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Weekly Digest - 2020.02
Cool tech at CES 2020
As always, the second week of January is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) week. I'm not going to cover in much details what has been shown, people on the site can do much better job. Instead, I've created a list of the most interesting gadgets & thing shown at CES 2020.
Mobile, portable & wearable devices
Laptops
- Intel's Horseshoe Bend concept
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold
- Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus with E-ink screen
- Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel Pro
Computers
- Intel's 10th-Generation 'Comet Lake' CPUs
- AMD takes no prisoners
- Origin’s Big O combines PC & consoles
- MSI’s MEG Aegis Ti5
- Razer Tomahawk
TVs & Monitors
- Samsung's bezel-less 8K TV
- Samsung Sero rotating TV
- Sony Z8H 8K HDR Sony A8H 4K OLED TVs
- LG OLED ZX 88-inch 8K TV
- Asus' 360Hz Monitor
- Samsung Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor
Headphones & speakers
- JBL's AirPods alternative
- Jabra Elite Active 75t wireless earbuds
- Harman Kardon Citation Oasis
- Vizio’s soundbar with rotating speakers
- Amazon Fire TV soundbars
Smart home devices
- Samsung Ballie
- Arlo's wireless Floodlight Camera
- Charmin’s new toilet paper robot and fart smell sensor
- Wemo Wifi Smart Plug & Stage
- Y-Brush toothbrush
Cars & Vehicles
- Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR
- Sony Vision-S concept car
- Fiser's electric SUV with solar roof
- Mustang Mach-E SUV
- BMW i Interaction Ease concept
- Segway S-Pod
Dope links
- Sign in with Apple - Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3
- Swift 5.2 Development Snapshot
- Build your own Netlify-like deployment for React app using multi-container Kubernetes pod
- Canned Emails - a minimal site with prewritten emails
- Disk Sleeves
- Twenty Years Ago, Steve Jobs Showed Off the Aqua Interface for the First Time
- I created an ultra-detailed color image of the moon by combining around 100k photos
- How The Irishman’s Groundbreaking VFX Took Anti-Aging To the Next Level

Weekly digest - 2019.21
Huawei vs USA
Google has immediately suspended all operations with Huawei on May 19th. This means that Huawei will not be able to use Google's Android on their phones and Google Play services. For now, currently sold devices will be receiving security updates, but this might change in the short future. MKBHD has explained this in his video.
This whole situation is a result of the trade ban issued by US government on China. Google is just one of the several tech companies that suspended partnership with Huawei. Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom and Xilinx have stopped supplying Chinese company with new parts.
Huawei was one of the fastest growing tech companies in a world. Now, when they have no software and they are cut off from main suppliers, their future doesn't look that good.
MDS vulnerabilities
New procesor's vulnerabilities have been discovered. They are really bad. Both Intel and AMD processors are affected, but fixes hit mostly Intel processors. Intel losses even 5 times more performance than AMD. Phoronix run a set of benchmarks which shows about 15% performance drop on Intel processor, when AMD lost only 3%. What's even more interesting Google and Apple advise to disable Hyper-threading on Intel chips, which can cause even 40-50% performance drop.
New MacBook Pro
Apple has refreshed their MacBook Pro line. New computers can now get 9-gen of Intel's Core processors. The base model starts with a 2.6GHz, 6-core i7, which can turbo boost up to 4.5GHz. If we need more performance, we can buy model with 8-core i9 chip with a 2.4GHz base speed, which can turbo boost up to 5.0GHz. Apple also added more options for the GPUs. The base model has Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory. As an option we can choose the Radeon Pro Vega 16 or 20, both with 4GB of HBM2 memory.
Also new MacBooks come with 3rd generation of the butterfly keyboard. Apple updated the materials used to create butterfly mechanism. According to Apple, those changes should solve the majority of the keyboard issues, but looking at this thread from iFixit employee, the reality might be disappointing.
Keyboard Service Program for MacBooks
Apple has not only updated the keyboards, but they also updated their keyboard repair program. All MacBooks with the butterfly mechanism will now be fully eligible for Apple’s Keyboard Service Program. All repaired MacBooks will get newest, 3rd generation keyboard.
Interesting links
- CSS can do that?
- Docker for Absolute Beginners
- The Most Expensive Lesson Of My Life: Details of SIM port hack
- iOS 13 concept by Álvaro Pabesio
- How Apple Continuously Screws Developers and Doesn’t Follow Its Own Rules
- Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm
- My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
- Can we all please stop using Medium now?
- Someone is remaking Star Wars: Rogue Squadron in Unreal Engine 4
Image credits: Dice