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Celebrate this Independence Day with discounts on new high-end devices. Dell has marked many of its high-end Alienware products on sale including several gaming laptops, desktops and gaming monitors. Get yourself a new high-end gaming machine to help make this Independence Day a memorable one. The new Dell Alienware M15 R5 features an updated thermal solution that helps you to get the most out of your hardware. The system has powerful components including an AMD Ryzen R7 5800H octa-core processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 graphics chip that can run games fluidly on the notebooks 165Hz 1080p display.
An advertising platform named playerWON has announced it has signed deals with EA and Tencent’s Hi-Rez Studios to bring TV-like commercials in video games. PlayerWON is owned and operated by Simulmedia, which claims players will be able to watch ads in exchange for in-game perks. The system has reportedly been in testing for a year and will work as follows: Developers can code ads into games and offer players the choice to watch either a 15-second or a 30-second ad. There is no mention of the player being allowed to watch no ads at all. Once Simulmedia receives a message that the ad has been watched in its entirety, the reward is unlocked for the player.
The Chinese CPU design firm Loongson wants to raise $544 million in an IPO as part of a bid to raise funds and further the development of its next-generation products. Loongson is a company we’ve discussed several times over the last few years. Its CPUs use an instruction set based on MIPS64 and it has steadily released more powerful CPUs. Earlier this year, Loongson announced a new instruction set architecture, LoongISA 2.0. According to a post on (it’s described as a question and answer website and it’s formatted a bit like Medium), Loongson has spent the past decade steadily building to this moment.
If you’re a Bitcoin (BTC) mining veteran, sulking over how zillion-dollar, ASIC-based data centers have stolen the spotlight, you’re probably already well into alternative coins. But maybe you’ve scored a cool-new GPU in the Newegg lottery or just happen to have one lying around. Or maybe you’re curious about whether all those hard drives you’ve got in your closet can earn you some cash via Chia. If you’re new to cryptocurrency mining, the good news is that the game isn’t completely over. We’ll cover how you can get started mining (and in the case of Chia, farming) using hardware you may already have, or in theory can buy at retail, and provide our recent real-life experiences earning some hard cash from GPUs, CPUs, and drives.
Big things are happening in the world of Android wearables, and not a moment too soon. Apple is only getting further ahead with the Apple Watch, but Samsung could have a chance to catch up a bit now that it’s working with Google on smartwatch software. The company’s Galaxy Watch 4 family will launch soon, and now we’ve got a better idea of how the new watches will look, thanks to a raft of leaked images . From all appearances, Samsung is pulling out all the stops. The Galaxy Watch 4 Classic will be the more traditional of the two designs it will launch this year.
Whenever the subject of the future comes up, it’s always the same: Where are the flying cars? Well, you could argue that flying cars are finally here. A hybrid aircraft known as the AirCar has just . It’s still a prototype, but it only looks a little bit ridiculous. The AirCar’s designer, Stefan Klein, piloted the vehicle for an uneventful 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia. He said the flight was “normal” and “very pleasant.” The AirCar has now passed 40 hours in the air, which is an impressive feat considering how many “flying cars” have never gotten off the ground.
An advertising platform named playerWON has announced it has signed deals with EA and Tencent’s Hi-Rez Studios to bring TV-like commercials in video games. PlayerWON is owned and operated by Simulmedia, which claims players will be able to watch ads in exchange for in-game perks. The system has reportedly been in testing for a year and will work as follows: Developers can code ads into games and offer players the choice to watch either a 15-second or a 30-second ad. There is no mention of the player being allowed to watch no ads at all. Once Simulmedia receives a message that the ad has been watched in its entirety, the reward is unlocked for the player.
Earth is unique in our solar system. It’s one of just a few celestial objects with an atmosphere, and it’s alone in supporting life… as far as we know. How many more Earths are out there? It could be more than we thought, according to some new research. NASA astronomers now say we might be . That could boost the chances of finding habitable worlds out there. We, of course, live on a planet that orbits a single star, but systems of multiple stars are very common. Astronomers estimate that at least a third of solar systems in the Milky Way consist of two or more stars.
