The has been on the market for a few months now, and the hardware has proven to be more than capable. Many existing titles have seen small performance improvements automatically, but the big draw has always been Xbox One X-optimized releases. That’s where that 4K TV will really shine. Microsoft maintains a of existing and upcoming X-enhanced games, and a huge chunk are the big full-price titles you’d expect. Those look incredible on a UHD TV, but after spending big on a new console and 4K set, paying $60 a pop for a bunch of brand new games is a tough sell for many of us.
The self-driving car startup Waymo began its life as a tiny experimental project inside Google X, the search giant’s “moonshot” department. As part of the reorganization several years ago, the self-driving car company under the Alphabet corporate umbrella. Waymo rolled out a new fleet of autonomous minivans shortly after its formation, and now it’s acquiring a whole lot more. The company is reportedly new vehicles from Fiat Chrysler. Waymo’s self-driving vans are built on the standard Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivan, but they include a collection of sensors and control mechanisms that don’t exist in the minivans you can buy from the dealer.
Cryptographers and linguistic experts have been puzzling over the Voynich manuscript ever since its discovery over 100 years ago. This confounding 240-page codex was written centuries ago in an indecipherable gibberish language that has remained untranslated despite extensive study. Researchers from the University of Alberta now claim to have in understanding the manuscript with the aid of . The Voynich manuscript is named after the Polish book dealer who uncovered the book in 1912, but little else is known about it. The parchment has been dated to the early 15th century, and experts believe it may have been written in what is today northern Italy.
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Apple’s CPU design chops and its willingness to tackle custom silicon work have created an odd situation in computing — one in which the coprocessors the company designs into its products are now treated as major announcements in and of themselves. It’s a baffling, Apple-specific treatment of coprocessors that likely leaves the company’s competitors in fits. But it’s also a handy way of keeping tabs on what the company is rolling out, and what platforms are slated for updates in 2018. According to an extensive report , Apple is working on multiple new projects, including a new iPad refresh, with three updated Mac models, all of which supposedly use new custom coprocessors (new laptops and at least one new desktop).
All the cameras in your life thus far have been entirely under your control — you get to decide what they film and for how long. Google’s upcoming Clips camera is different. It uses machine learning to decide what’s important, then processes or discards the footage accordingly. Google unveiled this device in October 2017, but it’s still not available. It’s expected to go on sale soon, and now how it tuned the camera’s neural network to understand what is a significant moment. The idea is that Clips will run continuously, but it will only save the video clips it thinks you will want.
Tesla has made a number of fancy electric cars, but making them so fancy also means they’re incredibly expensive. The Model 3 is supposed to be Tesla’s mainstream “budget” offering, though production has been . Part of the problem may be the battery packs, which are manufactured at the huge Gigafactory in Nevada. Some former Tesla employees report that many Model 3 batteries were assembled by hand, and there could be quality issues that make them more prone to failure. Tesla, however, denies this. The Tesla Model S and X both start between $60,000 and $70,000, and a lot of people simply won’t pay that much for a car no matter how good it may be.
Building a PC has long offered the best value when performance and reliability are your primary concern, but things are changing. With component prices skyrocketing, you may actually be further ahead to purchase a pre-built gaming computer even if it’s not exactly what you want. Hopefully, this won’t be the case forever, but now is not the time to build your own system. RAM used to be one of the cheapest parts of a DIY build — you could get a 16GB DDR4 kit for a little over $100 as recently as one year ago. Demand for DRAM chips is so high that prices have essentially doubled at retail.
Stealth cryptocurrency mining in one’s browser, without the user’s permission, is one of our least-favorite trends of the past six months. While there were always questions about whether cryptocurrency mining in-browser could serve as an alternate revenue stream for websites, there was at least an idea that some kind of alternate funding system might emerge — hopefully putting an end to the eternal cycle of invasive ads driving users to deploy ad blockers, which then drives websites to adopt more invasive ads. But instead of an informed approach in which end users consented to such mining, we’ve seen stealth operations popping up everywhere that steal CPU cycles from users, particularly if more than one crypto mining malware is running simultaneously.
