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USB 4 Will Support Thunderbolt and Double the Speed of USB 3.2 (engadget.com) 165

Posted by msmash on Monday March 04, 2019 @11:21AM from the up-next dept.

At a Taipei event earlier today, Intel revealed that USB 4 will once again utilize dual channels to achieve 40Gbps speeds, even on existing 40Gbps-certified USB-C cables. A report adds: Better yet, thanks to Intel finally offering Thunderbolt 3 to manufacturers with open licensing, USB 4 will be integrating this tech and thus effectively becoming the "new" Thunderbolt 3. In other words, USB 4 will pretty much be the mother of all wired connectivity options, and will be ready for more powerful PCIe plus DisplayPort devices. It is expected to take 18 months between the final spec of USB 4 being published in the second half of this year, and the first devices hitting the market, so don't expect to see USB 4-powered commercial devices until sometime in 2021.
Further reading, from last week: USB-IF Confusingly Merges USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 Under New USB 3.2 Branding.

Comment Re:Probably typical (Score 1) 121

by necromaedian on Monday April 14, 2014 @10:36PM (#46752995) Attached to: 44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted

I have a twitter account and have never posted, a facebook account and never posted, a youtube and + account and never posed, xda account, yahoo groups, etc. I doubt I've posted on /. in years, but I still read every day. I'm a consumer. And to me these are more news services then social interactions. I post to reddit often, but usually drunk and those accounts don't last long...

Comment Re:Firefox - Too little, too late (Score 0) 330

by necromaedian on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @10:20AM (#38433998) Attached to: Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved

yes

Comment Re:oops (Score 1) 218

by necromaedian on Friday January 28, 2011 @06:21AM (#35030002) Attached to: Sony Updates PS3 Firmware To 3.56 To Stop Jailbreaking

hardware's been hacked, the secret's out. but Sony got its restraining order against Geohot http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/01/27/sony-wins-restraining-order-against-geohot/ , the new firmware's allready been hacked http://twitter.com/KaKaRoToKS/status/30458152793149440# , and I personally think the update had more to do with COD hacking http://www.ripten.com/2011/01/27/firmware-3-56-ban-hammer-hits-cod-hackers-hard-mauler/ . Might just make me think about playing it again.

Submission + - Google Releases WebP (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:45PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google has released WebP, a lossy image format based on the image encoding used by VP8 (the video codec used in Google's WebM video format) to compress keyframes. According to the FAQ, WebP achieves an average 39% more compression than JPEG and JPEG 2000. A gallery on the WebP homepage has a selection of images which compare the original JPEG image with the WebP encoded image shown as a PNG. There's no information available yet on which browsers will support the WebP image format but I imagine it will be all the browsers which currently have native WebM support — Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.

Comment Re:You can NOT "just put it in neutral"... (Score 1) 690

by necromaedian on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @05:21AM (#31342426) Attached to: $1M Prize For Finding Cause of Unintended Acceleration

agreed...slashdotters are not mechanics.

Linux Games For Non-Gamers? 460

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 11, 2009 @10:19PM from the many-addictive-options-but-any-great-ones? dept.

Nethead writes "Due to some down-time, I'm looking for some Linux games to pass the time. I've been playing BattleMaster, a PHP web game but it's only two turns a day, and I'd like something a bit faster. I've not really played PC games since the Doom era so I'm really out of touch here. I don't have a real gamer box, just a simple video card. What do Slashdotters think I should try? A simple FPS or some type of networked game would do. What's out there for Linux?"

Comment Re:Diffrence between this and 'normal' study group (Score 1) 554

by necromaedian on Friday March 07, 2008 @07:06AM (#22673674) Attached to: Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

I'm sure there's a lot we don't know about the story. But if there's 146 people in this "study group" then why is one person being targeted? Under most universities rules, if I had given you answers to an assignment, you would be just as guilty of cheating as I would. Simply organizing the group doesn't seem enough to single him out, as every one else still had to subscribe to the group. I agree thought, regardless, this _should_ come down to policy review and discussion.

GM Mosquito Could Fight Malaria 281

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @10:19AM from the we-need-gm-bugs-to-solve-more-problems dept.

qw0ntum writes "The BBC is reporting that a genetically modified (GM) variety of mosquitoes could be effective in combating the spread of malaria to humans. These GM insects carry a gene that prevents them from being infected by the malaria parasite and has the added benefit of providing a fitness advantage to the mosquitoes. From the article: 'In the laboratory, equal numbers of genetically modified and ordinary wild-type mosquitoes were allowed to feed on malaria-infected mice. As they reproduced, more of the GM, or transgenic, mosquitoes survived. According to the researchers, whose results appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, after nine generations, 70% of the insects belonged to the malaria-resistant strain. [...] The modified mosquitoes had a higher survival rate and laid more eggs.' This has major implications for the billions of people living in areas with endemic malaria. The question in my mind, though, is what effects on the ecosystems of these areas will replacing an organism low on the food chain with a GM version? Between the news we saw last week and biomagnification, could this wind up substituting one problem for another?"

David Pogue Takes On Vista 533

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 18, 2006 @08:43AM from the vista-with-an-X dept.

A user writes to let us know about a review of Microsoft Vista in the NY Times, in the form of an article and a video, by the known Mac-friendly David Pogue. In the article, Pogue recasts Microsoft's marketing mantra for Vista: "Clear, Confident, Connected" becomes "Looks, Locks, Lacks." Pogue writes that Vista is such a brazen rip-off of Mac OS X that "There must be enough steam coming out of Apple executives' ears to power the Polar Express." But the real fun is in the video, in which Pogue attempts to prove that Vista is not simply an OS X clone.

Unpiloted Passenger Jet Tests 243

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 29, 2006 @12:09PM from the we're-going-to-experience-a-little-turbulence-here dept.

spacepingu writes "The UK military recently tested a remote-controlled passenger jet over south-west England. Although the pilot was sitting in the back of the aging BAC 1-11, he controlled it entirely using the 'UAV Command and Control Interface (UAVCCI)'. This also allowed him to operate several virtual UAVs in a simulated attack scenario. The ultimate goal is for a fighter pilot to control a swarm of attack UAVs alongside his own plane. Next March, a Tornado fighter pilot will use the UAVCCI to fly the unpiloted BAC1-11 as well as several simulated UAVs, all from the cockpit of his own jet."

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