Google is actively investigating reports of major screen burn-in in Pixel 2 devices. Multiple end users are reporting significant problems with burn-in, even after just a few days of using the device. Screen burn-in has been a problem for literally as long as we’ve had computers. It’s the problem screen savers were originally designed to help solve — if you displayed a rotating or spinning image (or a set of still images rotated through over time), you could mitigate the non-uniform pixel degradation that creates burn-in in the first place. LCDs have become much better at handling burn-in than they once were, but it still happens.
We’ve been primed by TV and movies to expect that one day, giant fighting robots will exist. It seemed recently that the era of giant robots was upon us when US-based MegaBots Inc. challenged Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a battle. Both companies had a giant mech-like robot, so it seemed like a perfect match. The battle , streamed from an abandoned steel mill. Except, we’re now learning that it didn’t. Not only was the fight pre-filmed, it was also staged over the course of three days. (Everything I believed in was a lie – Ed) There were three robot combatants in the two bouts streamed last week.
When we covered the appearance of in-browser cryptocurrency mining two weeks ago, it was confined to a single site; q. Now, in just a few weeks, the number of sites deploying this kind of in-browser mining solution has skyrocketed. Initially, Coinhive was offering Monero (cryptocurrency) Javascript mining, but a host of clones have popped up in a matter of weeks. reports that Coinhive has been joined by Crypto-Loot, MineMyTraffic, and JSEcoin, alongside Coin Have and PPoi (the latter for Chinese users). There are now WordPress plugins for mining cryptocurrency on user systems. There is now a WordPress plugin for Coinhive mining
Most travelers prefer to keep expensive electronics like laptops in their carry-on bags, but you may soon be forbidden to check a laptop or similar piece of electronics. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has . The proposal will be taken up at the United Nations in a few weeks. It’s not laptops in particular that are worrying the FAA, it’s the batteries inside laptops. These just happen to be the most common devices in suitcases with very large batteries. As we’ve all learned from recent history, there is a great deal of energy stored in a lithium-ion battery. caught fire on planes and caused flights to be diverted or canceled.
Cheating is a problem in virtually every online game. While it takes different forms depending on the title in question, I’ve seen farm bots in World of Warcraft and League of Legends and encountered everyone’s favorite: People who use cheats in FPS games to shoot through walls, fire perfect shots from across the map, and/or one-shot everyone in sight with a perfect headshot. Many companies periodically smash these players with a banhammer, but it’s a constant fight between those who want to cheat and those who want to stop them. Now, Microsoft is getting into the fray with its own cheat-detection options, debuted as part of the Fall Creators Update.
When Intel launched Skylake-SP (aka the ) earlier this year, one of the major features of the product family, in addition to a revamped L2 cache structure, was its support for Intel’s latest SIMD instruction set, AVX-512. AVX-512 has previously been reserved for Intel’s HPC (High-Performance Computing) Knights Landing. But Intel launched it as a feature in some of its Xeon Scalable Processors and the Skylake-SP-derived Core i9 and Core i7 CPUs launched earlier this year. The Core i9-7900X (10-core) and above, including the Core i9-7980XE, have two 512-bit AVX-512 ports, while the 8-core and six-core parts have a single port for FMA-512.
Up until now, the majority of ongoing US-based rocket coverage has focused on SpaceX. There are multiple reasons for that, ranging from the company’s groundbreaking use of reusable rockets to the simple fact that NASA doesn’t currently have a launch vehicle of its own to crow about. Companies like Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have rated a distant second or third, if only because they’ve been well behind SpaceX’s overall launch and deployment schedule, with seemingly little chance of catching up. First hotfire of our BE-4 engine is a success — Blue Origin (@blueorigin) Blue Origin hasn’t caught up–not yet–but it did a major step forward for its own rocket engine yesterday.
Four years in, and there are tens of millions of in the wild. Whether you’re using an original model, PS4 Slim, or PS4 Pro, there are likely aspects of your experience that could use some improvement. Want to shorten a particularly long load time? Maybe you’d like to stream gameplay to your bedroom. Heck, you might just be willing to drop a couple hundred bucks on a full-fledged VR setup. Countless accessories are being marketed toward console gamers, and the truth is that most of them suck. It’s safe to ignore the vast majority of accessories, and focus on the handful of ancillary products that can meaningfully impact your experience.
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