For most people, Resident Evil 7 has been a positive experience regardless of platform. On the PS4, it’s even better thanks to built-in PSVR support. Unfortunately, a small percentage of people running the game on the PS4 Pro are experiencing major graphical glitches. Even worse, neither Capcom nor Sony have been willing to step up to properly deal with this issue. By most estimates, Resident Evil 7 is a well-liked game. It earned a “Good” score of 7.7 . And based on 86 reviews aggregated on Metacritic, the PS4 version is sitting nicely at an 86/100. It seems that the new direction worked out well for the long-running series, and that’s why this technical blemish is so infuriating.
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“I think that the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour.” –Margot, in “All Summer In A Day” Ray Bradbury’s short story, “All Summer In A Day,” tells of a girl named Margot, and how terribly she misses the sun after her family moved from Earth to Venus. Under the all-enveloping, oppressive Venusian clouds and the constant beating rain, there is nothing for Margot that doesn’t seem to hurt. It’s hard to think of Venus without thinking of that story, because it captures something essential about Earth’s “evil twin.” Venus is not exactly a comfortable vacation spot.
Back before the iPhone was a gleam in Apple’s eye, Nokia was the smartphone vendor everyone was trying to beat. For over a decade, Nokia dominated the smartphone and feature phone markets — and one of the devices that cemented its position as an early leader in the cell phone industry was the Nokia 3310. Now HMD Global, the company that manufacturers devices for Nokia, has announced it intends to refresh the device with the same candybar design. At first glance, the Nokia 3310 doesn’t look like the kind of device anyone would care about in 2017. The original phone launched in 2000 with features like an 84×48 monochrome screen, games like Snake II, a calculator, a stop watch, and a reminder function.
Over the weekend, a brace of leaks spilled critical information on how AMD’s will compare with Intel’s Core i7 family, and how the chips will supposedly be priced. All of this information should be taken as preliminary and with a substantial grain of salt given the websites involved in leaking it and their records (WCCFTech’s in particular) of playing fast and loose with the truth. This is rumor, not fact, and should be treated equivalently. That said, these rumors are at least plausible. According to , which leaked the performance data, these numbers reflect a CPU without Turbo Mode, apparently running at a flat 3.4GHz.
Why is Ford investing $1 billion over five years in a Pittsburgh startup called Argo AI? It’s looking to gain an edge in self-driving car technology in the four-year countdown to 2021. That’s when Ford has said it will be shipping cars with autonomous driving. Several other automakers said in 2016 they’d have self-driving cars within five years, too. Ford CEO Mark Fields said, “With Argo AI’s agility and Ford’s scale, we’re combining the benefits of a technology startup with the experience and discipline we have at Ford.” Ford will continue work on the self-driving vehicle platform, including sensors, while Argo AI will build the virtual driver system.
Here at ExtremeTech, we’ve often discussed the difference between different types of NAND structures — versus planar, or multi-level cell (MLC) versus (TLC) and (QLC). Now, let’s talk about the more basic relevant question: How do SSDs work in the first place, and how do they compare with newer technologies, like Intel’s non-volatile storage technology, ? To understand how and why are different from spinning discs, we need to talk a little bit about hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. There’s an actuator arm with read/write heads attached to it. This arm positions the read-write heads over the correct area of the drive to read or write information.
Last year, Intel announced that it would abandon the that had served it for nearly a decade and switch to something called PAO — Process, Architecture, Optimization. The point of switching from a two-step process to a three-step system was to give Intel extra time to roll out its next-generation process nodes, while simultaneously affording more opportunity to eke maximum gains out of each current node. Now, new information suggests Intel may have a product plan that tears up PAO (or at least complicates it) going forward. Analyst Ashraf Eassa claims to have confirmed with Intel that upcoming 8th generation Core processors will use an updated/enhanced variant of 14nm technology yet again — call it 14nm++.
When news broke earlier this winter about a in LG’s 5K UltraFine panels, Apple initially appeared to take no real notice of the problem. Now, however, the company is responding — by pulling all sales of existing 5K UltraFine stock and putting customers on notice that new hardware won’t ship for another 5-6 weeks. Business Insider the situation with Apple, and online availability clearly shows a 5-6 week wait for new stock. LG has previously said that it would overhaul its design and repair the problem, but that new displays wouldn’t be available until the beginning of March. Apple’s ship-date pushes that window back to the end of March or early April, but could reflect either a timeline slip from LG or Apple’s desire to build up a reservoir of product to guarantee quick shipping for all customers rather than tossing displays out the door, first-come, first-served.
