| AWS |
AWS Big Data Blog |
Amazon EMR 7.5 runtime for Apache Spark and Iceberg can run Spark workloads 3.6 times faster than Spark 3.5.3 and Iceberg 1.6.1 |
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/amazon-emr-7-5-runtime-for-apache-spark-and-iceberg-can-run-spark-workloads-3-6-times-faster-than-spark-3-5-3-and-iceberg-1-6-1/
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The Amazon EMR runtime for Apache Spark offers a high performance runtime environment while maintaining API compatibility with open source Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg table format In this post we demonstrate the performance benefits of using the Amazon EMR runtime for Spark and Iceberg compared to open source Spark with Iceberg tables on the TPC DS TB benchmark v |
2024-12-27 17:23:48 |
| 海外TECH |
Engadget |
The 12 best gadgets we reviewed this year |
https://www.engadget.com/the-12-best-gadgets-we-reviewed-this-year-173024990.html?src=rss
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I ve lost count of the number of things we reviewed this year at Engadget In the types of products we tested ranged from the typical phones laptops and headphones to AI wearables robotic lawnmowers and handheld gaming consoles alongside games and shows It can feel hard to keep track of it all but thankfully our scoring system helps us highlight the best and the worst devices each year nbsp Our team of reviewers and editors evaluate products based on their performance value and how they hold up against the competition and at least two people weigh in on every score before it s published If something gets a result of and up it s considered a Recommended product while those scoring and more are awarded Editors Choice The latter means they re the best in their class beating out most of the competition nbsp Since we have to be very judicious about what we review there s only so much time in the world most of the gadgets we call in are from established companies with a track record of making things people will actually consider buying That s the main reason most of our scores sit between and though we still test the occasional device that ends up getting a number below nbsp As we look back on the year in gadgets here are the highest scored reviews we published Unsurprisingly they re mostly of Apple and Google products with a smattering of cameras and drones I m also including some honorable mentions for good measure as well as a pair of the lowest rated devices all year May we have only excellent gadgets to review next year and may there be less e waste all around Pixel Pro and Pixel Pro XL I m honestly shocked For the first time in years we ve given a Google phone a higher score than an iPhone in the same year Maybe it has something to do with Gemini AI launching earlier than Apple Intelligence or the fun colors and solid build of the Pixel Pro series But as I discussed the scores with our reviewer Mat Smith a few things added up Arguably the biggest advantage Google has over Apple this year is battery life ーthe Pixel Pros generally last about two days on a charge while the iPhone Pro series typically clocks just around hours We also love Google s cameras and the bright smooth displays The gorgeous palette of pastel color options is just icing on a satisfying cake with Gemini AI bringing a tasty side treat nbsp DJI Avata Though there is looming concern over DJI s longevity in the US the company has otherwise had a relatively successful This year saw many DJI products scoring more than in our database which makes sense as they are arguably the best drone maker around Steve was most impressed by the Avata though thanks to its great video quality and maneuverability for a lower price than its predecessor It even has better battery life to boot nbsp iPhone Pro and iPhone Pro Max Apple Intelligence wasn t available when the iPhone series launched and only recently rolled out so our review score might still change But as it is and after months of using the iPhone Pro and Pro Max in my daily life I stand by my evaluation Though there s a lot to like about Apple s latest flagships I was just so disappointed by the relatively poor battery life that I could not score it higher than the Pixel Pro series This is more noticeable on the iPhone Pro though as the Pro Max generally lasts a few more hours than its smaller counterpart I also wish the generative AI features were ready for the public at the time of my review but now that I ve spent more time with Genmoji Image Playground and notification summaries I m pretty sure my verdict remains the same These Apple Intelligence features are fun but not game changing and with or without them the iPhone Pro and Pro Max are still the best options for anyone on iOS Canon EOS R II We ve got a slew of reviews by Steve on this list mostly for products in cameras and drones that ranked well in their categories As a Canon girl myself I was happy to see the EOS R II get such a good rating especially since competition has been heating up Sadly the EOS R II also heats up when shooting high res video but on pretty much every other aspect it performs respectably According to Steve this camera puts Sony on notice and I m glad to see it nbsp Sony A III Reviewed much earlier in the year the Sony A III caught Steve s attention for its speedy global shutter which brought fast and accurate autofocus It also delivered smooth high quality video in a body with excellent handling thanks to Sony s comfortable new grip Steve also loved the viewfinder and though it s very expensive at the A III is a solid product that holds the title of fastest full frame camera ーat least until something faster comes along DJI Air S and DJI Neo What lightweight drone shoots good p video but also screams like a banshee That would be the DJI Neo which despite Steve s evocative description is something I m considering buying for myself Not only is it reasonably priced but it also promises to capture smooth aerial footage at a respectable resolution Steve also found it beginner friendly which is important for a lousy pilot like me And sure maybe I ll scare some wildlife or neighbors with its loud screeching but maybe that s part of the fun nbsp If you want something that can avoid people or obstacles and deliver cinematic shots the DJI Air S is a solid option thanks to its LiDAR and larger camera sensor both of which improve performance and obstacle detection in low light You ll have to pay about five times the Neo s cost of course but aspiring Spielbergs might find that price worthwhile nbsp MacBook Pro inch and MacBook Pro inch I m not surprised that the only laptops to make it to this list are this year s M MacBook Pros Apple has demonstrated over the last few years that its M series processors deliver excellent performance and battery life and it s continued to prove its point in This year s model features brighter screens and improved webcams as well as slight bumps in RAM and storage I m a Windows user but even I have to admit that what Apple is doing with the MacBooks is something that Microsoft and all its partners on the PC side have struggled to fully replicate nbsp ASUS ROG Zephyrus G What PC makers do excel at is power and creativity When it s not experimenting with dual screen laptops ASUS is pushing out capable gaming laptops in its Republic of Gamers ROG brand This year our reviewer Sam Rutherford s top scored product is the ROG Zephyrus G which he declared the inch gaming laptop to beat Sam hasn t given out a higher score at all this year so it stands to reason we have yet to see a gaming notebook steal that crown The Zephyrus G won Sam over with its beautiful OLED screen attractive yet subtle design and generous array of ports Though he s not a fan of its soldered in RAM and ASUS Armoury Crate app Sam still found plenty to like calling it both pound for pound and dollar for dollar the best choice around nbsp Honorable mention reMarkable Paper Pro There are plenty of products that might have received the same score as the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G and iPhone Pro but we have to cut the list somewhere It s worth mentioning that other devices we awarded a score of include the DJI Osmo Pocket the Analogue Duo the Fujifilm X VI and the iPad Air And when it comes to things that got points we ve got the base iPhone and iPhone Plus the Apple Watch Series NVIDIA s RTX Super graphics card the Meta Quest S headset as well as appliances like Ninja s Creami ice cream maker But I wanted to shout out Daniel Cooper s review of the reMarkable Paper Pro It s a gadget that s brought back waves of nostalgia and sentimentality in a time when we re all tired of constantly being wired in It s one of the highest rated products of its kind not only because it s a capable writing tablet but also because it is a color e paper tablet that has a bigger screen and faster performance than its monochrome predecessor At to start it s certainly a significant investment but one that might free us from feeling chained to our laptops and phones nbsp Worst products we reviewed this year Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R In all my plus years at Engadget I can only remember one other time we ve awarded anything a sub score and that was when Fisher Price s Sproutling wearable baby monitor gave our editor s baby an eczema outbreak The Sproutling got an appropriately all time low score of and this year the Rabbit R broke that bottom when Devindra decided it deserved only points The Rabbit R first made waves at CES when it showed up out of nowhere and enticed many of us with its cute looks and bright orange color Its Teenage Engineering heritage was even more alluring and we all wanted to try out the Playdate esque scroll wheel for ourselves The square device also came with an onboard camera two microphones rotating camera and a inch display But its biggest promise was as with everything in all about AI nbsp And with many things in the AI promise fell flat Rabbit made bold claims about its large action model but in actuality at the time of our review the R could barely execute tasks to completion Instead of letting you easily make orders via DoorDash for example it would often deliver the weather when I asked for traffic according to Devindra s review Worse sometimes it would hear my request and simply do nothing Photo by Cherlynn Low Engadget I had a similarly frustrating experience when testing the much hyped Humane AI Pin It was a shiny chrome square that you could attach to your clothes and interact with either by voice touch or via a futuristic looking projector that beamed a display onto your palm You were supposed to be able to simply talk to the Humane AI assistant to get it to remember things for and about you eventually coming to rely on it like a second brain Instead we got a hot mess Quite literally The Humane AI Pin would frequently run so hot that it would stop working with the device saying it needed to cool down for a bit before you could use it again When it did work it was barely smart enough to answer questions and though the projector was cool visually using it to do anything was frustrating and just led to sore arms and crossed eyes Not only did it not do enough to justify the effort involved in using it the Humane AI Pin also cost ーway too much for a product this finicky nbsp It gets worse or better depending on how you re reading this Shortly after it was widely criticized by reviewers in April leaked internal documents showed that people appeared to be returning the AI Pins faster than the company was selling them In October Humane had to issue a recall for its charging case due to overheating with the Consumer Product Safety Commission saying it posed a fire hazard I gave the Humane AI Pin a score of in my review in large part due to the intriguing projector display Right now though it seems these AI gadgets are at best struggling to take hold At worst they re on fire nbsp This article originally appeared on Engadget at |
2024-12-27 17:30:24 |
| 海外TECH |
Engadget |
The Beats Studio Pro headphones are half off right now |
https://www.engadget.com/deals/the-beats-studio-pro-headphones-are-half-off-right-now-172541818.html?src=rss
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Beats updated its high end flagship wireless headphones last year bringing a slew of upgrades over the Studio Wireless the model it replaced The Beats Studio Pro has better sound active noise cancellation ANC Spatial Audio and more But at it didn t necessarily stand out among stiff competition from Sony and Bose Well today at Amazon the premium headphones have a new draw that those rivals don t They re on sale for a mere That s percent off and only more than the record low Although the Beats Studio Pro doesn t look starkly different from the Studio Wireless it replaced it adds subtle aesthetic touches like new colors a tone on tone finish and UltraPlush memory foam wrapped in leather earpads Of course you still get the brand s iconic lower case b logo on each earpiece But the biggest changes are on the inside Using Beats second gen audio chip and new mm drivers with a two layer diaphragm micro vents and acoustic mesh they have improved clarity and a more balanced profile than the Studio Wireless Although Beats was once known for overpowering bass at the expense of mids highs and clarity that s no longer the case Engadget s audio guru Billy Steele found that the cans produced even handed tuning and attention to precision once unheard of in the brand s pre Apple days The Studio Pro also has Spatial Audio familiar to anyone who s used Apple s recent AirPods Bose also added its equivalent in its Ultra line The technology simulates speakers around you creating a more distinct separation between instruments and voices You can choose between head tracked and fixed modes too However the digital trickery s effectiveness can vary depending on the track ranging from breathing new life into old tracks to hardly providing a noticeable difference in some other genres The headphones also let you listen to high resolution and lossless music via USB C wired listening ーup to bit kHz They also have a transparency mode up to hours of listening with ANC off or around hours with ANC or transparency mode on and a fast fuel feature that gives you four hours of playback after just a minute charge If ANC isn t your priority you may want to look at the cheaper Beats Solo also on sale Offering better sound quality and longer battery life over the Solo this model is on sale at Amazon for ーhalf off Follow EngadgetDeals on Twitter and subscribe to the Engadget Deals newsletter for the latest tech deals and buying advice This article originally appeared on Engadget at |
2024-12-27 17:25:41 |
| 海外TECH |
Engadget |
In 2024, using social media felt worse than ever |
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/in-2024-using-social-media-felt-worse-than-ever-170047895.html?src=rss
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It s never been more exhausting to be online than in While it s been clear for some time that monetization has shifted social media into a different beast this year in particular felt like a tipping point Faced with the endless streams of content that s formulated to trap viewers gazes shoppable ads at every turn AI and the unrelenting opinions of strangers it struck me recently that despite my habitual use of these apps I m not actually having fun on any of them anymore Take Instagram I open the app and I m greeted by an ad for bidets I start scrolling Between each of the first three posts at the top of my feed is a different ad lingerie squat friendly jorts shoes from a brand selling items that appear to be dropshipped from AliExpress at a markup Then thankfully two memes back to back I fire off the funny one to five of my friends in a way that feels obligatory After that another ad then a bunch of seemingly off target Reels from accounts I don t even follow Minutes pass before I encounter a post by someone I know in real life Oh yeah it s time to turn off suggested posts again something I have to do every days or my feed will be filled with random crap But before I get a chance to do that I m distracted by a Reel of a cat watching The Grinch Then by a Reel of a guy with a tiny chihuahua in his coat pocket Curiosity gets the better of me and I open the comments where people are angrily writing that the dog must be suffocating Oh no I scroll to the next Reel a video I ve seen several times before of a rooster marching around in a pair of pants Below everyone s fighting about whether it s cruel to put pants on a chicken Is it Next a video of a girl doing her makeup where men are commenting that this should be considered catfishing Deep sigh I realize minutes have somehow passed and I close Instagram now in a worse mood than when I opened it I ll compulsively return in an hour or so rinse and repeat It s not just an Instagram problem On TikTok which may or may not get shut down in the US very soon the For You page has me figured out pretty well contentwise and the presence of toxic commenters is minimal but every other post is either sponsored or hawking a product from the TikTok Shop And it s too easy to get sucked into the perpetual scroll I often avoid opening the app at all just because I know I ll end up getting trapped there for longer than I want to watching videos about nothing made by people I don t know and never will But it still happens more frequently than I d like to admit These days it feels like every gathering place on the internet is so crowded with content that s competing for ーand successfully grabbing ーour attention or trying to sell us something that there s barely any room for the social element of social media Instead we re pushed into separate corners to stare at the glowing boxes in our hands alone Fittingly Oxford announced at the end of November that its Word of the Year for is brain rot a term that expresses the supposed consequence of countless hours spent on the internet consuming stupid stuff Just as fitting Australia s Macquarie Dictionary chose enshittification which describes how the platforms and products we love get ruined over time as the companies behind them chase profits It was also The American Dialect Society s Word of the Year Social media platforms were in theory designed around ideas of friendship and connection but what s playing out on them today couldn t feel further from genuine human interaction Facebook ーif you even have an account still ーmight be where you d go if you really wanted to see updates from family and other people you know IRL but its UI has become so cluttered with recommended Reels and products that it feels unusable Twitter where it was once fun to keep up with live discourse around major events or fandom happenings no longer exists and X its new form under Elon Musk is filled with bots and political propaganda On the other hand Threads an offshoot of Instagram and Meta s answer to Twitter X took off this year and it quickly became a hotspot for copy paste engagement bait a problem so bad that Adam Mosseri has publicly acknowledged it The Threads team has apparently been working to get it under control but I still can t scroll through my For You feed without seeing a dozen posts that are either just regurgitated memes being passed off as original thoughts or questions to the masses that are crafted with the intention of stirring the pot The same feed is otherwise dominated by viral videos that are ripped off from other creators without credit and pop culture commentary that almost always devolves into sex and genderism I often step away from Threads feeling the need to go scream in a field Threads doesn t have DMs meaning all conversations take place in public It finally gave users the ability to create custom feeds around searchable topics in November but those topic pages are generally still riddled with bait style posts just more subject specific versions That s meant so far that it s been pretty hard to find communities to authentically connect with It all feels so impersonal It doesn t help that Threads Following feed currently isn t the default view and there s no way to change that though Threads recently began testing the option And at the end of the day its million or so monthly active users doesn t include all that many people I actually know especially outside of the media industry The same goes for fediverse social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky which are far less populated but have a cliquier feel Visiting those platforms feels like walking into a room full of people who all know each other really well and realizing you re the odd one out But at least Bluesky nor Mastodon aren t poorly veiled shopping experiences Threads isn t at the moment either but ads are reportedly coming Maybe it all comes down to burnout in the era of excessive consumption but lately I ve found myself wishing for a place on the internet that feels both inviting and human I m sure I m not alone In recent years we ve seen alternative social apps pop up like BeReal Hive and the Myspace reminiscent entrants SpaceHey and noplace all aiming to bring character and interpersonal connection back into social media But none have quite cracked the code for lasting mainstream adoption Discord and even Reddit to some extent address the same person to person need yet they share more in common with proto social media chatrooms and forums than with the sites that sprung up during the social heyday Meanwhile Meta is increasingly pushing AI across its apps Just this summer we got the chatbot maker AI Studio which Meta touted not only as a way for users to create AI characters but for creators to build an AI as an extension of themselves to reach more fans Rather than talk to your real friends or make new ones around a common interest you can deepen your parasocial relationship with celebrities influencers and fictional characters by chatting with the AI versions of them Or pick from several AI girlfriends you can now find in the menu of your DMs We ve completely lost the plot I fear I ve started dipping back into Tumblr here and there if only to see a less chaotic more curated feed and relish in the reminder of how fun customization can be A few friends have mentioned that they ve been doing the same But given the platform s past policy upheavals and its current AI partnerships it s not exactly an online oasis either As if on cue I was recently served a mock Tumblr poster during my evening scroll that felt uncannily apt we didn t get better the rest of the internet just got worse This article originally appeared on Engadget at |
2024-12-27 17:00:47 |
| 科学 |
NYT > Science |
In a Political Year, Some Deaths Spoke to the Struggles for Democracy |
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/obituaries/obituaries-deaths-2024.html
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Among the notable figures who died in a sometimes polarizing many championed justice equal rights and political freedom |
2024-12-27 17:46:58 |
| 科学 |
NYT > Science |
EPA Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks |
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/climate/epa-pfas-fertilizer-3m-forever-chemicals.html
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The agency obtained research from M in revealing that sewage sludge the raw material for the fertilizer carried toxic forever chemicals |
2024-12-27 17:09:32 |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356534
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カレンダー,ランキング,レジャー |
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googleapplemicrosoft,いっさい,オンライン |
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中学受験,カリスマ,ノウハウ |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356635
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ありません,ノウハウ,ロングセラー |
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キャンセル,ステーキ,テクニック |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356594
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ぶっちゃけ,生前贈与 |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356529
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聞き上手,そのため,コミュニケーション |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356524
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経営の神様,コストダウン,ダイヤモンド社 |
2024-12-28 02:36:00 |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356518
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ゲーム感覚,ストレッチ,考える力 |
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https://diamond.jp/articles/-/356503
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不労所得,このまま,メソッド |
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プレゼン,オンライン,コンサルタント |
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