Summary of the week of May 25, 2020

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Casio does not allow modifying its calculators

Someone has created a modification for Casio calculators that allows installing a small OLED screen in the space occupied by the solar panel, but the company did not like the idea and has sued the creator

Researchers create link at 44.2 Tbps

It has happened in Australia and the experiment was carried out on a real fiber optic network in Melbourne, instead of in a laboratory as is usually done in these cases.

The process of compiling a program in C++

Someone has written an entry explaining the process and the different stages of compiling the simplest possible program.

Transmission 3.0 available

The torrent client has a new version that comes with support for IPv6.

This is how the flash memory market is

Unlike what has been happening for years with mechanical hard drives, it seems that in the market for SSDs there is healthy competition between manufacturers. This is leading to increasingly high densities and speeds with prices that mainly fluctuate according to the law of supply and demand and causes of force majeure.

Radeon Adrenalin 20.4.2

The new drivers for AMD GPUs come with solutions for crashes and unexpected closures of games.

Advantages and disadvantages of chiplets

As the cost per wafer surface has increased due, among other things, to a greater number of failures in manufacturing due to the reduced size of transistors, it has been necessary to use new topologies to continue increasing the number of transistors without the cost skyrocketing. One of these solutions has been to divide processors into independent components: chiplets.

Using NVMe in mechanical disks

The bus that connects the disk controller with the storage unit returned to being parallel with the arrival of NVMe. One of the solutions to the problem that arose with PATA when very high frequencies were reached has been to reduce the length of the cable to the minimum expression. Despite this limitation, some people are considering using this protocol for mechanical hard drives.

Game Ready Driver 446.14

The new Nvidia graphics driver comes with performance improvements for Valorant, Minecraft Dungeons, Disintegration, and Crucible.

Windows 10 2004 available

Microsoft has released a new update for Windows 10 that comes with novelties in Cortana, improvements in both performance and search results, and the possibility of making localhost connections in WSL.

The scam of 5G anti-shields

Once again, the money of the unsuspecting is in danger of migrating to the pocket of some scammers. A company has put up for sale for about €350 a USB stick that, they say, protects against 5G. In this article from the BBC, they dismantle the device and demonstrate that it is nothing more than a conventional USB connector without internal electronics and with plastic ornaments.

Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM

The famous board has a new version with which the essence of this hardware piece begins to be lost. It costs about €75 (plus accessories) and basically doubles the RAM memory of the previous top model. It is difficult to imagine a practical application of such a large amount of RAM given the relatively limited power of the processor.