Intel has been ordered by the US government to cease product shipments to the largest server company you’ve probably never heard of. Inspur isn’t quite as large as Dell or HPE, but it’s the third-largest server manufacturer in the world, with 11.7 percent of the global market in Q3 2019. The company is the largest server provider in mainland China. Intel has halted shipments to Inspur but has stated it expects shipments to resume in about two weeks, to GlobalTimes.cn. “Intel has temporarily paused shipments to this one customer in order to make a few changes to our supply chain as required by US law,” the company said in a statement.
The advent of games-as-a-service has driven a great deal of change throughout the industry. New content delivery models have proliferated. The industry, as a whole, has pivoted away from single-player. Cosmetic purchases and loot crates have been major points of controversy. Games that arrived DOA and previously would’ve been written off as bombs (No Man’s Sky, Anthem) instead receive a great deal of long-term work and, in some cases, wind up eventually delivering something like they promised. And sometimes, a company does something it could never have practically done before, like un-launching a game. Today, Amazon announced it was taking its new shooter, Crucible, offline and back into closed beta.
Curiosity has been exploring Mars for years, and NASA has been planning its successor for almost as long. The Perseverance rover is nearly complete, but NASA has been forced to delay the launch yet again. The rover will now launch no earlier than July 30th, putting it perilously close to the end of the launch window. Missing the window would be a major setback for the agency’s Mars exploration plans. Perseverance, previously known only as Mars 2020, borrows most of its design features from the wildly successful Curiosity rover, but NASA has also made some notable improvements. For example, Perseverance has , which should prevent the punctures and warping seen on Curiosity’s wheels.
“If there’s one word that can describe NordVPN, it has to be impressive.” That’s the analysis of PCWorld during their of the perennial VPN favorite. Over the process of touting the 12-year-old service’s roster of high-end features, they also note NordVPN’s “incredible” speeds, “excellent” performance, and overall ease of use for everyone from power users to novices. The rave is capped by dubbing the service “the best full-featured VPN” around. It’s a sterling assessment, yet one that isn’t uncommon for one of the leading providers of safe and secure web connectivity offering absolute online anonymity. Right now, you can get that level of protection for yourself with this limited time offer, .
Microsoft rolls out patches to Windows 10 on a more or less regular schedule these days, but it wastes no time when there’s a flaw that could put users at risk. The company is dealing with just such a scenario right now. in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 could allow attackers to create corrupted image files that let them execute remote code on machines. Microsoft’s mechanism for patching this flaw is a bit unusual, though. The bugs, known CVE-2020-1425 and CVE-2020-1457, are inside the Windows Codecs Library. This component contains the necessary software to decode and render many different image and video formats in Windows.
Dell’s UltraSharp U3415W is a feature-rich curved display with an ultrawide 2K resolution. Best of all, it’s currently on sale with a substantial discount that drops it to nearly $270, and it comes with a $100 gift card. Dell’s high-end UltraSharp U3415W display features an ultra-wide IPS curved display panel with a resolution of 3,440×1,440. The display also has excellent color support that extends to cover 91 percent of the CIE1976 color gamut, and it’s currently marked down from $819.99 to just $553.49 with promo code STAND4SMALL. Add to that a $100 gift card from Dell, and this is a deal that’s almost too good to pass up.
Despite launching a year earlier, Google’s Wear OS platform has been unable to make even a tiny dent in the Apple Watch’s market share. Certainly, some of the blame rests squarely on Google’s proverbial shoulders as it struggles to design compelling experiences on such a small screen. However, the sluggish, power-hungry wearable chipsets in watches have been an even bigger problem. Qualcomm has announced a . The Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100 Plus improve on the old Wear 3100 in every way, but it’ll take more than new hardware to turn around Google’s smartwatch project. First, a little history.
Once a company gains dominance in a market, its next step is often to scope out new worlds to conquer. That’s always been the philosophy driving Jeff Bezos and Amazon, so it’s no surprise that with the company’s cloud systems arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) now controlling , they’re looking for new challenges. That’s part of the movement behind the unveiling of Honeycode, AWS’s effort to . But with even more AWS features driving organizations to the platform, that only increases the responsibility on each company’s in-house AWS expert tasked with knowing all these IT systems and keeping them running smoothly.
With everyone stuck at home, the video game industry is booming with consoles selling out and game sales on the rise. But storing all those games requires an enormous amount of storage space. That’s exactly what WD’s Black P10 gives you, and it’s available now for just $99.99. WD designed its Game Drive external HDD as an easy-to-use accessory to give your Xbox One or PS4 more storage space for games. With an enormous 5TB of storage, this drive has more space than you are likely to ever need for your game console, and it can also be used with your PC or Mac.
