Sunday, October 13
Daily News Stuff 13 October 2019
Never A Frown Edition
Never A Frown Edition
Tech News
- A week with the Galaxy Fold. (Tech Crunch)
And it's still mostly functional at the end!
I think Microsoft's Surface Duo is the right approach for now, or depending on what you need, perhaps the Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha. Or some combination of the two, with a 360% aggregate screen to body ratio.
- Zen 3 will deliver 8% better IPC and 5% better clock speeds unless it doesn't. (WCCFTech)
And the unified 8-core die instead of the dual 4-core CCX design we have now.
- What to do when you get Sherlocked. (Astropad)
Astropad produces a utility that lets you use iPads as secondary screens for your Mac, an obvious and very useful technology. So obvious and useful that it's built in to the latest versions of MacOS and iPadOS.
Astropad are responding by going cross-platform - as their customers have been begging them since they first launched. (Thurrott.com)
- Arm responds to the open source RISC-V by allowing custom instructions. (EETimes)
Until now Arm had kept tight control over the instruction set in their licenses, fearing a fracturing of their ecosystem. With RISC-V you can do whatever you want, and they risk losing customers who need custom instructions.
This applies to the embedded Cortex M and R licenses, not to the general-purpose A series used in phones and tablets.
- Copernicium is weird stuff. (In the Pipeline)
Element 112 lives in an "island of stability" due to its precise nuclear configuration, and it's longest-lived isotope has a half-life of 29 seconds - long enough to examine its chemical and physical properties if you have some really strong coffee available.
Turns out it's a liquid at room temperature. Just not for very long.
- Bullshit.js is a useful analysis tool for business communication.
- Crystal has cracked the TIOBE top 50.
Just behind LiveCode (never heard of it), PowerShell (never used it), ActionScript (dead), Scheme (I've looked at it)... And Bash.
Not too bad for a language that hasn't yet hit 1.0.
- Synopsys has demonstrated CXL and CCIX over PCIe 5.0. (AnandTech)
We got PCIe 4.0, like, a month ago.
- Don't upgrade your MacBook Pro to Catalina. (Forbes)
Just in case you hadn't got the idea already. It is probably safe to upgrade if you have never had iTunes installed at any point.
- Outdoor. Air conditioner. (Kickstarter)
Disclaimer: It's mock turtles all the way down.
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