Apple Plans to Ship 16-Inch MacBook Pro This Year

Apple Plans to Ship 16-Inch MacBook Pro This Year

“We foresee that Apple will release a new product [at the] Sep’19 Apple event if there’s no unexpected development issue,” Jeff Lin, Associate Director, Consumer Electronics at IHS Markit, said in an email, referring to the 16-inch MacBook Pro. IHS Markit describes the future MacBook Pro as having a “new display size (16 inch), new Mac OS (Catalina) CPU,” as cited in its “IHS Markit Q1’19 Mobile PC Market Tracker.” Apple did a processor refresh of the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro in May.

Source: www.forbes.com

U.S. Carries Out Cyberattacks on Iran

U.S. Carries Out Cyberattacks on Iran

Beyond the online operation, American military and intelligence officials also are trying to devise other operations that would not escalate tensions with Iran but would try to deter further aggressions and prod Tehran to stop, or dial back, its shadow war, according to current and former officials. The downing of an American drone on Thursday underlined the already tense relations between the countries after Mr. Trump’s recent accusations that Iran was to blame for explosions this month that crippled two oil tankers near the vital Strait of Hormuz. Scrambling to extend a reprieve in the Iran crisis on Saturday after President Trump’s aborted military strike, Britain, France and other European countries reached out to the Iranians for dialogue and urged restraint on all sides.

Source: www.nytimes.com

The White Darkness – A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica (2018)

The White Darkness – A Solitary Journey Across Antarctica (2018)

\n\n\t\t\tThe man, whose name was Henry Worsley, consulted a G.P.S. device to determine precisely where he was. \n\n\t\t\tWorsley’s sled—which, at the outset, weighed three hundred and twenty-five pounds, nearly double his own weight—was attached to a harness around his waist, and to drag it across the ice he wore cross-country skis and pushed forward with poles in each hand. One evening, two weeks into his journey, he said:\n\n\n\t\t\tI overslept a little this morning, which, actually, I was grateful for, as the previous forty-eight hours’ labor has been hugely draining.

Source: www.newyorker.com

Facebook’s Libra must be stopped

Facebook’s Libra must be stopped

NEW YORK – Facebook has just unveiled its latest bid for world domination: Libra, a cryptocurrency designed to function as private money anywhere on the planet. But this guarantee rests on an illusion, because neither Facebook nor any other private party involved will have access to unlimited stores of the pegged currencies. Governments must not allow private, profit-seeking parties to put the entire global financial system at risk.

Source: www.project-syndicate.org

We need to give Firefox a chance

We need to give Firefox a chance

And Chrome uses a lot of memory, Firefox — less. Also, Firefox has a lot of useful features like showing useless CSS rules and supports prefers-color-scheme: dark media rules, that Chrome supports only in beta now. Now, most developers write their extensions for both Chrome and Firefox.

Source: dev.to

DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)

DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (2017)

When considering kits, take time to do some research and make sure a company is legitimate instead of a fly-by-night that’s tossing parts into a box based on some classic (or unattributed) design. Garage1217’s catalog of low-voltage DIY amplifier kits is notable if only because they are squeezing tubes into low voltage designs. Although we don’t have room to cover every available DIY kit or design here, I hope the above examples give you a road-map to consider as you embark on the DIY journey.

Source: audioprimate.blog

PsyToolkit: Create and run cognitive psychological experiments in the browser

PsyToolkit: Create and run cognitive psychological experiments in the browser

You can learn from looking at the scripts how to develop your own experiments. You can download the experiment and upload in your own PsyToolkit online account (Watch a video on how to do that). You can use your own experiment and embed it in a PsyToolkit survey, and so collect data online using the PsyToolkit server.

Source: www.psytoolkit.org

AMP for email is bad

AMP for email is bad

AMP in an email service makes the emails ‘dynamic’, at least that’s what Google says. Basically AMP is putting apps into an email to offer dynamic content: advertisements, shops, questionnaires, and similar content that can be interacted with. But instead of making encrypted email easy in Gmail, Google is again pushing for advertisement options.

Source: tutanota.com

Jim Allison Just Won a Nobel Prize for His Cancer Immunotherapy Breakthrough

Jim Allison Just Won a Nobel Prize for His Cancer Immunotherapy Breakthrough

Allison’s breakthrough was the discovery of a sort of secret handshake that cancer uses to evade the immune system, and a means to block that handshake—what the Nobel committee hailed as “a landmark in our fight against cancer,” which has “revolutionized cancer treatment, fundamentally changing the way we view how cancer can be managed.” But despite the mounting mockery of the larger scientific community and dwindling research funds, a handful of immunotherapy researchers continued to believe—and continued searching, decade after decade, for the missing piece of the cancer immunity puzzle, a factor that prevented the immune system from recognizing and attacking cancer cells. The spring cleaning is carried out by hungry, blobby Pac-Man cells in our blood—part of a 500 million-year-old personal defense force that Allison’s textbooks called the innate immune system.

Source: www.wired.com

Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies

Making Containers More Isolated: An Overview of Sandboxed Container Technologies

IBM Nabla builds containers on top of Unikernels, Google gVisor creates a specialized guest kernel for running containers, Amazon Firecracker is an extremely lightweight hypervisor for sandboxing applications, and OpenStack places containers in a specialized VM that is optimized for container orchestration platforms. When a container is deployed on a host, each container’s resources such as its file system, process, and network stack are placed in a virtually isolated environment which no other containers can access. We then look at IBM Nabla, a project aiming to run unikernel applications like containers, and Google gVisor, a project that runs containers on a user-space kernel.

Source: unit42.paloaltonetworks.com