Monday, November 04

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Daily News Stuff 4 November 2024

Multiply And Conquer Edition

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Tech News

  • The Verge is having a complete meltdown.  I hope to see this continue.


  • OpenAI has hired the CEO of Twitter challenger Pebble.  (Tech Crunch)

    Former Twitter challenger Pebble.

    Never heard of Pebble?

    Nobody else has either.


  • We have solved the problem of every device having its own unique charger.  Now it's all USB-C.  Some idiots still aren't happy.  (MSN)

    Don't bother reading the article; the author is an idiot, as I said.


  • The PlayStation 5 Pro has an extra 2GB of DDR5 RAM on top of the 16GB of GDDR6 memory it shares with the regular PS5.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Which seems to be a lot of trouble to go to for such a minor improvement.


  • SK Hynix has shown off 16-high HBM3E memory.  (WCCFTech)

    The memory chips are stacked up so you get 48GB in the space of a single chip, with more than 800GB per second of bandwidth.

    That used to be a lot.


  • V'Ger phone home.  (Mashable)

    NASA lost contact with Voyager 1 - again - and regained it just a few days later - again.

    Which is pretty impressive given that it takes about a day for a signal to reach the probe and for us to get a response back, even when the 47 year old spacecraft feels chatty.

    Voyager 1 has apparently turned off its main (X-band) transmitter, but was still willing to talk on its backup (S-band) radio.  NASA is working on persuading it to turn on the main transmitter again.


Disclaimer: Maybe you could give it a weekend off?  It's logged more than six billion miles on the job, might be nice to put the feet up and relax for a bit.

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1 You can expect NASA to quietly shut down Voyager 1 very soon, as it is setting a bad example for the rest of the Federal 'work' force.

Posted by: Joe Redfield at Tuesday, November 05 2024 04:30 AM (KOtXO)

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