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Today you can get Apple’s premium wireless AirPods Pro headphones with a $25 discount from Verizon. This makes these high-end earbuds just $224.99, which is the lowest price we’ve seen on them to date. Apple’s new AirPods Pro utilizes a new design that’s different from the company’s older AirPod earphones. The key new feature that these earphones have is active noise cancellation. Each earphone also uses a custom driver and a high dynamic range amplifier to improve sound quality. You can snag them with a $25 discount from Verizon that drops the price from $249.99 to $224.99, which is the lowest price we’ve seen on them to date.

We’ve been expecting a new version of Windows 10 in the form of the “2020 H1 update.” Now, Microsoft has officially announced the new version as the “Windows 10 May 2020 Update.” As the name implies, it will start ; unless you want to join the Windows Insiders program. Then you can get the new build right this minute. Microsoft’s history with Windows 10 updates has been all over the map. Some have included major changes and new features, and others have been comparatively anemic bug fix bundles dressed up as an important update. The May 2020 Update is somewhere in between.

You have to be pretty smart for your name to become synonymous with intelligence. So, it’s not exactly shocking that many of Albert Einstein’s theories have been supported by observable evidence. Chalk up another posthumous win for Einstein — a new study of the black hole at the center of our galaxy (again). In 1915, Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which made numerous predictions about the nature of the universe. Relativity caused scientists to rethink a great many things, including the nature of Mercury’s orbit around the sun. A month after Einstein published his work, Karl Schwarzschild completed the first solutions of Einstein’s field equations to describe an orbital rotation now known as a Schwarzschild precession.

The writing was on the wall for the 3DS as soon as the Nintendo Switch proved such a hit. While the smaller, cheaper console had a respectable run at 75.17 million units sold, sales fell off a cliff once the Switch proved it had staying power and popularity. It’s been clear for a while now that the was the future of Nintendo’s efforts, which is what makes this latest rumor rather interesting. According to Mike Heskin, a vulnerability researcher and reverse-engineering enthusiast, the latest Switch firmware, 10.0.0, contains some interesting clues about future operating modes, including a new hardware model “nx-abcd.

Just when you thought the “Can it Run Crysis” meme might be finally, mercifully consigned to the dustbin of history, Crytek has announced it’ll be remastering the original game for modern hardware. The original Crysis, released in 2007, was lauded for amazing visuals. It was one of the first AAA games to use DirectX 10 and it was the tremendous difficulty of running it at top detail and high resolution in that mode that gave rise to the “Can it run Crysis?” meme in the first place. It was somewhat ironic that Crysis got saddled with the reputation at all, because the game actually scaled quite well at lower detail levels when running DX9, and was playable on a broad range of hardware.

Password management has passed the point of no return. Lastpass’s annual survey of password security last year found employees at small companies had Without the assistance of a password manager, handling even a quarter of that number from memory is a nightmare without using simple, recycled passwords that are easy targets for experienced cyber thieves. A quality management app like is a reliable way to keep all those logins safe from criminals and your own finite brainpower. Backed by a nearly perfect 4.9 out of 5-star rating from over 130,000 reviews in the Apple App Store, Keeper automatically creates rock-solid randomized passwords for every system login, password prompt and website registration you encounter.

Sony may be reducing the number of PlayStation 5s that it intends to sell this year, thanks to a mixture of price concerns and COVID-19. The PlayStation 5 is widely expected to cost more than its predecessor, with estimates of $499 to $549 not being uncommon. It’s worth noting that the PlayStation 4’s $400 launch price in 2013 is ~$442 in 2020 when accounting for inflation. A $500 PS5 wouldn’t actually be all that much more expensive than the launch price of the PS4. For comparison, the PlayStation 3 launched at $640 and $767 in 2020 dollars ($499 and $599 in 2006 dollars).

Today there are several strong deals to be had on Dell PCs, including the company’s powerful and popular Alienware Aurora gaming desktop that comes equipped with a powerful Nvidia RTX 2080 Super graphics card. Dell’s Alienware Aurora pairs a fast Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics card with an immensely powerful Intel Core i7-9700 processor. The system also comes with a 1TB HDD and 8GB of DDR4 RAM. This system typically retails for $1,629.99, but with promo code LCS10OFF you can get it from Dell for just $1,359.00. Equipped with an overclockable Intel Core i7 processor and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super graphics card, this desktop has enormous gaming potential.

SSDs are increasingly popular these days, but there’s still plenty of demand for large spinning disks in the enterprise sector and still some home users who prefer sheer capacity to raw speed when building a storage array. Both Seagate and Western Digital sell a variety of drives to fill this market space — and both companies stand accused of pulling a bait and switch on customers by pushing SMR (shingled magnetic recording) products without informing users of that fact. Standard are built using PMR, or perpendicular recording. In an SMR drive, each track is partly laid over the next, forming a structure that looks like the shingles of a roof.