SSDs have been an option for NAS devices for a while. But until now there haven’t been any available to consumers that are optimized for use in a NAS. Seagate introduced its new IronWolf 110 SSDs — optimized for NAS — at CES and is planning to have them available for purchase soon. We’ve been able to get a couple of review units and put them through their paces. Seagate IronWolf 110 SSDs by the Numbers Seagate is selling the IronWolf 110 2.5-inch SSD in several capacities: 240GB, 480GB, 960GB, 1.9TB, and 3.8TB. They all feature a 6Gb/s SATA interface, so they aren’t going to outpace many M.2 cache drives when it comes to sheer speed.
The cutting edge of television technology will cost you seventy large. Sony has settled on a price of $69,999.99 — they couldn’t round up? — for the 98-inch Sony Master Series Z9G 8K HDR OLED TV. This will be the 2019 flagship of the Sony television line and it ships in June. The Z9G measures 86.75 inches wide by 55.0 inches tall by 4.38 inches deep. For a cleaner look, it can be bracket-mounted to any wall that can support 208 pounds. Sony will be offering seven OLED TVs coming to market in May and June, two of them 8K OLEDs.
Last week, Samsung shipped out the first Galaxy Fold units to reviewers. This week, it recalled those units and announced it would hold off on shipping the phone until it performed failure analysis on the four known devices to have already broken. We don’t know what the formal results of Samsung’s own analysis will show, but a new by iFixit has left plenty of reason to be concerned. The Galaxy Fold has some potentially critical design flaws. Specifically, it marries an incredibly fragile OLED screen to a hinge design that allows debris into the phone at multiple points. That’s a serious problem, because pushing down on an OLED display against debris embedded in the phone can immediately destroy the panel.
Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 May 2019 Update will not be available to anyone who has USB storage or an SD card installed. The company has published a new support page warning consumers about the change. The site states that users running either 1803 or 1809 with an external USB or SD Card storage device will receive the following error message: The ? Inappropriate drive reassignment can occur on eligible computers that have an external USB device or SD memory card attached during the installation of the May 2019 update. For this reason, these computers are currently blocked from receiving the May 2019 Update.
Researchers have discovered a new method of potentially integrating optical interconnects at the chip level. If successful, such an approach could theoretically allow for a significant increase in overall performance, not to mention power savings. Light-based computing has several intrinsic properties to recommend it. First and foremost, it’s fast. Switching an optical transistor with another optical transistor has a theoretical speed measured in femtoseconds (10-15, as compared to the pokey nanoseconds (10-9) we measure performance in today. The problem with using light to switch light is that it’s also extremely power inefficient and typically functions best over longer distances.
The 5G hype-cycle is spinning so fast these days, you can barely see the spokes. None of the cellular providers are blameless when it comes to spinning it, but T-Mobile seems more willing than the others to admit the : Namely, it’s never going to scale very well outside dense urban environments. Neville Ray, T-Mobile’s CTO, has a blog post arguing that the current state of 5G “is clearly not good enough.” Ray points out that the 5G launches we’ve seen from Verizon and AT&T are spotty and that performance is highly variable. He posted a GIF of what happens to mmWave signals when a sliding glass door is closed.
As of today, Nvidia’s long Turing refresh cycle has come to an end. The GTX 1650 — the last GPU we’re aware of in the Turing family, based on the slimmed-down TU117 GPU — drops in as a replacement for the GTX 1050 / GTX 1050 Ti. As one might expect, Nvidia has cut-down the TU116 used for the GeForce 1660 and GeForce 1660 Ti to create TU117. The new GPU packs roughly 2/3 the ROPs, cores, and memory bandwidth of the GTX 1660. A comparison between the Pascal and Turing family GPUs in this price range is shown below.
Media Molecule, the Sony studio behind beloved games like LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway, has had its hands full these past few years with an ambitious project. Simply called “Dreams,” this new game/toolset takes much of the creative spirit of their previous releases and blows it out to fill a full voxel-driven 3D world. While the finished product with a traditional campaign isn’t quite ready yet, Mm has already released the into early access on the . If you’re willing to drop $30 now, you can jump in, and start making something cool right away. Using a controller, you’ll be able to develop your own music, models, effects, animations, and even complete video games from scratch.
Teslas will be fully autonomous next year. The word, from Elon Musk, came just two days before a Tesla earnings-and-sales report that is not going to be kind to the company. The Tesla CEO and three Musk-eteers took to the stage Monday to announce fabulous, industry-leading breakthroughs in full self-driving (FSD) that will put Tesla cars and Tesla robo-taxis on the road as early as next year, in at least one market. The plan is to use two Tesla-designed chips that will fit in a glovebox circuit board rather than take over the trunk. All without lidar. Musk said Teslas will be “feature complete” for self-driving as of vehicles built this year; self-driving (Level 5, the real self-driving) could be a reality by Q2 of 2020.
