You know what time it is: we’re back for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain stories. Here are some of the hottest stories you might’ve missed over the weekend. 1. Louis Vuitton, the favorite luxury fashion brand of people without any sense of style, is launching a blockchain pilot designed
Read MoreApple has marketed itself as a company that puts customers’ privacy first, but a new class-action lawsuit claims to the contrary. Leigh Wheaton, Jill Paul, and Trevor Paul — three iTunes users from Rhode Island and Michigan — filed a federal lawsuit against the Cupertino-based tech giant alleging that the company unlawfully collects and sells their
Read MoreYou’d think that something called “white fuming nitric acid” would be more than corrosive enough to dissolve just about anything. Heck, it’s rocket fuel – OK, rocket fuel oxidizer – and even so it still it wasn’t enough to pop the top on this vintage Fairchild μL914 integrated circuit, at least not without special measures.
Read MoreIt’s bonkers that this phone has a Snapdragon 855 processor, an AMOLED display with 90Hz refresh-rate and still costs under $500. Nubia Red Magic 3 is the first gaming phone with a built-in fan – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNvidia is showing off its new graphical tech. Quake II with improved Nvidia raytracing graphics to hit Steam in June – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn conjunction with its rollout of the mobile Quadro GPUs that can fit into laptops the size of a thin gaming system, Nvidia launched the RTX Studio program to attract creators. Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 will bring a new level of power to thin laptops – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNvidia has kicked off Computex Taipei by launching a new software-hardware initiative aimed at creators, along with an extensive lineup of laptops to support it. Nvidia Studio is a collection of APIs, SDKs, and drivers for Nvidia RTX GPUs designed to boost performance and efficiency in creative software. Nvidia says its Studio Drivers, which are
Read MoreHere’s a breakdown of the embattled Chinese telecom and phone maker’s saga so far. Huawei ban: Full timeline on how and why its phones are under fire – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAs a manager, I view it as my responsibility to provide every engineer with a realistic and achievable growth plan they can execute against. In that responsibility, I try to be fair and objective, ensuring each individual is being held to the same set of standards at each level of engineering growth. This objectivity is
Read MoreSome were disappointed with the ending to Season 8, but The Last Watch reminded us of the incredible work that’s required to make the show a reality. Game of Thrones: The Last Watch and Kit Harington's initial reaction to the season 8 finale twist – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen working on a project, it’s incredibly helpful to be able to visualize the various signals in play. This is important when attempting to determine if what is supposed to be happening is actually happening. However, logic analyzers can be expensive, so a group from [Bruce Land]’s ECE5760 class developed their own hardware solution instead.
Read MoreIt’s about $700 cheaper than Intel’s i9 9920X. AMD's new Ryzen processor has 12 cores and costs only 9 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRange of chips beginning at $330 and topping out at $500 for the 12-core Ryzen 9. AMD 3rd-gen Ryzen series coming in July led by 12-core Ryzen 9 beast Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreBut that still might not be enough to outpace iPhones. Android phones due for 20% speed bump in 2020 with new Arm chip tech – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSlowly but surely, it feels like AMD is tracking towards building a graphics card that can truly compete with Nvidia for your high-end gaming dollars, and hopes are pinned on Navi — the next-gen graphics architecture that got a substantial vote of confidence when Sony chose it for the upcoming PS5 game console. But Navi
Read MoreHuawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei has been doing a round of interviews this past week, responding to his company’s placement on a US ban list. In speaking with Bloomberg, he’s made the assertion that he neither expects nor hopes for a retaliation from the Chinese government against the Trump administration’s ban. A resolute Zhengfei
Read MoreLeather hardening has been around for such a long time that one might think that there was little left to discover, but [Jason F. Timmermans] certainly showed that is not the case. Right around the end of 2018 he set up experiments to compare different techniques for hardening leather, and empirically determine the best options.
Read MoreThe Last Watch documentary reveals a tiny detail that helped her strike the final blow. Game of Thrones season 8: We just learned how Arya killed the Night King – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThinkpads are great, especially the old ones. You find a T420, and you can have a battery hanging off the back, a battery in the optical drive bay, and for some old Thinkpads, there’s a gigantic ‘slice’ battery that doubles the thickness of your laptop. Here’s the most batteries in a Thinkpad ever, with the
Read MoreVideo game addiction gets added to the organization’s latest list of modern-day ills. World Health Organization deems 'gaming disorder' an official illness – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhen an article is just a few hundred words like this one, you probably have a few minutes to read it. When you open up an article thinking it’s a few hundred and it’s actually several thousand, your time might be a bit more limited. Read more… Quickly Summarize a Long Online Article Into a
Read MoreWhen you’re road tripping in a regular car or SUV, any navigation app will do. If you’re hiring the road with an RV; however, sometimes those traditional navigation apps leave out one important factor: the height of your RV. Read more… Get RV-Friendly Driving Directions With CoPilot GPS Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreRiccardo Zacconi has been at the helm of game developer King Digital for more than 16 years. CEO of Candy Crush developer stepping down – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Boston Bruins take on the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup Final this week. It’s the first time the Blues have made it to the final in 49 years (The Bruins won in 2011 and made it to the final in 2013), and the series stands to be a pretty great one. Read
Read MoreCruising through the children’s hands-on activity zone at Maker Faire Bay Area, we see kids building a cardboard enclosure for the Chatterbox smart speaker kit. It would be tempting to dismiss the little smiling box as “just for kids” but doing so would overlook something more interesting: an alternative to data-mining corporations who dominate the
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