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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. David Both has an article on using systemd journals for troubleshooting.

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Google is reportedly working on linking up Nest Audio speakers with Chromecast streaming devices

The Verge

Google is working on integrating its Chromecast streaming devices and Nest Audio speakers, according to a comment from a Google spokesperson in The Wall Street Journal , in a move that would give Google’s smart home and streaming gadgets a feature parity with Amazon and Apple.

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Pedal to the metaverse: This Seattle techie found real-world pain driving on a simulated racetrack

GeekWire

“I’ve never been there so I wanted to kind of learn the track and drive it in the virtual world before I drive it in the real world,” Chang said of his COTA practice session. With interest in virtual reality devices growing, “so is their reputation for being a source of pain and embarrassment,” the Journal said.

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Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name

The Verge

Facebook already has more than 10,000 employees building consumer hardware like AR glasses that Zuckerberg believes will eventually be as ubiquitous as smartphones. A former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, recently leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal and testified about them before Congress.

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Fountainhead: Egenera creates physical & virtual servers.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera creates physical & virtual servers transparently. Egenera just announced that its embedding virtual machine provisioning within its PAN Manager software for free. Virtualization. (31). Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Ken Oestreich. 、????,???????,?????????,??????。

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Facebook is giving up on brain-typing as an AR glasses interface

The Verge

A new research paper, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , shows potential for implementing the technology for people with speech impairments. On the hardware side, we need to build systems that have higher data resolution to record more information from the brain, and more quickly.

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Rec Room rides uptick in users during the pandemic to become a VR unicorn

The Verge

It appears to be one of the first, if not the first, virtual reality-focused startup to achieve unicorn status, a notable feat since Facebook’s landmark acquisition of Oculus VR for $2.4 Founded in 2016, Rec Room is a free app that lets players build custom virtual spaces and games that can be played across various platforms.