ProjectVulcan

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Making planes safer? You do realise that over FOUR BILLION people a year fly commercial airlines and in a bad year about 500 of those die in an accident? It could barely get any safer.

On a good year nobody dies! In 2017 there were ZERO fatal commercial accidents out of millions of flights. Incredible safety. Your chances of being killed driving to the airport are way higher than actually flying on the plane.

1672d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

It's far too slow to be practical. Even AMD based next gen consoles won't be able to use it in any kind of meaningful way.

1889d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Indeed it would never be given the green light on the basis of anti trust.

1927d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

RX580 = Xbox One X.

You want at least double that performance to be able to really move the game on, in additional to a vastly better Ryzen CPU. It'll have to be built on the TSMC 7nm manufacturing node to achieve this- it's pretty much certain Sony will wait for that.

Not going to be enough 7nm production capacity to build consoles en masse in 2019. All of TSMC's 7nm capacity for the next 12 months will be eaten up by consumer Ryzen and Epyc ...

2021d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

You can hate Tesla all you like. But they have stuck their neck out an awful lot over the years to try and make a difference and advance technology in this industry, while the old stuffy big players have remained stagnant. Knowingly exposing themselves to potential criticism as they do is something most scaredy corporations run away from, and you have to respect Tesla for that even if they have major failings elsewhere.

This is still really prototype and experimental techno...

2059d ago 17 agree3 disagreeView comment

Spell check would be nice

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Would need miracle materials to be viable. In theory it's possible, but somehow you need to find a material you can manufacture on a huge scale that would be hundreds of times stronger and lighter AND cheaper than today's best expensive exotic alloys.

It's one thing building tiny chains of carbon atoms in a lab to make incredibly strong nano scale materials and another building an elevator structure 35,000 kilometres long! Must it be this long? Yep, because you ...

2059d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Real lake names.

2066d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

You won't need many to have a good gene pool. That figure is the lower bound though and more is always better.

You have to say Earth itself would be a lot better off retaining most of the knowledge and modern technology gained over the past few thousand years but have the population reduced down to only a hundred million or so. The bubonic plague arguably contributed greatly towards the resultant Europe's development.

2071d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Well the comparison is because AMD will have this chip ready and out in the next month. Intel's Cascade- x response probably isn't due for at least another 3-4 months. The fabled 28 core that Intel showed off seems like it'll be a consumer product that could take on this 32 core Threadripper, but not too soon.

Secondly Intel's monolithic designs are always likely to win on a per core/thread basis, but the people buying this sort of massively threaded CPU are...

2090d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

Many Game + watch handhelds are fairly collectable. I had a couple and they are now worth good money, depending on actual model.

2097d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

Considering that Microsoft and Sony saw fit to release heavily revised versions of their consoles just 3-4 years after their previous ones and Wii U lasted less than 5 years then the title is accurate.

Also even if you assume that PS4 and Xbox One are of one generation, they clearly aren't lasting 8 years. 7 years absolute maximum, end of 2020. Possibly sooner.

2124d ago 1 agree3 disagreeView comment

Just because you don't like Trump doesn't make him always wrong. He's right, amazon scalp every government for taxes. The corporation tax they pay in Europe is a joke considering their profits

2208d ago 10 agree4 disagreeView comment

Iphone X indeed is $999. Emphasise this as much as possible.

A Snapdragon 845 phone like the Xiaomi Mi7 coming in a month or so will probably cost like $500 and have 90 percent the performance for 50 percent the cost.

2247d ago 2 agree2 disagreeView comment

It will be an old bird by then and slated for end of life several years before 2025 anyway. It has allowed many nations to gather huge experience for living in space over extended periods, the longest ever. That kind of knowledge is exactly what is needed to form some sort of colony either on the Moon or Mars.

We are still decades away from a permanent moon base or Mars mission, but I think it'll happen long before the end of this century. The ISS will have played a bi...

2281d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

It won't be true. A 7700K destroys the Ryzen 5 models in games, while obviously losing out in multithreading.

8700K will be like a 7700k with 2 more cores and 4 more threads, it'll be a match for a the 8 core Ryzen 1700 but likely even faster

2418d ago 0 agree2 disagreeView comment

50 caliber Desert Eagle

Versus

A book.

Guess which will win folks

2489d ago 7 agree0 disagreeView comment

3500 metres

Autorotation. You'll have to be a certified pilot to even fly one.

Read the article

2500d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

*Bezos robot voice* I will destroy all small retailers, Destroy! Destroy!

2585d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

It's because of those pesky Chinese workers wanting ridiculous luxuries such as 'breaks' and less than 18 hour days while getting paid more than 50 cents an hour isn't it Foxconn?

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