. Both panels share a common set of inputs: DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 1.4, HDMI 2.0, DVI-D, and D-SUB.
Today we’ve got dozens of excellent deals on everything from games and toys to high-end electronics and accessories to help make this Independence Day a memorable one. With a built-in Chromecast and hundreds of internet channels to stream from, this TV makes it easy to access all of your favorite videos online. The TV also supports a fast SoC with four CPU and four GPU cores. You can get it this 4th Of July from Walmart marked down from $698.00 to $449.99. What better way to celebrate your independence than with a pair of high-quality earbuds to help block out bothersome external noises and enjoy your music.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft is one step closer to carrying humans into space today. The agency confirms that all systems during the second ascent abort test, proving that astronauts aboard Orion could be safely wrenched free of a rocket in the event of an emergency. Launch abort systems are not a new idea, but Orion is a new piece of hardware. NASA needs to make sure the abort system works as intended because it’s the difference between saving and losing the crew when a launch goes wrong. The crew of a Russian Soyuz capsule narrowly averted disaster last year when the MS-10 rocket carrying it spun out of control.
The Raspberry Pi 4’s improved specifications promise significantly improved performance compared with the Raspberry Pi 3B, but benchmarks have shown there’s a snag: heat. Under significant multi-core load, the RBP4 can hit 80C fairly easily, causing the chip to throttle. This can reduce performance substantially. CNXSoft has done several articles exploring aspects of the RBP4, including a recent update on the impact of a for the VIA VL805 PCIe USB 3.0 used on the board. It’s not clear how this update will make its way into consumer hands just yet, but the RBP4 apparently hadn’t implemented Active State Power Management (ASPM) for its USB3.0 controller.
Acer has taken an aggressive stance in the 4K 144Hz gaming display market this year with the . This feature-rich display has an $899.99 MSRP, which undercuts competing products that predominantly list for over $1,000. Although the price and features of this display make it an exceedingly tempting solution for gamers, Acer had to cut a few corners to keep the price down and it may not be the best option for those who want a high-end display with all of the latest bells and whistles. Design & Feature Overview Acer designed this gaming display with an edgy, almost entirely black aesthetic.
Samsung wanted to release the Galaxy Fold several months ago, but hardware defects in the first batch of review units led to an indefinite delay. Now, Samsung has to make it more durable. However, the company hasn’t decided on a manufacturing timeline or a new launch date. Samsung hoped that the Fold would reignite interest in the smartphone market, which has become quite dull as everyone gravitates toward flat glass slab designs. The Galaxy Fold was the first Google-blessed foldable phone announced, but companies have been demoing foldable OLED technology for years. The Galaxy Fold showed why those have only been demos — it’s extremely challenging to make a phone that folds more than a few times without failing.
A few years ago, AMD announced a major joint venture with a newly created Chinese subsidiary company. That venture, called THATIC, has helped fund some of AMD’s activities over the last few years (at the time the venture was announced, AMD declared a value of $293M). Last week, we covered the news that the , restricting the export of technology to these companies. Now, the Wall Street Journal has an article attacking AMD’s JV as an assault on national security. The (paywalled) article begins by claiming that AMD gave China the “keys to the kingdom, that the THATIC deal was the beginning of AMD’s Ryzen-fueled transformation, and that the entire deal ‘alarmed’ US national-security officials, ‘who saw it as a threat to their goal to rein in China’s supercomputing industry.
Astronomers have been pondering the nature of our first interstellar visitor ever since its discovery. ‘Oumuamua is bizarre — not only is it from beyond the stars, but it’s also long and cigar-shaped. That led some to wonder if it wasn’t really an alien spacecraft, but past studies of ‘Oumuamua have . Now, a comprehensive analysis from scientists at the University of Maryland and other institutions has . ‘Oumuamua isn’t an alien spaceship. While there have no doubt been alien objects in our solar system before, ‘Oumuamua was the . Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS observatory identified ‘Oumuamua in October 2017, but it was already on its way out of the solar system at that point.
