Hey fellow readers. Maintenance has completed and we’re
back online on monday again. We could find the culprit of
our repeated downtime and disabled the plugins in
question. Actually we’re investigating with the developers.

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If you thought, flying like the Silversurfer from Marvel
Comics is a fiction, then you haven’t seen the modern
hoverboard. Is this a prototype for how people might
travel short distances in the future?

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Well known that WPA2 can be infiltrated by 3rd party users
using KRACK method, the WFA has now made direct plans
on how to solve the problem with the security holes of WPA2.
When WPA3 will be applied via firware updates to routers…

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When we wrote about AMD releasing it’s EPYC Rome Multicore
processor for High-End servers, it is also known that AMD will fab
them at 7nm. What about Intel? There are rumors that a new 10C
processor for mobiles will hit the stores (Comet Lake).

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Gene manipulation using CRISPR is a topic which is known for some
time now. But in China CRISPR has been used on the embryos of two
girls which have been born recently. Do we start playing God now?
And what about possibe genetic mutations that may occur?

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On friday there were big news about Logitech merging
with Plantronics. Now the deal is off as neither
Plantronics nor Logitech could agree about the price
for which Plantronics should be merged with Logitech.

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Unfortunately the blog wasn’t reachable the last three days.
Seems as if something has blocked the function of the
backend which also affected the publishing of articles we have
prepared for you. Hope all will be back now!

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AMD’s next-gen EPYC processors have been revealed in
SiSoft Sandra’s benchmark tool and what is show is quite
promising: 64 cores on 8 dies with each 1.4GHz speed and
a total of 16MB L3 cache are a real number.

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The next big company merger is just around the corner.
It seems as if Logitech is having an eye on Plantronics.
Plantronics is a manufacturer for communication devices
and headsets. Logitech wants to set foot there.

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If you ever wondered what it looks like inside an airplane cockpit and
how it can become stressful when sight for the pilots becomes worse
(especially on starting or landing) then these two videos might give
you a nice insight. Amazing how much tech keeps flying so safe now!

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Who remembers Steve Jobs when he presented the first iPhone
in 2007? I guess not many have seen the keynote when Steve Jobs
presented the first iPhone to the public. Here’s the keynote that
changed the smartphone market in no time and made Nokia fade!

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It seems as if the online video portal has found a new source
for attracting visitors. However it won’t make competitors
like NetFlix, Spotify & Co. happy. YouTube is planning to
show older movies on their portal. But what’s the catch?

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So although xmas is around the corner lurking for people
to buy presents for their beloved ones, it seems as there’s
nothing special on the computer market which makes you
voluntarily open your purse. Apple has new gadgets, yes…

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Hello there! You might have noticed that my blog is
probably taking longer to display the start page. That
is caused by the number of posts which have been
increased from 16 to 32. Thus representing 1 month!

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Foldable phones were invented back in 2004 when the Nokia
2650 had it’s debute. However the “folding” was only for the
technics behind and not for the display as such. In 2018 there
are two companies showing concepts for release soon.

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HPC (High Performance Computing) is a highly demanded
thing today. When it comes to pure computing power for
vast numbercrunching, then classic CPUs cannot achieve
the speed modern GPUs can reach today.

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With AMD having shown the Threadripper 32core
monster Intel has now released information about
it’s next-generation Advanced Performance server
CPUs. Designed for dual-socket motherboards…

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It is sort of a curse. Every attempt to make one’s life easier
with modern protocols for WLAN, Bluetooth and other
mobile wireless solutions also brings up new problems.
One of these affect all iOS devices running iOS12.0.1 or older

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In about 2 hours it’s showtime for Apple in New York.
At 10am EDT / 3pm MET Apple will open it’s additional
event as a followup to the event on September 12th.
We expect new iPads, Macs and MacBooks to show up!

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If you ever wondered how a Tesla is able to maneuver
you through the roads with no problem detecting
obstacles, persons and free spots to drive on, you
might want to give this video a try. Simply astounding!

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Just imagine, there you are on your way to the metro,
standing on the escalator and all of a sudden that darn
thing speeds up at a fricking speed where your only
thought is: How will I end at the end of the escalator?

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On PCs the RAM size is limited to 16GB per bank but yet
only 8GB are common and available. For faster RAM you
will have to take even smaller 4GB modules as the speed
takes it’s toll. But Samsung has set a new RDIMM record.

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Microsoft gets green light from the EU commission to
acquire Github, the largest collaboration development
network for software, The price is about 7.5 billion US$
and with this one of Microsoft’s larger acquisitions.

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Highly anticipated we were a bit disappointed that Apple
didn’t show the new iPad lineup at the Apple Event earlier
this year. But with the upcoming event, a 2nd edition of
the Apple Event if you want to call it like this, we hay hope.

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Is this the tablet of the future? A concept has shown
a tablet that looks more like a scroll. And the mecha-
nism is similar. Either you can use the tablet like a
small version of an advertising column or unscrolled.

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Socionext has announced a new chip series that will
be capable of processing 8K video and send it over
HDMI v2.1 – Yes, a new version of HDMI is spotted!
But most AV components still run HDMI v2.0…

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Terminator / Terminator II are all well-known films.
The fictive company “SkyNet” has built robots that
act like humans but on a more logical structure. The
main problem: Even humans are considere a threat.

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We all know this. We launch our browser, we type an URL
and – bingo – there’s our desired content (hopefully!). But
fewer already know that behind a website there’s a large
server farm. LowTech Magazine however is special!

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Computers nowadays aren’t a big thing anymore.
We work with them, they process stuff for us and
they’re supposed to make our work easier. But
how did all start? The ENIAC was built in 1947.

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For quite some time the i9-7960XE with a
whopping price tag of 1500 US$ was the king for
High-End gaming rigs. AMD has the Ryzen family
as counterpart. So what’s the new CPU about?

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It seems as if state supervision becomes a good
business for Darknet users. A french marketplace
called “Black Hand” has been recently shut down.
The owner: an employee of the DGSI!

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The CERN in Geneva is leading when it comes to
research of anti-matter. With the LHC the largest
hadron collider in the world has been built. But to
get anti-matter better analyzed, it needs more.

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