Diane, amargada y enojada, se las arregla para estrellar el auto de Camilla con la esperanza de matarla. Camila sobrevivió.
Entonces la película gira en torno a la rueda de la identidad y los nombres se mezclan entre los personajes. En el sueño de Diane, Camilla Diane se vuelve amnésica (que inicialmente era… Se nombró a sí misma en honor a Rita Hayworth.). Diane se convierte en Betty, una versión nueva e inocente de sí misma. La misteriosa rubia ahora se llama Camilla. Las gloriosas ilusiones de Hollywood pueden protegerlos. Todo es falso, como Hollywood, pero todo es hermoso, como Hollywood. La escena más reveladora de la película “Mulholland Drive” es cuando Betty y Diane van a un teatro del centro y ven un hermoso musical donde todo el sonido está pregrabado. Es todo profundamente conmovedor y artificial.
A medida que avanza el sueño, Betty comienza a ver grietas en sus fantasías de sueño. El nombre de Betty aparece en la etiqueta con el nombre de una camarera al azar. Las dos mujeres irrumpen en un apartamento con la esperanza de descubrir la verdadera identidad de Diane y encuentran un cuerpo tirado en la cama. Naturalmente, ese cadáver es la verdadera Diane, con cuyo cadáver sueña. Luego, la película regresa a una escena de “realidad” donde Diane es ella misma, recordando el dolor que la llevó a su sueño.
La última palabra del diálogo es “Silencio” susurrada en el teatro de arriba. Se podría pensar que esta palabra fue el último aliento que abandonó el cuerpo de Diane. La película trata sobre una mujer desesperada que llega a Los Ángeles para actuar, se enamora de una novia vengativa, se le rompe el corazón, organiza su propia muerte y luego se va a la cama una vez realizado el acto. Entonces soñé con una vida perfecta. Pero el sueño se convirtió en pesadilla y ella murió mientras dormía, tal vez por su propia mano.
Capacities available: 4TB, 8TB, 16TB Size: 99.2mm x 99.2mm x 40.2mm Weight: 268g Enclosure material: Plastic Connector: USB-C Technology: SSD Warranty (in years): 3-Year Limited Warranty Rated R/W speeds (MB/s): Up to 1000MB/s / 900MB/s Software bundle: Acronis True Image for Western Digital backup software
The SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB is small and quiet, unlike traditional boxy and large desktop storage drives that are commonplace in workspaces worldwide. It is altogether smaller and more stylish, with an ultrafast internal 8TB SSD and a promise of a 16TB version to be released later this year.
The drive is, in principle, a straightforward desktop drive for use with a single computer with a USB Type-C connection to ensure speed and an external power source provided through a standard AC socket rather than drawing BUS power from the computer’s USB ports.
In use, the drive is simple enough. It is plug-and-play for most computing systems and arrives formatted in the ExFat file system. This means that it’s easy to swap between Mac and PC systems if required; if not, it can be reformatted into one of the more secure options, such as NTFS or APFS, which will also boost the performance and some computing options for those systems.
This drive will really appeal to laptop users who are often limited on internal space. The Desk Drive not only expands the space for large-scale 3D, image, and video projects but also offers transfer speeds through the USB Type-C connection so that it can be used as a working drive as well as for archiving files.
Like any of the best portable SSDs we’ve tested, once connected, the drive will appear as any other external drive. It can be used for file backup with Time Machine on the Mac or Acronis True Image on the PC. Alternatively, it can be used as a straight storage drive with an off-site solution. The beauty here is that the transfer rates are at a speed that the drive and capacity are not only sufficient for archiving your files but also as a viable working drive for large file types such as video, image, and 3D.
As large-capacity storage solutions go, the SanDisk Desk Drive perfectly balances speed, capacity, and price, making it ideal for any home or small office as a fast, reliable storage solution.
SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB: Price & availability
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The SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB has a SRP £663.99 / $699.99, and the smaller 4TB version is available for SRP £359.99 / $379.99. Later in the year, a 16TB version will also be available, although the price is still to be confirmed. The drive is widely available and can be purchased directly from Western Digital
SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB: Design & build
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The SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB is considerably smaller than most desktop hard drives, which makes it easy to place on the desk or neatly under the monitor. The actual design is simple, and with the slightly concaved top rather than flat, it seems perfectly formed for small office items such as paperclips and coins!
The size and shape also make it easy to pick up and move, and at 268g, it has just enough weight to act as a convenient paperweight when not in use. That weight also helps with positioning it around the desk, meaning that while lightweight, it’s not lightweight enough to be easily knocked from position.
Connection-wise, the drive features a single USB Type-C connection directly into the machine and an AC power socket that fits directly into a standard AC wall socket in the same way as any traditional desktop drive. These two cables keep things relatively neat at the back with no mess of extra cables. Unlike some larger drives, there are no additional USB ports for linking, pass-through, or hub features; this is simply a direct external drive for use by an individual at their desk.
Once the drive is in position and connected to power and the desktop, it quickly appears on the Mac desktop or can be accessed through Windows, depending on your system of choice. The drive comes preformatted in the ExFat file system for maximum compatibility but can be reformatted quickly to suit your preferred system. If you use both, you can stick with ExFat.
Once done, the drive can be used as with any other desktop drive or linked into a backup solution such as Time Machine on the Mac or with Acronis True Image for Western Digital backup software, which can be downloaded from the Western Digital website.
SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB: Features
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The SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB offers plenty of storage capacity, with the 8TB version that we’re looking at in this review being suitable for most medium-sized usage individuals who might shoot images and video as part of their workload and need the speed to access those files quickly as well as archive them with the ability to gain access to them at speed without the need to dig through a server. The 4TB version, although smaller, is still a substantial capacity and would be better suited to those working with documents and the occasional use of image and video files. The larger 16TB version would be ideal for videographers in small businesses who just need plenty of storage to back up their projects after an edit or need the additional capacity for working projects.
One of the features that really makes the SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB stand out is the fast transfer speeds, with read speeds of up to 1,000 MB/s and write speeds of up to 900 MB/s, making it significantly faster than traditional desktop hard disk drives and many of the other solutions offered by Western Digital at present.
For many users, the SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB will also make a perfect solution for backing up all their work through applications such as Apple Time Machine or the downloadable Acronis True Image for Western Digital software. Both of these applications can be used to back up your desktop machine to the SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB to ensure that you always have two local copies of your files. Of course, it’s always good practice, especially in a business environment, to have another backup of your files either to a NAS or off-site cloud solution.
One of the most appealing aspects of the Desk Drive is its small size, which makes it far easier to position than many of the more traditional desktop hard drives. The fact that it also utilizes its own power supply means that its performance is more consistent than that of portable external hard drives.
Out of the box, the SanDisk Desk Drive comes in the exFAT file format, which is compatible with both Windows and macOS systems. It uses a USB Type-C connection for connectivity.
Finally, the drive comes with a three-year limited warranty to ensure that your investment is sound for at least a few years.
When it came to testing the drive, the advertised transfer speeds offered a few more options than more traditional HDD desktop drives. So, alongside the speed tests, the drive was used as a working drive for some of the best video editing software and best photo editors available to see if it could facilitate the delivery of large files and complex computing.
Starting with using the drive on a PC with Adobe Photoshop and copying 1TB of image files from an OWC CFExpress Type-B card, the transfer rate was impressive. Files crossed over through the Atlas CFexpress 4.0 Type B reader in a little under two minutes.
In use, the drive worked perfectly for photography, with the speed of downloading the image files from a CFExpress Type-B card to the storage helping to speed up the workflow. A full selection of files from a day’s shoot, some 1200 files, both JPEG and RAW, could be downloaded in a little under two minutes. When opening Adobe Bridge to browse the files, the application and drive worked fast enough for the thumbnails to generate and display in good time; likewise, opening and saving files was seamless without pause or delay.
Switching to the more intensive video workflow and again using 4K video captured on the Canon EOS R5 C, the drive fed the files to Final Cut Pro at a rate that enabled smooth video editing without dropped frames. The machine (MacBook Pro 16-inch M1) started to struggle with projects greater than 10 minutes in length rather than any issue with the speed of the content delivery from the drive.
To back up the real-world tests, where the small drive performed well, the benchmark tests also showed impressive results across the board, with the overall transfer rates exceeding those stated by Western Digital.
When it comes to other features, the SanDisk Desk Drive is somewhat limited – you have access to all the backup features offered by the Acronis True Image software, and this is simple to use. On the drive are installed link files for both Mac and PC, and although these are executable files, they simply take you to the download page on the Western Digital website. Once there, you scroll down to the download link for the Mac or PC version – it’s simple enough, but the downloads page is generic for all of their products, so not all software on this page is appropriate for this drive, which is worth noting.
While Acronis is a great piece of software, and the implementation here is excellent, enabling you to set source and destination locations for your files, this software really is about the backup of files rather than management. When it comes to security the software does enable you to do a clean wipe of the drive, however, if you’re storing sensitive data on the drive there is no default facility to do this other than using a third party software option. For a drive of this type, some type of integral security would have been nice to see.
Likewise, simplicity makes this drive easy to use. As a desktop drive, it will probably be plugged either directly into a hub or the machine it’s being used by. It would have been nice to see an additional USB Type-C port so other accessories or card readers could be daisy-chained into the drive.
However, the pure simplicity of the design and ease of use is what should make this drive so appealing to anyone running a small or home office looking for decent amounts of storage capacity.
Should you buy the SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB?
The SanDisk Desk Drive 8TB is best suited for professionals in creative industries who handle large media files regularly and require quick, reliable access. It’s also a great choice for those needing a robust backup solution for important data, combining speed with large capacity in a user-friendly format. This drive excels in environments where speed and capacity are critical, making it ideal for photographers, videographers, and digital artists.
Nvidia has transformed into an AI superpower, becoming the third most valuable company in the world off the back of it, so it’s perhaps no surprise other tech giants are looking on in envy and shifting their focus to follow suit.
During its recent earnings call, Samsung reported a consolidated operating profit of $4.8 billion in Q1 – a tenfold increase YoY – and company executives revealed a change in focus going forward.
The plan is now to concentrate on producing HBM and DDR5 memory and high-capacity SSD chips for the enterprise market, rather than targeting consumer PCs and mobile devices.
Meeting demand
“We plan to increase supply of HBM chips in 2024 by more than threefold versus last year,” Kim Jae-june, Samsung’s memory business vice president, said on the call, reported the Korea Economic Daily. “We have already completed talks with our clients on this year’s supply of HBM chips. In 2025, our HBM chip production will double from this year. Our talks on the 2025 volume with our customers are also going well.”
Samsung, currently ranked 23 in the world, has already invested heavily in HBM but currently trails behind its archrival, SK Hynix, in this area. SK Hynix recently announced plans to construct the world’s largest chip factory and has begun a partnership with Taiwanese foundry TSMC to produce HBM4.
Samsung said it anticipates a 50% increase in server DRAM production in Q2, and double output of server SSD in terms of bit growth. The company believes robust demand for AI chips will continue and stretch chip supplies throughout the year.
The South Korean tech giant also revealed it will commence mass production of its 8-layer HBM3E chips this month.
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MacRumors is pleased to announce our Fifteenth Annual MacRumors Blood Drive, throughout the month of May 2024. Let’s save lives together by encouraging donations of blood, platelets, and plasma. While most blood drives are specific to a geographic location, our blood drive is online and worldwide. Anyone can participate.
Over the past 14 years, MacRumors Blood Drives have recorded donations of 1,305 units of blood, platelets, and plasma, cheered for donors, and celebrated new signups for the organ donor and bone marrow registries. We’ve heard from hundreds of forum members who donate or whose lives were saved by the donations of strangers.
This year’s featured donor is user Neil.gtis, a three-year forum member from England. Neil is a regular donor who has made 98 blood donations to date, and will reach his 100th donation this year. Whether you’re a regular donor like Neil.gtis or someone overcoming apprehension to donate for the very first time, we congratulate you.
How to participate in the MacRumors Blood Drive
If you are an eligible donor (e.g., U.S. eligibility rules), schedule a blood, platelet, or plasma donation (FAQ) at any donation center near you. Post in the MacRumors 2024 Blood Drive! thread to tell us about it. Also post if you register as an organ donor or register for the bone marrow registry (FAQ). We’ll add all donors and registrants to our Honor Roll.
If you aren’t eligible to donate, such as for medical reasons, please encourage someone else to make a donation, and let us know. If they donate, you’ll both be added to our Honor Roll. The FDA has changed the U.S. donor eligibility rules, by removing the blanket ban on MSM donors, so there are more eligible donors than ever before.
Share our message with friends, relatives, and followers. Thank the forum members who post in the MacRumors 2024 Blood Drive! thread.
After the MacRumors Blood Drive ends on May 31, please record your blood, platelet, and plasma donations on our Team MacRumors 2024-2025 page (see instructions). We’ll tally your donations and count them for the MacRumors 2025 Blood Drive next May.
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman outlined some of the new products he expects Apple to announce at its “Let Loose” event on May 7. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. First, Gurman now believes there is a “strong possibility” that the upcoming iPad Pro models will be equipped with Apple’s next-generation M4 chip, rather than the M3 chip that…
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today said that iOS 18 will “overhaul” many of Apple’s built-in apps, including Notes, Mail, Photos, and Fitness. Gurman did not reveal any specific new features planned for these apps. It was previously rumored that the Notes app will gain support for displaying more math equations, and a built-in option to record voice memos, but this is the first time we have…
Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro models will feature “by far the best OLED tablet panels on the market,” according to Display Supply Chain Consultants. Set to be announced on May 7, the OLED iPad Pro models will feature LTPO (a more power efficient form of OLED), a 120Hz ProMotion refresh rate, and a tandem stack and glass thinning that will bring “ultra-thin and light displays” that support high…
Apple has announced it will be holding a special event on Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. Eastern Time), with a live stream to be available on Apple.com and on YouTube as usual. The event invitation has a tagline of “Let Loose” and shows an artistic render of an Apple Pencil, suggesting that iPads will be a focus of the event. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more …
Apple is set to unveil iOS 18 during its WWDC keynote on June 10, so the software update is a little over six weeks away from being announced. Below, we recap rumored features and changes planned for the iPhone with iOS 18. iOS 18 will reportedly be the “biggest” update in the iPhone’s history, with new ChatGPT-inspired generative AI features, a more customizable Home Screen, and much more….
New iPads are coming, and Apple is holding a virtual event to introduce them! While it appears likely to be a relatively short video event, we should be seeing new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, some new accessories, and perhaps some additional surprises. Other Apple news and rumors this week included word that Apple is FINALLY planning to introduce a native Calculator app for the iPad later…
Microsoft OneDrive has finally introduced a feature long considered a staple of Google Drive and iCloud: an offline mode. The mode will be rolled out to students and professionals from today onwards, allowing users to save and edit work whether they have an internet connection or not.
Offline mode for the web version of OneDrive will now let you open your files in the various sections of the program, like your shared folder and meeting views, as well as edit your documents, rename them, and sort them – all without needing an internet connection.
All these changes will be ‘saved’ offline and implemented once you regain internet connectivity with your changes synced to the cloud. Files will be marked as ‘available offline’ as they are in Google Drive.
How to set it up
If you want to use the new offline mode for OneDrive, you’ll need to install the OneDrive app on your Windows or Mac device. Once you’ve done that, you need to head over to OneDrive on your web browser of choice.
You should be prompted to complete the one-time setup for offline mode, and voila! You’re all set! You should bear in mind that there are limitations on what you can and cannot do with offline mode at present. As MSPoweruser reports, offline mode only includes support if you have 250,000 files or fewer – hopefully, you do! – and the feature is currently only supported for OneDrive for work and school (although a wider rollout is presumably in the works).
While long overdue, this is a great chance for Onedrive users who have to work on the go and make last-minute changes to work, and it helps take the stress off those unfortunate times when your Wi-Fi crashes and you worry about losing all your progress! Hopefully, this will tempt more people to try the file management program – now that it’s finally up to speed with basically every other alternative.
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Mainstream customers looking for fast storage have had a pick of dozens of M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market over the last year and a half, but enterprise customers, creative industry professionals, or those who have been looking to upgrade their cloud server storage from older SATA or racks of PCIe 3.0 U.2 drives haven’t been as lucky.
With U.2 PCIe 5.0 drives only now just starting to make it to market, storage newcomer FlumeIO just might be a godsend with its FlumeIO 5900-series U.2 NVMe PCIe 5.0 SSDs, offering a massive speed upgrade for I/O-heavy devices like network servers at a surprisingly affordable price for an enterprise-grade SSD with this level of performance.
With budgetary pricing starting at $643 for 4TB, and scaling up to $2,059 for 16TB, the FlumeIO 5900-series (comprised of the FlumeIO 5900 and FlumeIO 5901 models, the latter of which I tested for this review), is often cheaper than slower, last-gen drives like the Samsung PM9A3, a Gen 4.0 drive with substantially lower read/write speeds, fewer IOPS, and higher latency.
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It goes without saying that this affordability is relative, as customers in enterprise channels are used to paying many thousands of dollars for new drives on a rolling basis as their existing SSD drives near the end of their drive-write lifespan.
But while this drive is almost exclusively for data centers or similar high-throughput, high-volume network devices and systems, there are many creative or engineering and research workstations out there with U.2 compatible motherboards, and this drive might be especially interesting for those in these industries who need both massive storage capacity as well as speed.
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Fortunately, the FlumeIO 5900-series promises a lot and effectively delivers on those promises, at least as far as my testing is concerned. After an extensive couple of weeks putting this drive through its paces, it was ultimately with a heavy heart that I had to send it back to FlumeIO, as it’s the kind of SSD I’d have loved to have incorporated into my test bench in the NYC TechRadar office.
Starting with a simple, single direct I/O operation with 4KB read/write blocks and a 4GB file size, the FlumeIO 5901 scored lower than the promised IOPS and sequential read speeds, but that’s to be expected when using a single process and blocks so small, but it is instructive as to the performance of a single process on this drive. Multiple processes in a production environment will be able to push these numbers much higher, as we see when increasing the block size, process pool, and I/O queue depth.
Moving things into a more “production” like environment starts to push up against the promised 14GB/s sequential read and 10GB/s sequential write performance, while its random read IOPS likewise increases considerably, while its random write IOPS decreases a bit, given the increased block size.
Increasing the block size to 128KB slows things down a bit, especially with random I/O IOPS, but increase the number of processes to a true production environment of 128 processes or higher and these numbers too will likewise increase considerably.
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PCMark 10 Quick SSD Bandwidth (MB/s)
228
PCMark 10 Data Drive SSD Score
2200
PCMark 10 Data DSrive SSD Bandwidth (MB/s)
341.63
PCMark 10 Data DSrive SSD Access Time (ns)
74
PCMark 10 Performance Consistency Test Score
2933
PCMark 10 Performance Consistency Test Bandwidth (MB/s)
689.28
PCMark 10 Performance Consistency Test Access Time (ns)
84
PassMark Disk Score
83705
PassMark Disk Sequential Read
12088
PassMark Disk Sequential Write
11126
CrystalDiskMark 8 Sequential Read
14123
CrystalDiskMark 8 Sequential Write
11116
CrystalDiskMark 8 Random Read
7938
CrystalDiskMark 8 Random Write
3945
CrystalDiskMark 8 Average Read
11030.5
CrystalDiskMark 8 Average Write
7530.5
Same Drive 25GB File Copy Time
12.33
Same Drive 25GB File Copy Transfer Rate
2177.43
Second Drive 25GB File Copy Time
11.52
Second Drive 25GB File Copy Transfer Rate
2330.53
For content creators or researchers with workstation-class hardware capable of mounting a U.2 drive and who might be considering this drive over an M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD like the Crucial T705 or similar, this drive has a lot to offer you as well, including substantially faster random read and write speeds, while still maintaining top-tier sequential read and write performance that you’d expect from a PCIe 5.0 drive.
Even better, rather than having to configure several M.2 SSDs into a RAID configuration to get a solid storage device for very large files, this drive can give you a one-and-done solution thanks to its significantly larger capacities.
In the end, then, whatever your needs might be, this is one of the best U.2 SSD options on the market, and if you’re looking for a PCIe 5.0 SSD, there aren’t really many to choose from, making it relatively lower price point all the more impressive.
FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD: Price & availability
The FlumeIO 5900 series SSDs will be available in Q2 2024 with budgetary pricing kicking off at $643 for 4TB, and topping out at $2,059 for 16TB.
FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD: Specs
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FlumeIO F5900 Series NVMe SSD Specs
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FlumeIO 5900
FlumeIO 5901
NAND Flash
3D TLC NAND
3D TLC NAND
User Capacity
3.84TB, 7.68TB, 15.36TB
3.2TB, 6.4TB, 12.8TB
Lifetime Edurance Rating (Drive Writes per Day for 5 years)
1
3
Mean time between failures
2 million hours
2 million hours
Protocol
NVMe 2.0, OCP 2.0
NVMe 2.0, OCP 2.0
Operating System
RHEL, SLES, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server, VMware ESXi
RHEL, SLES, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server, VMware ESXi
Power Draw
Less than 25W
Less than 25W
Should you buy the FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD?
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FlumeIO 5901 U.2 SSD Scorecard
Value
Considering the PCIe 5.0 speeds on offer here, the price per TB of this U.2 drive series is very affordable.
4.0 / 5
Design & features
Features like advanced encryption and a 5-year warranty make this one of the best enterprise SSDs going, while the heat sink for the drive itself does an admirable job of keeping things cool.
4.5 / 5
Performance
With true PCIe 5.0 speeds and IOPS on offer, enterprise customers who are looking for a faster storage solution finally have a great option with FlumeIO.
5 / 5
Average rating
FlumeIO’s 5900-series enterprise SSDs are among the fastest you can get right now with a U.2 interface, making them must haves for IT and data center users.
4.7 / 5
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Formula E is halfway through its Gen3 car cycle and plans are in motion for the upcoming Gen4 racer. However, the series isn’t waiting until that all-new electric car is ready to hit the track to debut some significant upgrades to the current model. Ahead of the Monaco E-Prix this weekend, Formula E debuted what it calls the Gen3 Evo, the fastest accelerating FIA single seater in the world by current standards. The series is also introducing body changes aimed at improving aerodynamics and durability, particularly to the nose, along with all-wheel drive (AWD) for the first time on a Formula E car.
Formula E says the Gen3 Evo is capable of accelerating a full second faster than the Gen3 version, going from 0 to 60 mph in 1.82 seconds (0-100 kph in 1.86 seconds). It explained that that time is 30 percent faster than a 2024 Formula 1 car and 36 percent faster than the Gen3 EV currently used in races. Those numbers aren’t theoretical either: the series has already achieved the benchmarks on track in Misano, Italy.
“It’s not simulated, it’s real,” Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds told Engadget. “It was really timed by the FIA at that speed.” Dodds added that there were some “slight tweaks” in some areas, but the Gen3 Evo should still hit 60 mph in under two seconds when it debuts on track for races next year.
A key aspect of this unlocked acceleration is the use of AWD on a Formula E car for the first time. The series debuted dual powertrains with Gen3, but until now, the one up front was only being used for battery regeneration. AWD will only be used during the later rounds of qualifying (head-to-head duels), the race start and when a driver has activated Attack Mode during the race. Besides the boost to acceleration, drivers should have better control and more grip when AWD is active. Plus, it entirely changes team strategy and could lead to even more exciting racing.
“One of the occasional criticisms I hear is Attack Mode doesn’t have a big enough difference,” Dodds said. “I think with all-wheel drive, that will make a difference.” He also noted that when you have 22 cars that are all capable of 0 to 60 mph in under two seconds barreling towards turn one, “that makes for a high jeopardy, exciting start of a race.”
The redesigned front wing on the Gen3 Evo. (Formula E)
One frustration of Gen3 that Formula E is addressing with the Gen3 Evo is the fragility of the front wing. As part of a larger overhaul to the body that includes new side pods, rear wing and more, the new car has a redesigned, slightly pointier nose and a strengthened front wing. With the Gen3 car, front wing damage is common, and it often gets stuck under the car, which becomes dangerous for a driver trying to make his way back to the pit lane. In addition to being “stronger” and “more robust,” according to Formula E, the body changes also improve aerodynamics, which could contribute to more wheel-to-wheel battles on track.
Another key change is to the tires. Formula E is still working with Hankook on the all-weather compound used for its races, but the updated version offers 5- to 10-percent more grip compared to the current spec. Dodds explained that this increase in traction is essential since Gen3 Evo employs the front powertrain for AWD.
“If you haven’t got the increase in grip on the tires, that’s pretty challenging to control,” he said.
In total, Formula E says the performance upgrades on the Gen3 Evo equate to a two-second drop in qualifying lap times around the tight, twisty Monaco street circuit. Since the series stipulates qualifying time in that estimate, that means AWD and a higher power mode would be active to achieve it. But, it also means Formula E is unlocking the full potential of what Gen3 has been capable of since its debut last season.
Formula E
Indeed, the bulk of the Gen3 car is still intact. That includes an all-electric race car that’s incredibly efficient, converting 90 percent of its energy to mechanical power. By employing 600kW regenerative braking, the cars produce almost 50 percent of the energy they need to complete a race while on track. Like its predecessor, the Gen3 Evo remains capable of a top speed of 200 mph. And just like before, teams will make performance updates to the cars via software changes in search of any on-track advantage.
Formula E says there has already been some driver testing of the Gen3 Evo behind closed doors, and the feedback has been very positive. Dodds explained that Tag Heuer Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein and DS Penske’s Jean-Éric Vergne both drove the car in test sessions with rave reviews. Vergne, who is one of the more outspoken drivers on the grid, specifically noted how much better it drives than the current car.
“The sooner we can get to [Gen3 Evo] in season 11, the better, as far as he’s concerned,” Dodds explained. “It’s lovely to get that feedback, because happy drivers often create happy races.”
About two years ago, I was in a car with my best friend and her toddler. She was driving, and I was sitting in the back next to her 10-month-old, who was tucked into his car seat. For a while, the ride was smooth—then the baby burst into tears. We tried every common trick to comfort him. I contorted my face into the silliest of poses, my friend burst into a catchy song, but our efforts were met with louder wails until finally—mercifully!—we pulled into my friend’s driveway and she was able to scoop her son up in her arms.
This scenario, minus the useless friend in the back, is probably familiar for many parents who drive alone with their young children. And it is the reason why Japanese automaker Nissan is developing a peculiar puppet to relieve backseat tantrums. It’s called Iruyo, which translates to “I’m here” in Japanese.
The fuzzy babysitter, which gives off big Elmo vibes, is in fact two puppets: “big Iruyo,” which is strapped to the backrest of the backseat, facing the baby; and “little Iruyo,” which sits in the driver’s cup holder. Big Iruyo does most of the work. When prompted by specific voice commands spoken by the parent, big Iruyo can wave its hands, cover its eyes for a game of peek-a-boo, or clap its hands as the parent sings.
Photograph: Nissan
A Bot for Tots
Rear-facing child seats are significantly safer than their front-facing counterparts, but they come with an inevitable flaw: you can’t see your child’s face while driving. That’s why Big Iruyo also comes with a built-in camera to monitor your child’s face. When your baby’s eyes are closed for longer than three seconds, big Iruyo will assume they are asleep and will convey the message to little Iruyo, which will in turn close its eyes to mirror your little one. When your baby reopens their eyes, little Iruyo will do the same—like a high-tech game of monkey see, monkey do.
Iruyo was designed by Tokyo ad agency TBWA\Hakuhodo, in collaboration with Nissan as well as one of Japan’s largest retail chains specializing in baby products, Akachan Honpo. The project started as a marketing campaign for Nissan’s sensing technology used in its driver-assistance system. For example, some auto models like the Nissan Ariya use a combination of radar sensors and front-facing cameras to continuously assess your environment and automate some of your driving, so you can take your hands off the wheel and feet off the pedals on a freeway.
Iruyo uses similar camera tech to assess your baby’s face and assist you with babysitting. TBWA assures me the robot’s camera only detects eye movement, which the company says should mitigate any privacy concerns associated with capturing full facial expressions.
A more than capable M3 Pro MacBook Pro powers today’s computer setup, but its six-speaker sound system won’t be needed. That’s because the medical student who own the rig has the good taste to include fantastic KEF LS50 Wireless II speakers.
He’ll just have to keep the powerful speakers’ volume in check to avoid having to see an ear doctor.
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MacBook Pro setup relies on KEF LS50 Wireless II speakers
Redditor and medical student felluimeinmeer (“Lu”) showcased the charming setup in a post entitled, “New setup.” On Friday we discussed the M3 Pro MacBook Pro powering his setup.
“It basically just for med school,” Lu replied. “Having multiple sources open without interruption is the goal of this setup: Safari, Digital Book Word/Notion and a video. No need for a webcam I only have like two meetings in one semester.”
Lu uses a space black M3 Pro MacBook Pro to drive two 27-inch Dell 4K displays, one in portrait orientation (vertical) and the other in landscape (horizontal). A nice BenQ Screenbar Halo LED Monitor Light sits on the center display.
KEF speakers
Lu rounds out his setup with a full-sized Magic Keyboard with number pad and Touch ID, a Logitech MX Master 3S for Mac mouse and — what we’ll focus on today — a pair of KEF LS50 Wireless II speakers.
“How do you like the KEF speakers?” a commenter asked.
“I really like them, they sound [crystal] clear,” Lu replied. “However I’ve owned them for just 2 weeks.”
We doubt more time will do anything but convince him to like them even more. Each one of these two KEF speakers packs a 280-watt amplifier for the mid range and 100-watt amplifier for the tweeter. That’s a lot of power for desktop speakers.
The speakers get up to 384kHz/24bit resolution depending on the connection. And they work with AirPlay 2, Google Chromecast, ROON Ready, UPnP and Bluetooth 4.2.
Even the color selection is cool with these KEFs: carbon black, titanium gray, mineral white and special-edition royal blue and crimson red. You can buy them with matching stands as well as a subwoofer if you want to blow out the low end.
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Google Drive is among the best cloud storage solutions for a reason. It is extremely reliable, and Google keeps adding new features to the app on all the popular platforms. In a recent move, Google added new filters to the Google Drive app on Android. However, this feature was released a month after it was released to the iOS version of the app.
Google Drive gets new filters to find files quicker
Google has released a new update to the Google Drive app for Android, offering users a more straightforward and intuitive way to search for files. Filter categories are located just below the search bar at the top of the screen. You can filter files by File Type, Owners, and Last Modified. This will make finding files more accessible than ever. You can choose even more filters on the search results page to narrow down the file you want to see.
This updated version of Google Drive should be available to all Google Workspace users in the coming days. Some people might have received this new version already. You can search for the update on the Google Play Store by navigating to the My Apps section of the app and then hitting the Update button.
Google has added many new features to Google Drive over the past few years. Last year, it significantly improved Google Drive on foldable phones and tablets through a multi-column UI and a navigation rail on the left side of the screen. It also introduced Dark Mode to the app and a document scanner.
