HBO Max drops first teaser for The Last of Us adaptation
Pedro Pascal stars as a hardened survivor in HBO's new series, The Last of Us.
A traumatized survivor of a zombie apocalypse must face hordes of the "Infected" to protect a teenage girl who might hold the key to a cure in The Last of Us, a new HBO series based on the blockbuster action/adventure game of the same name. HBO just dropped the first official teaser, giving gaming fans their first look at this long-awaited TV adaptation.
(Some spoilers from the game below.)
The Last of Us game from Naughty Dog debuted in 2013 to pretty much universal acclaim for its narrative, gameplay, visuals, and sound design. Ars senior gaming editor Kyle Orland called it "a thrilling, beautiful, exceptionally human zombie apocalypse story" in his 2013 review. The game sold more than 1 million units in the first week of its release and won multiple gaming awards. It's still often cited as among the greatest video games ever made. Co-showrunner Craig Mazin called it the "Lawrence of Arabia of video game narratives." Naughty Dog co-President Neil Druckmann, who wrote and directed the original game, co-wrote the first season of the TV series with Mazin.
Hawaii County Weather Forecast for September 27, 2022
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Hilo
Today: Partly sunny early in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. Scattered rain showers early in the morning, then isolated rain showers in the late morning and afternoon. Highs 81 to 87 near the shore to 66 to 75 at 4000 feet. East winds up to 15 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Tonight: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Scattered showers. Lows 67 to 74 near the shore to around 60 at 4000 feet. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Wednesday: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Highs 78 to 84 near the shore to 63 to 72 at 4000 feet. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing to up to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Kona
Today: Sunny. Isolated rain showers in the late morning and afternoon. Highs 83 to 89 near the shore to around 71 near 5000 feet. North winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Isolated showers in the evening. Lows 71 to 77 near the shore to 49 to 56 near 5000 feet. Northeast winds up to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Scattered showers in the late morning and afternoon. Highs 80 to 88 near the shore to around 70 near 5000 feet. Northwest winds up to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
Waimea
Today: Mostly sunny with isolated rain showers. Highs 68 to 89. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Isolated showers in the evening, then scattered showers after midnight. Lows 65 to 73 near the shore to 55 to 63 near 3000 feet. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Wednesday: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Highs 66 to 88. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Kohala
Today: Mostly sunny with isolated rain showers. Highs 68 to 89. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. Isolated showers in the evening, then scattered showers after midnight. Lows 65 to 73 near the shore to 55 to 63 near 3000 feet. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Wednesday: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Highs 66 to 88. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
South Big Island
Today: Sunny and breezy. Highs around 86 near the shore to around 69 near 5000 feet. East winds 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Breezy. Lows 71 to 77 near the shore to around 52 near 5000 feet. Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny. Isolated showers in the late morning and afternoon. Highs 81 to 87 near the shore to around 68 near 5000 feet. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Puna
Today: Partly sunny early in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. Scattered rain showers early in the morning, then isolated rain showers in the late morning and afternoon. Highs 81 to 87 near the shore to 66 to 75 at 4000 feet. East winds up to 15 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Tonight: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Scattered showers. Lows 67 to 74 near the shore to around 60 at 4000 feet. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Wednesday: Partly sunny with scattered showers. Highs 78 to 84 near the shore to 63 to 72 at 4000 feet. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph decreasing to up to 15 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent.
Waikoloa
Today: Sunny. Highs 83 to 90 near the shore to 67 to 75 above 4000 feet. Northeast winds up to 10 mph shifting to the north around 10 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows 72 to 77 near the shore to 50 to 57 above 4000 feet. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny. Highs 80 to 90 near the shore to 67 to 74 above 4000 feet. North winds up to 10 mph.
Detailed Forecast
Synopsis
A weak boundary northeast of the state may increase showers near Kauai and Oahu by mid week. Additionally, light to moderate easterly trades will focus low clouds and showers across windward areas through the end of the week. Trades may be light enough at times to allow localized afternoon sea breezes to generate clouds and a few showers across leeward areas.
Discussion
Radar this morning shows scattered showers drifting across the islands, with a majority of showers lingering west of the state in an area of deeper moisture. Satellite data shows limited cloud cover as drier air streams in from the east. Overall expect limited clouds and showers to influence the islands through tonight, as dry and stable air moves westward.
A surface boundary about 350 miles north-northeast of the islands will further weaken as it slowly drops southward toward the state into Wednesday, while the surface ridge north of the state gradually reestablishes itself. This pattern will maintain a weak pressure gradient and light to moderate easterly trade wind flow across the islands this week. These winds will direct showers to mainly windward areas in a typical trade wind weather pattern. However, localized sea breeze clouds and showers remain possible for some leeward areas this week.
The airmass will differ greatly across the state this week as a sharp moisture gradient sets up. The front sagging southward will enhance a layer of deeper moisture over the western islands while much drier and more stable air filters in across the central and eastern islands through much of the week. Forecast moisture depths will remain around 7k feet across the eastern half of the state with PW values generally around 1.25 inches or less. Deeper moisture depths between 8k-11k feet and PW values of 1.60 inches or greater, are forecast to increase over the western end of the state, mainly Wednesday and Thursday. The drier PW values forecast across the eastern end of the state, are well supported by the latest satellite based layer blended total precipitable water values around 1.18 inches near the Big Island. This pattern will limit the areal coverage of showers for Maui and the Big Island into Friday. Moisture pooling along the front north of the area, will increase the areal coverage of showers some across Kauai tonight before expanding southward toward Oahu Wednesday into Thursday.
The latest trends support a weaker pressure gradient redeveloping once again by the weekend, as another surface boundary drops southward. The weakened surface pressure gradient could allow for a return of localized afternoon and early evening sea breeze showers for some leeward areas and island interiors into the beginning of next week. The latest trends support the best chances for showers and potential for enhanced rainfall, remains across the western end of the state as deeper moisture pools along the boundary dropping southward.
Aviation
A ridge of high pressure passes north of Hawaii and will produce moderate trade winds today. Scattered clouds and showers are carrying from the east focusing over windward slopes and bringing brief MVFR conditions. However, VFR conditions will prevail today and no AIRMETs are anticipated. The showers are expected to linger through the early morning before decreasing.
Marine
A front will remain in place between a high to our north and the main Hawaiian islands. This will keep trade winds in the light to moderate range over the next several days for most waters. However, terrain-induced acceleration may briefly boost winds to Small Craft Advisory threshold today and tonight across typically windy waters around Maui and the Big Island.
South swell will continue to lower through Wednesday. Another small longer period south swell will fill in Wednesday night and Thursday with a slight reinforcement expected Friday and Saturday. A slightly larger long period south swell may arrive around Sunday. No significant north or northwest swells are expected through Thursday night, with a small short period northwest swell expected Friday and Saturday. Another small but longer period northwest swell may arrive on Sunday. Short period choppy surf will remain rather small over the next few days across east-facing shores, with a slight increase possible later in the week and on into the weekend.
HFO Watches/Warnings/Advisories
Small Craft Advisory until 6 AM HST Wednesday for Maalaea Bay, Pailolo Channel, Alenuihaha Channel, Big Island Leeward Waters, Big Island Southeast Waters.
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Data Courtesy of NOAA.gov
WoW: Lich King player hits level 80 just 9 hours after “Classic” server launch
Naowh explains how he got to level 80 in Wrath of the Lich King Classic in just a few hours.
When it comes to World of Warcraft's long-demanded "Classic" servers, players understandably want an experience that's identical to the MMO experience they remember from years ago. At least one player has taken that concept to an extreme this week, using years-old exploits to reach the level 80 cap on Blizzard's Wrath of the Lich King Classic (aka Wrath Classic) servers mere hours after they launched.
Streamer Naowh and his compatriots at Echo Guild announced their level 80 speedrun achievement on Twitter early Tuesday morning. As Naowh explains in an accompanying video, the rapid leveling takes advantage of a bugged Icecrown boss that continually spawns mobs of undead zombies. A player can "tag" those zombies with a single attack, then get full experience for defeating all the zombies when the next mob spawns in.
Naowh said he practiced this method in the live retail version of World of Warcraft before the launch of Wrath Classic servers Monday. "It's still the same to this day in retail," Naowh said. "I'm surprised no one has noticed this."
The Roomba j7+ learns to mop with a dramatic swing-arm setup
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The Roombo Combo j7+. Sick spoiler, bro! Wait, that's a mop?! [credit: Roomba ]
iRobot—soon to be owned by Amazon—is announcing a flagship Roomba with a new feature: It can vacuum and mop simultaneously. Meet the Roomba Combo j7+, a $1,100 combo cleaning robot that ships on October 4.
iRobot is not doing a ground-up redesign of the j7+ series to add mop functionality. In fact, the update almost looks like a retrofit. The new j7 looks just like the old j7 with a camera in the front, a big dust bin in the back, and a bottom layout that is almost identical to the old bot. There's a new dust bin and... is that a rear spoiler?
The mop functionality lives on the top (yes, the top) of the j7+, which has a big rear cutout now. The top of this cutout is plastic, and the bottom is the wet mop pad, which is connected to the robot by two side arms. When it's time to do some mopping, a dramatic, Transformers-like transition occurs. Two flaps on the side of the Roomba open up, revealing that the top mop cutout is actually connected to the robot by a pair of swing arms. The cutout section on top of the robot is lifted up and swings down and under the robot in a big, 180-degree motion. Now you're dragging a wet mop pad across the floor with minimal changes to the layout of the j7+.
Kidnapping Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in 3rd Circuit Court
A Hilo man accused of kidnapping a teenage girl pleaded not guilty in Kona’s 3rd Circuit on Monday and has requested a jury trial, which was set for Feb. 7, 2023.
During Monday’s hearing, Duncan Mahi’s attorney requested a bail study be conducted, which the judge granted. He remains in custody on $2 million dollars bail.
Mahi is accused of robbing two teenagers at knifepoint at Anaehoʻomalu Bay in West Hawaiʻi on Sept. 16. According to court documents, Mahi forced the girl to tie up her teen boyfriend before he took her to his East Hawaiʻi home.
The 15-year-old girl escaped from Mahi nearly 24 hours later after convincing the 52-year-old to take her to get food at Café Pesto in Hilo.
Mahi was indicted by a Hilo grand jury on Sept. 21 on two counts of kidnapping, three counts of terroristic threatening, first-degree robbery, two counts of methamphetamine trafficking and four counts of sexual assault.
Everything you need to know about Zen 4, socket AM5, and AMD’s newest chipsets
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AMD's Ryzen 7000 launch is bigger than just the processors. The processor architecture is changing, but it's also being accompanied by changes to everything from the chipset to the physical socket that the chips plug into. The last time this many things changed at once was back in 2017, when the first-generation Ryzen chips originally launched.
So we're publishing two Ryzen pieces today. One is a look at the actual chips' performance and power efficiency, located here. This one will focus on all the other changes, including the ones that will be with us long after Ryzen 7000 is old news.
We'll split this piece up into four parts that cover the four major components of the Ryzen 7000 launch: 1) the Zen 4 CPU core, 2) the on-chip I/O die that supports the CPU's non-CPU features and handles internal connectivity, 3) the 600-series chipsets that handle most external connectivity, and 4) the physical AM5 socket that will outlive all of the other components by a few years.
Apple Watch Ultra teardown suggests new—but trickier—repair angles
Enlarge / A new hard-case battery inside the Apple Watch Ultra is easier to remove for DIY fixers. Getting to that battery is still a tricky, tight-space operation, iFixit writes. (credit: iFixit)
Like the iPhone 14, the Apple Watch Ultra has a quietly revolutionary aspect that went under the radar—at least until the people at iFixit tore down the device. Apple's new category of wearables is "a potentially giant step towards making the Watch more repairable," iFixit writes, and it all starts with the screws.
Four pentalobe screws on the back of the Watch Ultra, unique among all Apple's Watch models, suggested the same kind of front-and-back access that iFixit's iPhone 14 teardown revealed. But opening from the back will almost certainly damage the Ultra's waterproof gasket. And the experienced teardown team at iFixit also lost one of the band release button's springs during removal. Most disappointingly, there's not much to be replaced from the back other than the back itself and its sensor array.
The promising but ultimately non-revelatory screws, making their first appearance on an Apple Watch exterior. (credit: iFixit)
As such, replacing the battery on an Apple Watch Ultra will likely take days, not hours, and will be done at a regional service depot, not in-store, iFixit's Sam Goldheart writes. "It's a missed opportunity—if Apple could get the battery under the [system-in-a-package], then these new screws on the bottom could enable a battery swap without going through the extremely well-sealed display."
Youth Summits Scheduled in North Hawaiʻi and Hilo
Two local youth summits are scheduled next month in an effort to provide teens and young adults an opportunity to network, gain insight into their personal skills and strengths, and identify opportunities to contribute to community resilience.
The summits will be hosted by the ʻŌpio Alliance for Kuleana Advancement, also known as ʻOAKA, in collaboration with Vibrant Hawaiʻi Resilience Hubs. ʻOAKA is a youth-designed and led coalition that invests in personal and professional leadership development through kuleana – a native Hawaiian value of shouldering one’s individual responsibilities for collective community resilience.
ʻOAKA launched a series of youth summits in August, which serve as launch points to increase a sense of belonging for youth ages 15-22 in their districts, according to a press release from Vibrant Hawaiʻi, a community-based organization that connects people through hubs across the island.
Next month’s summits will be held in Hilo and North Hawaiʻi.
The Hilo ʻOAKA YOUTH Summit will be held on Oct. 1 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Campus Center, Room 301.
The North Hawaiʻi ʻOAKA YOUTH Summit will be held on Oct. 8 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Tūtūʻs House. Interested youth between the ages of 15-22 are encouraged to register at vibranthawaii.org/get-involved.
Registration closes Thursday at 4:30 p.m. for Hilo and Oct. 8 at 4:30 p.m. for North Hawaiʻi.
Grounded in the principles of Asset Based Community Development, ʻOAKA collaborates with local youth-serving organizations, high schools, and university campuses to advance equitable opportunities for youth on Hawaiʻi Island to build capacity and activate their agency as change makers. The youth summits are led by two of Vibrant Hawaiʻi’s Community Engagement Ambassadors, Cole Fuertes, and Kuʻuhiapo Jeong, who are both youths.
“We have seen a number of very intuitive individuals share their experience about what it means to be youth in this day and age in their own communities.” Fuertes said. “What they [youth] shared, I am hoping, could be the foundation of change set forth for generations to come.”
Hailing from Kohala, Fuertes is one of the leaders of the youth summits. He recently graduated with his B.S in Marketing from Menlo College.
Jeong, a co-leader of ʻOAKA, echoed Fuertes.
“We received feedback that youth from our past summits built new relationships and strengthened relationships with the community, grew in critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and grew in their sense of belonging and connection to their own community as a result of their participation in the summit — to name a few. This is truly the catalyst for fruitful and empowering opportunities to entice change for their future.”
Jeong recently graduated from UH Hilo and is currently enrolled in Biola University’s academically rigorous Public Relations & Reputation Management graduate program.
According to the release, an important component of the youth summits highlights the existence and work of Resilience Hubs around the island.
In 2020, Vibrant Hawaiʻi brought together communities across the island in a formal network called Resilience Hubs. Today, there are a total of 40 Hubs – located in every district of the island. There are 2-levels of Hubs: Kahua means foundation. The foundation-level Kahua hubs serve a specific geographic area and are called upon to distribute food supplies, health products and services, and donations to support community resilience, and promote and/or host programs and services to support community resilience. Kaiāulu means community.
The Kaiāulu level hubs incorporate all the activities and agreements of Kahua Hubs and commit to actively building capacity to facilitate community disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and/or economic resilience. KaiāULU Hubs have access to a physical space to operate resilience hub activities and focus their energies on designing their Community Resilience Plan and mapping assets and threats in their community.
With training and support, KaiāULU Hubs will build a Response Team to mobilize during times of crisis and disaster to create a coordinated Request for Assistance and assist with donation management, recruit, activate and manage volunteers, engage with media channels during an active disaster, and provide Mental Health First Aid training and Social Service Navigators. Many resilience Hubs are community and volunteer-driven.
“The summits serve more than just a place where youth become aware of opportunities in their communities. We go a step further and match their skillsets with free skill-building workshops – Adulting 101 – held in partnership with local area Resilience Hubs,” Jeong said.
Alienware QD-OLED monitor picks open standards over G-Sync, is $200 cheaper
Enlarge / Alienware's latest QD-OLED monitor, the AW3423DWF. (credit: Alienware)
Alienware announced today a new QD-OLED monitor SKU that looks awfully similar to the Alienware AW3423DW released for $1,300 this spring. The AW3423DWF has many of the same specs but skips Nvidia G-Sync certification and hardware in favor of AMD's and VESA's open standards for fighting screen tears, while costing $200 less than its predecessor.
Like the AW3423DW, the AW3423DWF uses QD-OLED technology from Samsung. This is a form of OLED that uses a blue self-emitting layer as its light source, which goes through a layer of quantum dots. The primary goal is better color coverage, including more consistent colors across brightness levels, combined with the deep blacks and incredible contrast for which OLED displays are known.
The 34.18-inch AW3423DWF and AW3423DW's specs sheets match closely, including 3440×1440 resolution, an 1800R curve, 99.3 percent DCI-P3 and 149 percent sRGB color coverage, up to a 165 Hz refresh rate via DisplayPort and 100 Hz via HDMI 2.0, and 0.1ms gray-to-gray (GtG) response time.
Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” CPUs are official, launch October 20
Enlarge / An overview of the improvements coming to Intel's 13th-gen desktop chips. (credit: Intel)
If there's one thing Intel has gotten good at in the last few years, it's refining a CPU architecture. Between 2015 and 2020, manufacturing troubles pushed Intel to release not one, not two, but five processor generations based on iterations of the sixth-gen Skylake core, while still managing to increase clock speeds and core counts enough to stay competitive through most of that timespan.
It's an approach Intel is returning to for its 13th-generation Core CPUs, the first of which are being officially announced today. Codenamed Raptor Lake, Intel says it has made some improvements to the CPU architecture and the Intel 7 manufacturing process, but the strategy for improving their performance is both time-tested and easy to understand: add more cores, and make them run at higher clock speeds.
Intel is announcing three new CPUs today, each with and without integrated graphics (per usual, the models with no GPUs have an "F" at the end): the Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K, and Core i5-13600K will launch on October 20 alongside new Z790 chipsets and motherboards. They will also work in all current-generation 600-series motherboards as long as your motherboard maker has provided a BIOS update, and will continue to support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory.
Dialing back the bling makes a better EV: The 2023 Mercedes EQE sedan
Enlarge / The Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan's shape has been designed to create as little drag as possible.
DENVER—No one has more experience with launching new cars than Mercedes-Benz, the world's oldest existing automaker. The company is at the start of a new phase of its existence, as it transforms into a carbon-neutral company that mostly builds electric vehicles. But it's sticking to some tried and true strategies as it does.
So, like the smaller, cheaper E-Class that follows the S-Class sedan, the EQE sedan will arrive this fall in the US to follow last year's bigger, more expensive EQS sedan.
Built using Mercedes' new EVA2 platform for EVs, the EQE is obviously related to the EQS; the two cars look similar, having been optimized to the nth degree by the wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics. It's an evolution of the cab-forward "four-door coupe" look that the company pioneered on the CLS, but with any rough edges polished away to aid the air's passage over and around the bodywork as efficiently as possible. Mercedes hasn't published the EQE's drag coefficient, but I'd be surprised if it was higher than the EQS's remarkable 0.2, given that it rides on smaller 19-inch wheels.
Hawaii County Surf Forecast for September 27, 2022
Forecast for Big Island Windward and Southeast
| Shores | Today | Wednesday | ||
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| Surf | Surf | |||
| AM | PM | AM | PM | |
| North Facing | 0-2 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 1-3 |
| East Facing | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 |
| South Facing | 3-5 | 3-5 | 2-4 | 2-4 |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers. | |||||
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| High Temperature | In the mid 80s. | |||||
| Winds | East winds 5 to 10 mph. | |||||
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| Sunrise | 6:10 AM HST. | |||||
| Sunset | 6:13 PM HST. | |||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy until 12 AM, then mostly cloudy. Scattered showers. |
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| Low Temperature | In the mid 70s. | |||||
| Winds | Northeast winds around 10 mph. | |||||
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| Weather | Partly sunny. Scattered showers. | |||||
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| High Temperature | In the lower 80s. | |||||
| Winds | Northeast winds around 10 mph. | |||||
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| Sunrise | 6:10 AM HST. | |||||
| Sunset | 6:12 PM HST. | |||||
Forecast for Big Island Leeward
| Shores | Today | Wednesday | ||
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| Surf | Surf | |||
| AM | PM | AM | PM | |
| West Facing | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 |
| South Facing | 2-4 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 2-4 |
| Weather | Mostly sunny. Scattered showers. |
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| High Temperature | In the mid 80s. |
| Winds | West winds around 5 mph, becoming southwest in the afternoon. |
| Sunrise | 6:14 AM HST. |
| Sunset | 6:17 PM HST. |
| Weather | Sunny until 12 PM, then mostly cloudy. Scattered showers. |
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| High Temperature | In the mid 80s. |
| Winds | West winds around 5 mph. |
| Sunrise | 6:14 AM HST. |
| Sunset | 6:16 PM HST. |
Swell Summary
South swell will continue to lower through Wednesday. Another small longer period south swell will fill in Wednesday night and Thursday with a slight reinforcement expected Friday and Saturday. A slightly larger long period south swell may arrive around Sunday. No significant north or northwest swells are expected through Thursday night, with a small short period northwest swell expected Friday and Saturday. Another small but longer period northwest swell may arrive on Sunday. Short period choppy surf will remain rather small over the next few days across east-facing shores, with a slight increase possible later in the week and on into the weekend.
NORTH EAST
am 
pm 
Surf: Minimal (ankle high or less) surf.
Conditions: Semi clean/textured in the morning with S winds 5-10mph. Sideshore texture/chop conditions for the afternoon with the winds shifting ESE 10-15mph.
NORTH WEST
am 
pm
Surf: Minimal (ankle high or less) surf.
Conditions: Fairly clean in the morning with E winds 5-10mph. Semi glassy/semi bumpy conditions for the afternoon with the winds shifting to the WSW.
WEST
am pm
Surf: Minimal (ankle high or less) surf.
Conditions: Semi glassy in the morning with SSE winds less than 5mph. Semi glassy/semi bumpy conditions for the afternoon with the winds shifting SW 5-10mph.
SOUTH EAST
am pm
Surf: Small scale (ankle to knee high) surf.
Conditions: Semi choppy in the morning with ENE winds 5-10mph. Light sideshore texture conditions for the afternoon with the winds shifting to the NE.
Data Courtesy of NOAA.gov and SwellInfo.com
Apps can pose bigger security, privacy threat based on where you download them
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Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world, creating regional disparities in access to mobile apps at a time when many economies are becoming increasingly dependent on them.
The mobile phone giants have removed over 200 Chinese apps, including widely downloaded apps like TikTok, at the Indian government’s request in recent years. Similarly, the companies removed LinkedIn, an essential app for professional networking, from Russian app stores at the Russian government’s request.
However, access to apps is just one concern. Developers also regionalize apps, meaning they produce different versions for different countries. This raises the question of whether these apps differ in their security and privacy capabilities based on region.
Nreal’s $380 AR glasses want to be a virtual monitor for MacBooks
Enlarge / Nreal depicts someone using the Air glasses to extend their MacBook desktop. (credit: Nreal)
As augmented reality (AR) glasses continue to try carving a place among tech enthusiasts, we're seeing another option hit mass availability in the US. In addition to selling the sunglass-like Nreal Air specs in America, Beijing-based company Nreal also announced today a version of its Nebula AR operating system that will work with Apple M1 and M2-powered MacBooks.
The Mac version of Nebula works with MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops with Apple silicon and is launching as a beta. Attaching the Air glasses to a MacBook won't give you the same Nebula "AR Space" experience available to supported Android phones. AR Space includes a mixed-reality interface and games and other AR apps made for the glasses. Instead, Mac users will see a virtual UI that Nreal's calling AR Desktop and projects up to three virtual displays at a time, an Nreal rep told Ars Technica. An Nreal rep wouldn't specify when AR Space would come to MacBooks or iOS.
In a statement, Nreal co-founder Peng Jin said the company expects AR glasses to initially gain traction among consumers by serving as a display technology, so "the thinking behind Nreal Air is very focused on the aesthetics, display quality, and its connectivity with other hardware devices."
Ian reaches major hurricane status, will be a historic storm for Florida
Enlarge / As of 5:50 am ET on Tuesday, Hurricane Ian had nearly traversed the island of Cuba. (credit: NOAA)
Hurricane Ian continued to intensify on Monday night and reached sustained winds of 125 mph as its center passed across the western edge of Cuba. From there, the storm will move into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, where very warm water and low wind shear will allow for further intensification.
The hurricane has been moving around the western edge of a high-pressure system, but as Ian approaches the western coast of Florida on Wednesday it will start to run into a trough of low pressure draped across the southeastern United States. The net effect of this will cause Ian to slow down, perhaps only moving a few miles per hour for a couple of days.
All of this is a recipe for disaster for much of the Florida peninsula, but it's difficult to say precisely where, and precisely which effects. Even though landfall is expected to occur in less than two days, there remains considerable uncertainty about where Ian will make landfall along the western Florida coast, and where it will go. This is due, in part, to the breakdown of its steering currents.
Cat Stevens.
University of Hawaiʻi Astronomers To Track Impact of Today’s NASA Asteroid Collision Test
NASA just crashed a spacecraft the size of a school bus into an asteroid about the size of a pyramid to assess if a deliberate impact can deflect objects on a collision course with Earth.
The University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy played an important role in the space agency’s first full-scale planetary defense test, dubbed Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which took place today at about 1:14 p.m. Hawaiʻi time.
The spacecraft collided head on with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that poses no threat to Earth.
Following the impact, UH astronomers will use the UH88 telescope on Maunakea and Faulkes North telescope on Haleakalā, one of a number of observatories part of the Las Cumbres telescope network that the astronomers will utilize around the world, to collect data and determine how Dimorphos was impacted.
“The Earth has been hit by big asteroids in the past, and with all likelihood will be hit by something big again,” said J.D. Armstrong, HI STAR director and IfA Maui outreach astronomer. “When we find one coming our way, we want to know what to do. We want to know how to change the path of the asteroid so that it will not hit us. It could be that important.”
Armstrong and fellow IfA Astronomer Dave Tholen will also work with students throughout the next couple of months to track Dimorphos’ orbit using photometric observations.
If the impact changes the asteroid’s velocity it will prove the planetary defense method can be effective in pushing a potentially hazardous asteroid away from Earth.
The spacecraft was projected to hit Dimorphos in the opposite direction to the asteroid’s motion. Tholen will mentor UH Mānoa undergraduate student Vernon Roark, an astrophysics major who will obtain orbital shift observations as part of his senior research project. HI-STAR high school students Wilson Chau, Holden Suzuki and James Ancheta will work alongside Armstrong on Maui to also closely track the asteroid’s orbit.
UH’s Pan-STARRS1 telescope on Haleakalā is the world leader in finding larger Near-Earth Objects that could pose a threat to the planet.
IfA astronomers who operate the observatory on Maui play a fundamental role in the nation’s planetary defense program. In 2017, during routine operations, Pan-STARRS discovered the mysterious interstellar object, ʻOumuamua, the very first of its kind spotted in the solar system, according to a UH news release.
After Pan-STARRS identifies an object that might be passing very close, telescopes on Maunakea and elsewhere around the world will stop what they are working on and track the object to determine if it is a possible threat to Earth.
The search for NEOs is funded by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office through its Near-Earth Object Observations Program.
DART goes silent after hitting an asteroid [Update]
Enlarge / One of the last images from DART. (credit: NASA/APL)
Update, 10:30 pm ET: If this is an indication of the quality of the images we should expect over the next several days, we're in for a treat.
ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos! pic.twitter.com/26IKwB9VSo
— ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022
Original article follows.
About 24 hours prior to its collision, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) probe performed its last course correction based on commands sent by ground controllers. "It's pointed to within a football field of the central body," said Bobby Braun of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL). "That last maneuver was spot-on."
All State Library Locations Closed Due to Unspecified Threat
All Hawai‘i State Public Library System locations are closed today due to an unspecified threat. The library has been working with local law enforcement to determine when it is safe to reopen.
The HSPLS digital doors are always open at librarieshawaii.org. For more information, check https://librarieshawaii.org for further updates.
Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users
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This month, LinkedIn researchers revealed in Science that the company spent five years quietly researching more than 20 million users. By tweaking the professional networking platform's algorithm, researchers were trying to determine through A/B testing whether users end up with more job opportunities when they connect with known acquaintances or complete strangers.
To weigh the strength of connections between users as weak or strong, acquaintance or stranger, the researchers analyzed factors like the number of messages they sent back and forth or the number of mutual friends they shared, gauging how these factors changed over time after connecting on the social media platform. The researchers' discovery confirmed what they describe in the study as "one of the most influential social theories of the past century" about job mobility: The weaker the ties users have, the better the job mobility. While LinkedIn says these results will lead to changes in the algorithm to recommend more relevant connections to job searchers as "People You May Know" (PYMK) moving forward, The New York Times reported that ethics experts said the study "raised questions about industry transparency and research oversight."
Among experts' biggest concerns was that none of those millions of users LinkedIn analyzed were directly informed they were participating in the study—which "could have affected some people's livelihoods," NYT's report suggested.