The web just continues to expand our world. If you can’t find a book you’re looking for on Amazon.com, you might find it on Amazon’s German storefront Amazon.de. If you don’t read German, that’s usually where a helpful resource like Google Translate can step in and convert the foreign text into your native tongue. But what if you need to understand the spoken words in a podcast? Or figure out the translation of words in a picture? Unless you transcribe it all yourself, then feed it into a translator, you’re pretty much out of luck. Thankfully, the founders behind have advanced instant translation capabilities to the next level.
It’s widely agreed that re-opening major portions of our economy relatively safely will require an extensive testing and contact-tracing system. Manual contact tracing — where those who test positive are interviewed about recent travel and person-to-person contacts — is expensive, hard to scale, and error-prone. So it is natural to see if digital technologies can help. There are almost as many different approaches to how that might work as there are countries. But they fall into a few broad categories in terms of which technologies they use, how much data they store, and how they protect privacy. Here’s a look at some of the current and planned efforts, with a focus on those being piloted for deployment in the US.
Theaters across the country are closed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a new film. Pick up a large 4K TV and you can enjoy movies in stunning detail from the comfort and safety of your own living room. This inexpensive 4K TV costs just $299.99 from Dell and it comes with a $75 Dell eGift Card, which makes it an incredible deal. Don’t mistake this TV’s low price for a lack of features, however, as it supports HDR and can stream content from numerous sources just like the more expensive competition. Vizio also added built-in voice controls to this TV, which lets you control it without the need for a remote.
If projections made by analysts with Cybersecurity Ventures hold, someone somewhere this year will create . With 7.8 billion people on the planet, that works out to over 38 unique passwords out there for every person on Earth. It’s likely you don’t have to keep track of 38 passwords yourself, but your personal number is still probably higher than you’d like. And the odds that you can keep your personal and professional logins straight, especially with mandatory updating, is tough if not impossible today. No one can remember all that and stay secure without the help of a service like.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) usually builds spacecraft, but the team unveiled a medical ventilator recently that it had . The device, designed specifically for COVID-19 patients, could be the difference between life and death as hospitals around the world run low on this critical equipment. NASA now says that , allowing the device to be used in hospitals. The new strain of coronavirus has spread across the globe, resulting in more than 3 million confirmed infections and over 200,000 deaths. The virus attacks the lungs, with the most common symptoms being cough and fever. However, some patients develop difficulty breathing that can progress to severe respiratory distress.
We already knew that USB4 would be a versatile standard partly derived from Intel’s Thunderbolt technology, but it looks like the upcoming standard will have more features than we knew. VESA has announced that USB4 will fully support DisplayPort 2.0 through the “DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0” spec, allowing it to power either 3x 10K monitors or 1x 16K monitor at 60Hz. If you’re wondering at the difference, it has to do with the underlying resolution. 10K is 10240×4320 (approximately 21:9), or 44.2MP. 16K is 15360×8640 (16:9) or 132.7MP. 16 is only 1.6x larger than 10, but 16K packs 3x the pixels of 10K.
Mother’s Day is right around the corner, but if you haven’t picked up a gift for your mother yet then don’t worry, there’s still plenty of time. In this article, we’ve got great suggestions for what to buy your mother this year, and you can get these sent straight to you or her without having to go out. Apple’s newest smartwatch is the company’s first to feature an always-on display, which remains illuminated and provides on-screen information for the entire time the watch remains on. Like last year’s model, the new Watch Series 5 offers up to 18 hours of battery life on a single charge.
Rumors are rocketing around the ‘net that AMD is preparing to launch a 48-core Ryzen Threadripper 3980X, based on a fake image being passed around on Twitter. It’s a superficially tempting thought, as it offers the prospect of a high-core-count CPU with perhaps slightly higher clocks . But there are multiple reasons to believe this screenshot is untrue. Said fake looks like this: Fake 3980X screenshot. AMD has already stated it has no plans to launch a 48-core chip and none of the information we’ve uncovered about this screenshot suggests it has any intention of changing them. In the past, AMD has indicated that the mid-tier Threadripper parts don’t tend to sell very well; customers either go for the sweet spot chips or the highest-end parts, but not much in-between.
Today you can get a refurbished 13.4-inch Dell laptop with a Core i7 processor and a $450 discount from PCMag’s online shop. Dell designed this notebook to be a high-end solution for work and travel. The metal-clad notebook features a fast Intel Core i7-1065G7 quad-core processor and a 1920×1200 display. According to Dell, this system also has excellent battery life and can last for up to 21 hours on a single charge. Right now you can one that’s refurbished from PCMag’s online shop marked down from $1,649.99 to $1,199.99. Working on a 4K monitor has some major advantages including being able to fit more on-screen at any given time.
