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If you see a bright light in the sky this Easter, it will of course be the second coming of Jesus. Or the Chinese space station crashing to Earth, thanks Axe. According to the latest predictions, it will begin its fiery descent into Earth's atmosphere somewhere in a window between March 30 and April 3 — possibly around April 1. But there are concerns the bus-sized spacecraft is out of control. That means some debris from the fireball could hit the Earth anywhere in a band between 43 degrees north and south of the equator.
The latest tech segment to get into legal hot water is capacitor manufacturers, who have been fined for price-fixing behaviour in Europe. The European Commission has issued a £221 million fine to a wide range of capacitor manufacturers for participation in a pricing cartel that saw the cost of consumer electronics hiked between 1998 and 2012.
Linux Mint have a cool little Mintbox Mini 2 tiny desktop PC, now powered by a Celeron. The most important of these upgrades comes in the form of the processor, which goes from an AMD A4 Micro-6400T to an Intel Celeron J3455. Based on the Geekbench 4 scores, the new Mini 2 provides a fourfold boost in performance over the original. Even against the Mintbox Mini Pro, which uses an AMD A10-Micro 6700T chip instead, the Mini 2 is over 50 percent faster.
Meanwhile TechSpot benchmarked Windows on ARM. Microsoft has come up with strange ideas over the years. Their latest one is running Windows on ARM (again), with the help of Qualcomm and some daring manufacturing partners to bring a new OS variant that can emulate x86 software. We get hands on with the first Windows on ARM device, the HP Envy x2, for some serious benchmarking.
The South Korean government is looking at turning office PCs off automatically to stop people over-working. The shutdown initiative in the Seoul Metropolitan Government is set to roll out across three phases over the next three months. The programme will begin on 30 March, with all computers switched off by 20:00. The second phase starts in April, with employees having their computers turned off by 19:30 on the second and fourth Friday that month. From May on, the programme will be in full-swing, with computers shut off by 19:00 every Friday.
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