Customer satisfaction is always a prime indicator of whether a product or service is connecting with its intended audience. And by those metrics, Amazon’s Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) third-party selling system is posting some overwhelmingly satisfying numbers, according to survey results. In fact, more than 92 percent of sellers surveyed in 2019 said they were happy enough with their results that they would . That’s a ridiculously high batting average for any company, let alone one with the name recognition and market standing of Amazon. For those looking to start their own Amazon partnership, the training found in offers a concise roadmap for building a storefront in the Amazon environment — and finding out what all those jubilant statistics are about.
Microsoft used to release new versions of Windows like clockwork every couple of years, but we’ve been on Windows 10 for quite a while now. The company has instead released free feature updates for the operating system once or twice per year. Although, rolling those updates out can be perilous. Currently, Microsoft’s latest May 2020 update is as the company works to resolve a raft of issues. The May 2020 update began hitting computers last week, but almost all the updated devices are from Microsoft’s own Surface lineup. Although, many Surface models are still waiting like those of us with other Windows-powered hardware.
If you need a new work computer then today you can take advantage of some deals from Dell to save hundreds on your purchase of a high-performance desktop or laptop. Dell upgraded this laptop with one of Intel’s new 10th generation Core i7-10510U processors that has four CPU cores that can hit clock speeds as high as 4.9GHz. The system also comes with a fast NVMe SSD storage device and a 1080p display, which makes it well suited for everyday tasks. It can even run some games with low settings thanks to a low-end Nvidia GPU.
SpaceX has officially made history with the first successful launch of humans into space by a private company. The Crew Dragon capsule, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, safely reached orbit 12 minutes into the launch and is now on its way to the International Space Station. It was the first crewed launch from American soil in almost nine years following the retirement of the Space Shuttle program. The joint NASA-SpaceX collaboration means the US no longer has to rely on Russian Soyuz launches to move astronauts to and from the International Space Station. As part of the launch, the first stage of the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket successfully landed on the company’s drone ship, appropriately named Of Course I Still Love You.
For years, the Raspberry Pi has been the premier single-board computer for hobbyists. These devices cost as little as $5 and include all the core components of a computer, but there are also more powerful versions. The latest Raspberry Pi 4 has a . Combined with its quad-core ARM chip and ample I/O options, the latest Raspberry Pi 4 can take on even more tasks that would have required a PC in the past. It even has a new 64-bit OS to leverage all that RAM. The launched last year in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB RAM configurations. The rest of the hardware was a solid improvement over past versions with a pair of HDMI outputs, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, and a quad-core Cortex-A72 ARM chip clocked at 1.5GHz.
Updated (11/25/2020): It’s the holidays and things are slow, so we thought we’d re-surface these tips from Dave Plummer on how to use Task Manager to best effectiveness. Happy Thanksgiving. If you’ve used Windows for longer than an hour or two, chances are that you’ve interacted with Task Manager. The utility has been present in every version of Windows going back to Windows 95, though the version that shipped with that OS was far more primitive and it didn’t open when you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del (that key command opened the “Close Program” dialog instead). Now, the author of the application, Dave Plummer, has published his own guide to using it, including some tips we’ve never seen before.
Over the past decade, artificial intelligence and machine learning have emerged as major hotbeds of research, driven by advances in GPU computing, software algorithms, and specialized hardware design. New data suggests that at least some of the algorithmic improvements of the past decade may have been smaller than previously thought. Researchers working to validate long-term improvements in various AI algorithms have found where modest updates to old solutions allowed them to match newer approaches that had supposedly superseded them. The team compared 81 different pruning algorithms released over a ten year period and found no clear and unambiguous evidence of improvement over that period of time.
I don’t normally write up individual CPU sales or deals, but AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is currently $540 off its $3,990 base price. That corresponds to a price cut of ~14 percent, which is fairly significant for a chip in this market segment. I spent quite a bit of time earlier this year, including an early effort to hit a world record overclock courtesy of Mother Nature. For a brief window of time earlier this year, ET held the second-highest Cinebench R20 score, though other overclockers with access to LN2 have since hit higher performance levels. You can grab the chip
If you have huge performance needs, or if you just want to build an astonishingly powerful PC, you won’t want to miss this deal. For a limited time, you can get AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, which is among the most powerful CPUs on the market today with 64 CPU cores. Right now you can get it with a $540 discount, which helps take the sting off of buying one of these costly yet powerful CPUs. AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 3990X is arguably the single most powerful processor on the market today with a whopping 64 CPU cores and an astonishingly high number of threads that sits at 128.
