OnePlus phones throttle app performance
To reduce battery power demand, OnePlus phones are, without user permission, prohibiting hundreds of apps from running on the faster CPU cores. The result is that many apps run up…
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To reduce battery power demand, OnePlus phones are, without user permission, prohibiting hundreds of apps from running on the faster CPU cores. The result is that many apps run up…
Prices for graphic cards (GPUs) have skyrocketed this past year. The shortage of the cards appears to have been caused by their use in “bit coin mining” which requires massive…
Lidar, or laser-based radar, is a key enabling technology for most auto makers’ self-driving cars. Lidar is good at identifying objects far down the road and determining speed. Unlike traditional…
The head of a top American defence contractor has warned that US capability in advanced computing has “shrunk to an alarming state” in comparison to China’s. Source: US advanced computing…
From Coindesk, valuation of Bitcoin Meanwhile, the intense energy demands for computation of block chain calculations is giving new life to fossil fuel plants. Many cryptocurrencies as presently implemented, are…
FAA regulations require that operating instruction manuals be kept on board aircraft when the aircraft is in operation. Pilots can refer to manuals in the event a problem develops during…