(Photo: Brett Jordan/Unsplash)The ink is still wet on Elon Musk’s deal to purchase Twitter, and there are already signs people are concerned over his “free speech absolutist” stance. Just one day after the news broke, the EU’s commissioner for the internal market told the Financial Times that Musk will have to follow the rules if he wants Twitter to operate in the EU. The commissioner’s name is Thierry Breton, and as reported by his comments were unambiguous. “We welcome everyone. We are open but on our conditions. At least we know what to tell him: ‘Elon, there are rules.
The last time we reported on AMD’s upcoming AM5 socket, we said it would probably support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory. This would be similar to Intel’s current approach with Alder Lake as you can buy motherboards that support one memory type or the other. This offers upgraders the most flexibility in a time where DDR5 memory is still rather expensive. A new report with supply chain sources says AMD will not be going that route, and has instead chosen to only support DDR5. This could be bad news for people who were hoping to build an affordable Zen 4 system.
Mercurial business tycoon Elon Musk has reached a deal with Twitter’s board to take over the company. The agreement between Musk and the board ends weeks of drama between Musk and the social media platform. Previously Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder, then accepted and rejected a seat on the board. Finally, the board agreed to the deal after Musk proved he had lined up financing. The deal is reportedly worth approximately $44 billion and will see Musk take the company private. The terms of the deal involve Musk paying shareholders $54.20 in cash for each share they own. This represents a 38 percent premium over the price of the stock before Musk revealed he was the company’s biggest shareholder.
In 2021, NASA announced that they were going to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid — on purpose. But this was no “hold my beer” moment; the reason pour faire le smashy-smash was a live-fire demo of “Earth’s first planetary defense system.” A big enough asteroid can wreck the day of every living human, on and off planet. So, twenty years after the 1998 box office sunburn Armageddon, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). Now, Chinese state media reports that China has a plan to step up with its own asteroid redirect mission. Space Day is a pretty big deal in China.
Back in January, we reported that AMD was ramping up its marketing. The new system is called RAMP, and stood for Ryzen Accelerated Memory Profiles. Though we’re not Professional Acronym Judges (PAJ), it seemed like a good effort at branding for AMD. It was concise, conveyed forward movement, and communicated the company’s goals; to “ramp up” its memory speeds. However, the company seems to have fallen out of favor with it, and has changed the name to EXPO. This new branding apparently stands for EXtended Profiles for Overclocking. AMD filed for a trademark for the name EXPO back in .
Dell has pulled the wraps off its newest workstations, revealing the full skinny on its all-new CAMM memory module. Word of this new design leaked a few days ago, prompting people () to speculate on what exactly Dell was up to. As it turns out, it’s not as sinister as it seemed at first. However, it’s unclear if any company other than Dell will adopt the form factor going forward. As a , Dell’s CAMM stands for Compression Attached Memory Module. It’s included in the company’s new Precision 7770 and 7670 mobile workstations. It’s a replacement for the ancient SO-DIMM module and is a new design made by Dell.
(Image: Tesla)Like it or not, humanoid robots are here. Optimus, a human-like droid powered by AI, is Elon Musk’s latest project—one he insists will be worth more than Tesla’s current vehicle business. Musk originally unveiled the concept for Optimus (the nickname for what’s otherwise called Tesla Bot) at the company’s last August. But in a Q1 2022 conducted last week, Musk mentioned he was “surprised that people did not realize the magnitude of the Optimus robot program,” saying he’d never felt more optimistic regarding Tesla’s future than he was during the call. “The importance of Optimus will become apparent in coming years,” Musk said.
In the past six months, Intel has made some aggressive moves to expand its silicon fab capacity in the US. In addition to expanding its operations in Arizona and Oregon, it’s announced an all-new facility in Ohio. That facility is the first of its kind in America, as it’s the first silicon fab to ever be located in the Midwest. It’s part of Intel’s IDM 2.0 strategy to expand its operations and to reclaim manufacturing supremacy from Taiwan. Intel famously lost its footing by taking several years to move from 14nm to 10nm, allowing TSMC to surpass it in advanced node capabilities.
If you were an alien looking at Earth from a great distance, it would have looked mostly the same right up until 10,000 years ago. That’s when humans invented agriculture, and the planet has never been the same since. Farming allowed humans to proliferate, and the scale at which we now produce food has changed the way Earth would appear to an outside observer. The same could be true of an inhabited exoplanet, and it just so happens we finally have a tool that could detect these conditions: the . A team of astronomers how the new observatory might be able to spot “exofarms” when it begins scanning the heavens later this year.
