May 29
The Death Toll In Puerto Rico Is 70 Times Higher Than Official Estimates: Study
Posted in: Today's ChiliOver 4,600 people died in the aftermath of Maria, according to a new Harvard study. The official death toll is 64.
May 29
Nvidia is preparing a new, massive building in Santa Clara, CA and this is it. Called Voyager, it will be larger than the building Nvidia just finished constructing by 250,000 square feet. And just like the other building, Endeavor, Voyager will share the same wild design that’s distinctly Nvidia.
Nvidia opened the first building, Endeavor, in in 2017 and it feels like if a person could go into an Nvidia GPU. There’s green and sharp angles everywhere. Triangle skylights pepper the roof, which is also a triangle. It’s just two stories due to local zoning laws and it appears the new building will following much of the same trends.
Voyager will be 750,000 square feet and situated next to the Endeavor in Santa Clara. This puts the combined buildings square-footage at 1.25 million, which is a little less than half of Apple’s new HQ in Cupertino. Nvidia tells me the company is still planning the building’s staffing but expects the building will house its growing engineer teams. The company has 11,500 employees around the world with 5,000 in Santa Clara.
Nvidia is using Gensler to design the building and it will be constructed by Devcon, the same companies tapped for the first building. Construction is expected to start next month and take up to three and a half years.
I asked Nvidia why these buildings are named after notable spacecraft. The response is interesting. Endeavor and Voyager have the initial sounds of “En” and “V”, hence the initial sounds of Nvidia, while the names also suggest a sense of pushing frontiers. Cheesy? A bit, but still clever and I’ll buy it.
May 29
Acura has priced up the 2019 RDX, arguably the most important vehicle in its line-up, as the premium best-seller hits its third generation to stave off SUV competition. To do it, Acura has revamped the RDX from the platform up, with a new turbocharged engine and a completely reworked infotainment system. On the outside, there’s greater use of ultra-high-strength steel … Continue reading
May 29
Elgato is spreading the smart home outside with the new Eve Aqua and Eve Flare bringing the IoT to your irrigation system and exterior lighting. Adding to Elgato’s growing Eve platform of connected devices, which already includes interior lighting, HomeKit-enabled temperature sensors, and more, the new products are both designed to work with Apple’s smart home system. Announced last year, … Continue reading
May 29
If Google’s not going to release the Pixel-based Android for the masses, then XDA member jhenrique09 will! This developer created a software build that makes the Pixel phone experience universal. Or at least universal inside the realm of phones that run Project Treble. Is your phone one of the lucky few? The developer behind this project wanted a pure Android … Continue reading
May 29
Apple will release iOS 11.4 today, which, with the inclusion of AirPlay 2, will bring more functionality to the HomePod. Though other speakers, like the Amazon Echo and Google Home already feature multi-room audio, the HomePod didn’t launch with that…
May 29
May 29
This week, Papua New Guinea Today reported that the country will block Facebook for a month to evaluate how its residents are using the social network. When exactly this will happen is currently unclear.
The country’s Communications and Information…
May 29
Andy Rubin, the co-founder of Android, launched a smartphone company called Essential a couple of years ago. The company subsequently released its first device, the Essential Phone, and as many were now waiting for its successor to arrive, it was reported that Essential had actually canceled the device and was even considering selling itself off. This has obviously led to speculation about ongoing support for the company’s existing devices and Essential has set the record straight by confirming that it will support the Essential Phone for two years as far as major Android OS updates are concerned.
Essential recently tweeted about an update to its Android P developers preview in which it has fixed some bugs related to Bluetooth connectivity and Dark Mode.
This lead to questions from other followers about the support plan for the existing device. Essential was asked for how long it was going to support its first smartphone.
The company replied that the Essential Phone will continue to receive major Android updates for two years as well as security patches for the next three years. That’s what customers would have expected when they purchased this device since Android OEMs normally don’t support their flagship devices beyond this period of time.
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