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November 04, 2024

Daily Tech News 4 November 2024

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The US government is reportedly considering a merger between Intel and AMD. (Notebook Check)

Which is odd because neither company has shown the slightest bit of interest in this, and it would clearly be a complete disaster for both. Well, I guess the complete disaster part is completely in character for the current administration, so maybe no so odd as all that.

Tech News

The Verge is having a complete meltdown. I hope to see this continue.
OpenAI has hired the CEO of Twitter challenger Pebble. (Tech Crunch)

Former Twitter challenger Pebble.

Never heard of Pebble?

Nobody else has either.
We have solved the problem of every device having its own unique charger. Now it's all USB-C. Some idiots still aren't happy. (MSN)

Don't bother reading the article; the author is an idiot, as I said.
The PlayStation 5 Pro has an extra 2GB of DDR5 RAM on top of the 16GB of GDDR6 memory it shares with the regular PS5. (Tom's Hardware)

Which seems to be a lot of trouble to go to for such a minor improvement.
SK Hynix has shown off 16-high HBM3E memory. (WCCFTech)

The memory chips are stacked up so you get 48GB in the space of a single chip, with more than 800GB per second of bandwidth.

That used to be a lot.
V'Ger phone home. (Mashable)

NASA lost contact with Voyager 1 - again - and regained it just a few days later - again.

Which is pretty impressive given that it takes about a day for a signal to reach the probe and for us to get a response back, even when the 47 year old spacecraft feels chatty.

Voyager 1 has apparently turned off its main (X-band) transmitter, but was still willing to talk on its backup (S-band) radio. NASA is working on persuading it to turn on the main transmitter again.

Disclaimer: Maybe you could give it a weekend off? It's logged more than six billion miles on the job, might be nice to put the feet up and relax for a bit.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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