Jul 01
The former White House press secretary left her job last week, but her defense of the president continues.
Jul 01
Ex-Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Who Oversaw Flint Water Crisis Named Harvard Fellow
Posted in: Today's ChiliHarvard is facing fury for handing a fellowship to Snyder, whose cellphone was recently seized in a criminal probe.
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Not much is known about the PlayStation 5 apart from the fact that Sony is working on it. The specs haven’t been confirmed as yet but if a new report is to be believed, the console could have quite the computing power. It’s APU is expected to have better performance than the NVIDIA GTX 1080.
The report mentions that the first Firestrike benchmark for the PlayStation 5 had seemingly surfaced online and it had revealed a Gonzalo APU which is expected to be the SoC for the PlayStation 5. Many game developers have already sang praises of the PS5’s computing power so it seams that Sony may have succeeded in making significant improvements on this front.
The benchmark figures indicate that the new console is going to be four times more powerful than the base PlayStation 4. The numbers also show that it’s going to offer better performance compared to the GTX 1080 GPU from NVIDIA. If that is indeed accurate, it would be a significant improvement in terms of performance for Sony’s console.
It’s pertinent to note here, though, that the Gonzalo APU is currently still in development so things could change before it ends up in the production units. However, things are most likely going to change for the better.
PlayStation 5 APU Could Outperform NVIDIA GTX 1080 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 01
Many customers use eBay to find new and used products. The site enjoyed the same incentive that many others did in the past whereby it didn’t have to collect sales tax on purchases. However, that has slowly been changing, as those legal loopholes continue to be closed. To that end, eBay will now collect sales tax in 13 additional states across the country.
Many online retailers already do that same thing. Amazon, for example, collects sales tax everywhere while Newegg collects it in 43 states.
eBay has already been collecting sales tax in about a dozen states and that list has now been expanded with 13 additional states. They include Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The list doesn’t end here, though, as the site has also revealed that this list will be further expanded later this year. Starting October 1st, eBay will begin collection sales tax in North Dakota, California, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah.
Customers may also see a tax charge even if the site doesn’t charge tax in their state currently if the seller is opting to charge the tax. As always, items being delivered to an address outside the United States will be subject to local consumer tax and/or customs duty.
eBay Sales Tax Will Now Be Collected In 13 Additional States , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 01
The start of the new fiscal year often brings some bad news related to taxes or price increases. If you weren’t over eBay collecting sales tax in over a dozen additional states starting today, then you’re not going to like this if you subscribe to Sony’s standalone online TV streaming service. It has been confirmed today that the PlayStation Vue subscription fees are being increased.
Dwayne Benefield, VP and GM of PlayStation Vue, wrote on the service’s official blog that each deal is constantly evaluated to make sure that PlayStation Vue delivers the content users want while keeping in mind the overall value of each package.
“This includes both the content that is popular with our overall customer base, as well as the key features that make PS Vue the best place to watch, he added.” Citing annual cost increases for content, Benefield says that the decision has been made to raise the price of all PlayStation Vue multi-channel plans by $5. This means that subscriptions will now cost you an additional $60 per year.
This change goes into effect starting today for all new subscribers. All current subscribers will get to keep their existing price for 30 days. They will be billed the new price starting on their first billing cycle after July 31st.
PlayStation Vue Subscription Fees Being Raised , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 01
The Paris Agreement had proposed a goal limit of 1.5˚C for global temperature increase. However, even if humanity does the impossible and builds no additional factories, vehicles, power plants, and appliances anymore, the current CO2 emissions are on track to increase the global temperatures by more than 1.5˚C, thereby going beyond the limit set.
A paper published in Nature today cautions that existing CO2 emissions are set to generate approximately 660 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases while only 580 billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses are required to go past the 1.5˚C limit.
That’s not even the end of bad news. If the existing power plants are kept running for as long as their operational life permits and new facilities continue to be built, they will emit two-thirds of the CO2 needed to increase global temperatures by 2˚C.
Technology Review mentions that an increase of 1.5˚C in global temperatures has the potential to melt almost 2 million square miles of Arctic permafrost, thus leading to the destruction of over 70 percent of the coral reefs across the globe. That will also expose 14 percent of the entire global population to severe heat waves. The paper cautions that the world has to reach net zero emissions by 2050 in order to stabilize global temperatures.
Rising CO2 Emissions Will Increase Global Temperatures By Over 1.5˚C , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 01
Netflix has invested billions of dollars in original content over the past few years. It has undertaken big budget projects which included experimental shows and period dramas that had hefty production costs. The days of its liberal spending on original content may be coming to an end as Netflix will reportedly be more careful with its finances going forward.
The Information reports that Netflix is likely going to be more budget conscious for future productions amid increasing competition from new streaming services that have been launched by Apple, NBC Universal, Disney, and WarnerMedia.
It’s said that Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief of content, told a handful of high-ranking TV and film executives last month that Netflix now has to be more mindful of its spending on big budget productions.
Any such upcoming projects need to bring in a significant number of viewers instead of just floating by only because they were loved by critics or earned the company more credibility. One of the examples that Sarandos gave was that of action flick Triple Frontier, which despite starring A-lister Ben Affleck and costing $115 million, ended up flopping.
Netflix initially had to invest heavily in big budget productions because it had a point to prove. It wanted to show the industry that it could also produce content that can win Oscars or Emmys. With that having been achieved rather sufficiently, it seems that Netflix now thinks that the money can be better used to make fewer titles while increasing the percentage of hits.
Netflix May Not Spend Liberally On Original Content Anymore , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 01
Alaska Is Hot and on Fire
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