Oct 25
Eero's Mesh Wifi Routers Will Soon Play Nice With Your Other Smart Home Stuff
Posted in: Today's ChiliEero co-founder and CEO Nick Weaver confirmed at a Verge event that the company’s wifi routers will be ready for the smart home future.
Oct 25
Blue Origin has big plans for its own space station, a project called Orbital Reef that would be “mixed use business park” and the “premier commercial destination in low Earth orbit.” Sort of like a cruise ship that fits 10 people and doesn’t travel to multiple destinations. It’ll be a little smaller than the…
Oct 25
Ahead of the Holiday season and in concert with Microsoft’s Windows 11 rollout, Samsung just announced a significant update of its Galaxy Book laptops, all running on Windows 11. Today, the Galaxy Book ($749.99+), Galaxy Book Odyssey ($1399.99+), and Galaxy Book Pro 360 5G ($1399.99+) are heading to the next level.
Of the three, the new Galaxy Book Odyssey (photo above) is the most interesting because it packs the most performance for the weight. Technically, it should perform like an entry-level Gaming Laptop but yet look like a typical premium thin (18mm) & light (4.08 Lbs) 15.6” computer.
Corporate users would get a very powerful boardroom-friendly chassis system without RGB light all over the place. Yet that computer could power complex scientific applications, along with excellent entertainment while on a business trip. There’s plenty of ports, including a microSD reader (full SD would have been best).
Creative professionals doing video-editing or heavy photoshopping might be interested in the 6-cores Core i7-11600H CPU and GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics processor and 1TB of storage. To me, the 32GB maximum RAM capacity is also what makes it “creative friendly” for people who work with large datasets.
The Galaxy Book Pro 360 5G is an ultra-light (2.43 Lbs), ultra-thin (11.43mm), ultra-connected (5G), multimedia convertible laptop equipped with an excellent AMOLED display that is compatible with Samsung’s S Pen.
This laptop isn’t geared towards high-performance but instead focuses on usability comfort. It is designed to maximize your experience when watching movies, browsing, or sketching if you have light computing needs. As a result, you can configure it with a Core i7-1165G7, 16GB, and 512GB of storage.
The basic Galaxy Book is more about reaching a good ratio between quality and affordability. The general build is pretty decent, but it is neither very thin (15.5mm) nor light (3.51 Lbs). Users might be attracted by its agreeable design and the Samsung brand, but there is quite a bit of competition in that market segment.
We’ll see what the final Galaxy Book specs are, but Samsung mentions a “dedicated graphics card” and a touch-screen 15.6-inch FHD display, so that sounds like a decent baseline.
Update: Samsung sent us the specifications in the table below:
The Galaxy Book should be available today at Samsung.com, and the Galaxy Book Odyssey will also come to BestBuy.com, Amazon, Microsoft.com, MicroCenter, and NewEgg on November 11.
Samsung Launches Three New Galaxy Book Laptops
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Oct 25
Barely have time for yourself, let alone self-care? Try these quick and easy activities that help reduce stress.
Oct 25
Border Patrol Agents Got Off Easy After Violent Posts About Migrants: House Report
Posted in: Today's ChiliOne agent who posted a video in a Facebook group of a migrant falling off a cliff to their death was not fired.
Oct 25
GoPro is releasing a firmware update for its HERO 10 Black action camera that will, among other things, address the overheating issue some consumers have reported. The camera is capable of recording at up to 5.3K60, but the downside of this performance level is increased heat production that, in certain situations, may cause the camera to shut down unexpectedly. The … Continue reading
Oct 25
Blue Origin has more ambitious plans than simply space tourism. Today, the spaceflight company owned by Jeff Bezos announced that it is working on creating its very own space station as well. Called Orbital Reef, it promises to be something of an industrial and commercial hub, and is meant to start operating in the second half of this decade.
It will be developed, owned and operated in partnership with Sierra Space, a subsidiary of the Sierra Nevada corporation. Sierra Space is perhaps better known for Dream Chaser, a spacecraft that’s set to begin operating in 2022 and carry cargo to the International Space Station. Orbital Reef is also backed by Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering Solutions and Arizona State University. The company hopes to use Boeing’s Starliner and Sierra Space’s aforementioned Dream Chaser to ferry both cargo and passengers to Orbital Reef.
Think of Orbital Reef as essentially a “business park,” but in space. In a press release, Blue Origin said that the destination “will offer research, industrial, international, and commercial customers the cost competitive end-to-end services they need including space transportation and logistics, space habitation, equipment accommodation, and operations including onboard crew.” Anyone who wants to “establish their own address in orbit” can do so.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin said that Orbital Reef would be habitable for up to 10 people, which is almost as much as that of the International Space Station. It will feature “human-centered space architecture” with “world-class services and amenities.” There will be multiple ports for visiting spacecraft and modules. Orbital Reef will apparently feature an open system that will enable any customer or nation to use it. As the market for such facilities grows, Blue Origin promises that Orbital Reef will scale the amenities and utilities to match.
“Seasoned space agencies, high-tech consortia, sovereign nations without space programs, media and travel companies, funded entrepreneurs and sponsored inventors, and future-minded investors all have a place on Orbital Reef,” said the company in a press release.
“For over sixty years, NASA and other space agencies have developed orbital space flight and space habitation, setting us up for commercial business to take off in this decade,” said Brent Sherwood, Senior Vice President of Advanced Development Programs for Blue Origin. “We will expand access, lower the cost, and provide all the services and amenities needed to normalize space flight. A vibrant business ecosystem will grow in low Earth orbit, generating new discoveries, new products, new entertainments, and global awareness.”
Blue Origin’s only successful project is a suborbital tourist program that sends passengers to the edge of space (and back) on the New Shepard. It has already flown eight people, which includes Bezos as well as Star Trek’s William Shatner. Other projects, such as the New Glenn rocket (which the company hopes to use to launch some of Orbital Reef’s modules) and the Blue Moon lunar lander are still in development.
Oct 25
While Warner Bros.’ latest gritty, live-action Batman movie has been taking up a considerable amount of oxygen as of late, Bruce Wayne isn’t the only member of the Bat Family on their way to another big cinematic adventure. Barbara Gordon will finally join the DCEU in directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s Batgirl …
Oct 25
Oct 25
Across the northern reaches of our planet, things are so cold that nearly 9 million square miles (23 million square kilometers) of earth remain frozen solid year-round. But that’s changing as the climate warms, and as that permafrost thaws, it releases trapped greenhouse gases from the soil. Scientists warn that…
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