Streaming is a power consumer par excellence. The
EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager has warned that
streaming will be the reason for massive power usage
of the internet. Over 200 billion kWh will be used.

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Big blackout in Berlin-Köpenick. It seems as if a construction
company has hit an important electric link at the Salvador-
Allende-Bridge. Not only has the drilling into the powerline
ceased electrical delivery to Köpenick but also the reserve line.

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Tesla has it already yet very limited. Mercedes will soon
roll out new cars with personal assistant and now BMW
is also announcing BMW IPA for release in 2019 as your
Siri pendant when it comes to automatization onboard.

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If you ever thought about buying an AMD Ryzen
Threadripper 2990WX, then you can do so now at
a canadian online shop. The price is roghtly about
2400 CAD which comes to about 1850 US$

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As if nuclear power plants wouldn’t be a safety problem in
general, it has been found out that Tihange in Belgium has
another flaws in their housing structure. That’s the building
that carries the core. A failure of the building would be fatal!

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As you might have noticed, I haven’t been posting for quite
a while now. Reason for this is that work and freetime in
summer consume a lot of time which means that my computer
is off most of the time.

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A few months ago, I have read an article about LeGioN Meter, a USB
dongle that overrides the host recognition and thus allows USB devices
to drag the most power available. When visiting the Kickstarter page of
PLX devices, another gadget pulled my attention to it: LeGioN!

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Things you don’t do: A cowfence has not a high voltage but lots of Ampère!
And thus an electric bash of the cowfence still can hurt you. In Physics we
have learned, that our body can be powered with thousands of volts
without any harm… as long as we’re not grounded.

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While NVidia has thrown in their Geforce Titan, which settles a new record
in graphics performance for a single card, AMD now seems to try catching
up and according to a report on Fudzilla, the new “Malta” core, formerly
known as “New Zealand”. shall bring AMD back to the top.

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The USA and Barack Obama have ratified an agreement to raise the debt
limit as long as needed without any upper limit. This way, the USA is trying
to ensure it’s full liquidity. However there’s some stale taste with this as the
actual 16.4 trillion DS$ debt equals 100% of the annual US economic power!

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When thinking about GPU, one has only one thing in mind. When does the
next generation GPU come out and how will it outwit it’s predecessors?
According to some ideas of the EU, GPU classes determine how much power
they’re allowed to consume. There are seven classes of GPUs.

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Usually I don’t do many reviews on gadgets and hardware. In this case I could not resist
to tell you about an item one could desperately need when the cell phone squeaks and
begging for power. You all know that crappy situation: You’re out for party etc. and you
want to show your friends some cool stuff. What happens? No more battery!

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Seems as if NVidia always drags out another ace when it comes to processor
power. The brandnew Tegra 3 is a special processor indeed. dualcore, tricore
quadcore, hexacore, octocore. All sounds impressive. But ever heard of a
pentacore? No? Me neither. But it seems, NVidia has found another way…

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I think most of my readers my remember the times when 3D Games became
available on PC. We all remembered the moments when our expensive
500 DM card have been plugged into our PCs to be able to live 3D games
ourselves. So how has 3D Gaming changed within the past 15 years?

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The new Top500-list of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world is out now and the
Japanese domain the top again!
How did they do that? Well, read the full article about their new wonder machine, it’s
specs and technical data…

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