It was an unexpected but pleasant surprise when mobile developer Aspyr released a full port of Civilization VI on the iPad two years ago. Sadly, Android fans were left in the lurch. Now, Aspyr has surprised us again with an . This isn’t one of those Revolution-branded mobile versions of Civ — this is the full game on your phone or tablet, and you can try it for free right now. The Civilization series launched in the early 90s, quickly becoming the gold standard for turn-based strategy video games. The formula has been refined over the years with the addition of religion, larger urban centers, and more ways for Gandhi to nuke your cities.
Today Dell is offering several of its high-performance gaming laptops with hundreds cut off their original retail prices. The best of these deals will save you $1000 and get you an exceptionally powerful gaming laptop that’s perfect for running today’s AAA titles. If you want a fast notebook with plenty of performance for running the latest games, you may want to consider Dell’s Alienware M15 R1. This system was literally built for gaming and it features a fast six-core processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q GPU, and a high-quality 1080p 240Hz IPS display. You can get this system from Dell marked down from $2,499.99 to $1,449.99.
Corporations lie. Sometimes they . Sometimes to . Sometimes they lie . And sometimes they lie to the governmental agencies in charge of regulating the internet with the express goal of squeezing more money out of their customer bases. Currently, Charter is not allowed to impose data caps on customers. This restriction was a requirement of its 2016 merger with Time Warner and the protection is set to expire on May 18, 2023. Charter has petitioned to end the protection two years early, in May 2021. Charter’s argument for dissolving the agreement is straightforward: Charter should be allowed to put data caps in place because Netflix and other video-on-demand services are popular and growing rapidly.
Having to share your computer screen during a video meeting or presentation can be nerve-racking. And it usually isn’t concern over the information you’re sharing that leads to all that anxiety. It’s actually the fear of the stuff you really don’t want to share that spikes your worry. What if an inadvertent text message from your husband or wife pops up? What if your funny notification sound or your goofy desktop image flashes across the screen for your audience to see? Or what if there are browser items or programs running on your computer that you’d really rather your boss, co-workers, and other business associates never know anything about?
Microsoft has tried to make smartphones on several occasions — it even purchased Nokia’s Lumia mobile division in 2014. Despite that, Windows Phone succumbed to the market pressures of Android and iOS. Well, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Microsoft’s first Android phone is , but it won’t be cheap. The Surface Duo is coming on Sept. 10, starting at $1,399.99. You can add $100 if you want to upgrade from 128 to 256GB of storage. The Surface Duo is such an unusual device that calling it a phone doesn’t really paint an accurate picture. The device has a pair of 5.6-inch OLED screens attached to a 360-degree hinge.
Thirty-nine years ago today, IBM launched the IBM Personal Computer (model number 5150). This was, depending on your point of view, either a calamity or a cause for celebration. The machine itself wasn’t particularly powerful by the standards of the day. When Intel offered IBM the 8086 (a 16-bit CPU with a 16-bit external bus) IBM requested a cost-optimized version of the chip instead. The result was the 8088, which ran at the same 4.76MHz clock as the 8086 but only had an 8-bit bus to external memory. Here’s the original motherboard: AMD made the memory chips in the lower-right-hand block.
Today you can get one of Dell’s Aurora R11 gaming desktops with an RTX 2080 Super graphics card on sale for just $1,609. This system is capable of running the latest games with max graphics settings and it should make any gamer happy. If you’re looking for a gaming desktop, you can’t go wrong with one of Dell’s newly redesigned Alienware Aurora R11 PCs. This version of the Aurora features an Intel Comet Lake Core i7-10700F CPU as well as an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card to give it all the performance it needs to run modern games with maxed out graphics settings.
AMD is looking to patent new techniques for switching between two different CPU architectures on-the-fly in a similar manner to the “big.Little” design ARM uses for its own processors. Given that we’ve already heard rumors that Intel’s Alder Lake will deploy a comparable configuration, it’s beginning to look like this could be a common feature between major vendors going forward. Also, while we’ve referred to “big.Little,” that’s technically an ARM-specific invention. The more generic term would likely be hybrid computing or heterogeneous computing. While the latter term has typically been used for CPU + GPU compute models, two CPUs with two different levels of ISA support on the same silicon would also qualify as a heterogeneous compute model.
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