When you think of waves, sea and sand, you might
picture out a nice sunny beach with warm sun on
your skin beathing the salty yet clean air the sea
provides while the waves roar in.

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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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You all know these signs for certain: At the entrance
of the bus you’ll often spot the “Do not talk to driver
while vehicle is in motion”-sign. These signs do make
sense as the following CCTV video shows…

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GrayKey, a little box used by law enforcement facilities to
reveal information and data from locked iPhones has been
rendered useless with the release of iOS 12. Although the
box may still retrieve unencrypted files and metadata…

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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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A week ago I have written about temperature records in
Switzerland. Now this article is about a big rectangular
ice shelf that broke loose from the Larson C ice shelf.
Now calving if ice isn’t that seldom but the form is!

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This is something one would not like to happen to
oneself live. You drive on a road and suddenly a rock
crushes onto the road you’re driving on crushing your
foreman’s car. Wht do you think in such a moment?

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There you have it… new iPad Pros, a new Mac Mini and
macBook Air refresh. Quite some new devices Apple has
presented yesterday on it’s Event in New York. Available
from November 7th, 2018, you’ll be able to preorder now!

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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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The weekend is here and it’s time for some relaxing.
Today here’s some fun compilation of epic construction
site fails. Or let’s say better: Things you’d better not have
done as shown in the video. Have fun and a nice saturday!

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Now it’s official: The iPhone Xs (Max) has a similar
performing camera as the Huawei P20 Pro tri-camera
phone. This means that Apple is capable of getting
very good images out of the classic 2-camera setup.

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On October 24th a new temperature record in
Locarno, Ticino (Switzerland) has been recorded
While the thermometer was still reading 23.1 °C
at 5:30am, the temperature rose to 30.1 °C later!

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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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…or what can we achieve with a given size limit for the
binary? Today’s entry deals with two extreme demos
that have been shown on the demozoo competition in
2013. One demo is 64KB and the other just 4 KB!

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In 2013 Winamp was stuck on it’s last version 5.666 and
hasn’t been developed on since then. But on last friday
the developers have reported that Winamp 5.8 has hit
the light and is released now. And that’s just the start…

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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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On September 12th, 2018 Apple has shown it’s
latest iPhone models (XS, XS Max, XR) as well as
the Apple Watch Series 4. The October event is
expected to reveal new iPads… at minimum!

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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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We all know it: We launch our favourite browser and
suddenly after an update that darn thing is driving us
nuts with new error messages we haven’t seen before.
In this case it’s the SSL certificates.

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Imagine a restaurant and instead of reading a menu
you’ll see the waiter bringing a small device that
presents you all the menu items vivid and in 3D.
Impossible, you say? Then watch the following videos!

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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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There are some things that really make me angry.
For instance these thugs chasing a poor cat from
under a car and then let their vicious dog chase
that poor furry fella. Rest in peace little friend!

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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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Well, this is it, folks. Today I turned 40. Anything
special to write about it? Nope, don’t think so!
Still feisty as ever and feeling the same as
yesterday and that’s good the way it is!

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Google Plus seems to be shut down definitely!
As it seems, the social media platform didn’t
succeed against Facebook as intended. In 2011
Google Plus was announced as an alternative.

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