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3D printing can be useful if you need a simple object or a replacement part, but making anything complex usually requires you add some non-printed materials. A team from the University of Washington has shown that isn’t necessarily the case anymore. They’ve created 3D printed plastic objects that are Wi-Fi enabled and . Finding practical uses for basic consumer has been a challenge, and this has definitely slowed adoption of the technology. Although, maybe we just haven’t hit upon the right designs yet. The UW team wanted to see if it was possible for a plastic object from a printer to send useful data over Wi-Fi, and that seems like it could be quite useful.
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Marc Andreessen has said software is eating the world. Maybe it’s not eating the world, but every day, software becomes ever more important for the functioning of the world as we know it. The complexity of that software also keeps growing, with new bugs popping up like multi-headed hydras in systems we expect to “just work” all the time. The Apollo 11 moonshot was done with about 145,000 lines of code and a lot less computing power than your printer. Today’s Microsoft Windows contains some 50 million lines of code. A Boeing 787 runs on 7 million lines of code, but a .
Qualcomm new Always Connected PCs with Snapdragon 835 processors, but the company isn’t resting on its laurels. It’s also announced the upcoming Snapdragon 845, and a bevy of improvements to go along with it. The company hasn’t said much about the CPU core itself, which is almost certainly based on the same Cortex-A73 technology that Qualcomm debuted with the . While 10nm refinements and another design pass could improve clock speeds or reduce power consumption, I wouldn’t expect a huge gain in raw CPU performance. Qualcomm is focusing on improving its video and image processing, including adding the ability to record 4K HDR footage at up to 60fps on your phone.
When buying a new computer or smartphone, there’s a very good chance it’ll have a port. This port will become the standard for data connections in the next few years, but it could also be the way you listen to audio and charge your devices. USB Type-C, often called just USB-C, comes with a lot of advantages, but the shift from the ports you know and tolerate will be a bit painful at first. Still, USB-C is cool, and you should be excited. The first thing you’ll notice about USB-C is that it’s small. It’s only a bit larger than a micro USB and much more compact than the rectangular USB-A connector we’ve lived with for the last 20 years.
The cold war between Google and appears to be heating up today. After a series of disagreements over how Amazon is accessing YouTube content, Google has on YouTube access for Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV devices. Google says YouTube won’t come back until Amazon is willing to work together and ensure consumers have access to both companies’ products. This isn’t the first disagreement Google and Amazon have had regarding YouTube. The service was initially blocked earlier this year on the Echo Show (Amazon’s ) which shipped with a custom YouTube app developed without Google involvement. Amazon was able to bring back YouTube support several weeks ago with a workaround that just loaded the web versions of videos, but now Google is done playing around.
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Nintendo has been famously reluctant to allow its classic games to run on anyone else’s platform, but it’s making an exception in China. to launch the Shield Android TV box in China with an assortment of games from the Wii and Gamecube. Don’t hold your breath for these games to launch in other markets, though. has put together multiple partnerships to bring games like Borderlands and Doom 3 to the Shield, but the Chinese launch is all about Nintendo. The Shield is the only Android TV device with any kind of market share right now. It retails for around $200 in the US, and ships with a remote control and a game controller.
