Atari has announced that it will begin taking for the upcoming Atari VCS on May 30 via an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign. It’s the latest step in a rather strange development cycle that began last July. The company was supposed to launch an IndieGoGo campaign last December before delaying it for unspecified reasons. Now the campaign is ready to kick off — but what, exactly, are you ordering? Here’s what we do know. The Atari VCS (not the Ataribox, as it was originally called) can be ordered in either a faux wood or standard black model. Both are clear callbacks to the original Atari 2600.
Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 update was supposed to arrive earlier this month, before a blue screen of death problem forced the company to . Redmond has been quiet about the arrival date until Friday, when it announced that the latest Windows 10 Update will debut Monday. Starting today, you’ll be able to download Windows 10 April 2018 update manually, with the full rollout happening on May 8. And good news! After initially going with “Windows 10 Spring Creators Update,” Microsoft has decided to jettison its name branding strategy and adopt a more neutral numerical designation. “I think people were really craving a lot more simplicity,” Aaron Woodman, a director at Microsoft, told .
Last week, we covered two key developments regarding AMD and Intel. First, AMD chose to , raising the question of what this might say about GlobalFoundries own 7nm ramp, particularly given that GF recently replaced its CEO for the fourth time in a decade and has had well-known and repeated problems ramping cutting-edge process nodes. Then Intel declared it would from 2018 to 2019 — and not even the first half of 2019, just “2019.” Neither one of these things is great for either company, though the fine folks at AMD would undoubtedly note that one of them is speculation and the other is now established fact.
When Stephen Hawking , we couldn’t stop reading and watching tributes. His public roles as researcher, speaker, writer, and advocate over the years have endeared this man to generations of people around the world. So in honor of this scientific giant, we’ve put together a list of his five greatest achievements. It should go without saying that he accomplished so much more throughout his life, but we feel that these best summarize his impact on our world. Hawking Radiation As the name implies, Hawking Radiation is one of the discoveries we most associate with Stephen Hawking.
The ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has already been studying the Milky Way galaxy for several years, and the first release of data included the precise location of more than 2 million stars. Now, the second major dataset from Gaia has of 1.7 billion stars in our galaxy. The ESA has used this data to produce the most detailed map of the Milky Way yet. Gaia contains three instruments for observing stars, allowing it to determine the location, color, and movement of stars over time. Gaia calculates the distance to stars, which astronomers consider the most critical data point, using parallax measurements.
Space agencies have sent various missions to and made fascinating discoveries in the process, but getting samples back to Earth would allow for much more detailed analysis. After a false start some years ago, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) . The first phase of the mission will kick off with the NASA 2020 Mars rover, but the return mission is still in the early planning stages. Scientists are interested to find out if life ever existed on Mars (or maybe still does). There’s only so much you can do with instruments crammed into a rover. Having samples of Martian soil on Earth would allow researchers to conduct more detailed analysis, and we could save samples for future testing as new technologies come into being.
Last year, Intel told investors and the press that it had begun early shipments on 10nm, though it refused to identify which parts this applied to, or when we would see volume shipments. Similarly, the company declared its 8th Generation Core family would comprise multiple chips across 14nm, 14nm+, 14nm++, and 10nm. Now, Intel has announced that it will delay volume shipment on 10nm into 2019, rather than ramping in the first half of 2018. Here’s the quote from CEO : We continue to make progress on our 10-nanometer process. We are shipping in low volume and yields are improving, though the rate of improvement is slower than we anticipated.
When you need a PC benchmark, odds are you’ll end up using a Futuremark product like 3DMark. Futuremark has been the most well-known name in the benchmarking industry for more than 20 years, but that’s over. The benchmarks aren’t going away, but “Futuremark” is. , so now you’ll use UL Benchmark apps instead of Futuremark apps. Futuremark’s benchmarking clients are often used by PC hardware reviewers to see how various competing parts match up. It’s also a common way for PC gamers to test their systems and troubleshoot poor performance. I’d go so far as to say even most gamers who don’t use Futuremark benchmarking apps know the name.
Want your own copy of Black Panther as soon as possible? Walmart now has the pre-order option available for this wildly popular movie on 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and Digital. It ships on May 15th, so you’re just a few weeks away from being able to enjoy it in the comfort of your own home. • With a Metacritic score of 88/100, including a rave review on our , this is one of the most well-reviewed super hero movies. And since it’s also one of the highest grossing films of all time, it’s clear that the public enjoyed it just as much as the critics did.
