Imagine this. You call for the elevator, the dors open, you
start walking into it and all of a sudden, the elevator starts
moving and you see your life flashing before your eyes.
What sounds like a bad horror movie, actually became real!

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When it comes to chip production, TSMC is a major brand.
7nm is already working fine although Intel still struggles.
AMDs newer ZEN processors are produced at 7nm already.
TSMC now starts production at 5nm and the Cortex A72.

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Privacy is a thing of concern and they all seem to have their
problems with it. Facebook however got caught several times
failing to secure personal data. In this case again millions of
user datasets have been exposed using cloud services.

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Who of you still know the high-end brand “Vaio” of Sony?
5 years after their last presentation of new notebooks it
seemed as if Sony had Vaio die in silence and focus solely
on entertainment devices. But now they’re back! And how!

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Apple has put up 1⁴ (another writing form for 1.1.1.1) in the
app store to make Cloudflare’s proxy available to Apple users.
Not only is internet traffic improved but also VPN can now be
used easily on an iOS device.

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No, this is no April’s Fools joke even though it’s
April 1st! This is the regular Garfield Top 5 for April
that should bring you back to laughing even though
might have been April-fooled today!

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Archos is known for many multimedia devices and
low-budget tablet computers. This time Archos has
released a new superlative tablet for entertainment
purpose: The Archos Play Tab.

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NVidia has released a new type of Graphics drivers for
their graphics cards. All these with Turing chips will now
gain speed from the Creator-ready driver packages. So
an RTX 2080 might gain up to 12% speed in Blender.

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The ECG feature of the Apple Watch Series 4 has been
locked down to the USA since it’s release. With the new
release of WatchOS 5.2 this has changed: The ECG feature
has been made available outside USA now.

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It seems to be hard times for Oracle when it comes to
Cloud Services. According to various news portals,
Oracle has started laying off employees who are involved
in Cloud development. An internal mail shows changes…

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This is truly a bad day in european history!
Despite the fact that Article 13 of the copyright
plan will definitely lead to an uncontrollable
censorship of free opinion and free speech…

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Quicktime facing end of life soon. Apple dropping
32bit-Support in MacOS thus cutting off Quicktime,
Cinepak, Radium and DivX video codec support.
This means 64bit-capable codes are the only choice.

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When Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada
accused for industrial spionage her personal
goods were also seized for forensic investigation.
Interesting that she uses an Apple iPhone…

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If the situation wouldn’t be grim for facebook
already, there’s a new scandal hitting Mark
Zuckerberg’s social media empire. It seems as if
there was again ma massive security hole detected.

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3D with photorealsim was always a dream of the computer
industry since the very beginning of 3D graphics rendering.
The main problem however was that real-time rendering of
3D scenes was complex and computers didn’t have the power.

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So the 1st quarter of the year is already over and the time
change has been late this year as well. Usually taking place
around the 25th of March, the clocks are set one hour for-
ward again. But maybe soon for he last time.

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Bad times for Google! The EU competition authorities
have fined Google for 1.69 billion US$ as Google has
hindered other competitors to fully use the “AdSense for
Search” feature.

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When it comes to new gadgets and releases, Apple
is always in line for surprises. But also the apple fan
community takes it’s time to create interesting
mockup concepts of possible upcoming devices.

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Apple has released new devices of their iPad mini.
The 7th generation of the iPad Mini now supports
the Apple Pencil 1st generation and comes with
the A12 Bionic processor but without FaceID.

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When you speak of Privacy, then mostly the own
data is meant. Where Cloud Services and also
manufacturers of hardware, like Apple or Samsung
point out to be safe, Apple sees their hardware safe!

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This may not be a good day for Qualcomm at all!
In the ongoing fight between Qualcom and Apple
it seems as if Apple sees some light in the case.
Qualcomm demands patent royalties from Apple.

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DirectX 12 on Windows 7? Am I seeing right?
Yes, you do. With the release of World of
Warcraft Patch 8.1.5, Blizzard made DirectX 12
available with limitations to Windows 7 users.

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Nginx is known to many of website owners as Linux
servers often run nginx webserver as backend for
Websites. Originally released under BSD licence, nginx
can be used freely used by private persons.

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While other smartphone companies prefer the
spotlight of the MWC to show their latest phones
and software releases, Apple prefers to hold their
own event inhouse to do so.

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Ever thought, the Samsung Galaxy S10 is up to
level with the FaceID technology from Apple?
Well… it should be but it seems as if Samsung
still thinks that their security feature is secure.

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It seems as if Qualcomm tries to squeeze out
money from Apple wherever possible. Their
newest lawsuit case is about 31 million US$
for three patent infringements.

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No good time for Boeing at the moment. Another
plane of the just recently released Boeing 737 Max 8
has crashed in Ethopia. Few months before the same
type crashed in Indonesia. What’s wrong, Boeing?

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Google Chrome is one of the browsers that have a wide spread
and are commonly used. While Google highlights it’s privacy
features, doubters see a massive violation of one’s privacy as the
browser seems to reveal much more about it’s user than expected!

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USB4 is already far in progress when it comes to definition of it’s
specifications. All specification details shall be manifested in the
second half of 2019 so that devices and cables can be released in
2020. Compatibility downwards to USB2.0 will be guranteed.

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They’re majestic, gigantic and they look like nothing could shake
them at any rate. However it seems that they are weak against
strong winds. A cruise ship has been hit by strong winds close to
New York, USA. The cruise ship was en route to Florida

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With the “Vision 2020” concept, Volvo is planning to reduce
the Vmax (maximum velocity) of their cars to 180 kmph.
Volvo states that reducing the maximum velocity can save
lifes in traffic. Most models of Volvo speed up to 250 kmph.

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Sorry for the missing post today. Our main poster
is sick today and thus not online. Hopefully he will
return soon and deliver everyday news for you to
read! All the best wishes, Netspark!

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