• LaCie has new mobile hard disks and SSDs.  (AnandTech)
  
  LaCie are famous for using Porsche Design.  These look more like Chrysler circa 1982.
  
  
• Huawei showed off the Mediapad M5 Lite.  (AnandTech)
  
  I like my M3, but this is bigger, heavier, has a lower resolution screen and a slower processor, less memory and storage, and is only slightly cheaper.
  
  
• Huawei also launched their 2019 Matebook 13 which is mysteriously half a pound heavier than the 2017 model.  (AnandTech)
  
  But also hundreds of dollars cheaper.  So maybe they took out the Cavorite.
  
  
• Intel announced that Ice Like will arrive at some point, probably.  (AnandTech)
  
  No date.  No specs.  No prices.  25 hours of battery life, but only if you leave it turned off most of the time.  Or maybe not, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
  
  
• Intel also launched their Nerdvana neural network processor which can do neural network stuff.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Yeah, not a lot of technical detail in the Intel event.
  
  
• GitHub now offers unlimited private repositories to free users.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Private repositories on free accounts can only have three contributors, but that will be fine for many small projects.  And there's always GitLab.
  
  
• IBM announced the Q System One quantum computer.  (ZDNet)
  
  You can't have one.  It's nine feet tall and nine feet wide, encased in airtight half-inch high-tech borosilicate glass, cooled by liquid helium, and takes 36 hours to cool down from room temperature to operating conditions.
  
  
• Apple Death Watch: No, you can't swap your iPad Pro for an iPad Mini edition.  (ZDNet)

• LinkedIn is scanning your browser for extensions.
  
  For a reason, though: They've shut off access to their API, so the only way to find out what's going on inside LinkedIn is by screen-scraping, and these extensions do exactly that.  Of course, the data isn't actually private, or LinkedIn itself couldn't function.  The point is that LinkedIn owns your data, not you.
  
  This is security through being a pain in the bum.
  
  I do social network stuff in my day job, and we occasionally still get requests filtering down asking if we can retrieve certain data from LinkedIn for some project or other.  As soon as the name "LinkedIn" is mentioned we pass the request back with a one-word answer.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 09 2019 12:37 AM (Q/JG2)

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