الأربعاء، 31 يوليو 2019
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السبت، 27 يوليو 2019
الجمعة، 26 يوليو 2019
الخميس، 25 يوليو 2019
Attempt to cross the Channel by jet-powered Flyboard fails – video
A former jetski champion has failed in his effort to cross the Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard. Franky Zapata fell into the sea as he attempted to land on a vessel to refuel halfway through the crossing
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الأربعاء، 24 يوليو 2019
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الخميس، 18 يوليو 2019
Generate and Store Super-Secure Passwords with This Highly-Rated App
Keeper Password Manager ensures that you’ll never have to endure the headaches that come from forgetting another password, and it’s currently available for over 30% off at just $19.99.
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How Do SSDs Work?
Ever wondered how SSDs read and write data, or what determines their performance? Our tech explainer has you covered.
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Intel Acknowledges Its Long 10nm Delay Caused By Being ‘Too Aggressive’
Intel has admitted that its own 10nm shortfall happened as a result of overly aggressive positioning on its part. 7nm, however, is still just two years away according to the company.
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الأربعاء، 17 يوليو 2019
Amazon Prime Day After Hours Sale: Samsung Galaxy 10e $599.99, Apple AirPods w/ Wireless Charging Case $169.99, GTX 1080 Gaming Desktop $899
Prime Day is officially over, but it seems someone forgot to tell that to Amazon, Dell, and Walmart.
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Nintendo Unveils New Switch With Significantly Longer Battery Life
The new model has drastically improved battery life and no other major differences and will sell for the same $299 base price.
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PC Gamers Who Didn’t Play Classic Console Games Missed Out on Great Experiences
I've been spending some time playing some of the classic console games I never got to try when young. Honestly? They're pretty great -- even if I'm personally terrible at them.
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Nintendo Switch Controllers Are Beginning to Fail in Large Numbers
Nintendo's Switch has been quite popular over the last two years, but a persistent problem with JoyCon drift has the community buzzing.
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CBS Is Streaming Its Original Apollo 11 Landing Coverage
CBS is rerunning its Apollo 11 launch broadcast, giving viewers the chance to see Apollo 11's takeoff, start to finish, ahead of the actual moon landing anniversary later this week.
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Hands On at the Track With the 2020 Mini Cooper SE Electric
This Mini is quick, quiet, and a hoot to drive. No matter which range numbers you believe -- 114 miles? 146? 168? -- this is clearly an urban car. Newer EV drivetrains that show up first on BMWs should help Mini in a couple of years.
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الثلاثاء، 16 يوليو 2019
Microsoft Blocks Windows 10 May 2019 Update on Surface Book 2
Microsoft has been forced to block the Windows 10 1903 update (May 2019) from its own hardware due to GPU incompatibilities.
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ET Deals: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x for $199 During Amazon Prime Day
Get AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X octa-core processor for the ridiculously low price of $199.99 from Amazon during Amazon's Prime Day sales event.
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Best Amazon Prime Day Deals: SSDs and HDDs
Amazon’s Prime Day sales event is back again this year with countless deals on just about everything money can buy. Included in this are some excellent deals on SSDs and storage devices.
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New Analog Keyboard Switches Promise Lifespan of 1 Billion Presses
The "Keystone" keyboard ships with the unique SILO switches, which use magnets instead of metal contacts.
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AMD Will Provide a Free Temporary UEFI Upgrade Kit for Ryzen 3000 Motherboard Updates
AMD has refreshed its backwards compatibility upgrade problem for third-generation Ryzen and is offering a CPU for users who need a chip for a UEFI update.
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Intel’s Neuromorphic Loihi Processor Scales to 8M Neurons, 64 Cores
Intel has announced a much-expanded version of its Loihi processor, with up to 64 cores and 8M neurons in a single system.
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الاثنين، 15 يوليو 2019
Destiny 2 Doesn’t Currently Run on Ryzen 3000 CPUs, but a Fix Is Coming
AMD's Ryzen 7 3000 CPU family isn't currently compatible with Bungie's Destiny 2, but a UEFI fix is on the way.
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The Snapdragon 855+ Is an Overclocked Snapdragon 855
The aptly named 855+ is a Snapdragon 855 with just a little more horsepower.
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Scientists Capture Photographic Proof of Quantum Entanglement
One of the strangest features of physics is quantum entanglement, and scientists from the University of Glasgow have just captured the first photo demonstrating the effect.
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Udemy Class Review: Fundamentals of Spacecraft Engineering and Orbital Mechanics
This Udemy lecture titled the Fundamentals of Spacecraft Engineering & Orbital Mechanics is presented by Eliott Wertheimer and aims to give you a greater understanding of the current trends in spacecraft design and interstellar propulsion systems.
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Nvidia vs. AMD: Do GPUs Degrade in Performance Over Time?
One question gamers often raise is how GPU performance evolves as cards age. Ongoing security patches related to Spectre have also raised concerns about CPU frame rates. We investigate across both AMD and Nvidia cards.
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الأحد، 14 يوليو 2019
Amazon Prime Day Deals: Save Big On Smart Home, Electronics, Computers, and More
Amazon’s Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping events of the year with countless deals on just about everything you could want. After hours of shifting through deals we’ve compiled the following list with the best deals available on everything from high-end smartphones and computers to home appliances.The full list can be found below…
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السبت، 13 يوليو 2019
Hubble Spots a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist
This galaxy might bend the rules a bit, but it offers an opportunity to study how the theory of relativity applies in the real world.
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الجمعة، 12 يوليو 2019
Tachyum Raises $25M for Universal Processor ‘Faster Than Xeon, Smaller Than ARM’
A small startup received $25M in funding for a chip it claims is both faster than Intel's Xeon and smaller than ARM's Cortex family. That's quite a pair of claims.
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ET Deals: Samsung 75-Inch 4K QLED HDR TV $1,499, Samsung 512GB MicroSDXC $88, Dell 9th Gen Core i7 Desktop $999
Black Friday isn't the only time to find excellent deals on high-end electronics. Today you can get a large 75-inch Samsung QLED TV for just a fraction of its original retail price.
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Why Moving the Mouse in Windows 95 Made the OS Faster
There's truth to some old myths. Moving the mouse in Windows 95 really did make the machine faster, in certain circumstances.
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Amazon Reportedly Planning More Powerful Echo, Alexa-Powered Home Robot
Both devices are supposedly in development at Amazon's Lab126 facility in Sunnyvale, California.
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How Google Legally Profits From Massive Fraud on Its Platform (and What You Can Do About It)
Google—the internet's largest search destination—can legally profit from fraud on its platform and has little incentive to fix it. Ethics and legal amendments aside, there's still more that we all can do to mitigate fraud on the internet.
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Valve Introduces Machine Learning Algorithm to Recommend New Steam Games
Steam is deploying a new, AI-powered algorithm to make content recommendations in gaming. Will it perform better than the old, tag-based system?
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Microsoft Includes Telemetry Update in Security Patches, Raising Fears About Company Motives
This week, Microsoft released updates that touch the telemetry gathering side of its older operating systems, and that has certain users seeing red.
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DeepMind’s StarCraft II AI Will Play Public Matches on Battle.net
DeepMind first dominated the game of Go, and then it moved on to StarCraft II, beating some of the world's top players early this year. Now, you might have a chance to play against the AlphaStar AI, but you'll probably get wrecked.
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Yes, Google Listens to Some of Your Assistant Recordings. That’s Not Surprising.
Amazon has been under fire for how it manages Alexa voice data, and now Google is facing similar questions after a contractor gave reporters a chance to peruse customer recordings.
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الخميس، 11 يوليو 2019
New Zip Bomb Stuffs 4.5PB of Data into 46MB File
A researcher has created a new kind of zip bomb -- one that doesn't require recursion to inflate relatively small sizes into petabytes of unzipped data.
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ET Deals: Apple MacBook Air 13-Inch $1,199, Lenovo Intel Core i3 15.6-Inch Notebook $289, Dell Vostro Intel Core i3 14-Inch Laptop $299
With July half over and school starting back next month, lots of online retailers are running sales on notebooks that would be perfect for getting you or your kids through their next year of school.
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Hayabusa2 Probe Collects Second Sample From Asteroid Ryugu
The spacecraft gathered samples from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu earlier this year, and it bombed the asteroid a few months later. Now, the probe has taken another trip to the surface to scoop up pristine material that used to be buried below the surface.
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Brooklyn Electric Car Races Add Showroom Stock Cars
Formula E electric car racing returns to New York City. For the first time, batteries are strong enough to last the full race. More automakers are getting involved; Porsche comes in next year.
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New Leak: Intel 10-Core Comet Lake CPUs Will Counterattack Ryzen 3000 Family
Intel could be preparing to launch new CPUs to challenge AMD's recent 7nm Ryzen 3000 family, but will their counter-blow be sufficient?
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Galaxy Tab S6 Leaks Point to Samsung’s Continued Commitment to Tablets
Google might be giving up on making tablets, but Samsung is keeping at it with a rumored high-end Galaxy Tab S6. This device will allegedly be the followup to the Galaxy Tab 5e and Tab S4, but it will have more in common with the Galaxy S10.
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New Solar Panels Use Waste Heat to Purify Water
A new type of solar power setup developed at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia could address both of those issues. These panels leverage waste heat from solar panels to distill and purify water.
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Is Moore’s Law Alive, Dead, or Pining for the Fjords? Even Experts Disagree
What's the current state of Moore's Law? Depends very much on who you ask -- which may be a sign of a problem, in and of itself.
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At a Glance: Adata XPG SX6000 Pro Review
Adata’s XPG SX6000 Pro SSDs were designed to offer exceptional gaming and overall performance at an exceedingly low price point.
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الأربعاء، 10 يوليو 2019
Apollo Guidance Computer Restored, Used to Mine Bitcoin
The Apollo Guidance Computer is a marvel of not-exactly-modern technology. Not only did it fly us to the Moon, it's capable of mining Bitcoin.... slowly.
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Google Releases Android Q Beta 5 With Gesture Navigation Tweaks
While the feature set of Android Q is pretty well fleshed out at this point, there are a few new things in Beta 5.
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ET Deals: Alienware 34-Inch Curved 3K G-Sync Display $799, 12.9-Inch Apple iPad Pro LTE $679, Ultimate Ears Blast Speaker $69
If you are building a gaming PC this summer then we've got plenty of deals to help you. Notable among these is one of Dell's high-end Alienware displays that supports G-Sync and is marked nearly half off.
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Nintendo Unveils Switch Lite, Coming Sept. 20 for $199
It plays all the same games, but it's not a replacement for the OG Switch. Buyers can choose the version that works best for them when the Switch Lite launches this coming fall.
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The Best Free PC Games to Play in 2019
There are loads of free PC games out there, but many of them aren't worth your time. These will have you hooked for hours.
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The Raspberry Pi 4 Has a Flawed USB-C Port
The Raspberry Pi 4 launched recently, moving from micro USB to USB-C for power. However, it looks like the designers made a crucial error in designing the board that limits which USB-C cables you can use.
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Prep to Earn IT’s Most Valuable Certifications with This CompTIA Bundle
The Complete 2019 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle will prepare you to earn some of the IT field's most valuable certifications, and it's currently available for over 95% off at just $69.
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Apple Cuts MacBook Air Prices, Updates MBP, and Kills off the MacBook
Apple has trimmed prices on entry-level MacBook Pros and Airs while killing off its one-port wonder.
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Intel’s New Omni-Directional Interconnect Combines EMIB, Foveros
At Semicon West, Intel unveiled major advances in interconnect design, including new methods for combining EMIB and Foveros together.
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الثلاثاء، 9 يوليو 2019
ET Deals: Dell Xeon Server $299, Dell XPS Core i5 Desktop $649, Instant Pot DUO60 $49
Today's best deals are a couple of Dell desktops. The first one is intended to work as a small server, whereas the other one is a well equipped PC for home or office use.
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