It may have wowed the world with its “Whale” demo a few years ago, but after raising over $2B and selling an estimated 6,000 headsets in the first six months after launch, Magic Leap may have met its Snake River Canyon. The company is reportedly working with an advisory firm to explore options. According to , Magic Leap could be worth up to $10B. This is amusing for several reasons, ranging from “Has anyone checked the Dow lately?” to the colossal difference between what Magic Leap promised and what it delivered. To refresh you, what Magic Leap promised looked like this:
Today there are several strong deals to be had on Dell PCs, including the company’s powerful and popular Alienware Aurora gaming desktop. Dell’s Alienware Aurora pairs a fast Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super graphics card with an immensely powerful Intel Core i7-9700 processor. The system also comes with a 512GB SSD and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. This system typically retails for $1,669.99, but with promo code AWAUR8AFF you can get it from Dell for just $1,149.99. iRobot’s Roomba 890 features a powerful three-stage cleaning system to thoroughly clean your floors as it navigates your home.
AWS might be one of the more established platforms in the cloud services game, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best. Azure, Microsoft’s own cloud computing answer to AWS, is being used by . So if you want to make it big working in IT for a Fortune 500 company and your IT portfolio doesn’t include proficiency in the Azure environment, now’s the time to correct that with . This collection has a fairly straight-forward objective to teach new Azure users everything they need to know to pass a number of Microsoft’s own Azure certification exams. In addition to all the important Azure training, this package includes a huge assortment of intensive Azure practice exams, including 15-question quizzes and up to five full-length simulation tests each to get you familiar with all the mechanics of taking these all-important certification tests.
Security is a topic that I take seriously and try to cover with an even hand. When people need to know if a given piece of software or hardware is safe, they need a clear-eyed view of the situation in neutral terms, not a ton of colorful language. For over two years, we’ve covered serious issues like Spectre and Meltdown, as well as a range of similar, Spectre-class attacks. While companies like Apple, ARM, and AMD have all been impacted to some extent, Intel has been the worst affected. Unfortunately, it’s starting to look like the PR departments working with security researchers the world over have taken a very real problem with problematic leakage of data in side-channel attacks and are now spinning theoretical scenarios that aren’t backed up by the data in the documents themselves.
COVID-19, the novel coronavirus first spotted in China, has spread across the globe, infecting people in 114 countries. Now, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stepped in to make an important declaration. COVID-19 is . The WHO stresses that it is still possible for countries to stop the spread of coronavirus, but it’s going to take international cooperation and swift action. The first confirmed cases of COVID-19 appeared several months ago in China’s Hubei province, but it’s possible infections had been simmering at a low level for months before that. Cases shot up in February 2020, prompting the Chinese government to institute harsh public health measures to slow the spread.
The E3 game show — formally expected to be held from June 9-11, 2020 — has been canceled. The show drew some 66,000 thousand people to LA last year, including yours truly, but the show’s future had been on the chopping block since prominent sponsors started pulling out. The announcement is at least well-timed, given that the , the virus that causes the illness known as Covid-19. According to StatMeds, there are basically two paths the virus could take. First, the virus could become more-or-less permanently resident in human populations, with outbreaks occurring throughout the entire year.
The best deals available today include a couple of high-end Dell laptops and a 55-inch dimming 4k TV. If you want a fast notebook with plenty of performance for running the latest games, then you may want to consider Dell’s Alienware M15 R1. This system was literally built for gaming and it features a fast six-core processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 1660 Ti, and a high-quality 1080p 144Hz IPS display. You can get this system from Dell marked down from $1,749.99 to $1,199.99 with promo code AWM15R1AFF. Roku’s Premiere media player features 4K and HDR video support and competes directly with Amazon’s Fire TV 4K.
Google’s Pixel 4 and 4 XL debuted late last year to mixed reviews, and the budget companions of those phones should arrive soon. The rumored Pixel 4a has appeared on video, complete with specs, first impressions, and plenty of footage of the design. If the 4a is anything like the 3a, it could really put the company’s current flagship phones to shame. The latest leak comes by way of a Spanish-language YouTube channel called TechnoLike Plus. The video features what we believe is the smaller Pixel 4a — a 4a XL is probably very similar, sporting a larger screen and battery.
In 2009, the European Commission found that Intel had abused its market position with respect to AMD and slapped the company with a €1.06B ($1.45B at 2009 exchange rates) fine. In 2014, the General Court of the European Union upheld the judgment. In 2017, however, Intel won relief from the European Court of Justice, which ordered a new trial. That’s where we are today. Intel is once again making the case that its exclusivity rebates had no impact on AMD, despite the fact that they placed steep restrictions on how many AMD systems could be sold. Intel’s counter-argument is that these deals were ones the OEMs could walk away from, that they only covered a fraction of the market, that AMD was supply limited, and that nothing in EU law states that exclusivity rebates are automatically anti-competitive.
