Thursday, August 1, 2019

Intel Ice Lake Processors: Specs, Details, Release Date

Today, the chipmaker provided details about its long-hyped Ice Lake processors, which will start showing up in laptops around the holidays.

source https://www.wired.com/story/intel-ice-lake-10-nanometer-processor

The One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack

A 'Cameroon Web' reporter remains in a maximum-security prison, and a writer for 'Kashmir Narrator' will have been imprisoned for one year on August 27.

source https://www.wired.com/story/one-free-press-coalition-august-2019-list

How White Nationalists Have Co-Opted Fan Fiction

Opinion: In fan fiction, enthusiasts create whole new worlds from elements of cherished pieces of fiction or history. Racists have perverted the form.

source https://www.wired.com/story/white-nationalists-have-co-opted-fan-fiction

Hasselblad X1D II Review: A Compact Hasselblad

Hasselblad greatly improves its X1D mirrorless medium format camera, which can do things DSLR's can't, but it's still slow and pricey compared to rivals.

source https://www.wired.com/review/hasselblad-x1d-ii

The Senate's Transportation Plan Reckons With Climate Change

America's Transportation Infrastructure Act, approved by a Senate committee this week, includes $10 billion to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change.

source https://www.wired.com/story/senates-transportation-plan-reckons-climate-change

Icy Waterfalls Are Roaring as a Heat Wave Sizzles Greenland

Glaciologists are rappelling into a glacial plumbing system to probe the effects of climate change on the melting of Greenland's ice sheet.

source https://www.wired.com/story/icy-waterfalls-are-roaring-as-a-heat-wave-sizzles-greenland

Finally, a Robot That Moves Kind of Like a Tongue

Octopus arms and elephant trunks and human tongues move in a fascinating way, which has now inspired a fascinating new kind of robot.

source https://www.wired.com/story/soft-robotics-actuator