Google announced earlier this year that it plans to enable Chromebook users to run Windows apps thanks to a partnership with Parallels. Now, we have more information on how this will work. lays out the options Google considered before arriving at virtualization and what it hopes to do with Parallels in the future. When it launched, Chrome OS was little more than a browser. Google expected people to do everything they needed to do with web apps, but nine years later, people still want local software. That’s especially true for business users, and Google is pushing to get more companies to switch to Chromebooks.
After months of leaks and speculation, Google has . This phone was originally slated to make its debut this spring at Google I/O, but the pandemic forced the cancellation of that event. The 4a might be launching late, but it’s still shaping up to be an excellent phone at just $349. If that’s not your speed, Google also has a pair of 5G-enabled phones on the way. The Pixel 4a is Google’s followup to last year’s widely praised Pixel 3a. Despite being a budget phone, the Pixel 4a looks much more modern than the 3a did. For one, it has almost no bezel surrounding the 5.8-inch OLED screen.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) over the weekend, returning astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to Earth. The vessel descended into the atmosphere and parachuted down to the ocean without incident. Thus ended the with a commercial US spacecraft in years. With this success, big things are coming for both NASA and SpaceX in the next few years. Hurley and Behnken rode the Dragon capsule into space on May 31 of this year, kicking off the Demo-2 mission. This was the first time sent astronauts into space aboard a privately developed spacecraft after years of development under the Commercial Crew Program.
Today you can get a highly versatile laptop from Dell with $1,000 marked off the retail price. This system is perfect for work, but it also has a 100 percent sRGB compatible display for editing images and a GPU that’s powerful enough to keep the average gamer happy. The new Vostro 15 7500 laptop is a true jack-of-all-trades. Dell’s Vostro systems are oriented as business solutions, and this system is no different, but it also has fairly strong gaming capabilities. Its 100 percent sRGB display is also well suited for editing images. No matter what you need a laptop for, this system should fit the bill.
With U.S. unemployment still over 11 percent, there are literally millions of Americans looking for work. Of course, that number is considerably smaller when you look at the pool of trained cybersecurity professionals. And the key there is finding trained professionals. Because while cybersecurity hiring is booming, with new employment , companies are still having an extremely tough time finding qualified candidates. In fact, 86 percent of cybersecurity job openings attracted under 10 applicants each, just because workers don’t have the right skill set. So the conclusion is clear — if you want to work as a cybersecurity expert, get trained now.
Those rumors about Nvidia being in talks with SoftBank about purchasing ARM have been upgraded to “advanced talks.” (Does that make these “advanced rumors?”) Even if SoftBank can come to an agreement with Nvidia over selling ARM, which it bought for $32B, the regulatory scrutiny from various nations would be enormous, as Bloomberg . Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Intel all have architecture licenses from ARM, allowing them to design their own CPUs that are compatible with ARM’s instruction sets but that otherwise contain custom IP. Dozens more companies depend on ARM’s extensive hard-IP licenses for various solutions. Given ARM’s ubiquitous position in smartphones, and its burgeoning presence in HPC and servers, everyone from Ampere to MediaTek is going to be concerned about ARM being owned by any single silicon company.
SpaceX has a good thing going with the Falcon 9. It has almost perfected landings, allowing it to reuse the boosters, and NASA has certified the Falcon 9 to carry its most important cargo and even astronauts. The company is already looking toward its next launch platform, though. After blowing up a few Starship prototypes, the latest SN5 test vehicle just completed a full-duration static fire. CEO Elon Musk says that sets the stage for a “hop” in the near future. The Starship, previously known as the BFR, is SpaceX’s upcoming all-purpose rocket. With the Super Heavy launch platform, Starship will be a heavy-lift system capable of sending large payloads into the outer solar system.
This is the year of 5G whether you want it or not, and you can thank Qualcomm for making the new network technology mandatory in its latest ARM chips. That has led to some extremely big, expensive smartphones in 2020, but HMD plans to launch a more affordable 5G Android phone . The Nokia 8.3 5G falls between flagships and budget phones, but we don’t know when it’ll launch or exactly how much it will cost in the US. The Nokia 8.3 5G is not technically a new phone, but it’ll be new for the US. HMD alongside the 5.3 and 1.3.
Virtual reality hasn’t exploded in popularity as many expected it would when Oculus revived the dead medium, but it is still growing. Most VR games are designed from the ground up for , but a few mainstream titles that are suited to that gameplay style have also added support. Soon, you’ll be able to . The new Microsoft Flight Simulator will be the first edition of the series since 2006’s Flight Simulator X, but it’s part of a lineage that stretches all the way back to 1982’s Flight Simulator 1.0. The graphics were rudimentary, but the quality improved with each iteration.
