October 9, 2015 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

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Main News Topics

Ten Most Important Things from Microsoft Event

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462552-the-ten-most-imp OP: matwoodson

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/hands-on-the-surface-pro-4-is-a

Source 3: http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/06/microsoft-surface-book-hands-on/

Source 4: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462488-micorosft-display-dock-turns-windo

Lumia 950

• Windows 10 mobile flagship

• 5.2-inch screen

• snapdragon 808 processor

• “tablet-class” liquid-cooling technology

• based on technology derived from the Surface tablet team

• USB Type-C

• 32GB of storage and microSD slot

• 20-megapixel PureView rear camera

• infrared sensor for “Windows Hello”

• launching in November for $549

Lumia 950 XL

• 5.7-inch

• Snapdragon 810

• USB Type-C

• 32GB of storage and microSD slot

• launching in November, $649

Lumia 550

• 5-inch display

• replaces the Lumia 640 and 640 XL

• 5-megapixel camera

• available in December for $139

Surface Dock

• display dock

• another attempt to turn phones into PCs

• plugs into the new Lumia phones with USB Type-C and provides ports for HDMI, DisplayPort, and three full USB ports

• looks like the OS scales up to Win10 desktop and apps on a monitor

Surface Pro 4

• 12.3-inch display, reduced bezels, bigger screen without actually increasing device size

• up to 1TB of SSD storage, up to 16GB of RAM

• 6th-gen Intel Core Skylake processor

• “50% faster than a MacBook Air and 30% faster than a Surface Pro 3”

• fingerprint scanner

• hybrid cooling system

• 8.4mm thickness

• 8MP rear facing camera

• Gorilla Glass 4

• can call Cortana by holding down the button on the Surface Pen

• Type Cover is the thinnest ever and has a 40% larger trackpad with 5-point Multitouch support

Surface Book

• “first ever” 2-in-1 laptop built by Microsoft

• 13.5-inch display

• 267ppi, 3:2 aspect ratio

• backlit keys

• Pixelsense for touch

• 6th-gen Intel Core Skylake Processor

• latest generation Nvidia GeForce GPU

• “Microsoft worked with its Xbox team to tune in graphics performance”

• advertised 12-hours of battery life per charge

• “ounce for ounce, pound for pound, the fastest 13-inch laptop ever made”

• machined body weighing in at only 1.6lbs with 7.7mm thickness

• full sized USB ports, SD reader

• “Dynamic Fulcrum” hinge that can accept the screen in either direction (for laptop mode or tablet mode)

• pre-orders are available, becomes officially available on October 26 with pricing starting at $1499 - highest-end model is $2699 with an unnamed Nvidia GPU

Facebook now a universal Windows 10 app

• Facebook is building new versions of Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram for Windows 10

• Zuckerberg says Facebook is “all in” on the Windows 10 platform

• big improvement over Windows Phone which needed third-party tools for things like basic Instagram functionality

Surface Accessories

• announces Surface docking station which adds 4 USB ports, two 4K DisplayPorts, and ethernet

• will work with the last-gen Surface 3

• new Type Cover with glass trackpad, fingerprint reader, and integrated backlit keyboard

Microsoft Band (An answer to smartwatches?)

• positioned as “the ultimate fitness device”

• array of sensors and a barometer to track elevation

• all feed info to the Microsoft Health app

• OLED screen in a curved Gorilla Glass display

• lots of third party partners - listed ones were Subway, Starbucks, Twitter, and Uber

• coming October 30 for $249

HoloLens Dev Kits cost $3000

• showed a HoloLens game demo (Project X-Ray)

• dev kit coming Q1 2016

• Microsoft promises these kits to be “fully untethered”

• no cables or connection to a PC is required once apps are loaded on

• prospective augmented reality devs can put in an application now

Liquid Cooling Moves onto the Chip for Denser Electronics

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462106-liquid OP: numpad

Source 2: http://www.news.gatech.edu/2015/10/05/liquid-cooling-moves-chip-denser-electronics

• Using micro fluid passages cut directly into the backsides of production field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices

• Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are putting liquid cooling a few hundred microns away from where transistors are operating

• New technology could allow development of denser and more powerful electronic systems that wouldn’t need heat sinks or cooling fans on top of integrated circuits

• Researchers have demonstrated a monolithically-cooled chip that can operate at temperatures more than 60% below air-cooled chips

• Cooling comes from de-ionized water flowing through microfluidic passages to replace heat sinks

  • To make this, they etched cooling passages into the silicon, incorporating silicon cylinders approximately 100 microns in diameter to improve heat transmission

  • With a water inlet temperature of approximately 20 degrees celsius and an inlet flow rate of 147 milliliters per minute, the liquid-cooled FPGA operated at less than 24 degrees celsius

• Information presented on Sep 28th at IEEE Conference in San Jose, Calif

Smartphones can be hacked into with just one text message and then used to spy on their owners

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462476-smartphones-can OP: Cyborg_Warrior

Source 2: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/edward-snowden-smartph

• Edward Snowden: Smartphones can be hacked into with just one text message and then used to spy on their owners

• The text message used to gain access to the phone wouldn’t be seen by the user, and they’d have no idea that it had arrived, Snowden said

• Snowden has encouraged people to use encryption in their online communications

• Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a set of tools called “Smurf Suite”

  • “Dreamy Smurf” lets the phone be powered on and off

  • “Nosey Smurf” lets spies turn the microphone on and listen in, even if the phone is off

  • “Paranoid Smurf” hides the fact that the phone has been taken over

• Snowden said the NSA has spent one billion on similar tools

Australian researchers make quantum computing breakthrough, patent

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462260-australian-researchers-m OP: killcomic

Source 2: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/australian-researchers-

• UNSW Australian scientists have discovered a way to put quantum computing technology into silicon computer chips

  • Paving the way for first commercial manufacture in superfast computing

• Until now, tech relied on “exotic” materials to construct quantum computers, making them unsuitable for commercial production

• Andrew Dzurak says that their team have “cleared a major hurdle in making quantum computing a reality”

• They have “patented a way to scale this technology to millions of qubits using standard industrial manufacturing techniques to build the world’s first quantum processor chip.”

• UNSW’s patented design modifies the transistors found in regular computer chips to store 0 or 1 on the “spin” of a single electron, which works like a tiny compass needle. It builds on previous research that produced the first quantum computing transistor of this type.

• Professor Dzurak said “What we’ve done is demonstrated for the first time that we can do the first quantum calculation on a silicon chip working with two of these quantum bits”.

Peeple sites ‘disappear’, creator still moving ahead with release

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/461895-peeple-sites-disappear OP: stuarty211

Source 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34446882

Source 3: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/canadian-creator-revamping-controversial-

• Peeple website inaccesible for many, some get a landing page

• Social outlets such as Peeple’ Twitter and Facebook pages taken down

• Co-creator Julia Cordray is still planning to release the app, pushing release date from November to next week

• Adjustments to app: individuals cannot be reviewed without their permission, no way to make a negative review, review must be approved before it can be posted.

• Emily Laidlaw, a University of Calgary assistant law professor says the app could potentially have huge legal ramifications for its creators.

• She also states: “In Canada, if you run an app or you’re hosting a website and you are informed that you’re carrying content that’s defamatory, you now have knowledge and you have control. So you risk liability if you don’t take the content down.”

Japan Display announces 17inch, 8K, 120Hz display

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/460211-japan-display OP: GoodBytes

Source 2: http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/jdi-8k-display/

Source 3: http://www.j-display.com/english/news/2015/20151001.html

• 7680 x RGB x 4320

• 17.3-inch high resolution

• Pixel density = 510ppi

• Luminance = 500cd/m2

• Contrast Ratio = 2000:1

• Viewing angle = >176 degree

• 120Hz

• To be exhibited Oct 7-10, 2015 during CEATEC JAPAN 2015 held at Makuhari Messe, Japan

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Rapid Fire

Dell XPS Lineup refreshed

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/463736-dell-xps-line-up-refreshed/ OP: SirSquid

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/dell-refreshes-xps-13-and-xps-15-

XPS 13 & 15

• Updating processors and packing more storage into their thin frames

  • Powered by Skylake, available with up to 16GB of RAM

  • Thunderbolt 3, using same Type-C connectors at USB 3.1

  • Optional Nvidia GDDR5 GPU can be added to the notebook

• Remaining super thin and light

• 1TB of PCIe SSD storage

• Available with 4GB RAM, or up to 16GB RAM

• XPS 13 and XPS 15 still have webcams at the bottom of the screen

• InfinityEdge display that reduces bezels

XPS 12

• 2-in-1 laptop/tablet, competitor for Surface Pro 4

• 12.5-inch full HD display, can upgrade to 4k touchscreen as well

• 8MP rear camera, 5MP front-facing camera

• 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports

• Has support for Dell pen

• No latches where device attaches to base, just drop the device in at a 90 degree angle

Volvo will claim full liability in case of self-driving car crash

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/463075-volvo-will-clai OP: Rune

Source 2: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/7/9470551/volvo-self-driving-car-liability

• Volvo says in its statement that it “will accept full liability whenever one of its cars is in autonomous mode.”

• Volvo thinks biggest barriers are regulatory, not technical when it comes to self driving cars

• Volvo also stated that it “regards the hacking of a car as a criminal offense.”

Volvo insisting that gov’t agencies come together to form a consistent legal framework for self-driving cars that doesn’t vary by state. Video game voice actors give the National Board “the green light” to vote strike if needed

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/463630-vid OP: Bouzoo

Source 2: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/video-game-voice-act

Source 3: http://www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-interactive-media-vide

• Interactive Media Agreement Strike Authorization Referendum successful with 96.52% of members voting in favor of the referendum

• Doesn’t mean members are on strike, but this gives the board the authority to declare a strike

  • Needed 75% to give the National Board that authority

• Negotiating Committee will seek to return to the bargaining table and continue to press for a fair resolution on behalf of performers working in video games

• The original agreement was signed in the mid-1990’s, still in effect today despite industry changes

• Board asking for better compensation, including a “performance bonus” for every 2 million copies/subscribers sold of a game

• Also asking for greater transparency in the auditioning process for games

Ars Technica - Android Marshmallow review

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/462402-ars-t OP:zMeul

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0

• Positives

  • new homescreen with genuinely useful features like app search, predictive apps, vertical scrolling

  • new permissions system lets users give informed consent to access their data while keeping them in the loop about breaking things from permission denial, devs can tell users WHY they need certain permissions, old apps are fed fake data so they can be denied access without crashing

  • “adoptable storage” finally makes SD cards as good as internal storage (for those that have SD cards these days)

• Negatives

  • still no auto rotate for home screen

  • permissions page does not list all of the access a given app has, only some

  • apps can opt out of power saving like doze and app standby by changing their priority settings, leaving that in the hands of devs

  • still no solution for getting marshmallow to the billion+ Android devices out there

• and: “Android is far, far behind the competition when it comes to device security. The only real solution we can see is a Windows Update-style system that can send centralized updates to every device. This would require architecting the way OEMs and carriers handle software, but something needs to change so that there's a real update and security solution for every Android device and every Android user. If you've got a Nexus device, the Android security update speed is still slow thanks to the rollout system, but at least it exists. For everyone else, maybe there will be something for you in the next version.”

More car companies added to the diesel scandal

Source 1: theguardian.com/mercedes-honda-mazda-mistubishi…

• Mercedez-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi joined growing list of manufacturers involved in diesel scandal

• Honda models emitted six times the regulatory limit of nitrous oxide pollution

• some unnamed 4x4 models had 20 times the nitrous oxide limit

• Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Citreon, Fiat, Volvo, and Jeep were all added to the list last week

• important to note that these cars were designed to perform better in the lab than on the road, but illegal “defeat devices” like those used by Volkswagen have not been discovered in these brands’ cars

• “The VW issue in the US was purely the trigger which threw light on a slightly different problem in the EU - widespread legal over-emissions.” - Nick Molden of Emissions Analytics

Iphone 6s uses NVMe SSD

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/457871-iphone-6s-uses-nvme-ssd/ OP: kurahk7

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9662/iphone-6s-and-iphone-6

Graph Read Speeds

• 256KB sequential read speeds of 402 MB/s

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Dang it! I forgot the WAN show was on Fridays.

[kunal445]

Dang it! I forgot the WAN show was on Fridays.

i just watch it on youtube lol

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i just watch it on youtube lol

 

Yeah I guess I'll be doing that tonight haha.

[Thebman712]

i fell asleep watching wan show so i needed this to catch up

[Vincenttjia]

Hey Linus I think you've made a mistake you link the last week forum to the video so.... I guess you need to fix it

[nooblord]

Linus I keep hearing you say you dont know what video input would support 4k at high framerate and now 8k at 120Hz. Its called SuperMHL. or just  MHL. Someone make sure he sees this!

 

 

 

http://www.mhlconsortium.org/technology.aspx 

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[spartaman64]

@LinusTech I use a OTG cable on my note 4 with a usb hub connected to a cm storm quickfire tk keyboard and a razer ouroboros mouse (there is a circle cursor thingy im using cyanogenmod 12.1) and i have a second battery so its fine even though the backlight of the keyboard drains the battery like crazy. 

[Jumper118]

you would have to be mad to take you vw in for the recall. it will produce more co2, do less mpg and be slower. lol