Open source hardware vendor Pine64 has begun shipping versions of its upgraded smartphones and new e-ink tablets-but so far, only for developers.
In addition to bare single board computers (SBCs) from the Raspberry Pi Foundation or TI's BeagleBone, there are more affordable Arm hardware.
Hong Kong supplier Pine64 started with the $32 A64 SBC crowdfunding, but then began to build this core design into laptops, smartphones, tablets, and even smart watches—its open design supports multiple operating systems.
The A64 motherboard is equipped with a 1.2 GHz quad-core A64 Arm SoC-the fourth generation product that Allwinner entered the market with the A10 ten years ago-and formed the basis of PineBook in 2017 and later PinePhone.
Equipped with 2GB of memory and 16GB of flash memory, although the "converged" upgrade was later equipped with 3GB of memory and twice as much flash memory, the original model looked quite outdated when the device began shipping in 2020.
Now, the company's second-generation equipment is slowly being introduced. The newer kit has 4GB RAM and 1.5 GHz Rockchip RK3399 (with two Cortex-A72 performance and four Cortex-A53 efficiency cores).
The upgraded notebook PineBook Pro debuted briefly last year. With 64GB of flash memory, optional NVMe, and USB 2, 3, and C ports, it has impressive specifications, coupled with the ongoing shortage of silicon, which means that although the price has risen from US$199 to US$299, you can’t have it.
Unless you are an operating system developer, you must also wait to use PinePhone Pro. The original PinePhone supports about 20 different Linux variants, and NetBSD, OpenBSD and RISC OS have been added to the laptop. There is even a beautiful keyboard.
In view of the level of interest in user-maintainable mobile phones (such as Fairphone) and the Google mobile operating system (such as /e/), many keen hackers will be in front of you.
The company also offers tablets, whose shells may be hand-made by pure unobtainium. It has recently added an electronic ink model, PineNote, which is now shipping to developers.
Considering the degree of customer dissatisfaction with Remarkable e-ink tablets, this may also make geeks excited-you can use PineTime (one of its available products) to measure this. Just don't hold your breath. ®
Reviewing Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader solved several problems for me and overcome one of the shortcomings of the iPad. If it doesn't make me feel guilty for adding another device to my life where I have been infected by a computer.
As I enter middle age, I wear reading glasses more often. I contacted them very late and have an iPad that allows me to read e-books with enlarged text, so it is difficult for me to adapt to habitual use of my specifications. But using a tablet can cause the modern problem of distraction: At night, I can put myself to sleep quickly before reading a lot of books. Another problem is that the strong light emitted by the tablet will not be seen by other people on the bed.
My solution to these two problems is Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition.
According to an interview with Zhou and the Chinese state-owned media Dahe Daily, Alibaba fired a woman — under Zhou's name alone — who claimed that her boss raped her while on a business trip.
After being forced to drink excessively with a client, Zhou was allegedly sexually assaulted by his boss during a business trip in August. When she reported the matter, Alibaba executives asked Zhou to provide video evidence before taking action. Desperate to be heard, thoughtful of the company's intranet, where she released an 8,000-word accusation report. She also distributes brochures in the company cafeteria.
Dahe Daily published an interview with Zhou on December 9. She said that the e-commerce giant terminated her contract at the end of November and did not pay severance pay on the grounds that she spread false information—especially "raped by executives." It will not deal with the violation of the company’s policy that prohibits "publicizing or disseminating inappropriate speech, or deliberately fabricating or disseminating false facts, disseminating unverified information, causing adverse effects".
Clearview's controversial facial recognition technology is getting closer and closer to obtaining a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
According to Politico, the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a "licensing notice" to Clearview, which indicates that the startup's patent application will be approved after paying administrative fees. Clearview said it has grabbed 10 billion photos from public social media accounts. Although companies such as Instagram and Twitter disapprove of it, Clearview continues to download these images without permission.
Now, its method and software may have been officially patented. The Clearview application describes "downloading personal facial images and related personal information through web crawlers; and storing the downloaded facial images and related personal information in a database."
PCs with 5G connections may face issues including international roaming support, but T-Mobile is addressing these issues and is also studying what the data plan might look like.
T-Mobile sells some networked personal computers, such as Samsung's Galaxy Book Go 5G and its data plans. The company expects user behavior on 5G to be very different from those on smartphones, and will adjust its plans accordingly.
"I think there were many beginnings and adaptations in this field in the early days. I think there are a lot of friction points, from easy activation to eSIM adoption that is not yet fully there," Ryan Sullivan, vice president of equipment engineering, told the register.
Red Hat released CentOS Stream 9, which is the first major version since the company announced the end of traditional CentOS a year ago, which severely shocked its community.
This is the second version of the new CentOS Stream release, and it is speculated that the IBM subsidiary hopes that it can provide CentOS users with a more attractive migration path, rather than making them switch jobs.
It is worth noting that in CentOS Stream 8, RH's application streams-similar to Fedora's "modularity"-are mandatory, but they are optional in 9.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang continued to invent, as if his role in the rise of GPUs was not enough.
A patent application published on December 2 named Huang as one of the inventors of a system that can open and share files in the cloud without the need for corresponding applications on the local device.
Instead, the opened file is encoded and presented via a video stream, and everything happens in the cloud. It needs to be clear that this application is a continuation of the application and patent related to graphics processing in cloud and network-connected GPUs granted in 2012. The new patent has not yet been authorized.
Friday FOSS Fest Ventoy is a free tool that can turn any USB key into a multi-boot miracle.
Even if you are not a distribution FOSS fund enthusiast, it is convenient to have some bootable USB keys. You can usually recover a sick PC by starting Windows and running CHKDSK /F on it, or if a PEBCAK error occurs and someone has forgotten the password, start Linux to retrieve some files from the computer.
If you have several PCs, installing the latest Windows 10 disk image and running setup.exe is faster than having the Windows upgrade download on each PC.
A curse report from a consulting company showed that the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland was almost paralyzed by ransomware after a user opened a malicious file attached to a phishing email.
The PWC (formerly PriceWaterhouseCoopers) report released today stated that the devastating Conti ransomware infection is caused by the simplest attack vector known to information security: spam.
PricewaterhouseCoopers stated in the executive summary of the report:
Better CEO Vishal Garg is known for laying off 900 employees during a huge Zoom conference call. He is taking time off while the company hires a third party to conduct a "leadership and cultural assessment."
After the video of the meeting was leaked, the digital mortgage loan business supported by SoftBank suddenly became the focus of attention. Gag was not only criticized for dismissing 9% of employees in such a sudden a few weeks before Christmas, but also for his amazing lack of empathy.
"The last time I did this, I cried," he told the shocked staff. "This time, I hope to become stronger."
This week, cloud software company Hashicorp made an initial public offering at a price of $80 per share, and then its stock rose slightly as investors opened their wallets.
It made its debut on Nasdaq on Wednesday, and the issue price valued the company at approximately US$14 billion. Its 15.3 million Class A common shares are expected to bring in total revenue of US$1.22 billion. When the market closed yesterday, the price of the stock was slightly higher than $85, slightly lower than the high of $88, but much higher than the IPO price.
In 2021, it will occupy a considerable share of the technology IPO. GitLab finally went public in September, at a price of $77 per share. It soared above $130 and then fell in November when investors performed some reality checks on the source of the losses.
A German employer got into trouble when a worker slipped and broke his back during the "commute" from a bed to a home office.
According to the “Guardian”, this is not something that companies responding to the continuing wave of working from home wanted to hear, but the German Federal Social Court ruled that the guy’s fall on his spiral staircase was a “workplace accident”.
Unsurprisingly, the company’s insurance does not cover claims, and the two lower courts disagree-cough cough-whether travel counts as commuting, but the upper court ruled that "the first journey from bed to home office in the morning" is "the insured" "Working route. "
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