What?

That's not E Ink, silly.

No, Google's slide explicitly states that it is THE first custom Arm-based CPU.

They are lying or conveniently ignoring the facts.

Google is also not telling the truth. Conveniently, they ignore the fact that the "first custom Arm-based CPU designed for the datacenter" is actually AWS' Graviton processors way back in 2018.

How could Google possibly know about Graviton's power consumption to make that kind of claim? Amazon doesn't disclose its numbers to that level of detail.

PS4 titles play on PS5 just fine, and in many cases the game is upgraded. A good example is The Last of Us Part 2 for PS4 which downloads a huge update to take advantage of the PS5 (better graphics, UHD, less "pop-in" of scenery, etc.).

Ahem, it's not really running on an Apple ][e if you're using the Z80 card. That's an entire computer on an add-on board.

Speaking of JPEG XL, Whatever happened to JPEG 2000?

After checking out, the receipts took hours to be produced so I was wondering if they were being reviewed by humans. I seem to remember that Amazon Fresh said the system was automated but it's interesting to learn there were 1,000 people watching the cameras.

USENET posts?! What is this, an article from 1997?

I think you will find plenty of GNU software in the "Help...About" menu, and in the command line console it sure does look like GNU/Linux to me.

About that e-waste thing: I have several Chromebooks that I really liked over the past decade and a half but after three to five years the batteries wear out. It's almost like they're planned to wear out once Google support runs out.

Here's a technical discussion over at Reddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Catas...

What about the Cyrix people?

I'm curious how many of the original Cyrix engineers are still working and are they also at Intel or are they at VIA?

The internal competition between Cyrix and Centaur around the time of the VIA acquisition would be a good book to read.