It’s been three years since the DisplayPort standard was last updated, so a replacement has been a long time coming. This week, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) officially announced the DisplayPort 2.0 specification, and it brings some key advantages over the current DisplayPort 1.4a standard.
Facebook is definitely tracking us in ways that allow it to deliver targeted advertising, and in some instances, it feels like the social network is granting itself a frighteningly large amount of access to our daily lives. Be that as it may, Facebook is not listening to our conversations and then hitting us with related ads. Instead, there
You may not realize it, but your heart is unique. Not only that, but what makes it unique to you is something the Pentagon can now detect from over 200 yards away with a frickin’ laser beam. It’s not attached to a shark (sorry, Dr. Evil), but the prototype laser, called Jetson, is impressive nonetheless.
In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks Podcast, Marco and Dave chat about the beefy 2TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus, Samsung’s more cost-efficient Galaxy S10e, HP’s MONSTER Omen X Emperium 65 Gaming display, TheC64 — a full-sized Commodore 64 reboot and more!
Show Notes:
05:01 – Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB Review: Burly, Speedy
Sony unveiled its Xperia 1 smartphone back in February, and the big claim to fame for the device was its 4K display. Several months later, the smartphone is finally up for preorder, and according to Amazon, the Xperia 1 will ship July 12. There is still a big catch to the Xperia 1 in that Sony doesn’t have the best name in the smartphone realm
The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is a known quantity around these parts, mainly because of its positively monstrous supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine that pumps out 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque. All of that power is sent to the rear wheels which will quickly turn into a smoky mess if you want to do some glorious burnouts.
Apex Legends is set to launch Season 2 soon and with the new season will come some big changes to the game. The launch trailer for Season 2 has landed, and it teases that “Kings Canyon will never be the same.” We see in the still shot for the trailer the dragons, which have been dubbed Flyers. We also see the giant eye of the Leviathan that
Most Android users simply use Google Chrome by default for their browser because it’s there and well, it works. However, there are plenty of alternative browsers out there for the Android platform including Firefox, which is getting a big update today.
The new browser is being dubbed the Firefox Preview in its early development state (it
Sir Jony Ive, who has been with Apple for nearly three decades, is officially saying goodbye to the company. Ive landed at Apple in 1992, took over the reigns as head of the company’s design efforts back in 1996, and has been instrumental in Apple’s iconic designs like the original iPod, the iPhone and the Apple Watch (and everything in between).
Authors:
Paris Pittman (Google), Jonas Rosland (VMware)
tl;dr – click here for Barcelona Contributor Summit information.
Seattle Contributor Summit
As our contributing community grows in great numbers, with more than 16,000 contributors this year across 150+ GitHub repositories, it’s important to provide face to face connections for our large distributed teams to have opportunities for collaboration and learning. In Contributor Experience, our methodology with planning events is a lot like our documentation; we build from personas – interests, skills, and motivators to name a few. This way we ensure there is valuable content and learning for everyone.
These personas combined with ample feedback from previous events, produce the altogether experience that welcomed over 600 contributors in Copenhagen (May), Shanghai(November), and Seattle(December) in 2018. Seattle’s event drew over 300+ contributors, equal to Shanghai and Copenhagen combined, for the 6th contributor event in Kubernetes history. In true Kubernetes fashion, we expect another record breaking year of attendance. We’ve pre-ordered 900+ contributor patches, a tradition, and we are looking forward to giving them to you!
With that said… Save the Dates:
Barcelona: May 19th (evening) and 20th (all day)
Shanghai: June 24th (all day)
San Diego: November 18th, 19th, and activities in KubeCon/CloudNativeCon week
In an effort of continual improvement, here’s what to expect from us this year:
Large new contributor workshops and contributor socials at all three events expected to break previous attendance records
A multiple track event in San Diego for all contributor types including workshops, birds of a feather, lightning talks and more
Addition of a “201” / “Intermediate” edition of the new contributor workshop in San Diego
Follow along with updates: kubernetes-dev@googlegroups.com is our main communication hub as always; however, we will also blog here, our Thursday Kubernetes Community Meeting, twitter, SIG meetings, event site, discuss.kubernetes.io, and #contributor-summit on Slack.
Opportunities to get involved: We still have 2019 roles available!
Reach out to Contributor Experience via community@kubernetes.io, stop by a Wednesday SIG update meeting, or catch us on Slack (#sig-contribex).
Unconference voting
Thanks!
Our 2018 crew ?
Jorge Castro, Paris Pittman, Bob Killen, Jeff Sica, Megan Lehn, Guinevere Saenger, Josh Berkus, Noah Abrahams, Yang Li, Xiangpeng Zhao, Puja Abbassi, Lindsey Tulloch, Zach Corleissen, Tim Pepper, Ihor Dvoretskyi, Nancy Mohamed, Chris Short, Mario Loria, Jason DeTiberus, Sahdev Zala, Mithra Raja
And an introduction to our 2019 crew (a thanks in advance 😉 )…
Jonas Rosland, Josh Berkus, Paris Pittman, Jorge Castro, Bob Killen, Deb Giles, Guinevere Saenger, Noah Abrahams, Yang Li, Xiangpeng Zhao, Puja Abbassi, Rui Chen, Tim Pepper, Ihor Dvoretskyi, Dawn Foster
Relive Seattle Contributor Summit
? 80% growth rate since the Austin 2017 December event
? Event waiting list: 103
? 76 contributors were on-boarded through the New Contributor Workshop
? 92% of the current contributors RSVPs attended and of those:
??? 25% were Special Interest Group or Working Group Chairs or Tech Leads
? 70% were eligible to vote in the last steering committee election
? 20+ Sessions
? Most watched to date: Technical Vision, Security, API Code Base Tour
? Top 3 according to survey: Live API Code Review, Deflaking Unconference, Technical Vision
? ? 160 attendees for the social at Garage on Sunday night where we sunk eight balls and recorded strikes (out in some cases)
? Special recognition: SIG Storage, @dims, and @jordan
? Pictures (special thanks to rdodev)
Garage Pic
Reg Desk
Some of the group in Seattle
“I love Contrib Summit! The intros and deep dives during KubeCon were a great extension of Contrib Summit. Y’all did an excellent job in the morning to level set expectations and prime everyone.” – julianv
“great work! really useful and fun!” – coffeepac
