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HTC Confirms Vive Pre-Orders Start February 29
It's not all about Oculus:
JB McRee, Sr. Manager of Product Marketing of Virtual Reality at HTC confirmed to us that the Vive headset will in fact be available for pre-order on February 29, 2016. HTC doesn’t have any other details to share about the retail release, but McRee told said the details will be announced prior to the pre-order date.
HTC Vive is an upcoming virtual reality head-mounted display being developed in co-production between HTC and Valve Corporation. It is also part of Valve Corporation's SteamVR project.
OkCupid Adds Feature for Polyamorous Relationships
According to the company’s data, 24 percent of its users are “seriously interested” in group sex and forty-two percent would consider dating someone already involved in an open or polyamorous relationship. “It seems that now people are more open to polyamory as a concept,” says Jimena Almendares, OkCupid’s chief product officer. Though specialized dating sites for polyamorous people exist, this appears to be the first instance of a mainstream online-dating platform allowing two users to search for sexual partners together, as a unit. Almendares says OkCupid is agnostic about the kinds of relationships people pursue on its platform—it’s simply following the numbers. “Finding your partner is very important. You should have the option to express specifically and exactly who you are and what you need.”
Presidential UFO supplement
To be edited
When Will Potential 2016 Candidates Discuss the ‘Extraterrestrial Issue’?
Former Obama aide and well-known X-Files obsessive John Podesta tweeted this month that his "biggest failure of 2014" was "Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files."
Many assume that Podesta will soon sign up for the still-hypothetical Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, which means that the UFO lobby might just endorse Clinton for a second time if decides to run.
Stephen Bassett, head of the Paradigm Research Group (which runs a blog about presidential UFO news and hosted an off-brand hearing for ex-members of Congress on government transparency in matters extraterrestrial), told the Huffington Post in 2007 that Hillary Clinton "knows this issue is not trivial." Nearly eight years later, Bassett is still trying to access any government documents on UFOs, and still hoping that Clinton will reach out to constituents like him.
Study Finds Attractive Female Students Earn Higher Grades
The results mirror a similar study that found that those who are attractive in high school are more likely to go on to earn a four-year college degree. Hernández-Julián says that he found the results of the Metro State study “troubling” and says that there are two possible explanations: “Is it that professors invest more time and energy into the better-looking students, helping them learn more and earn the higher grades? Or do professors simply reward the appearance with higher grades given identical performance? The likely answer, given our growing understanding of the prevalence of implicit biases, is that professors make small adjustments on both of these margins."
CES 2016 Dumping Ground
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Lenovo
Lenovo Refreshes ThinkPad Lineup at CES
Lenovo Launches The Modular ThinkPad X1 Tablet at CES
Lenovo Launches ThinkVision Displays With USB-C Docking At CES
Lenovo Launches ThinkPad X1 Yoga At CES With OLED Display
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lenovo-thinkpad-13-windows10-chromebook,30879.html
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9889/lenovo-refreshes-thinkpad-lineup-at-ces
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9887/lenovo-launches-thinkpad-x1-yoga-at-ces-with-oled-display
Lenovo Announces The Vibe S1 Lite
Lenovo Debuts New ThinkVision Displays At CES 2016
These Are Lenovo's idea And Yoga Products For CES
Lenovo Shows Off (Razer) Gaming Systems And Peripherals at CES
Acer
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/acer-ultra-thin-curved-monitors,30873.html#xtor=RSS-181
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/acer-h7-monitors-usb-type-c,30866.html#xtor=RSS-181
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/acer-ces-notebooks-chrome-tablet,30874.html#xtor=RSS-181
Acer Aspire Unveils Switch 12 S 2-in-1 Notebook
NVIDIA
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-vr-ready-qualification-program,30880.html
NVIDIA Announces DRIVE PX 2 - Pascal Power For Self-Driving Cars
NVIDIA Discloses Next-Generation Tegra SoC; Parker Inbound?
Nvidia Shield TV Update 3.0 Offers Marshmallow, Additional Storage Options And Customizations
MediaTek
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/mediatek-soc-wearables-smarthome-bluray,30833.html
Samsung
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-portable-ssd-t3,30875.html
Samsung Adds Lightweight Models To ATIV Book 9 Notebook Series
Samsung Unveils The Galaxy TabPro S
Samsung Announces New Gear S2 Models And iOS Support
Samsung Announces The Ultra-Light Notebook 9 Series Laptops At CES 2016
ASUS
ASUS Announces February Launch For The ZenFone Zoom
Huawei
Huawei's Mate 8 6-inch Phablet Coming To North America, We Go Hands On
The Huawei Mate 8 Review
Huawei Announces The MediaPad M2 10
Huawei Launches Huawei Watch Elegant and Huawei Watch Jewel
Hands On With the Huawei Honor 5X
PCs, Laptops, Tablets
MAINGEAR Rolls-Out 34” All-in-One PC with 18-Core Xeon, GeForce GTX Titan X
Endless On A Mission To Bring Information Age To All With $79 PC
Gigabyte Updates Aorus X5 Gaming Notebook With Skylake And Fusion Keyboard
Origin PC Goes Custom With Chronos SFF Case, Omni AIO Gaming PC
Toshiba’s DynaPad Tablet to Hit Stores in Late January
ASRock To Deliver Mini-PC Using Intel's New STX Form Factor
Razer Launches The Razer Blade Stealth Ultrabook And Razer Core At CES 2016
Samsung Announces Budget 'Chromebook 3' For Early 2016
Android-Based Remix OS 2.0 Coming As Free Download For PC And Mac
Intel’s Skull Canyon Mystery PC Confirmed And Detailed
First Benchmarks On Intel's New Atom-Based Compute Stick
Intel Brings Skylake To Its NUC PCs
AMD Reveals Single Socket For Zen CPU, APU
AMD Announces A10-7890K APU and Upgrades Desktop Platforms
Intel Expands Compute Stick Family with Cherry Trail and Core M Models
Compulab Rolls-Out Passively-Cooled Airtop Systems
CES 2016: MSI’s 27-inch 4K Gaming AIO with Full Sized Discrete GPU, the 27XT 6QE
CES 2016: 34-inch 3440x1440 AIO Hands-On at GIGABYTE
Home>desktops
CES 2016: MSI’s Vortex Gaming PC on Display and It Looks Almost Like a Mac Pro
CES 2016: MSI Gaming Notebooks and Mobile Workstations
ECS Goes Skylake with LIVA One
Smartphones
Gold Nexus 6P Comes To The US
Intel’s Smartphone: RealSense/Project Tango Dev Kit Shipping Q1
Lenovo, Intel Have Duelling Project Tango Smartphones
Intel and Google Equip Smartphones with 3D Cameras and Computer Vision
Acer Liquid Jade Primo Dock, Quick Look
Marshall's 'London' Smartphone Is Built For Music Creators
Macate 'Cyberphones' Promise Unspoofable Face Recognition, Other Security Measures
Wearables
CES 2016: Fitbit Blaze smartwatch sends shares into dive
Honor Launches The Honor Band Z1
Zeiss Smart Optics: Discreet Smart Glasses
Graphics
Imagination Announces PowerVR Series7XT Plus Family - Rogue Gets Improved Compute
Imagination Demos Realtime Ray Tracing
Asus Debuts Graphics Dock That Uses PCIe Over USB-C
Storage
Seagate used shingled magnetic recording in a 2.5" portable drive for the first time in order to fit 2 terabytes within a 9.6 mm thick enclosure.
Intel 3D XPoint, Pictured: Microsoft Joins The Party
LaCie Unveils USB-C Porsche and Chrome Drives
Seagate Updates DAS Portfolio at CES 2016
SanDisk Announces X400 Client SSD for OEMs
Patriot Memory Enters PCIe Storage Market with Hellfire SSDs
Zotac Prepares Premium NVMe SSD Based On Phison's E7
Silicon Motion Has The First Multi Vendor 3D Flash Controller
Need A 512 GB USB Stick Or USB Type-C SSD Enclosure? Patriot Has You Covered
OCZ Preps Second-Gen TLC, First NVMe SSDs For 2016
Patriot Shows Hellfire And Viper SSDs At CES
QNAP at CES: A M.2 SSD NAS, Dual-Xeon ZFS NAS and More
The QNAP TBS-453A Changes The NAS Game
Kingston Readies Several New Products For 2016
Mark Your Calendar: Phison E7 Set For March Release
SanDisk Updates DAS Lineup at CES
Plextor M8Pe With Marvell Eldora Coming Soon
Mushkin Goes For The SSD Trifecta At CES
G-Technology Demonstrates G-SPEED Shuttle XL Thunderbolt 2 DAS at CES
Displays
CES 2016: Hand-on with LG's roll-up flexible screen
Samsung Introduces Curved 27-inch CF591 FreeSync-Over-HDMI Monitor
Dell Introduces World's First InfinityEdge Monitors And 30-inch OLED Monitor
Dell's Wireless Monitors Change The Way You Work
Dell Demonstrates 30-inch 4K OLED Display
Hisense at CES: Affordable and Feature-Packed 4K TVs for HTPCs
Viewsonic Debuts Eight New Monitors At CES
Virtual Reality
Oculus Rift Now Available For Pre-Order For $599, Will Ship In April
The Vive Pre, HTC’s New VR Developer Kit: First Look
HTC Unveils the Vive Pre Dev Kit
Virtuix' Potential Mini-IPO Lets General Public Invest In VR Tech
Tom's Hardware Tries The Virtuix Omni VR Treadmill
Alienware And Dell Announce Oculus Ready PC Bundles For $1,600
Oculus: The Best Way To Keep A Secret Is To Not Know Answer
Exclusive: Fove's VR HMD At CES 2016, First Look
Virtuix Proved That The Omni Vr Treadmill Is the Real Deal
QiVARI Eye Tracking Tech Taking On Tobii, Fove In AR/VR HMDs
3DRudder VR Foot Controller Steering Towards March Launch
Interview: Valve's Chet Faliszek On The HTC Vive Pre
Crytek Announces 'VR First' Academic Program
Cameras
HumanEyes' Consumer-Grade 'Vuze' 360-Degree VR Camera Package, Under $1,000
Razer Launches The Stargazer Webcam With Intel RealSense3D At CES 2016
Kodak Launches 360-Degree 4K Action Cam And Accessories
Networking and Routers
Promise Unveils Apollo Personal Cloud Product
Amped Wireless' Athena Series Gets A New Router And Range Extender
Linksys Teases New MU-MIMO Products At CES 2016
Netgear Announces Cable Modem Router To Lower Your Monthly ISP Rental Costs
Wi-Fi HaLow: Long-Range, Low-Power Wi-Fi for Internet-of-Things Devices
Four New Linksys Cable Modems Revealed During CES
Netgear's MU-MIMO EX7300 And EX6400 Range Extenders Are Available Now
TP-Link Unifies Smart Home Functionality With The SR20 Smart Home Router
Securifi's Almond 3, An All-Encompassing Smart Home Solution
Netgear Releases Nighthawk X4 Successor: The R7800 Nighthawk X4S
D-Link Offers Adaptive Roaming With New Unified Network Kit
Synology Demonstrates RT1900ac 802.11ac Router at CES
Linksys Expands Max-Stream Networking Lineup at CES
Netgear Updates Networking Lineup at CES
TRENDnet Announces AC2600 Router and AC1900 USB 3.0 WLAN Adapter at CES
Amped Wireless Launches APOLLO IP Cameras and Updates Networking Lineup at CES
D-Link Demonstrates Innovative Networking Solutions at CES
Securifi Updates Smart Home Hub Lineup with New Almond 3 Wireless Router
Cooling, Cases, PSUs, Motherboards, Accessories
Cooler Master Debuts MasterWatt 1200W, 1500W PSUs
Cooler Master Unveils MasterAir Maker 8, MasterCase Maker 5
RGB Lighting Comes To Logitech’s G502 Proteus Spectrum
CES 2016: be quiet! Doubles Revenue in 2015
Deepcool Integrates Liquid Cooling Into Genome ATX Case
be quiet! Pure Power 9 Series Unveiled
Rosewill Showcases PSUs, Cases And More At CES 2016
Seasonic Reveals Its First Titanium PSU: The Prime
DeepCool's Liquid Cooled PSU
AMD Reveals Wraith: Next-Generation Cooler for Microprocessors
EVGA Introduces Upgradable All-In-One Liquid Cooling System
Thermaltake Pacific R360 D5 Water Cooling Kit Makes A Splash At CES
SilverStone PSUs, Cases And Other Accessories At CES 2016
In Win Outs H-Frame Case And Limited Edition 1065 W PSU
Thermaltake’s Core W100 And WP100 Are Cases With Plenty Of Spaces
Thermaltake Makes A 'Green' 1250-Watt RGB LED PSU
CES 2016: Deepcool’s Gamer Storm brand Exhibits Water Cooling for a Power Supply
The Problem With Overclocking On Non-Z170 Chipsets
CES 2016: GIGABYTE’s Double Length Gaming BRIX
MSI's Four New Motherboards Includes Gold PCB Model
Super Micro Unveils Z170, H170 Boards With OC Features At CES
The Rosewill Quark Series Power Supply Review (750W, 850W, 1000W, 1200W)
CES 2016: The Race to Skylake Xeon Motherboards at GIGABYTE
CES 2016: Deepcool’s Genome is a Water Cooling Equipped Case with a Helix Reservoir
All Of Asus' New Motherboards At CES
CES 2016: MSI’s Golden Idea for Motherboards
CES 2016: Cooler Master’s MasterWatt Connected Digital PSU Almost Ready
Patriot’s Three Prototype Gaming Mice At CES
Cars
CES 2016: Faraday Future shows off its concept car
Qualcomm, Nvidia are driving us nuts – with silicon-brains-for-cars
Automakers Mark Moves Into Tech With Expanded Presence At CES
NVIDIA Pascal GPUs Coming to Automotive ‘Supercomputer’
Drones and Robots
At CES, New Robots Deliver More Coos Than Utility
Drone able to transport humans shown at Consumer Electronics Show by Chinese drone company
Misc.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ces-enthusiast-news-here,30869.html#xtor=RSS-181
CES 2016: A look at the first tech announced in Vegas
NZXT Launches Overhauled CAM 3.0 PC Monitoring Tool
CES 2016 Day Zero Wrap-Up (Video)
Ambarella CES 2016 Tour
Revisiting Keyssa: Commercial Availability, Products in Q1 2016
Tom's Hardware CES 2016 Day One Video Wrap-up
Tom's Hardware CES 2016 Final Video Roundup
Tom's Hardware's CES 2016 Top Picks
Peek Into The Future: C.E.S. 2016 Wrap-Up
CES 2016: ASUS Product Tour
CES 2016: Dell Booth Tour
CES 2016: Lenovo Booth Tour
Conexant Announces New Audio Processing Solutions At CES
Report by Robert Scoble from CES
ASUS Booth Tour at CES 2016: 10G Switches, External GPU Dock, USB-C Monitor and more
An Unexpected CES Trend: Modularity
Write:
Automotive + NVIDIA Pascal
LG rollable display
3D Xpoint
Seagate stuff
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9940/intel-and-google-equip-smartphones-with-3d-cameras-and-computer-vision
The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel'
Fortunately, Volkswagen sold only half a million of its “clean diesel” cars to the American public before the emissions scandal broke. Today, fewer than 1 percent of the passenger vehicles sold in the United States run on diesel fuel. Europe is now scrambling to undo the damage. In London, Mayor Boris Johnson last year called for a national program to pay some drivers to scrap their diesel vehicles. In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo has gained broad support for a proposed ban on diesel cars. "Last month, the signatories of the climate deal in Paris agreed that the world has to begin a long-term shift from fossil fuels to more sustainable forms of energy," concludes Grescoe. "Recognizing “clean diesel” for the oxymoron it is would be a good place to start."
Copyright Expires on Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf
Authorizing the book’s release into the public domain has been a tortuous process. In 2012 it was agreed, after much consultation between Bavarian authorities and representatives of Jewish and Roma communities, that a scholarly edition should be planned in an attempt to demystify the book. Munich's Institute of Contemporary History willpublish the new edition with thousands of academic notes, will aim to show that Mein Kampf (My Struggle) is incoherent and badly written, rather than powerful or seductive. From the original book’s 1,000 pages, the publisher has produced a two-volume book that is twice as long as the original, with 3,700 annotations. Christian Hartmann, one of the team of five historians who spent several years working on the academic edition, described his relief at being able to analyse the text, even if he felt in need of regularly airing his tiny Munich office in order to cope with the task. “It is a real feeling of triumph, to be able to pick over this rubbish and then to debunk it bit by bit."
RFC: Soylent originals, opinions, and boringness
I've been pondering doing an Ask Soylent on this but thought it'd be better to collect information before inserting my thoughts and questions into the standard article stream. My question is:
What are your thoughts on content created by Soylent users including opinions? I actually would like to know how others feel about this.
My personal thoughts:
- Soylent comments currently have a very good signal to noise ratio which gives this site a lot of value in terms of food for thought.
- The content of the stories typically lags other news sites. If you follow only this one you would not be aware of it but reading many news sites means I'll find the same story I read on Soylent a few days later, though with much better comments.
- The FAQ on story submission sounds like a bunch of good ideas for neutral coverage/exposure to information created by other parties. Well except for this part: Wikipedia links are a good source of background information and statistics. because not even Wikipedia wants you to use it that way.
- I'm an adult and you are probably an adult; I don't need to be told what to think but I enjoy reading and conversing with others about their opinions and views.
- Neutral is boring. Some people like that but I prefer to either get riled up a bit or rile others up a bit.
- I see things in a way most people do not. You've probably got some rather interesting insights as well.
The reason I'm broaching the topic is because I've submitted two opinion laced articles following current events in a way that does not just regurgitate or summarize the verbiage present on two different news websites. The reason being: I'm quite well versed in the topic and the writers handling the article are not. To simply reiterate what they provide does not do justice to the stories and there is a minimum of learning that can happen.
I read the rules before posting and knew I was possibly bending them (depending on interpretation). I figured it would be worth it to submit anyway and see what happens. I've got 100% submission rate so far even including opinion laced passionate articles on subjects I care about. Apparently there seems to be at least some value in my content.
The comments on my articles tend to get fairly polarizing too. Its very much love or hate of the prose. But in my opinion that is always going to happen. What I like is that it causes a lot of people to be exposed to new and possibly uncomfortable topics or details of the topics. What I don't like is that the polarization may not be effective. The reality may be that for some it is effective and for others it is not.
To summarize:
- There are rules (or is that only guidelines? does SN even have rules?) on submission content I either bent or ignored depending on your POV.
- There was some success with that experiment.
- At least one person has asked for more and what I consider to be many good conversations have stemmed from my article submissions.
I don't personally understand the desire to be boring and sterile. I think it is important to not suffer from group think, over-reaction, sensationalism, covert advertising, and a ton of problems that can show up on a site running on user submissions and comments voted on by users. But that doesn't mean we can't share our opinions if we are passionate, does it?
Here are some observations I have about SN content workflow and rules/guidelines:
- There is nothing like an opinion or editorial topic for a submission. This has been standard fare with news sources for as long as I can remember. Some of my favorite reading has come from editorials authored by people with a view entirely contradictory to mine. I get an opportunity to consider my own opinion and gain and understanding for where they are coming from. That's not bad, that is good.
- The article submission workflow is...... not optimal. For instance, any of these things can go wrong with an article submission and the author is 100% blind about it
(as far as I can tell anyway)
- The article is garbage and has no chance of becoming anything good. The author should no longer submit content like that at all.
- The article can be saved with some copy editing. If an editor doesn't feel like doing it right now that might sink an otherwise totally valid story; it might also mean the story could be published with out appropriate copy edit. The author could not only learn how to copy edit but perform the work that is currently concentrated on the editorial staff turning them in a point of resource starvation as this site tries to scale.
- The article is a dupe or provides no additional useful information over what has already been covered. The author could include a new angle, more sources, etc. Maybe it can be saved or maybe not.
- The timeliness is just not right. The article is valid but not right now. Nothing really was wrong except for the position we are at in the calendar.
- There has been some noise about more user submitted content but I've not seen visibility into it. I thought it'd be interesting to collect comments frother readers in the site and get it public.
Here are my suggestions for how to improve things:
- Create something along the line of "opinion," "editorial," or "rant/rave" topic where it is explicitly off topic to complain about something like the story has an opinion or the author has some passion. If the content is bad comment about that but 40% of the comments relating to "you broke the rules" is horse shit.
- Give feedback to the article submitters! Editors: I know you are busy and volunteers, thank you for your work! But the blackhole of information regarding the accepted/rejected bit being set on an article sucks epic levels of moose balls. PS: if you give authors feedback they can fix problems so you don't have to.
- Fix/adjust Rehash/Slashcode (what ever) so a workflow exists that is beyond approve/deny. If the editors could explain why a submission would be rejected that'd be nice. If the author could adjust the prose to resolve the error, resubmit it, and all the editor has to do is approve it, that seems like a win for everyone.
- Change the site layout so the preview, submit, and content format UI objects are not right next to each other. In the submission guideline: Double-check your story in preview prior to submission, including opening all links. Yes, please, every content submitter do this. SN devs: BTW authors can't adjust content once published yet it is very easy to click publish instead of preview or attempt a format change. After a few preview cycles which is what happens when correcting errors it is easy to screw up and publish by mistake. THIS ALSO INCLUDES COMMENTS WHICH ALSO CAN'T BE EDITED. If you want a ton of preview and cleaning up how about making it less easy to accidentally submit immutable content?
So that is my thoughts. I am curious about yours though, who ever you may be.
Belgium police investigate Brussels lockdown orgy claims
Meet sexcurity theater:
Belgium police investigate Brussels lockdown orgy claims
Police chiefs in Belgium have reportedly launched an internal investigation into claims soldiers and police officers held an orgy while colleagues hunted for terror suspects. Two policewomen and eight soldiers are said to have engaged in a sex party at a police station in the Brussels neighbourhood of Ganshoren.
The city was in lockdown over fears of a Paris-style attack at the time. Soldiers slept at the police station for two weeks during the operation.
"When they left, they organised a small party to thank the police in the area," police spokesman, Johan Berckmans, told Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure (in French). "We have launched an investigation to find out what exactly happened."
Speaking to De Standaard (in Dutch), the spokesman said 15 to 20 soldiers had been sleeping at the Ganshoren police station during two weeks in November so they did not have to travel so far at the end of their shift.
How newspapers covered 1967 interracial marriage law
Learning from the past: What yesterday's media can tell us about the times
If you want to get a real feel for what was happening during a certain period in history, how people really felt about the issues of the day, take a look at the media coverage.
For example, a recent study of how historically black newspapers covered the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage, Loving v. Virginia, found their coverage not that much different from their mainstream counterparts.
The team of researchers, including a journalism professor from Michigan State University, was surprised by the findings, as they hypothesized that black newspapers would be more sympathetic to the racially mixed couple who challenged the Virginia law.
Historically, said MSU’s Geri Alumit Zeldes, the African-American press is an advocate for civil rights.
“Just knowing how the ethnic press operates, we thought they were going to be very one-sided in favor of the Lovings,” she said. “But they followed the same pattern as the mainstream media such as the New York Times and others.”
Zeldes said one of the lessons learned from this, something that hasn’t changed since the first newspaper was printed, is that news is a cultural mirror of what is going on in society at that point in time.
“If you take a look at the newspapers at the time they were published, they will give you hints as to what the times were like,” she said. “So if we look at the black press at that time period, you can get a sense of what the black community was thinking because those reporters were part of that community.”
Zeldes said that by reviewing the newspapers’ stances on the issue, it gives us a clue to the political and cultural mood of the time.
“It indicates,” she said, “that some segments of society in the late 1960s were ready to lessen social and cultural marriage restrictions, but that other groups in the United States were still undecided.”
News as a Cultural Mirror: Historically Black Newspapers Reflecting Public Views of Loving v. Virginia (1967) (DOI: 10.1111/josi.12144)
