2020 has been an unusual year. Many different industries and aspects of life have been shut down at one point or another, slowly reopening only when deemed safe by leading public health professionals. One aspect of life that’s back in a major way, though, is . If you’re a die-hard sports fan, it can easily feel like there’s not enough time in the day to follow your favorite teams or catch the most competitive games of the week. Well, that’s a problem and paying for cable to watch live sports, as well as other TV programs, certainly isn’t the most practical or cost-effective way of staying on top of your live programming needs.
Back in August, Facebook announced it would begin requiring a Facebook account to use future Oculus devices. This was received with all the love Facebook’s abysmal data practices and willful disregard for the negative impact of its own policies deserves. Nevertheless, the company pushed ahead. What happened next couldn’t be more on-the-nose if it’d happened in a movie. End-users who are signing up for Facebook or attempting to link their accounts to Facebook are finding themselves permabanned from the site. Furthermore, the automated ban tools Facebook uses are telling them that the decision is permanent and cannot be undone.
Amazon’s Prime Day has came and gone, but if you’re looking for deals on PCs and monitors then Dell has you covered. Today you can get a 32-inch curved Dell gaming monitor with a 2K resolution and a 165Hz refresh rate for just $349.99. This feature rich gaming display has a resolution of 2560×1440 and a fast 165Hz refresh rate. The monitor also have a curved VA panel that helps to create a more immersive gaming experience, and it also ha a built in USB 3.0 hub and HDR support. Best of all, this monitor is also an excellent deal right now as it’s marked down $260 from Dell.
You probably know Betelgeuse as that with the weird name, but it’s of particular interest to astronomers right now. It’s a red supergiant in Orion many thousands of times brighter than the sun, and it’s dying. Astronomers expect Betelgeuse will go supernova in the next 100,000 years, and it turns out this star . Don’t start building a supernova-proof bunker just yet — it may be closer, but it’s still not dangerous. Betelgeuse made headlines recently with speculation that it may be on the verge of exploding (it’s the red star on the left in the image above). This was based on some very bizarre changes in the star’s brightness.
Yesterday marked the 35th birthday of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s launch in North America. On October 18, 1985, the NES went on sale in limited markets across America (a broad launch would follow in September 1986). To say that initial expectations were low might be an understatement. The North American market was still reeling after the video game collapse of 1983, and plenty of pundits had limited expectations for Japan’s first game console. Nintendo was sensitive to the risk of introducing a new video game console just two years after the market’s implosion, and it took specific steps to make the NES look more like a VHS player than a then-traditional top-loading console like the Atari 2600.
Intel and Synopsys have jointly the first PCIe 5.0 IP interoperability test. The goal of this type of testing is to demonstrate Intel’s commitment to future high-speed interfaces, as well as to create reference platforms for early PCIe 5.0 certification. It’s also a sign that PCIe 5.0 could show up on motherboards in as little as 12 months, though I think 2022 is a bit more likely than late 2021. If Intel launches Rocket Lake at the end of Q1 2021, as is expected, it’s not clear the company would then refresh in the October / November time frame.
Fitness plays an important part in everyday life, and it extends well beyond keeping your body in good shape. As you may already know, to your overall health and well-being as physical fitness. Mental fitness means keeping your brain and emotional health in tip-top shape through a series of daily exercises that can help you slow down, decompress, boost memory, and so much more. Even better, when you have the right daily exercises at hand, staying on top of your mental fitness can be fun and quick. And that’s where this brain training platform takes center stage. allows you to measure, train, and properly monitor your cognitive skills with science-backed tasks and games.
The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 is a gaming powerhouse, but that’s not all it can do. According to the makers of a popular password recovery application, the RTX 3090 is also good at brute-forcing passwords. That’s great if you forget an important password, but that’s probably not why people are using such tools. The latest Nvidia cards could make cracking someone else’s files almost trivially easy. The RTX 3090 is Nvidia’s latest top-of-the-line GPU with a GA102 graphics processor sporting 10,496 cores and 24GB of GDDR6X memory. It is monstrously, obscenely powerful by today’s gaming standards, and comes with a correspondingly high price of $1,500, give or take a few hundred depending on supply.
Amazon’s Prime Day is now officially over, but there are still some lingering deals on devices like Apple’s Watch Series 6 and a few laptop computers. 40mm GPS Smartwatch for $384.99 from Amazon (Regularly $399.00) Intel i5-10300H 6-core Gaming Desktop w/ GTX 1660 Ti GPU, 8GB DDR4 RAM and 256GB NVMe SSD for $699.99 from Dell with promo code 50OFF699 (Regularly $899.99) Intel Core i3 13.3-Inch Laptop w/ 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD for $849.99 from Amazon (List price $999.00) for $199.00 from Amazon (List price $249.00) 4K HDR Media Player for $27.00 from Amazon (List price $39.99)
