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Google ARCore Brings Augmented Reality to Android, Minus Tango

For the past few years, Google has pushed a particular technology for implementing augmented reality in phones. Known first as Project Tango and now as Tango, Google’s AR platform used to have specific requirements for its cameras that required specialized hardware. This reliance on custom sensors doomed Tango in the …

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AMD’s Vega 56 Hits Store Shelves, Promptly Vanishes

Yesterday, AMD’s Vega 56 GPU went on sale — and immediately vanished from the market. Availability was exceptionally brief, possibly only a matter of minutes, and the cards are now sold out at every retailer we’ve checked (Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg). Obviously new stock may trickle out to manufacturers, but …

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AMD Replaces Ryzen CPUs for Users Affected By Rare Linux Bug

AMD’s Ryzen 7 has been generally well-received by the enthusiast community, but there’s been one low-level problem that we’ve been watching but haven’t previously reported on. In early June, Ryzen users running Linux began reporting segmentation faults when running multiple concurrent compilation workloads using multiple different versions of GCC. LVVM/Clang …

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Meet Lagenanectes richterae, One of Oldest Known Elasmosaurs

In a study published Friday in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, paleontologists report the discovery of a partially-preserved skeleton of one of the earliest known elasmosaurs, from the Early Cretaceous (130 million years ago) of Germany. Life reconstruction of Lagenanectes richterae. Image credit: Joschua Knuppe. Elasmosaurs (Elasmosauridae) were a family …

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