July 22, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

SoundCloud Link: TBD

 

Main News Topics

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/628900-nvidia-gefo OP: HKZeroFive

Source 2: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/07/nvidia-gtx-1060-review/

 

Specifications

• 1280 Cuda Cores

• 80 Texture Units

• 48 ROPS

• 1,506 MHz Core Clock

• 1,708 MHz Core Clock

• 192-bit memory bus width

• 192GB/s memory bandwidth

• 6GB  GDDR5

• July 19th release date

• $299 USD = Founders Edition

Specification Comparison = GTX 780TI, 970, 980, 980TI, Titan X (Old), 1060, 1070, 1080

 

NVIDIA Announces the “New” Titan X

Source 1: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/07/21/titan-x/

Source 2: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/titan-x-pascal

• It began with a bet.

  • Brian Kelleher, top hardware engineer, bet CEO Jen-Hsun Huang that they could get more than 10 teraflops of computing performance from a single chip

  • They did it

• Will be available Aug 2nd for $1200 USD direct from NVIDIA

NVIDIA TITAN X: The Ultimate Graphics Card, Powered by Pascal Video (0:59 Seconds)

Specifications

• 11TFLOPS FP32

• 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning inferencing instruction)

• 12 Billion transistors

• 3,584 CUDA cores at 1.53GHz (3,072 cores at 1.08Ghz in previous TITAN X)

• Up to 60% faster performance than previous TITAN X

• High performance engineering for maximum overclocking

• 12GB of GDDR5X memory (480 GB/s)

 

Facebook Wants to Deliver High-Speed Internet to Remote Areas Via Laser Beams

Source 1: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/facebook-wants-to-deliver-high-speed-internet

• System uses invisible infrared laser beams that switch on and off several billion times per second to exchange data while consuming minimal energy

• Facebook is working on means of delivering high-speed internet to remote areas via laser beams

• Project has taken a step forward, after a first test delivered connection speeds over 2Gbps

  • According an article penned by four members of Facebook’s “Connectivity Lab,” published in the scientific journal Optica

• The plan to provide high-speed internet connections by using laser beams to deliver connectivity to the most remote locations

• However, high-levels of precision are required to line up the laser correctly

  • Team has to aim the beam with precision equivalent to hitting a dime coin from more than 10 miles away

• System also needs to support temperature differences of up to 90 degrees celsius

 

Owner of Kickass Torrents Arrested

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629879-owner-of-kickasstorre OP: DiabeticMadman

Source 2: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/us-looks-prosecute-owner-kickass-912953

• U.S. looks to prosecute Artem Vaulin, owner of Kickass Torrents after his arrest in Poland

  • Justice Department announced that it is has charged Artem Vaulin with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and money laundering in connection with the operation of Kickass Torrents

• In a press-release, law enforcement calls Kickass Torrents the “most visited illegal file-sharing website”

  • 50 million unique monthly visitors

  • 69th most visited website on the internet

  • Allegedly responsible for enabling users to distribute films, tv shows, and video games valued at more than $1 billion

• Apple and Facebook helped the US in the investigation and arrest of Artem Vaulin

  • An apple e-mail belonging to Vaulin was found in a WHOIS lookup conducted by Homeland Security

  • July 31st, 2015, records provided by Apple showed that the me.com e-mail account was used to purchase something on iTunes

  • Logs show that the same IP then was used to access the Kickass Torrents Facebook page

    • Very ironic that evidence being held against Vaulin is him legitimately purchasing something from Apple

• Site shut down by authorities

• UPDATE: Clone site of Kickass Torrents resurfaces on the web, calling for Vaulin to be released

• Petition on Change.org

  • Currently at around 14,000 signatures

 

Dollar Shave Club Sold for $1 Billion to Unilever

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629430-dollar-sha OP: blaze756

Source 2: http://www.recode.net/2016/7/19/12232698/dollar-shave-club-just-sold-for-

• Men’s grooming startup that sells razors to more than three million people has been acquired by consumer goods company Unilever

  • Unilever owns brands like: Axe, Becel, Dove, Hellmans, Knorr, Lipton and more

• Paid $1 billion in cash for Dollar Shave Club

  • According to two people close to the startup company

• Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2011 by Michael Dubin

  • CEO, who was the star in the viral marketing video that they completed in 2012

    • Video has more than 23,000,000 views

• Dollar Shave Club was projecting more than $200 million in revenue for 2016

  • Company isn’t profitable, but CEO Michael Dubin said at a conference in May that they could get into the black by year’s end

• Dubin will continue to run the company, which will operate as a standalone business

 

Gorilla Glass 5 - More Shock Proof

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629854-gorilla-glass-5-mor OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12236642/corning-announces-new-gorilla-gla

• Corning just unveiled its newest version of Gorilla Glass

  • Gorilla Glass 5, new glass was formulated to improve drop performance from gadgets that are dropped onto rough surfaces from certain heights

    • Specifically, waist height to shoulder height

• Corning says Gorilla Glass 5 survives up to 80% of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters

• “Two-thirds of smartphone drops happen from waist height or higher,” Corning says

• Internal research done by Corning showed that 85% of smartphone owners have dropped their phones at least once in the past year

  • This survival rate was achieved in tests with pieces of glass that were .6mm thick

    • They make glass as thin as .4mm, so smartphone OEMs that opt for thinner glass may see different results

  • Most of these drops were flat on the phone’s face, so it doesn’t take into account corner drops

• Gorilla Glass 5 is in production now, we should hear more about it ‘in the next few months’

 

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Rapid Fire

 

Witcher 3 Studio Talks Piracy, Says it was an “Irrelevant” Factor

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/630215-witcher-3-studio OP: suicidialfranco

Source 2: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/07/19/witcher-3-studio-talks-piracy-says-it-wa

• CD Projekt Red, developer and publisher behind The Witcher franchise has always had a unique stance when it comes to DRM-free products

  • They champion the notion of selling their games without any DRM restrictions and letting the pirates do their thing

    • Regardless of the impact on sales

• Kotaku grabbed what co-founder Marcin Iwinski had to say regarding piracy at last month’s infoShare 2016 convention:

  • “The piracy factor was irrelevant, because we can only convince them to do it. We totally believe in the carrot, not in the stick”

  • “I've seen many times, comments that say ‘hey, I couldn’t afford the game when it was full price, but these guys are so fair, and they were never against us. They were always trying to do good, add a lot of value, give free DLC, give free content, that I bought the game from them when it was mid-price”

  • “We don’t like when people steal our product, but we are not going to chase them and put them in prison”

 

Tesla: Elon Musk Release Part 2 of his Master Plan

Source 1: https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux

Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36852725

Part 1 of Master Plan (Laid out 10 years ago) Summarized

• Create a low volume car, which would necessarily be expensive

• Use that money to develop a medium volume car at a lower price

• Use that money to create an affordable, high volume car

• Provide solar power

Part 2 of Master Plan (Published July 20, 2016)

• States that Tesla would be branching out into creating a “solar-roof-with-battery product” that people can have fitted to their homes

• Wants Tesla electric car range to cover all types of ground vehicles, specifically buses and lorries

• Once cars have full autonomous driving capabilities, Musk said Tesla would allow owners to add their cars to a shared fleet

  • Meaning vehicles can be making money for their owners when they are not using them

• He wrote that his ambition was to “accelerate the advent of sustainable energy”

• “We must at some point achieve a sustainable energy economy or we will run out of fossil fuels to burn and civilization will collapse”

• “Given that we must get off fossil fuels anyway and that virtually all scientists agree that dramatically increasing atmospheric and oceanic carbon levels is insane, the faster we achieve sustainability, the better”

 

TL:DR Part 2 of the Master Plan

• Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage

• Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments

• Develop a self-driving  capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning

• Enable your car to make money for you when you aren’t using it

 

ZTE Zmax Pro Launch @ MetroPCS for $99 USD

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629401-zte-zmax-p OP: Cracklingice

Source 2: http://www.cnet.com/news/zte-zmax-pro-lands-at-metropcs-for-jaw-droppingly-low-99/

Source 3: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/zte-zmax-pro-3645

• Will be available on August begin July 18th

• Latest attempt by a low-co1st

  • Pre-orders st phone vendor to make its mark on the US market

• ZMAX Pro is the follow up from the ZMax 2 from 2015

• “The $99 comes after an instant rebate of $100 provided by MetroPCS. ZTE confirmed that it would remain at $99 at the prepaid center”

  • Says that in this article

 

Specifications

• 6-inch 1080x1920p display

• 1.5GHz Snapdragon 617 processor

• 2GB RAM

• 32GB internal storage

  • Can be expanded via microSD

• 13-MP rear camera

• 5-MP front camera

• 3400mAh battery

• Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 4G

• Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor, Accelerometer, and Gyroscope

 

*GET LINUS THE PHONE, WE HAVE IT. -CP”

 

Seagate’s New ‘Guardian Series’ Portfolio Brings 10TB Helium HDDs to Consumers

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629080-seagates OP: The Benjamins

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10496/seagate-guardian-series-10tb-hdd-portfolio-

• Seagate launched a 10TB helium drive for enterprise applications back in April

  • Technology is making its way into 10TB drives for three different market segments:

    • Desktop computing = BarraCuda Pro

    • NAS Units (1-8 Bay) = IronWolf Series

    • Surveillance (NVRs and DVRs) = SkyHawk Series

• Only the 10TB drives are helium based, the rest of the drives being release are 7200RPM drives and use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology

Specifications Chart for Guardian Series

 

Edward Snowden’s New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones From Betraying Their Owners

Source 1: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/21/edward-snowdens-new-research

Source 2: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/snowden-designs-device-warn-iphones-radio-snitches/

• When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA’s secrets, he asked them to put their phones in the fridge

  • To block any radio signals that might be used to silently activate the devices

• Edward Snowden and hardware hacker Andrew Huang are developing a way for imperiled smartphone users to monitor whether their devices are making any potentially compromising radio transmissions

  • They argue that a smartphone’s user interface can’t be relied on to tell you the truth about the state of its radios

  • Initial prototyping work uses an iPhone 6

• “We have to ensure that journalists can investigate and find the truth, even in areas where governments prefer they don’t”

• “It’s basically to make the phone work for you, how you want it, when you want it, but only when”

• Snowden and Huang presented their findings in a talk at MIT Media Lab’s Forbidden Research event earlier this week.

 

Acer Liquid Jade Primo Appears at the Microsoft Store for $649 USD, With its Continuum-ready Kit

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/628990-acer-releases-their-fir OP: AluminumTech

Source 2: http://www.windowscentral.com/acer-liquid-jade-primo-microsoft-store

Source 3: http://windowsreport.com/acer-liquid-jade-primo-buy/

• Phone has soft-launched in handful of European markets

• Now available on the Microsoft Store for $649 USD

• Great because it has Windows Continuum support

  • Will allow you to attach the phone to a monitor, mouse and keyboard

    • Wired through accessories, or wireless through Bluetooth and Miracast

  • You get the phone itself, a dock, keyboard, mouse, ac power adapter and power cord for that price

  • Picture of what you get

• Only thing missing from this Windows Continuum-ready kit is the display

Specifications

• Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 Hexa Core Processor

• 3GB RAM

• 32GB Storage, microSD expandable

• 5.5” AMOLED Full HD 1080p (1920x1080)

• 2870 mAh non-replaceable Li-polymer battery

• 21MP rear camera, 8MP selfie cam

• Dual SIM

• USB 3.1 (Type-C)

 

FitBit Facing Class Action Over Sleep-Tracking Claims

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629538-fitbit-is-facing-cl OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/07/wearable-maker-fitbit-must-face-lawsui

• Class-action lawsuit accusing FitBit of misrepresenting the ability for its wearable fitness products to track sleep can move forward, federal judge has ruled

• San Francisco federal lawsuit claims Fitbit materially misrepresented their packaging of their Flex product to track users’ hours slept, times woken up, and sleep quality

  • Suit alleges false advertising, unfair trade practices, fraud, and other claims

• US District Judge James Donato didn’t rule on the merits of the case

  • Instead refused to toss the lawsuit out as Fitbit had wanted

• Case could still be dismissed at a later stage

• Lawsuit, cites a 2012 study in Sleep Health as evidence that Fitbit allegedly does not adequately track sleep

Link to PDF of the lawsuit

 

End of an Era: Japan to Manufacture Last-ever VCR This Summer

Source 1: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/end-of-an-era-japan-to-manufacture-last-ever-vcr-th

Source 2:

• Funai Electric Company, last remaining Japanese manufacturer of VCR devices, announced an end to production this summer

  • Sold under various names, such as Sanyo in North America

  • They’ve been making VHS recorders since 1983

• Reported sales of 750,000 video recorders worldwide in 2015

• Philips and Sony presented their first reel-to-reel videotape recorders in the 1960s

  • First home devices followed in the 1970’s, showcased at CES

• Several formats sprung up over the years to compete in the consumer market

  • Sony’s Betamax and widely adopted VHS (Video Home System) format developed by JVC

  • Launched officially in 1976, first compatible video recorders released in Japan before rolling out worldwide

• VHS cassettes could record between 30 minutes and five hours of video footage

  • Over time, VCR recorders were even capable of doubling this capacity, recording up to 10 hours on one cassette

• Although considered better quality, Betamax never managed to rival the VHS format

  • At the end of 2015, Sony announced it would stop selling Betamax cassettes commercially this year

 

An 11 Year Old Linksys Router Still Makes Millions of USD Each Year

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/624121-an-11-year-old-linksys- OP: AluminumTech

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/the-wrt54gl-a-54m

• The WRT54GL still makes millions for Linksys

  • 54Mbps router from 2005

  • Picture

• Open source firmware, reliability make an old product attractive to new buyers

• Uses 802.11g WiFi standard

• You can buy a new router for less money, and get the benefit of modern standards, expansion into the 5GHz band, and data rates more than 20 times higher

  • The WRT54GL costs around $42.95 USD on Amazon

  • Despite this, people still buy the WRT54GL in large enough numbers that Linksys continues to earn millions of dollars per year with it

• “To be honest, it somewhat baffles my mind,” Linksys Global Product Manager Vince La Duca told Ars

• “We’ll keep building it because people keep buying it”

 

Ontario Teen Invents Tongue-Controlled Mouse for Physically Disabled

Source 1: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ontario-teen-invents-tongue-controlled-mouse-for-phy

Source 2: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tongue-controlled-computer-mouse-1.3677813

• Emma Mogus, 17, build the TiC, or Tongue-Interface-Communication

• There are five buttons inside a mouthguard-type device, connected to a computer

  • Each button controls a different mouse direction

• Can use your tongue to press the center button, to left click enter

• “You can think of it as a mouse inside your mouth”

• Invention won Mogus the 2016 Weston Youth Innovation Award from the Ontario Science Centre

  • Mogus’ friend Tim, a husband and father with ALS, inspired her to create the device

• “Your tongue is connected almost directly to your brain, so it nearly bypasses your entire spinal cord, so in these injuries your tongue is left unaffected,” she said

 

10-Core Meizu MX6 Made Official

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629058-meizu-mx6-official-a OP:

Source 2: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/07/meizu-mx6-official-announcement-specs

• The Meizu MX6 smartphone was unveiled at a press conference in China July 19th

  • Rumored ‘MX6 Ubuntu Edition’ was nowhere to be seen

Specifications

• 10-core MediaTek Helio X20 processor

  • Comprised of two A72’s and a pair of quad-core A53s (2+4+4=10)

  • Chip has a max clock speed of 2.3GHz

• 5.5-inch full-HD display

• 4GB RAM, 32GB onboard storage

• USB Type-C, fingerprint scanner

• 3060mAh battery

• Comes in gray, silver, gold and rose gold colors

• Goes on sale in China July 30th at around $300 USD

Meizu MX6 Product Page

 

Microsoft Officially Acknowledges Request for Pokemon GO in Windows 10

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/628923-microsoft-officially-a OP: AluminumTech

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/pokemon-go-windows-10-mobile-possibility/

• Handful of people have been asking Microsoft to bring Pokemon GO to Windows 10 Mobile

  • Microsoft responded via their feedback hub

• Developers behind Pokemon GO haven’t even hinted at releasing the game for Microsoft’s mobile platform

• https://puu.sh/qaIvN/f93222ba45.jpg

  • “We have received an overwhelming amount of feedback requesting that the Store provide this application. The Windows Store team is looking into options with regard to the best way to fulfill this request. We keep you advised of any updates.”

 

Atomic Memory - Storage Device Writes Information Atom-by-atom

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/629573-dutch-scientists- OP: Master Disaster

Source 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36824902

Source 3: http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.131

• The device stores information in the positions of individual chlorine atoms

• Dutch scientists developed rewritable memory that stores information in positions of individual chlorine atoms on a copper surface

• With each bit of data represented by the position of a single chlorine atom, the team was able to reach a density of 500TB per square inch

• “In theory, this storage density would allow all books ever created by humans to be stored on a single post stamp,” said Dr. Otte

• Researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which a sharp needle probes the atoms on the surface one by one

• Because chlorine atoms are surrounded by other chlorine atoms, they keep each other in place

• Despite future promise, the approach is not ready for the real-world yet

  • Stable information storage could only be demonstrated at a temperature of -196 degrees celsius

  • Speed of single write and read processes is still slow

 

Star Citizen Backer Refunds $2,550 USD Pledge

Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/627317-star-citizen-refunds-pledge/ OP: sTizzl

Source 2: http://gamerant.com/star-citizen-refund-crowdfund/

• Backer for the Kickstarter space sim, Star Citizen has been refunded his entire donation after a lengthy dispute with developer Cloud Emperium

• Backer made public a series of emails between Cloud Emperium, and the California Attorney General’s office

  • Emails detail how the backer was able to obtain his refund on the grounds that:

    • “The product remains unfulfilled and no longer constitutes the product (s) I originally purchased”

• Backer’s complaint stems from the fact that Star Citizen has changed so dramatically since its first reveal

• Also the fact that the game hasn’t been released years after its initial crowdfunding campaign

• Backer stated he was contacted by “an L.A. County investigator”

  • Investigator wanted to find out more information about Star Citizen because the investigator felt the game was a “scam”

• Cloud Imperium released a statement about the refund, stating:

  • “Any refunds with respect to Star Citizen are made on a discretionary basis. There was nothing special about this situation. The face that this particular party used a complaint form that is online and openly available, doesn’t make this any different.”

 

 

 

 

[rachet06]

After hearing about your stream issues, I have to ask. Why does the WAN show use a software setup that a gaming stream would use rather than a more traditional broadcast setup? I've done multi-camera, multi-computer video and full audio split+mix concert streams and recording with way fewer hiccups than the WAN show. I would imagine that even if you went super budget on a blackmagic ATEM TV to handle graphics, bumpers, and switching and moved the stream computer to only run the control interface with a single capture card encode without any other processing on its part you'd be way more stable.

[Snadzies]

The Linksys WRT54 is like the AK-47 of the router world.

Simple, cheap, reliable as all get out and has massive 3rd party support for the thing.

 

I almost bought myself another one last year but ended up getting a WRT 1900AC as I found a smoking deal on it, otherwise I would have bought another WRT54.

I live in the suburbs so the wireless airwaves aren't cluttered, it does everything I need and I can just google any issues or questions I have with it and get hundreds of results for the exact thing I want to know how to do, usually with well written step-by-step guides.

Sure I might be hampered a bit by its speed on paper but I'm not a professional streamer, content creator or other profession that requires very high internet speeds.

The one I had handled multiple netflix streams or people gaming without issue and that was all I needed from it.

 

I imagine that for the vast majority of homes the WRT54 is still more than sufficient to handle their needs.

[Tech_Dreamer]

GREAT WAN SHOW LINUS...

[Okjoek]

You shouldn't blame the lack of competition on AMD, Linus. After all it's not their fault for Nvidia's dumb trickle-down strategy. I like being able to use the newer more efficient processes at mainstream prices under 300 dollars which is where the real graphics market is which Nvidia is barely able/willing to go. Similar with Tesla's car story. Their cars are worthless until they can make them mainstream priced.

 

I haven't played the Witcher games, but I like where CD Projekt Red is going with the stance on Piracy. People are always going to do it, so it's better to get accustomed and happy in that environment than be like Apple or something and ceaselessly go after them in vain, but it's funny to watch them try and get frustrated.

[xnamkcor]

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