If you’re a fan of Apple products, today is your lucky day. There are deals currently available on several of Apple’s most popular products, including hundreds of dollars marked off a MacBook Pro and the best price we’ve seen on the newest Apple smartwatch. Apple designed its high-end Macbook Pro with both a high-performance Intel Core i9 processor and a fast AMD GPU. This gives the system the power it needs to accelerate image processing and to run modern games. The system also has a 16-inch Retina display and an aluminum shell, giving it a premium look and feel.
Earlier this week, we covered MediaTek’s exciting new “Benchmark cheating as a service” (BCaaS) operating mode that it ships on its products. Today, we discovered that MediaTek attempted to refute the claims with an article of its own before the investigation results had even been published by Anandtech. Pro tip: If a company publishes a response to an article in a reputable publication before that one even runs, they’re invariably attempting to get out ahead of it with their own spin. Let’s examine in some detail. I’ll italicize the various dishonest statements, misrepresentations, and a few flat-out lies.
Google has finally had an idea for how to expand Stadia’s audience, and it only took a worldwide pandemic for the company to realize there might be a better way to reach potential customers. A recent company blog states: Video games can be a valuable way to socialize with friends and family when you’re stuck at home, so we’re giving gamers in 14 countries free access to Stadia Pro for two months. This is starting today and rolling out over the next 48 hours You can read our review of Stadia by my colleague Ryan Whitwam .
Microsoft of its dual-screen future late last year with the Surface Duo and Neo, but that future might be further away than we thought. According to a new report, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer Panos Panay told his teams that the Windows-based Surface Neo . The company also won’t allow its partners to ship any dual-screen devices with Windows 10X this year. The Surface Neo is a striking device that harkens back to the Courier concept that sparked excitement a decade ago. It sports a pair of 9-inch screens with a 360-degree hinge. When open side-by-side, the Neo has a 13-inch diagonal display space.
We all know VPN protection is a must when you go online. However, ensuring that coverage can be difficult if you travel often, juggle a lot of web-enabled devices, or are forced to dabble in the very murky waters of dodgy public WiFi networks. Instead of making sure a VPN connection is working in your particular area or on each individual device, the is a solid answer to those problems. Right now, it’s available for About the size of a smartphone itself, the InvizBox Go is a fully portable router with its own VPN-powered connection to the web, capable of protecting all your devices and encrypting all your information, even if you’re logged into public WiFi.
OnePlus exploded onto the smartphone scene in 2014 with the aggressively priced OnePlus One. The company continued to gain market share by undercutting more established smartphone makers like Samsung and LG. That trend might not continue with the upcoming OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro. A new leak points to prices that are almost as high as Samsung’s, and that could disappoint a lot of OnePlus fans. As recently as last year, was still pushing flagship-tier phones that cost hundreds less than comparable devices from other OEMs. For example, the OnePlus 7T started at just $600, and it had a Snapdragon 855 Plus processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 90Hz OLED panel.
Dell has several of its most popular computers on sale, including the company’s G5 and Alienware Aurora gaming desktops. Dell built this gaming desktop with an Intel Core i5-9400 and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics processor. Together, this hardware can run games with high settings at 1080p resolution. The system also has a unique front panel that looks cool and edgy, and with promo code 50OFF699 you can get it now marked down from $918.99 to just $799.99 from Dell. Dell upgraded this laptop with one of Intel’s new 10th generation Core i5-10210U processors that has four CPU cores clocked at 1.6GHz.
When last we heard from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), the team had just made history by producing the . Now, the EHT has turned its attention to a more distant black hole. This one has a jet of high-energy relativistic material pointed right at Earth, and the EHT has . The world-famous EHT picture from 2017 featured the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87, a galaxy about 55 million light-years away. The new observation focuses on a galaxy known as 3C279, which is an incredible 5 billion light-years away from Earth. It’s amazing we can see anything at that distance, let alone with this much detail.
Despite all the new coding breakthroughs and innovations made over the years, the venerable Python language continues to be Python is easy to learn, easy to use, blends easily with other programming languages and doesn’t create new roadblocks to finishing your build. On top of that, the already popular discipline has only become a more ubiquitous presence now that it’s a backbone of burgeoning fields like data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Since it’s already a perennial hit and only posed to be a bigger fixture on the programming landscape, it would serve any new creators well to get up to speed.
