The United States is currently experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases as states begin dropping restrictions and allowing businesses to open once again. With people venturing outside and returning to offices, it’s more important than ever to neutralize coronavirus particles on surfaces before they can add to the infection rate. MIT has developed a robot that navigates around spaces to . The team has even tested the system at a Boston-area food bank with encouraging results. The most significant source of coronavirus particles is an infected person, but such people can leave behind viruses on surfaces and drifting through the air that can be infectious for several days.
Microsoft has decided to begin rolling out its own Edge replacement to PC users across the world. Inevitably, this has caused problems — updates always cause issues for someone — but there’s an array of issues lighting up Reddit and Microsoft’s own tech support forums. Depending on which version of Windows you have, you’ll receive one of three different updates: : Intended for Windows 10 1803 and 1809. : Intended for Windows 10 1903 and 1909. : Intended for all Windows versions, 1803 – 2004 Those who have installed KB4559309 are reporting a laundry list of issues, including very slow boot times, markedly worse performance when gaming, external hard drives not working properly, display failures, printing problems, and Office files failing to open.
If you’re looking for a feature-rich display for your office, Dell’s UltraSharp U2720Q may be your perfect option. This monitor has a 4K resolution and excellent color accuracy that makes it well-suited for professional work projects. Best of all, it’s available now with a $100 gift card and hundreds knocked off the retail price. Working on a 4K monitor has some major advantages, including fitting more on-screen at any given time. This display from Dell utilizes a 27-inch 4K panel that also supports 1.07 billion colors, making it well-suited for image editing. Right now you can get one from Dell marked down from $719.99 to $485.99.
OnePlus is about to offer relief to fans who have been increasingly dismayed each time the company launches a phone at a higher price. CEO Pete Lau confirmed recently that the company would release a less expensive phone, and now we know a bit more about it. A new report claims the budget OnePlus , both occupying a cutout in the display. The latest leaks seem to agree on the name of this phone: OnePlus Nord. It’s not official, so the company could end up giving it a different moniker before release — other supposed names include and OnePlus 8 Lite.
Now that Apple and x86 have made their impending breakup official, attention has turned to when the company made that decision and why. According to an ex-Intel engineer, Apple pulled the trigger as far back as 2015, after it saw how buggy the Skylake CPU and platform were. Francois Piednoël relayed the story while playing Xplane and streaming on YouTube. According to him, Skylake’s wretched quality assurance (QA) process caused Apple to turn away from Intel and explore its own options. The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem. It was abnormally bad. We were getting way too much citing for little things inside Skylake.
Last year, before Microsoft unveiled the Xbox Series X, there were rumors of two consoles: Anaconda and Lockhart. When the console finally debuted, however, only one system was discussed. There’ve been rumors about Lockhart since, but not much more. Now, leaked documents have confirmed Microsoft is reportedly planning to release a Lockhart console, targeting either 1080p or 1440p gaming. Rumored specs on the device are 7.5GB of useable RAM, a “slightly underclocked” CPU speed, and around 4TFLOPS of GPU performance, to The Verge,. That’s substantially less than the Xbox Series X, which has 13.5GB of useable RAM and promises ~12 TFLOPS of performance.
After over a year in beta testing, Cox is rolling out its Elite Gamer add-on for new customers. The ISP claims it can improve your latency by up to 32 percent if you subscribe to the service, though some caveats apply. Cox’s service costs $7 per month if you have your own router and $11 per month if you rent its “Panoramic Wi-Fi Gateway.” What Cox is offering is a GPN — Gamers Private Network. If you’ve heard of WTFast, reports a year ago stated Cox was implementing its own version of the technology. Because Cox Elite Gamer is used to optimize public network traffic, this kind of service would have been explicitly legal, even under the old, now-defunct net neutrality rules.
The hard work of astronomers around the world using instruments like the Kepler Space Telescope has shown there’s no shortage of planets in the cosmos. Most of those are far away, but a handful are right next door (on an astronomical scale). The “RedDots” team from the University of Göttingen has reported the discovery of two new exoplanets just a few stars away orbiting Gliese 887, and they’re of the . Astronomers have devised two ways to reliably detect exoplanets with our current technology. Most exoplanets are discovered by monitoring stars for a small dip in luminance caused by planets passing in front of them.
You may not have heard, but Australia is under attack. While bombs aren’t raining over Brisbane or military forces rolling through Melbourne, the country is currently that’s targeting Australian institutions from universities and hospitals to business and government systems. Everyone online is vulnerable these days, from one of the world’s largest economies to you. But while Australia’s problem is decidedly multifaceted, yours can generally be handled with much simpler means. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the first and best lines of defense against cyberattacks or the general loss of privacy online. Right now, you can defend yourself with service, a nearly $300 plan now .
