In a video game landscape dominated by massive guns, high-octane action, and spectacle worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster, it’s interesting that the is about a guy who goes for long walks, gathers shells and occasionally stops to fish. But Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the newest game in the popular franchise, was a bonafide quarantine smash, breaking previous records and offering a surprisingly serene and tranquil alternative to our current global concerns. Right now, we want to help lower your blood pressure by giving you a copy of the game, a Nintendo Switch, and some other killer prizes if you enter and win happening right now.
For the first time in years, is gearing up to send humans to the Moon. The agency’s Artemis program aims to have boots on the Moon by 2024, but those boots will necessarily be preceded by wheels. VIPER is one of the many robotic missions currently planned to support human exploration of the Moon, and NASA has to get VIPER to the lunar south pole. In the Apollo era, scientists believed the Moon was a dry, lifeless chunk of rock. It is indeed lifeless, but we now know there is water on the Moon in the form of ice.
Jim Keller, the designer behind AMD’s Zen and lead chip architect at Intel for the past two years, has left the company abruptly. Intel’s statement on the matter says only that Keller departed for “personal reasons,” and that he will serve as a consultant for six months following the transition. Keller’s departure came as a surprise to many in the industry. Only last month, a glowing Fortune declared that Intel was “betting its chips” on Keller. The same article notes that Jim has a tendency to join companies and do the initial work only to depart afterward, but his two-year tenure at Intel is still short, even by his standards.
Dell’s Vostro laptops are well equipped to handle the heavy workloads of today’s offices, and for a limited time, you can get one of these fine systems with the price cut nearly in half. This particular system comes loaded with a 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor and it has a 256GB NVMe SSD to quickly boot and load files. Dell upgraded this laptop with Intel’s new 10th generation Core i5-10210U processor that has four CPU cores clocked at 1.6GHz. The system also comes with a fast NVMe SSD storage device, a 1080p display, and an AMD Radeon 610 graphics processor for running low-end games.
There are a lot of things in the universe that we don’t fully understand, and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are at the top of the list. We didn’t even know these phenomena even existed until 2007, and since then we’ve seen dozens of these seemingly random bursts of energy. Recently, teams from around the world have started to spot recurring FRBs, and they may have a pattern. A new analysis of one particular FRB source says it , which might help us figure out what’s causing it in the first place. The first recorded FRB occurred in 2001, but the data wasn’t analyzed until 2007.
Every now and again, stories surface of ISPs that threaten their heaviest users, typically with the goal of convincing them to reduce their network consumption or purchase “unlimited” bandwidth options. Cox appears to have hit upon another method — first threatening and then following through on cutting the bandwidth speeds to entire neighborhoods as a means of punishing a single customer. Ars Technica of a Cox customer who was paying the company $100 a month for gigabit service, plus $50 per month for unlimited data. The customer, “Mike,” uses 8-12TB of data per month on device backups and “data sharing via various (encrypted) information-sharing protocols.
Motherboard vendors, as a group, do not have the best relationship with honest benchmarking. For decades, board manufacturers have used various tactics to improve performance, including overclocking the FSB by a few percentage points, overriding Intel’s per-core Turbo settings to implement all-core maximum clocks when XMP was enabled, and setting Intel PL2 and Tau values far in excess of anything Intel recommends to maximize benchmark results. Now, it seems some vendors have developed a new method of accelerating AMD CPUs — one that runs counter to AMD’s explicit guidelines and that could be shortening the lifespan of your without your knowledge.
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If you act fast, today you can order one of Samsung’s Galaxy A51 smartphone with $110 marked off its regular retail price. This mid-range phone is equipped with a high-res super AMOLED display and a quad-camera setup that gives you an overall rich feature set, all for an affordable price. There’s also an excellent deal on one of Dell’s Vostro 5000 desktops that comes equipped with a Core i7 and can be bought today with a 50 percent discount. Samsung’s Galaxy A51 is a feature-rich, mid-range smartphone that sports a 5-inch super AMOLED display with a resolution of 2,400×1,080.
