• The Oppo Reno Ace has it all.  (AnandTech)
  
  Snapdragon 855+, 8 or 12GB RAM, 128 or 256GB flash, dual SIM or SIM + microSD, 6.5" 2400x1080 DCI-P3 HDR10 90Hz AMOLED display, 48MP main camera, 13MP zoom, 8MP ultrawide, 2MP B/W camera (not sure what that one is for - low light?), 16MP front camera in a teardrop notch, USB-C with 65W fast charge, under-display fingerprint reader, headphone jack, and a limited edition Gundam version.
  
  <dave barry>I am not making this up.</dave barry>
  
  Pricing starts at around $420.
  
  
• If you update your X299 motherboard BIOS for Cascade Lake X you will lose support for Kaby Lake X.  (AnandTech)
  
  Which will affect maybe two people.  Kaby Lake X was that weird attempt to sell mainstream CPUs that plugged into HEDT motherboards, except lacking half the features those motherboards were designed to support.  Nobody bought it.
  
  
• The Ryzen 5 3500X is great and you can't have one.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Another OEM part.  If you can't live without it, buy a 3600 and disable hardware threads in the BIOS and you'll be pretty close.
  
  
• Mostly dead is partly alive.  (Phys.org)
  
  Corals can regrow after "fatal" warming.  Which is no reason to be complacent about damage to reefs, but is a reminder that the people who are most certain about things often have the least reason for their certainty.
  
  
• Google's image recognition software is so smart it can distinguish a goose from a duck but can't tell if an image has been rotated 90° clockwise even when the image metadata says "Rotated 90° CW".  (Medium)
  
  
• MacOS Catalina may crap up your Drobo.  (ZDNet)
  
  If you have one of the Drobo models with Thunderbolt support, don't plug it into a Catalinified Mac.

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