In 2019, Volkswagen will launch an electric car-sharing in Berlin called “We Share” with 1,500 e-Golf vehicles, it announced. The service will expand afterwards with 500 e-up! cars, and eventually offer VW’s next-gen I.D. EVs. “From 2020, ‘We Share’…
French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, is updating its physical box that lets you connect to your cloud computer instance. Shadow Ghost is a tiny device that provides all the ports and wireless technologies that you need to plug to a TV or a monitor and start playing.
Shadow has been building a cloud computing service for gamers. For $35 per month, you get a gaming PC in a data center near you. Shadow gives you 8 threads on an Intel Xeon 2620 processor, an Nvidia Quadro P5000 GPU that performs more or less as well as an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. It’s a full Windows 10 instance and you can do whatever you want with it.
The company started with a dedicated box from day one. The first Shadow box was an oddly-shaped black box with a few USB ports and DisplayPorts. This way, you could replace your PC at home with this box and use the same peripherals.
When you turn it on, it feels like you’re booting up your gaming PC, but you’re actually just starting a computer with a low-powered CPU that connects to your gaming PC in the cloud.
Over the past few months, Shadow has slowly decorrelated the service from the physical device in your home. When you subscribe, you don’t get a box by default. You can install the Shadow app on your existing computer, phone or tablet and start playing.
If you still want the box to connect to your Shadow instance without an existing PC, you can rent it for $10 per month or purchase it for $140. It could be particularly useful for a TV for instance.
Compared to the previous generation, Shadow Ghost is completely silent as the fan is gone — that was my main complaint with the first Shadow box. You won’t need as many dongles either as there’s an HDMI port by default (instead of a DisplayPort) and it supports both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It’s also much more energy efficient as it should consume three times less power than the existing Shadow device.
Shadow Ghost will be available for the same price at some point during the last quarter of 2018. The service itself is currently available in France, Germany, the U.K., Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. In the U.S., the company has a data center near San Francisco and another one on the East Coast.
Ford has announced two recalls, one involving 50,000 120-volt EV/hybrid chargers, the other concerning power supply cable fasteners that may have been improperly secured. The first recall, says Ford, is necessary due to the risk of fire, while the second recall could potentially result in an electrical surge that also presents a fire risk. The 120-volt EV convenience charge cords … Continue reading
DJI is currently hosting an event in New York, and as expected, the company has revealed its next consumer drones. DJI pulled the veil off the Mavic 2 Pro today, almost two years after it introduced the first Mavic Pro. DJI product communication lead Michael Oldenburg said that the company’s creative team has spent much of these last two years … Continue reading
There’s a new set of DJI Mavic 2 drones out in detail this morning, and right here we’re talking about the ZOOM. There’s also a DJI Mavic 2 and a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. The latter of those two, the Pro, was also just revealed in full this morning. Here we’re taking a peek at the specs of the Mavic … Continue reading
HTC delivered its flagship device for 2018 – the U12+ – a few months back, but it isn’t quite done with new phone releases. Today, HTC set the date of another reveal, and it’s only a week away. While we don’t know for sure which phone HTC will debut, it’s likely that it’s the rumored U12 Life. It’s a safe … Continue reading
Software updates and upgrades are generally seen as a good thing, where they fix bugs, introduce improvements to performance, and also bring about new features. However there are also reasons why people don’t want to upgrade, such as being used to the existing system, or worried about bugs, incompatibility with current software, and so on.
Unfortunately for macOS users who are still clinging onto older builds of the operating system, it seems that if you want to keep accessing Microsoft’s Office 365’s latest updates and features, you will need upgrade your operating system to High Sierra or later. This was announced on Microsoft’s Office website in which they are making it a requirement starting next month that Office 365 will only work on macOS 10.12 or later.
However if for whatever reason you choose not to upgrade, maybe your current Mac doesn’t support the newer operating systems, not to worry because it does not mean that Office 365 will stop working. According to Microsoft, “Users who do not update to macOS 10.12 or later before the September update will still receive mainstream support and will be able to continue using their current version of Office 365 for Mac.”
Basically for those who don’t update to High Sierra, you guys won’t be able to receive new feature updates which is kind of the whole point of subscribing to Office 365 in the first place, but the Office apps installed will continue to work without any issues.
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Late last year, Apple announced their plans to acquire music recognition service Shazam. However as is the case with all acquisitions, certain regulatory hurdles need to be cleared to ensure that everything is proper and that it won’t result in a monopoly. A few months ago, it seemed like Apple might have hit a snag over in Europe, but it looks like it has since been cleared.
According to a report from Reuters, they have heard from sources that apparently Apple’s plans to acquire Shazam will be given unconditional approval by the EU. This means that the investigative body that was looking into the acquisition has found nothing untowards in terms of monopolistic behavior, and will be clearing it for approval.
Previously there were several countries part of the EU who had expressed concern over the acquisition, in which they feel that Apple’s acquisition could edge out the competition by poaching users from its rivals, and also preventing users from seeking out alternatives to Apple Music, such as Spotify.
It is unclear how accurate the report is, but the official decision is expected to be made by the 18th of September which means that we should have the details in the coming weeks.
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We’ve all been frustrated at our tech. We’ve all probably been guilty of throwing our console controllers down in frustration, or slapping our televisions or computers when they don’t work properly, but have you ever been so frustrated that you punch someone else? Turns out that someone has.
According to a report from Coconuts Bangkok (via AppleInsider), a man identified as Kritpan Kitjit punched a saleswoman at an Apple reseller after Face ID on his iPhone X apparently wouldn’t scan his face. The saleswoman checked the phone and discovered it was in perfect working condition, and told him that under the store’s policies, they would not be able to refund or replace it.
That’s when the man got angry and caused a scene at the store, and where he also apparently tried to get into the shop’s storage room to take a photo of the store’s manager to report to the Consumer Protection Board. The saleswoman tried to block him from entering, after which a CCTV footage showed him shoving her aside before punching her in the face.
Kritpan has since voluntarily turned himself into the police where he made a public apology to the woman. He has since been fined THB5,000 ($150) for causing bodily harm. He also paid an additional THB50,000 ($1,500) to the saleswoman in compensation.
Man Punches Saleswoman Over Alleged iPhone X Face ID ‘Failure’ , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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