Daily Tech News 12 April 2022

• There are curtains in the bedrooms. Not in the media room or the main living / dining area though. The listing photos didn't show any curtains at all, but they were there by the time of the video walkthrough. (Brand new house.)
  
  I don't mind installing matching curtains in the other two rooms, even if that accounts for half of all the windows in the house. I get to see just how they fit in with carpet and paint colours rather than having to guess.
  
  And I was leaning towards curtains rather than blinds anyway because as a modern design there's not a lot of warmth or soft edges and also blinds suck.
  
  I expect to exchange contracts this Thursday, and move in around the 22nd of May.
  
  Now the fun begins.
  
  
  
• Pinterest plans to block all climate misinformation. (The Guardian)
  
  Wait, there's information on Pinterest?

  Pinterest is defining misinformation broadly: the company will take down content that denies the existence or effects of climate change or its human causes, as well as content that "misrepresents scientific data" in order to erode trust in climate science and harmful, false or misleading content about natural disasters and extreme weather events.

  Awesome!
  
  So the idiots who blamed the Tongan volcanic eruption on global warming? Banned.
  
  People who claim to be fighting global warming but also oppose nuclear power? Banned.
  
  Michael Mann? Banned.
  
  NPR? BANNED!
  
  Wait, they're not actually going to enforce their rules? Well, that sucks.
  
  
  

• Intel has moved up the start of its 18A manufacturing to the second half of 2024. (AnandTech)
  
  18A is 18 angstroms, or 1.8nm. Marketing numbers, but supposed to be comparable to TSMC and Samsung's marketing numbers.
  
  It's a pretty tight schedule. 4nm in the second half of 2022, 3nm in the second half of 2023, 2nm in the first half of 2024, and 1.8nm in the second half.
  
  TSMC and Samsung are currently shipping 4nm parts, and with TSMC expecting 3nm in the first half of 2023, and Samsung in the second half. So if Intel meets this aggressive schedule, the three companies will essentially be at parity on their leading edge tech.
  
  Which is great, because these newer nodes back far more transistors onto a chip and so can produce more chips per wafer.
  
  
  
• Poopocalypse no more: The new Roborock S7 MaxV has 3D poop detection to prevent turning pet accidents into pet catastrophes. (WCCFTech)
  
  Because by the time the poop is 2D it's a bit too late to do anything about it.
  
  
  
• Apple has started manufacturing iPhones in India. (Reuters)
  
  Good.
  
  Still not getting one.
  
  
  
• Dell is running trials of a four-day work week in the UK and the Netherlands. (The Registe)
  
  But what are people going to do with the other four days?
  
  
  
• The Vivo X Fold is an 8" Android tablet that folds in two to become a 6.5" phone. (Liliputing)
  
  This is another of those devices that would be amazing at $400 but is priced at $1400.

posted by Pixy Misa at 05:00 AM

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