Month: February 2021

Chip shortages are hurting many industries right now. Taiwan Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Saturday she had received a letter from the White House on the global shortage of auto chips and Taiwanese semiconductor firms are “doing what they should” to address the problem. For more, check out this Reuters story. UPDATE: Just saw…

The next major Win 10 update is supposed to be focusing on improving remote work scenarios. “Windows 10, version 21H1 will have a scoped set of features improving security, remote access and quality,” explains John Cable, Microsoft’s head of Windows Servicing and Delivery. “The features we are releasing in this update are focused on the…

Oops! In a new update by NASA, the Curiosity team reveals that the rover had been performing well up until it “forgot” some of its own positioning information. For the moment, the rover is “frozen” until engineers can restore it to a functional state. For more, check out this BGR story.

Bye bye Flash! Last year, a Windows 10 update attempted to remove Adobe Flash from the operating system, but ultimately failed. Now Microsoft is trying again, and this time it’s forcing Adobe’s software off your system. For more, check out this PCMag story.

They hope the new CMP (cryptocurrency mining processor) could alleviate gaming chip shortages. In addition to the Nvidia CMP launch, Nvidia is programming the RTX 3060 software drivers to detect cryptocurrency mining algorithms and limiting efficiency, or hash rate, by about 50%. The move is designed to deter miners from buying Nvidia’s gaming GPUs for…

Scientists have stumbled upon life under 3,000 feet of ice in Antarctica. The creatures were found attached to a boulder in the frigid seas under the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf. Experts from the British Antarctic Survey drilled through 2,860 feet of ice and then another 1,549 feet of water before making the discovery. For more, check…

General Motors showed the world Sunday the first new electric vehicle of the 30 new EVs that it will bring to market by mid-decade. Chevrolet revealed the new 2022 Bolt EUV alongside a redesigned 2022 Bolt EV five-door hatchback car. Chevrolet has sold the car since 2017, but the Bolt EUV is brand new and…

Saw this over on Guru3D. You may not want to turn off Vsync anymore. Beginning with the NVIDIA Driver version 461.09, setting V-Sync OFF as a global setting from the NVIDIA Control Panel will likely result in tearing even when viewing content in windowed mode. The blurb goes on to explain why. For more, click…

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers have made enough of the element einsteinium to experiment with it. Einsteinium’s shortest half life is just six seconds for the isotope einsteinium-240, but the half life for the einsteinium-254 that scientists made in this reaction is 276 days. That means scientists have a lot of study…

According to new research, it turns out that Phobos, one of the Martian moons, may hold information about what Mars was like in the past. Using data from Maven, Nénon and his colleagues took a closer look and determined that the orbit of Phobos passes right through a stream of ions (charged atoms and molecules)…