Month: March 2020
How to make your own yeast for baking
As more people bake their blues away while stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, yeast is reportedly becoming harder to find on grocery store shelves. There’s no shame in turning to carbohydrates for comfort in times like these. But what’s one to do when a key ingredient for satisfying…
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This new BenQ projector is ideal for PS4, Xbox One or Switch games – here’s why
The new BenQ TH685 projector is shaping up to be a great new AV option for console gaming in your home. With an incredibly bright 3,500 lumens, 4K HDR projection, and 8.3ms input lag, the TH685 is designed to show off console games in vivid detail and colors – with…
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Intel used AMD code to get a 10% frame-rate boost in some Linux games
Linux gaming could soon get better for those using Intel graphics on their PC, thanks to tweaks which have reportedly boosted performance by around 10%. How has this happened? As Phoronix.com, that ever-present source of Linux info, reports, Jason Ekstrand – a member of Intel’s open source driver development team…
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DataStax launches Kubernetes operator for open source Cassandra database
Today, DataStax, the commercial company behind the open source Apache Cassandra project, announced an open source Kubernetes operator developed by the company to run a cloud native version of the database. When Sam Ramji, chief strategy officer at DataStax, came over from Google last year, the first thing he did…
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Bay Area effort to feed hospital workers partners with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen
An effort I’ve been following in the Bay Area to deliver meals to front-line hospital clinicians dealing with the results of COVID-19 is announcing a big new partnership today that should give it a national stage. Frontline Foods is partnering up with World Central Kitchen to scale up its ad-hoc…
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Five tips to ensure remote workers stay connected
In 2019, 1.54 million people worked from home for their main job – up from 884,000 ten years ago. Today, in the grips of a global pandemic, with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging everyone to avoid the office, an estimated 30 million Britons are preparing to or are already…
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