Monday, November 04
Daily News Stuff 4 November 2024
Multiply And Conquer Edition
Multiply And Conquer Edition
Top Story
- The US government is reportedly considering a merger between Intel and AMD. (Notebook Check)
Which is odd because neither company has shown the slightest bit of interest in this, and it would clearly be a complete disaster for both. Well, I guess the complete disaster part is completely in character for the current administration, so maybe no so odd as all that.
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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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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