Jupiter has a whopping 69 moons, and you don’t hear a lot about the largest of them. It may not have the icy sheets of Europa or the geysers of Enceladus, but Ganymede is remarkable in its own right. In fact, it may be even more interesting than we thought. NASA researchers have gone over telemetry from a 1996 Ganymede flyby in order to . Ganymede is the largest moon of , but if it were orbiting the sun, we’d undoubtedly label it as a planet (no Pluto uncertainty here). It’s the ninth largest object in the solar system if you count the sun — even bigger than the planet Mercury.
The United States Department of Defense has halted the sale of all smartphones, routers, modems, and other hardware that contains any equipment manufactured by Huawei or ZTE. The order affects all of the stores on various Pentagon military bases and covers both the initial hardware and “adjacent products.” “These devices may pose an unacceptable risk to the department’s personnel, and mission,” Pentagon spokesperson Major Dave Eastburn . The orders are unsurprising if you’ve followed recent news about either company, though the justifications for the orders differs. In Huawei’s case, it’s the latest in a series of security decisions by the US government that have identified Huawei equipment and hardware as a potential threat to US security.
Right now, Dell is selling the 4K 43-inch multi-client P4317Q monitor at a 35 percent discount with today’s coupon code in play. On top of that, they’re also giving out a $200 eGift card to sweeten the deal. • (List price: $1199.99 — Coupon code: 35OFFBIZ) In terms of specs, we’re looking at a native resolution of 3840×2160, a 60Hz refresh rate, an 8ms gray-to-gray response time, LED backlighting, in-plane switching, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, and an anti-glare coating. It also includes two HDMI ports, a Mini DisplayPort, a DisplayPort, a VGA port, and a four-port USB 3.0 hub.
CPU utilization is wrong. That’s the argument Brandon Gregg, Netflix’s senior performance architect, has leveled against one of the most fundamental performance measurement tools we use when evaluating a system. According to Gregg, CPU utilization as reported by Windows isn’t just wrong — it’s actively getting worse over time. If you’ve ever dug into this topic, you’re aware of some of the ways that CPU utilization isn’t reported accurately. Ever since Intel (and now AMD) added Hyper-Threading / SMT support, there’s been a discrepancy between how cores are presented in Task Manager and what resources are actually available. Windows, Linux, and other operating systems report the total number of cores and measure CPU utilization as if each logical core was actually a physical core.
China has been pushing the dystopian aspects of its society fairly aggressively of late. The country has rolled out a social “credit” monitoring system, in which citizens are rated based on the social media posts and actions of both themselves and their friends and family. Those with scores have been banned from purchasing domestic flights, banned from certain schools, prevented from using credit cards, and blocked from certain jobs. Now, one Chinese firm is claiming to have gone yet farther, and monitors the brainwaves of its employees through sensors embedded in caps they’re required to wear. It might sound like a joke, but the company, Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric, is absolutely serious.
The recent dust-up with Facebook has made secure communication more popular than ever, but many law enforcement agencies aren’t happy with that prospect. In the US, federal authorities have made their dislike of encrypted communication widely known. In some countries, private messaging services are effectively banned. Signal is one of the most common ways to send encrypted messages, and it may no longer be able to evade those bans. to the service’s lead developer Moxie Marlinspike, has threatened to revoke Signal’s hosting if it does not stop using Amazon to circumvent censorship. Signal, which is available on Android, iOS, and desktop, uses strong end-to-end encryption to ensure no one but the intended recipient of your message can read it.
After leaking some of the details itself, has finally taken the wraps off its newest smartphone. The LG G7 ThinQ (yes, that’s actually the name) matches all the leaks from unofficial sources. It has some things we expect out of the G-series, including a dual camera and high-resolution LCD panel. However, it also borrows features from the competition — there’s a notch, and “AI” in the camera. The G7 ThinQ looks like a perfectly fine phone, but fine might not be enough in 2018. The first thing you’ll probably notice about the G7 ThinQ is that screen. It’s a 6.1-inch LCD with a resolution of 1440 x 3120.
Metro Los Angeles just revoked one of the best freebies that comes from buying an EV, PHEV, or hydrogen car: free access to carpool lanes and toll lanes when there’s just the driver aboard. The program became a victim of success. So many people bought EVs and PHEVs and took advantage that the travel times in the special lanes slowed precipitously. The change will take effect sometime in November or December 2018. Meanwhile, EV owners and some environmental groups say the move by Los Angeles will increase pollution. California green clean air sticker, issued to plug-in hybrids.
The 2019 Toyota Corolla Hatchback is an improvement on the best-selling Corolla sedan. It looks sportier, has a better engine and innovative transmission, improves the technology with integrated telematics and useful apps, adds Apple CarPlay, and boosts safety with LED headlamps and the first North American 2.0 version of Toyota Safety Sense. All this won’t impress passengers three and four, the ones in the back seat. Unlike the Corolla sedan, the second row passengers will find the hatch suitable only for short trips around town.
