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Like the games, the show depicts a Vault Dweller making her way out into the Wasteland. [credit: Amazon ]
Amazon has had a rocky history with big, geeky properties making their way onto Prime Video. The Wheel of Time wasn’t for everyone, and I have almost nothing good to say about The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Fallout, the first season of which premiered this week, seems to break that bad streak. All the episodes are online now, but I’ve watched three episodes so far. I love it.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours playing the games that inspired it, so I can only speak to that experience; I don’t know how well it will work for people who never played the games. But as a video game adaptation, it’s up there with The Last of Us.
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan. The conversation about Apple begins around 16:30 in the video.
Before the cancellation of The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+, Apple forbade the inclusion of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as a guest and steered the show away from confronting issues related to artificial intelligence, according to Jon Stewart.
This isn't the first we've heard of this rift between Apple and Stewart. When the Apple TV+ show was canceled last October, reports circulated that he told his staff that creative differences over guests and topics were a factor in the decision.
The New York Times reported that both China and AI were sticking points between Apple and Stewart. Stewart confirmed the broad strokes of that narrative in a CBS Morning Show interview after it was announced that he would return to The Daily Show.
Dans la nuit du 30 au 31 mars, la France change d'heure. Il faudra ajouter 60 minutes à l'horloge pour ne pas arriver en retard. Votre smartphone devrait le faire tout seul, mais voilà comment s'en assurer.
Les amendes reçues pour infraction au code de la route peuvent être réglées depuis son smartphone Android ou son iPhone. Une application mobile officielle existe sur les deux systèmes d'exploitation.
Sortie importante de la Nintendo Switch au premier trimestre 2024, Princess Peach: Showtime! permet à la célèbre princesse de s'émanciper dans une aventure qui ne manque pas d'idées. À réserver surtout à un public plus jeune. Notre test.
[Deal du jour] Princess Peach : Showtime! est prévu pour le 22 mars 2024. Le jeu de Nintendo compte bien moderniser le personnage de Peach, à l'aide de transformations et d'une panoplie de capacités qui n'ont rien à envier à Mario. Voilà où le commander au meilleur prix.
Si la blockchain a pour réputation d'être une technologie difficilement piratable, les portefeuilles et les transactions de crypto-monnaies sont des cibles privilégiées des hackers. Plusieurs solutions existent pour sécuriser ses devises rapidement.
Les salons automobiles sont boudés par certaines marques. C'est bien dommage, surtout que pendant ce temps, celles qui font l'effort d'aller au contact des médias et du public ont tout compris ! Petit salon, mais convivial, la journée au Geneva International Motor Show (GIMS) a mérité le déplacement et son édito dans la newsletter Watt Else du 29 février.
Connaissez-vous Denza, Yangwang ou IM ? Le salon de Genève a permis de découvrir ces nouvelles marques qui pourraient bientôt s'implanter en Europe. La peinture est encore fraîche chez MG et BYD qu'ils veulent déjà introduire de nouvelles marques.
macOS intègre un outil dédié aux captures d'écran, accessible depuis plusieurs raccourcis clavier. Comment fonctionne « l'impression d'écran » sur Mac ? La réponse dans cet article.
Passer d'une vidéo à l'autre sur TikTok est très facile, il suffit de swiper. Mais, il existe une astuce encore plus pratique pour faire défiler les vidéos de TikTok automatiquement, sans les doigts.
WhatsApp ne permet pas de savoir si on a été bloqué par quelqu’un. L'accès à une telle indication est interdite par le service de messagerie instantanée pour des raisons de confidentialité. Mais des signes existent sur le réseau social et peuvent donner une première piste d'explication possible.
Un profil Facebook contient des informations parfois sensibles. Le réseau social propose des outils pour bien sécuriser son compte. S'il est déjà trop tard, parce qu'un hacker malveillant vous a attaqué, Facebook fournit de l'aide pour vous redonner rapidement le contrôle de votre profil.
Papiers, cartons, plastiques, barquettes, verres... On hésite parfois entre la poubelle jaune ou noire au moment de jeter un déchet. Ces quelques consignes de tri vous aideront à savoir quels produits sont recyclables, ou non.
Les mentions « Vu » sur Messenger sont présentes par défaut dans la messagerie de Facebook. Il existe cependant une fonctionnalité pour ne plus afficher ces confirmations de lecture et rendre sa vie un peu plus zen.
Il existe des discussions très bien cachées sur Facebook Messenger. Si vous ne connaissiez pas les messages filtrés, qui regroupent des demandes de contact de personnes ne faisant pas partie de vos proches, voici comment y accéder.
YouTube ne facilite pas le téléchargement de vidéos, mais l’absence d’un bouton dédié peut se compenser sans trop de peine. VLC, en particulier, est d’une grande aide. Voici les étapes à suivre pour télécharger une vidéo en streaming.
Vous souhaitez supprimer définitivement votre compte Facebook, car le réseau social vous lasse ? La marche à suivre est simple. Attention : cela entraînera bien la fermeture de votre profil Facebook. Une autre procédure est prévue pour désactiver son compte.
Chaque téléphone se voit attribuer un numéro IMEI. Celui-ci sert aux opérateurs pour identifier les smartphones accédant à leur réseau. Et en cas de vol, le numéro IMEI permet de bloquer le portable pour qu'il ne puisse plus accéder à une ligne téléphonique.
Les appels masqués peuvent être utilisés en tapant un petit code avant le numéro du correspondant. Cela marche avec les opérateurs de téléphonie mobile Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom et Free Mobile.
Micron's consumer brand, Crucial Memory, has been putting extra focus on the SSD market over the last few quarters. The brand was marketing entry-level QLC drives in the 2018 - 2022 time frame. Recently, emphasis has also been placed on cutting-edge SSDs - both internal (such as the Gen4 T500 and Gen5 T700) and external (such as the X10 Pro). Vertical integration, coupled with Micron being the first flash manufacturer to achieve volume production of 200+ layer 3D NAND, has been crucial to Crucial's success in these segments.
At the 2024 CES, Micron had a couple of interesting USB4 SSD technology demonstrations for its resellers / partners and invited media. These are essentially products under development (with no guarantees that they would make it to the market in their current form). Both products are bridge-based solutions using the ASMedia ASM2464PD USB4 to NVMe accessory controller. The key update over the popular ASM2364 (USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 upstream, and PCIe 3.0 x4 downstream) is the shift to a 40 Gbps USB4 upstream port along with a PCIe 4.0 x4 link downstream. The power delivery component of the Type-C specification is also implemented within the controller.
The portable SSD version has a gumstick form-factor, with the transparent casing housing a M.2 2280 SSD - a 2TB Gen4 Micron 3400 OEM drive in this case.
The drive is expected to be passively cooled, with the larger form-factor enabling a thermal performance similar to that of the X10 Pro / X9 Pro. Bridge-based solutions are the standard option for high-performance portable SSDs.
Similar configurations (bridge + DRAM-equipped M.2 SSD) such as the SanDisk Extreme PRO v2 (E81) have yielded excellent all-round performance for a wide range of workload types. We expect the same to continue in the USB4 era. That said, vendors like ADATA using the same bridge have opted for active cooling to avoid thermal throttling in their USB4 PSSD. It remains to be seen if this design will remain fanless in its final form (and if it does, thermal performance would be an interesting aspect to analyze).
The USB4 desktop SSD is a comparatively unique product. This is an actively cooled design with a small fan, and uses a U.3 SSD inside. Other vendors like OWC have tried multiple M.2 SSDs configured with software RAID in a large-sized enclosure, but this one has a single high-capacity drive (8TB in the sample being demonstrated).
Designed for stacking (without daisy-chaining support), the eSSD also requires external power. The drive can also power notebooks through the USB4 connection, which can make up for the presence of a discrete power adapter. Specifics of the power delivery will only be available when the product is officially introduced. This product could be made more attractive by having some downstream USB Type-A / Type-C ports (eSSD in a dock). That said, there are two aspects that will probably make this the performance and consistency king of USB4 SSDs - the presence of a fan, and the use of a Gen4 U.3 SSD (which is most likely an enterprise drive that advertises worst-case performance and not speeds in the SLC cache region).
The current crop of USB4 SSDs are focused on performance, and sacrifice power- and energy-efficiency. Those aspects will be addressed by native USB4 UFD controllers like Phison's U21. Silicon Motion tends to keep controllers under wraps until reference designs are ready to ship (if the introduction of the SM2320 was anything to go by). We expect external / portable SSD vendors to eventually add native UFD controller-based products to their USB4 lineup, but that seems unlikely to happen in the first half of 2024.
Phison's lineup of SSD and portable SSD controllers is keeping pace with the general industry trends, as evidenced by their products on display at the 2024 CES.
Portable SSDs in all forms and sizes (including the popular thumb drive as a SSD-in-a-stick) have gained a lot of market and mind-share in recent years, thanks to rising capacity and performance. An important contributor on the power-efficiency front (which is important for flash drive vendors to pack SSD performance in a thumb drive) has been the rise of native flash controllers like Phison's U17 / U18 and Silicon Motion's SM2320.
Since the launch of the U17 / U18 in 2021, USB4 has become common on client platforms from both Intel and AMD. SSD controller vendors are keeping pace with that update, and Phison is officially the first out of the door with their U21 USB4 eSSD controller. (Note: It appears that the PSSD nomenclature promoted by SSD vendors is being replaced by eSSD on the controller side). Similar to the U17 / U18, these are single-chip solutions. Small thumb drives may also end up using these in a multi-chip package (where the flash and the controller are packaged together to save on area).
Phison indicated that the U21 controller can practically saturate the USB4 bus with speeds up to 4000 MBps. Fabricated in TSMC's 12nm process, the U21 can support up to four channels with 16 chip enables. Backwards compatibility is an important aspect. USB4 requires compatibility with only USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 3.2 Gen 1, and USB 2.0 for certification purposes. However, the U21 can also work in the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) mode if required. Phison's customers can use this controller for PSSDs ranging in capacity from 512GB to 8TB. Both TLC and QLC NAND can be used. Flash speeds of up to 1600 MT/s is supported. This might hold back the power- and energy- efficiency a bit, as we have seen higher flash speeds getting the job done faster and having lower overall energy consumption for a given workload. Higher flash speeds also reduce the number of required channels for a given performance target, and that results in power savings too. It remains to be seen if other eSSD controller vendors support 2400 MT/s flash later this year.
In internal SSD controller news, Phison is also readying the E31T mainstream Gen 5 controller for launch this year. As the naming convention goes, this is a DRAM-less controller suitable for mainstream M.2 2280 SSDs with a focus on low power operation (suitable for mobile platforms). This quad-channel controller is fabricated in TSMC's 7nm process with peak performance numbers of around 10800 MBps for sequential workloads and 1.5M IOPS for 4K random accesses.
Support for TCG Opal / Pyrite ensures that the E31T platform can also be used for OEM SSDs meant for business deployments.
Phison also had the X2 enterprise SSD platform on display. This is a Gen 5 x4 dual port U.2 solution (also available in E3.S form factor) with steady state sequential performance of 14 GBps for reads and 12 GBps for writes. Random read IOPS are at 3M, and write IOPS are at 0.8M.
Phison's X1 platform was adopted by Seagate in the Nytro 5050 Series, and it is likely that we will see the X2 come to market with a different performance profile / firmware tuning when the Nytro series get an update.
Android et iOS offrent des options pour effacer entièrement le contenu de son smartphone et rétablir la configuration d’usine. Utile si vous voulez le revendre, le faire recycler ou le donner.
La nuit du mercredi 3 au jeudi 4 janvier 2024 s'annonce prometteuse pour l'observation des Quadrantides. Voilà comment tenter de voir ces météores et d'où ils viennent.
2023 a été une grande année pour le jeu vidéo, avec une pluie de titres qui ont marqué les esprits. Qu'en sera-t-il pour 2024 ?
Votre enfant se sert de votre vieil iPhone ou votre ancienne tablette ? Il est probable que n'utilisiez pas les outils d'Apple et Google dédiés à l'utilisation d'un appareil par un enfant. C'est dommage, ils sont pourtant très utiles pour sécuriser leur expérience (et protéger votre compte en banque).
Retrouver ses données sur un nouveau téléphone n’est pas une corvée si l’on sait s’y prendre. Voici comment faire, que vous ayez un smartphone iOS ou Android.
On vous a offert un téléphone connecté flambant neuf pour Noël ? Premièrement, joyeux Noël à vous. Deuxièmement, voici quelques astuces utiles pour bien démarrer avec un nouveau téléphone.
Vous cherchez à écrire un mot en inclusif, ou vous avez une traduction en grec ancien à rendre ? Il vous faudra peut-être utiliser un point médian. Le caractère n'est cependant pas simple à trouver sur les claviers : voilà la marche à suivre pour arriver à écrire les « · ».
Enlarge / Great British Bake Off judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith (top) and presenters Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding. (credit: Mark Bourdillon/Love Productions/Channel 4)
The Great British Bake Off (TGBBO)—aka The Great British Baking Show in the US and Canada—features amateur bakers competing each week in a series of baking challenges, culminating in a single winner. The recipes include all manner of deliciously decadent concoctions, including the occasional Christmas dessert. But many of the show's Christmas recipes might not be as bad for your health as one might think, according to a new paper published in the annual Christmas issue of the British Medical Journal, traditionally devoted to more light-hearted scientific papers.
TGBBO made its broadcast debut in 2010 on the BBC, and its popularity grew quickly and spread across the Atlantic. The show was inspired by the traditional baking competitions at English village fetes (see any British cozy murder mystery for reference). Now entering its 15th season, the current judges are Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, with Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond serving as hosts/presenters, providing (occasionally off-color) commentary. Each week features a theme and three challenges: a signature bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper bake.
The four co-authors of the new BMJ study—Joshua Wallach of Emory University and Yale University's Anant Gautam, Reshma Ramachandran, and Joseph Ross—are avid fans of TGBBO, which they declare to be "the greatest television baking competition of all time." They are also fans of desserts in general, noting that in medieval England, the Catholic Church once issued a decree requiring Christmas pudding four weeks before Christmas. Those puddings were more stew-like, containing things like prunes, raisins, carrots, nuts, spices, grains, eggs, beef, and mutton. Hence, those puddings were arguably more "healthy" than the modern take on desserts, which contain a lot more butter and sugar in particular.
Les billets de train OuiGo ont des prix attractifs, mais ne sont pas remboursables. Comment faire si vous souhaitez quand même annuler un trajet en OuiGo ? Il y a une astuce pour vendre son billet et espérer se faire rembourser (en bon d'achat).
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Enlarge / The Sansei SR-02 was among the exhibits at this year's Japan Mobility Show that gave it a feel of the future. (credit: Evan Williams)
The latest trend in auto shows around the world is to convince us that they aren't auto shows. The car show is out and the mobility show is in, and that means different things for different markets. The Frankfurt International Auto Show, for example, is now IAA Mobility; it has moved to Munich and features loads of bicycles. The Japan Motor Show is now the Japan Mobility Show, but instead of bicycles, it's packed with surreal and sci-fi-ready ways to get you around, some of which are available now.
Here's a look at the most interesting products from this year's show.
Honda has always been about more than cars, and that was on display at the Japan Mobility Show, starting with its eVTOL concept.
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Enlarge / Toyota CEO and President Kaji Sato on stage with the FT-Se (left) and FT-3e (right) concepts. (credit: Toyota)
A booth full of concept cars is nothing new at an auto show. This year at the Japan Mobility Show, though, Toyota called its entire booth a concept. The concept was "Find Your Future," and it was meant to show how electric vehicles can be fun and flexible in ways that internal combustion vehicles can't.
Toyota also highlighted an internal combustion vehicle that offers even more flexibility than its concepts. One will go on sale in Asia in the next few months, while the others may never see pavement.
The FT-Se is very orange. (credit: Toyota )
The highlight was a sharp-looking electric sports car concept called the FT-Se. Toyota didn't provide many details, but it described what the concept means for future production Toyota EVs.
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Enlarge / The Lexus LF-ZC on display at the Tokyo Auto Show. (credit: Tim Stevens)
It has been a few years since Lexus pledged to go fully electric in the North American market by 2030, globally by 2035. That's an aggressive timeline for any manufacturer, particularly for one tied so closely with Toyota, a brand that has been slow on the battery-electric uptake.
Today, at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo, Lexus finally gave us a comprehensive look at our likely all-electric future. It debuted not one but two new electric vehicles, both based on the same next-generation platform and promising remarkable efficiency and some stellar aerodynamics.
The LF-ZC's interior. (credit: Tim Stevens)
The first car is the LF-ZC, a name that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. It's an acronym, standing for Lexus Future Zero-emission Catalyst, but forget the awkward nomenclature, because the thing looks fantastic. Long and lean and angular, it has a distinctly Lexus feel despite its unique look.
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