Dell Unveils Latitude 5300 and 5400 Chromebook Enterprise
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| Dell Unveils Latitude 5300 and 5400 Chromebook Enterprise | |
| Number | 926 |
| Broadcast Date | AUGUST 26, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 5:30 |
| Hosts | Sarah Lane |
NASA’s Aitken supercomputer open for business, Australia cracks down on violent online content, Baidu surpassed Google in smart speaker sales.
Headlines
- Dell unveiled the Latitude 5400 Chromebook Enterprise and Dell Latitude 5300 2-in-1 Chromebook Enterprise. Both laptops will offer 8th-gen Intel processors up to a Core i7, be the first Chromebooks to offer up to 32GB of memory, both include enterprise-grade SSDs up to 1TB, and both offer optional LTE connectivity. Year-round 24/7 Dell ProSupport and Google's Chrome Enterprise support is also available, as is the Google Admin console for managing Linux environments. The Latitude 5400 starts at $699 and the 5300 2-in-1 starts at $819, available August 27th.
- A new Canalys report says Baidu is now the world’s #2 vendor of smart speakers after Amazon. Baidu moved past Google to capture 17.3% of the market with 4.5 million shipments in Q2 of this year, which is 3700% year-on-year growth. Also interesting that Baidu sells its products exclusively in China, and Google sells its products globally with the exception of China. Baidu’s AI speakers run on an AI platform called DuerOS and its basic speakers start as low as 89 yuan ($12). In China, Baidu also overtook previous domestic leader Alibaba in Q1. Amazon still has 25% share of the global market with 6.6 million shipments in the second quarter.
- Nvidia and VMware announced a partnership to allow for virtualization of GPUs, either on-premises or in the cloud via VMware Cloud on AWS. Nvidia's vComputeServer will provide the virtualization framework and is optimized to run on VMware's vSphere. This will allow a single GPU to be shared by multiple users, as well as aggregate GPUs for larger tasks. vComputeServer will support Nvidia's data processing and machine learning libraries called Rapids, as well as containerized applications.
- The FAA published a notice that attaching weapons to drones is a bad idea. Specifically, it warns, “Perhaps you’ve seen online photos and videos of drones with attached guns, bombs, fireworks, flamethrowers, and other dangerous items. Do not consider attaching any items such as these to a drone because operating a drone with such an item may result in significant harm to a person and to your bank account.” Those fines can reach $25,000, unless you first apply for FAA authorization and get approval for your drone-weaponizing operation.
- Audible is being sued by seven members of the Association of American Publishers for copyright infringement over its planned rollout of a feature called ‘Audible Captions’ that shows the text on screen as a book is narrated. HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan Publishers say Audible needs their authorization as copyright holders and only has the right to sell audiobooks.
- Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the country will establish a framework to block domains hosting extremist violence or abhorrent violent material during designated crisis events. This would see the creation of a 24/7 Crisis Coordination Centre to monitor for online extremist content, with Australia's eSafety Commissioner making case-by-case determinations about what to block. Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, and ISPs Telstra, Vodafone, TPG and Optus are expected to provide details to the government on how to be in compliance by the end of September. It is unclear how the framework would impact media outlets reporting on such events.
- In its updated content policy, YouTube will now remove all content with violent or mature themes for video targeted at children, either through video title, description, or tags. Previously, YouTube had put age-restrictions on such content. YouTube will begin removing violating content immediately, but won't issue strikes to channels until 30-days after the policy change.
- Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that more than 5.3 million accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 U.S. states and posted online came from compromised gas pumps, coffee shops and restaurants operated by Hy-Vee, a midwestern supermarket chain based in Des Moines with more than 245 retail locations. Hy-Vee announced on Aug. 14 it was investigating a data breach involving payment processing systems that handle transactions within its various stores, but said it was too early to tell when the breach began or for how long intruders were inside their systems. Hy-Vee says it doesn't believe the breach affected payment card terminals used in its grocery checkout lanes, pharmacies or convenience stores because those systems use point-to-point encryption to prevent card-skimming malware.
- NASA officially opened the Aitken supercomputer at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Capable of 3.69 petaflops of theoretical performance, Aitken uses 46,080 2nd generation Intel Xeon cores and 221 TB of storage. Aitken uses a modular design to save energy and easily expand compute or data storage capabilities, supporting up to 16 additional modules. A earlier prototype was able to save 2 million kilowatt-hours of power and over 3 million gallons of water in 2018 using a similar design. The supercomputer will first go to work modeling and simulating the entry, decent and landing to the moon for the Artemis project.
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| Preceded by: "Week in Review for the Week of 8/19/19" |
Dell Unveils Latitude 5300 and 5400 Chromebook Enterprise |
Followed by: "Lenovo Announces X1 and L13 ThinkPads" |