June 9, 2017 - The WAN Show Document

[Slick]

 

 

Main News Topics

APPLE News=======================================

Apple Unveils “HomePod”

Source 1: posted by THeEmpire.01 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789483-apple-announces-homepod-a-smart-music-speaker/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15722994/apple-wwdc-2017-news-highlights-recap

 

 

• This week at WWDC, Apple unveiled their voice-activated smart speaker: HomePod

• The first thing that Phil Schiller spoke about was audio quality: Apple seems to be targeting folks who buy stuff like the Sonos Play 3 speaker rather than folks who buy devices like the Amazon Echo.

• HomePod uses spacial awareness to tune and better fill the room with sound based on the space it’s in.

• It can be used to for all normal Siri stuff, and some new music commands like “who’s the drummer in this song”

• It has 7 beam-forming speakers and a 4 inch subwoofer

• Multiple HomePods can be connected to one another and will be aware of one another

• You can ask it to control smart home devices and check the day’s weather and news briefings.

• Apple priced the HomePod at $349,

  • Echo and Google Home are $180

• The HomePod will be available in two colors: space grey or white

 

Apple Announces new iMacs

Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789187-apple-updates-its-mac-lineup-external-gpu-support-kaby-lake-and-a-new-imac-pro/

Source 2: everything announced: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/

Sourced 3: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/new-imac-pro-2017-latest-rumours-uk-release-date-price-3511338/

 

• Apple VPs revealed that because the Mac Pro in its current form hasn't been meeting the needs of many pro users, some pros have turned to the iMac instead, and as a result Apple intends to provide those users with an update to the iMac designed to suit them.

• The new iMac Pro, will have a Space Grey case.

• The result is a new fan system that offers an 80 percent increase in cooling capacity, according to the company. Apple says that the new system “allows for upgraded internals without making more noise.”

 

Apple debuts two AMD Vega GPUs, unveiling the specs for July's gaming cards

Source 1: posted by Tigermaniac https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790101-amd-rx-vega-apple-debuts-two-vega-gpus-unveiling-the-specs-for-julys-gaming-cards/

Source 2:  http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amd-vega-specs-performance-release-date-technology-explained

• While unveiling their new iMac Pro, Apple showed a slide of its Radeon Pro Vega’s specs

  • 11 teraflops single precision

  • 22 teraflops half precision

  • 8GB or 16GB HBM

  • 400GB/s memory bandwidth

 

Apple legalizes and taxes in-app tipping for content creators

Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/09/in-app-tips/

Source 2: https://thetechportal.com/2017/06/10/apple-legalizing-app-tipping/

 

• Apple’s newly published update to its App Store policies officially designates voluntary tipping via virtual currency as in-app purchases that Apple taxes 30 percent

•  

• Chinese live-streaming video apps like Yinke and Yizhibo have long embraced tipping, allowing viewers to tip or give virtual gifts to the stars they watch

• last month, Apple cracked down on unofficial tipping, which sidestepped its 30 percent tax on in-app purchases by highlighting how the tips were donations rather than purchases.

• Apple is hoping more app developers might institute digital tip jars as a way to get creators paid without having to offer ad revenue sharing.

• American live-streaming apps like Facebook Live and Periscope don’t offer tipping; instead, Facebook has begun letting broadcasters show ads in their streams and keep 55 percent of the revenue.

 

Apple bans Pepe from App Store

Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/09/apple-deems-pepe-objectionable-and-bans-the-frog-from-its-app/?sr_source=Twitter

Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-bans-pepe-the-frog-game-from-app-store/

 

• A Letter sent to a developer from Apple rejecting the developer’s app submission argues that Pepe is "considered objectionable content" and is therefore banned from appearing in any app in the Apple ecosystem.

• The app is a game called Pepe Scream and is available on Google Play

  • It’s a FlappyBird rip off with “more autistic screaming”

 

 

=====================================================================

========Mining News===============================

AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining

Source 1: http://wccftech.com/amd-gpu-supply-exhausted-by-cryptocurrency/

Source 2:

 

• AMD Radeon RX 500 series GPUs are sold out all over the globe owing to the cryptocurrency mining craze.

• The most popular cards being the RX 580 and 570

• GPU mining has seen a massive resurgence recently due to the rising popularity of ASIC resistant coins like Etherium, whose price has soared lately

  • Ethereum price: https://ethereumprice.org/

• some NVIDIA graphics have similar performance/watt as their AMD counterparts at Ethereum mining, but their significantly higher initial cost make them far less profitable overall

• AMD is rumoured to be making a Polaris based cad designed specifically for mining.

 

Pascal-based Cryptocurrency Mining Station

Source 1:  posted by NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790475-nvidia-cryptocurrecy-mining-system/

Source 2: https://videocardz.com/newz/first-look-at-pascal-based-gpu-cryptocurrency-mining-station

 

• The upcoming Pascal GPU mining solution from Hong Kong company Manli is equipped with eight GP106-100 mining cards- new Nvidia cards made specifically for mining- which lack display connectors and are passively cooled.

• It’s a full system with

  • Celeron Mobile processor,

  • 4GB DDR3 RAM

  • and 64GB mSata SSD.

  • The power supply is offered optionally (since different currencies have different power reqs)), otherwise, 7x 6-pin power connectors are required to run this thing.

 

 

=====================================================================

 

=======PCIe News==================================

PCIe 4.0 Specs Finalized

Source 1: posted by Snipefox47 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790906-pcie-40-finally-finalized/

Source 2: http://techreport.com/news/32064/pcie-4-0-specification-finally-out-with-16-gt-s-on-tap

 

• The updated I/O technology will offer twice the bandwidth of PCIe 3.x while retaining full backwards compatibility, offering 16 GT/s data rates.

• PCI-SIG also decided to improve the interconnect's flexibility and scalability: developers will have access to more lane width configurations and speeds suitable for low-power applications

• Other enhancements include reductions to system latency, improved scalability for added lanes, and lane margining.

• With 5.0 being officially announced already, with a planned release in just two years, will AMD & Intel even bother to implement 4.0 on consumer parts?

 

ANNOUNCED: PCIe 5.0

Source 1:  posted by PiGHamM3R https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790464-pcie-50/

Source 2: https://www.overclock3d.net/news/misc_hardware/pci-sic_accelerates_the_creation_of_pcie_5_0/1

 

• At the PCI-SIG Developers Conference, the organisation announced that they were accelerating the development of PCIe 5.0, which is designed to offer 128GB/s of total bandwidth

  • 4x that of PCIe 3.0 when both are using x16 links.

• They expect to complete their PCIe 5.0 standard sometime in 2019, already releasing version 0.3 of the standard to their members.  

• 5.0 allows 400Gb/s Ethernet solutions to be created for servers and to reduce the PCIe requirements of modern M.2, U.2 or PCIe storage devices.

 

=====================================================================

 

 

What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week.

Rapid Fire

Samsung’s Super UltraWide Monitor

Source 1: posted by THE_maverick https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790951-widest-monitor-evah-by-samsung/

Source 2: http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-qh90-super-ultra-wide-329-monitor-photos-2017-6?utm_content=buffere7da5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti/#here-are-some-of-the-chg90s-important-specs-and-features-9

 

• If Ultrawides are enough to replace a dual monitor setup, Samsung now has a monitor wide enough to replace your 3 monitor setup.

• The CHG90 is a 49 inch 32:9 super ultrawide

• You can have a full 1080 game playing on one half and still have the second half for anything else

• Specs:

  • Vertical Alignment Panel

  • 1MS response time

  • 144Hz

  • Quantum dot

  • HDR10

  • FreeSync 2

 

Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Delayed

Source 1:  posted by Mr_Troll https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789093-intel-coffee-lake-cpus-delayed-to-2018-8th-gen-gets-kaby-lake-refresh-this-year/

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-delayed-2018-8th-gen-kaby-lake-refresh/

 

• Intel’s new Coffee Lake family of 6 and 4 core CPUs has been delayed to February of 2018

• Intel will be introducing three product families over the next four quarters:

  • The high-end Core X

    • Skylake X and Kaby Lake X CPUs and the X299 Chipset.

  • six core and quad-core Coffee Lake CPUs and Z370 chipset.

  • BGA Gemini Lake chips which will feature 2 to 4 cores on a frugal TDP of 10W.

 

 

Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them

Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/its-unconstitutional-when-trump-blocks-twitter-followers-group-says/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/6/15748776/knight-institute-donald-trump-twitter-block-free-speech-letter

 

• Two Twitter users who were blocked by Trump after they criticized the president are claiming that their exclusion from being one of Trump's followers amounts to a First Amendment breach of their constitutional rights.

• The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is asking Trump to unblock anyone he has blocked on Twitter.

• Because politicians are harnessing social media as a means of political discourse, the institute calls Trump's account a "designated public forum."

• "When new communications platforms are developed, core First Amendment principles cannot be left behind,"

• The letter also makes the same request for the president's @POTUS account.

• The institute said it might sue if its clients' Twitter feeds remain blocked.

 

Facebook seeks to serve better ads by Spying on your Face

Source 1: posted by hey_yo_ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790816-facebook-wants-to-secretly-watch-you-through-your-smartphone-camera/

Source 2: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebook-wants-secretly-watch-you-through-your-smartphone-camera-1625061

 

• Facebook has patented a technology that uses 'passive imaging data' from your phone’s camera to surmise your emotional state and serve ads appropriately.

• If you were forlorn, for example, it would be able to serve an ad to perk you up, or know what products you had previously looked at in such a state and put them under your nose at just the right time.

• the patent describes how the technology could tell if a user's expression changed while looking at posts or pictures from a certain person and would show more or less of these in the future.

 

 

Lian Li + Cinsys = new all in one liquid coolers?

Source 1: posted by EnergyEclipse https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789685-lian-li-partnered-with-cinsys-to-begin-making-all-in-one-liquid-coolers/

Source 2:  https://www.pcper.com/news/Cases-and-Cooling/Computex-2017-Lian-Li-Launching-AIO-Liquid-Coolers-Raw-Copper-Radiators

 

• The 240mm Radiator, All-in-One liquid cooler, will be called The "X-R240 Expandable water cooling heat radiating system"

• The radiator is purely copper, surrounded by a metal shroud, with a  nickel-plated copper block.

 

China Activates World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

Source 1: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/china-floating-solar-power-plant/

Source 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations

 

• China has announced that the largest floating photovoltaic facility on earth has been completed and connected to the local power grid.

• This is the Chinese government’s latest achievement in its ongoing effort to lead the world in renewable energy adoption.

• The 40-megawatt facility was constructed over a flooded former coal-mining region

• These floating apparatus free up land in more populated areas and also reduce water evaporation. The cooler air at the surface also helps to minimize the risk of solar cell performance atrophy, which is often related to long-term exposure to warmer temperatures.

• Is 40 MW a lot? Not really. Most coal-fired plants are over 1,000. See source 2 for list of bigger solar projects.

 

OnePlus to reveal OnePlus 5

Source 1: posted by Technicolors

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789786-oneplus-to-reveal-oneplus-5-on-june-20/#comment-9950160

Source 2: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/06/exclusive-this-is-the-oneplus-5/

 

• The company will reveal the phone during a live-streaming event at 12:00 PM EDT on June 20

• The new phone will feature:

  • a dual-camera array

  • OnePlus' trademark mute switch,

  • Snapdragon 835 processor

[ProjectBox153]

I really wanted to make the live stream this time. Man. Too bad for me, I guess. Oh well, more news for me to listen to!

[Str_Mape]

Didn't get to see the stream live unfortunately, I will watch as soon as my food is cooked.

 

 

[ATFink]

Come on @Slick! Spare us night theme users. The black text on the dark background is hard to read. Thanks for the Wan show document though. I appreciate the ability to read through the sources.

[Tech_Dreamer]

Dat Hug doe

[Daniel644]

32 minutes ago, Str_Mape said:

Didn't get to see the stream live unfortunately, I will watch as soon as my food is cooked.

 

 

I tried watching live but my stupid cell phone wouldn't maintain a solid enough bandwidth to do it, kept dropping to like 0.25 Megabit down on the speedtest app.

[rn8686]

Why did they spoil the guest judge, EP 4 still isnt on YT. 

[Master Disaster]

2 hours ago, rn8686 said:

Why did they spoil the guest judge, EP 4 still isnt on YT. 

SYW S05 has had Jayz name in the end credits of each episode, it really wasn't a spoiler at this point.

[rn8686]

Just now, Master Disaster said:

SYW S05 has had Jayz name in the end credits of each episode, it really wasn't a spoiler at this point.

Kind of was, the cover story was he lent them equipment. 

[himanshugodara]

6 hours ago, Slick said:

 

 

Main News Topics

APPLE News=======================================

Apple Unveils “HomePod”

Source 1: posted by THeEmpire.01 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789483-apple-announces-homepod-a-smart-music-speaker/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/5/15722994/apple-wwdc-2017-news-highlights-recap

 

 

• This week at WWDC, Apple unveiled their voice-activated smart speaker: HomePod

• The first thing that Phil Schiller spoke about was audio quality: Apple seems to be targeting folks who buy stuff like the Sonos Play 3 speaker rather than folks who buy devices like the Amazon Echo.

• HomePod uses spacial awareness to tune and better fill the room with sound based on the space it’s in.

• It can be used to for all normal Siri stuff, and some new music commands like “who’s the drummer in this song”

• It has 7 beam-forming speakers and a 4 inch subwoofer

• Multiple HomePods can be connected to one another and will be aware of one another

• You can ask it to control smart home devices and check the day’s weather and news briefings.

• Apple priced the HomePod at $349,

  • Echo and Google Home are $180

• The HomePod will be available in two colors: space grey or white

 

Apple Announces new iMacs

Source 1: posted by randomhkkid https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789187-apple-updates-its-mac-lineup-external-gpu-support-kaby-lake-and-a-new-imac-pro/

Source 2: everything announced: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2017/

Sourced 3: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/new-imac-pro-2017-latest-rumours-uk-release-date-price-3511338/

 

• Apple VPs revealed that because the Mac Pro in its current form hasn't been meeting the needs of many pro users, some pros have turned to the iMac instead, and as a result Apple intends to provide those users with an update to the iMac designed to suit them.

• The new iMac Pro, will have a Space Grey case.

• The result is a new fan system that offers an 80 percent increase in cooling capacity, according to the company. Apple says that the new system “allows for upgraded internals without making more noise.”

 

Apple debuts two AMD Vega GPUs, unveiling the specs for July's gaming cards

Source 1: posted by Tigermaniac https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790101-amd-rx-vega-apple-debuts-two-vega-gpus-unveiling-the-specs-for-julys-gaming-cards/

Source 2:  http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amd-vega-specs-performance-release-date-technology-explained

• While unveiling their new iMac Pro, Apple showed a slide of its Radeon Pro Vega’s specs

  • 11 teraflops single precision

  • 22 teraflops half precision

  • 8GB or 16GB HBM

  • 400GB/s memory bandwidth

 

Apple legalizes and taxes in-app tipping for content creators

Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/09/in-app-tips/

Source 2: https://thetechportal.com/2017/06/10/apple-legalizing-app-tipping/

 

• Apple’s newly published update to its App Store policies officially designates voluntary tipping via virtual currency as in-app purchases that Apple taxes 30 percent

•  

• Chinese live-streaming video apps like Yinke and Yizhibo have long embraced tipping, allowing viewers to tip or give virtual gifts to the stars they watch

• last month, Apple cracked down on unofficial tipping, which sidestepped its 30 percent tax on in-app purchases by highlighting how the tips were donations rather than purchases.

• Apple is hoping more app developers might institute digital tip jars as a way to get creators paid without having to offer ad revenue sharing.

• American live-streaming apps like Facebook Live and Periscope don’t offer tipping; instead, Facebook has begun letting broadcasters show ads in their streams and keep 55 percent of the revenue.

 

Apple bans Pepe from App Store

Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/09/apple-deems-pepe-objectionable-and-bans-the-frog-from-its-app/?sr_source=Twitter

Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-bans-pepe-the-frog-game-from-app-store/

 

• A Letter sent to a developer from Apple rejecting the developer’s app submission argues that Pepe is "considered objectionable content" and is therefore banned from appearing in any app in the Apple ecosystem.

• The app is a game called Pepe Scream and is available on Google Play

  • It’s a FlappyBird rip off with “more autistic screaming”

 

 

=====================================================================

========Mining News===============================

AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining

Source 1: http://wccftech.com/amd-gpu-supply-exhausted-by-cryptocurrency/

Source 2:

 

• AMD Radeon RX 500 series GPUs are sold out all over the globe owing to the cryptocurrency mining craze.

• The most popular cards being the RX 580 and 570

• GPU mining has seen a massive resurgence recently due to the rising popularity of ASIC resistant coins like Etherium, whose price has soared lately

  • Ethereum price: https://ethereumprice.org/

• some NVIDIA graphics have similar performance/watt as their AMD counterparts at Ethereum mining, but their significantly higher initial cost make them far less profitable overall

• AMD is rumoured to be making a Polaris based cad designed specifically for mining.

 

Pascal-based Cryptocurrency Mining Station

Source 1:  posted by NumLock21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790475-nvidia-cryptocurrecy-mining-system/

Source 2: https://videocardz.com/newz/first-look-at-pascal-based-gpu-cryptocurrency-mining-station

 

• The upcoming Pascal GPU mining solution from Hong Kong company Manli is equipped with eight GP106-100 mining cards- new Nvidia cards made specifically for mining- which lack display connectors and are passively cooled.

• It’s a full system with

  • Celeron Mobile processor,

  • 4GB DDR3 RAM

  • and 64GB mSata SSD.

  • The power supply is offered optionally (since different currencies have different power reqs)), otherwise, 7x 6-pin power connectors are required to run this thing.

 

 

=====================================================================

 

=======PCIe News==================================

PCIe 4.0 Specs Finalized

Source 1: posted by Snipefox47 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790906-pcie-40-finally-finalized/

Source 2: http://techreport.com/news/32064/pcie-4-0-specification-finally-out-with-16-gt-s-on-tap

 

• The updated I/O technology will offer twice the bandwidth of PCIe 3.x while retaining full backwards compatibility, offering 16 GT/s data rates.

• PCI-SIG also decided to improve the interconnect's flexibility and scalability: developers will have access to more lane width configurations and speeds suitable for low-power applications

• Other enhancements include reductions to system latency, improved scalability for added lanes, and lane margining.

• With 5.0 being officially announced already, with a planned release in just two years, will AMD & Intel even bother to implement 4.0 on consumer parts?

 

ANNOUNCED: PCIe 5.0

Source 1:  posted by PiGHamM3R https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790464-pcie-50/

Source 2: https://www.overclock3d.net/news/misc_hardware/pci-sic_accelerates_the_creation_of_pcie_5_0/1

 

• At the PCI-SIG Developers Conference, the organisation announced that they were accelerating the development of PCIe 5.0, which is designed to offer 128GB/s of total bandwidth

  • 4x that of PCIe 3.0 when both are using x16 links.

• They expect to complete their PCIe 5.0 standard sometime in 2019, already releasing version 0.3 of the standard to their members.  

• 5.0 allows 400Gb/s Ethernet solutions to be created for servers and to reduce the PCIe requirements of modern M.2, U.2 or PCIe storage devices.

 

=====================================================================

 

 

What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week.

Rapid Fire

Samsung’s Super UltraWide Monitor

Source 1: posted by THE_maverick https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790951-widest-monitor-evah-by-samsung/

Source 2: http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-qh90-super-ultra-wide-329-monitor-photos-2017-6?utm_content=buffere7da5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti/#here-are-some-of-the-chg90s-important-specs-and-features-9

 

• If Ultrawides are enough to replace a dual monitor setup, Samsung now has a monitor wide enough to replace your 3 monitor setup.

• The CHG90 is a 49 inch 32:9 super ultrawide

• You can have a full 1080 game playing on one half and still have the second half for anything else

• Specs:

  • Vertical Alignment Panel

  • 1MS response time

  • 144Hz

  • Quantum dot

  • HDR10

  • FreeSync 2

 

Intel Coffee Lake CPUs Delayed

Source 1:  posted by Mr_Troll https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789093-intel-coffee-lake-cpus-delayed-to-2018-8th-gen-gets-kaby-lake-refresh-this-year/

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-delayed-2018-8th-gen-kaby-lake-refresh/

 

• Intel’s new Coffee Lake family of 6 and 4 core CPUs has been delayed to February of 2018

• Intel will be introducing three product families over the next four quarters:

  • The high-end Core X

    • Skylake X and Kaby Lake X CPUs and the X299 Chipset.

  • six core and quad-core Coffee Lake CPUs and Z370 chipset.

  • BGA Gemini Lake chips which will feature 2 to 4 cores on a frugal TDP of 10W.

 

 

Twitter users threaten legal action if Trump doesn’t unblock them

Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/its-unconstitutional-when-trump-blocks-twitter-followers-group-says/

Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/6/15748776/knight-institute-donald-trump-twitter-block-free-speech-letter

 

• Two Twitter users who were blocked by Trump after they criticized the president are claiming that their exclusion from being one of Trump's followers amounts to a First Amendment breach of their constitutional rights.

• The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is asking Trump to unblock anyone he has blocked on Twitter.

• Because politicians are harnessing social media as a means of political discourse, the institute calls Trump's account a "designated public forum."

• "When new communications platforms are developed, core First Amendment principles cannot be left behind,"

• The letter also makes the same request for the president's @POTUS account.

• The institute said it might sue if its clients' Twitter feeds remain blocked.

 

Facebook seeks to serve better ads by Spying on your Face

Source 1: posted by hey_yo_ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/790816-facebook-wants-to-secretly-watch-you-through-your-smartphone-camera/

Source 2: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebook-wants-secretly-watch-you-through-your-smartphone-camera-1625061

 

• Facebook has patented a technology that uses 'passive imaging data' from your phone’s camera to surmise your emotional state and serve ads appropriately.

• If you were forlorn, for example, it would be able to serve an ad to perk you up, or know what products you had previously looked at in such a state and put them under your nose at just the right time.

• the patent describes how the technology could tell if a user's expression changed while looking at posts or pictures from a certain person and would show more or less of these in the future.

 

 

Lian Li + Cinsys = new all in one liquid coolers?

Source 1: posted by EnergyEclipse https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789685-lian-li-partnered-with-cinsys-to-begin-making-all-in-one-liquid-coolers/

Source 2:  https://www.pcper.com/news/Cases-and-Cooling/Computex-2017-Lian-Li-Launching-AIO-Liquid-Coolers-Raw-Copper-Radiators

 

• The 240mm Radiator, All-in-One liquid cooler, will be called The "X-R240 Expandable water cooling heat radiating system"

• The radiator is purely copper, surrounded by a metal shroud, with a  nickel-plated copper block.

 

China Activates World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plant

Source 1: https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/china-floating-solar-power-plant/

Source 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations

 

• China has announced that the largest floating photovoltaic facility on earth has been completed and connected to the local power grid.

• This is the Chinese government’s latest achievement in its ongoing effort to lead the world in renewable energy adoption.

• The 40-megawatt facility was constructed over a flooded former coal-mining region

• These floating apparatus free up land in more populated areas and also reduce water evaporation. The cooler air at the surface also helps to minimize the risk of solar cell performance atrophy, which is often related to long-term exposure to warmer temperatures.

• Is 40 MW a lot? Not really. Most coal-fired plants are over 1,000. See source 2 for list of bigger solar projects.

 

OnePlus to reveal OnePlus 5

Source 1: posted by Technicolors

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/789786-oneplus-to-reveal-oneplus-5-on-june-20/#comment-9950160

Source 2: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/06/06/exclusive-this-is-the-oneplus-5/

 

• The company will reveal the phone during a live-streaming event at 12:00 PM EDT on June 20

• The new phone will feature:

  • a dual-camera array

  • OnePlus' trademark mute switch,

  • Snapdragon 835 processor

If i Mac pro is coming in 2018, does that mean amd won't give us vega before it?

[King_of_Oz]

Am I the only one who's only method of consuming the wan show is SoundCloud? I listen to it like a podcast.

[King_of_Oz]

(R I P Nicky v.) IT RHYMES!