Wyze has made its name by offering smart home gadgets at startlingly low prices compared to the big-name competitors. The company is now looking to branch out into smart wearables with the Wyze Band. It looks like a fairly standard fitness tracker, but it sports Amazon Alexa integration and (we assume) a low price tag. Wyze sells products that hover around the $20 level. It has a 1080p security camera that rivals devices that cost five or ten times more. It also offers an $8 smart bulb that can do most of the same things as a $30 Philips Hue bulb.
If you retained anything from middle school biology, it’s probably that the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. This is true of every animal in the world, except for one. Scientists have reported that a microscopic parasite known as Henneguya salminicola has no mitochondrial genome. Therefore, it’s the only animal ever discovered . Henneguya salminicola is a microscopic myxosporean parasite of fish that is related to the phylum Cnidaria (jellyfish, sea anemones, etc.). Scientists believe that H. salminicola and other members of its genus may have been more similar to jellies in the past, but their parasitic nature led to the loss of many traits to simplify reproduction.
Ever since AMD launched third-generation Ryzen back in July, there’s been evidence that the company’s CPUs were selling extremely well in the PC component channel. One company, European retailer Mindfactory, has released regular data dumps with retail sales comparisons showing AMD spiking to 80-82 percent market share. Now, leaked information suggests the trend has continued into February, which aligns well with overall Newegg and Amazon data. CPU Retail Sales (Mindfactory Week 8) – AMD Dominance: 4185 units sold (+165), 86.11% (+0.56%), ASP: 212 (-13): 675 (-5), 13.89%, ASP: 291.35 (+19) AMD Revenue: 887'595 Euro, 81.86% Intel: 196'665, 18.14%
Today only you can get a high-capacity 6TB Western Digital HDD for the reduced price of just $111.99. Western Digital’s Blue drives are well known for their long-lasting endurance and solid, if not fast, performance. This drive comes with enough space to store 6TB of data and 256MB of cache to accelerate file navigation. Typically priced at $138.70, you can get this drive today for just $111.99 from Amazon. Dell built its Alienware M17 to be a powerful mobile gaming machine. This system’s Core i7-9750H processor and RTX 2060 graphics card offer desktop-level performance.
NASA’s InSight lander has been on Mars for more than a year now, and it’s slowly revealing new facets of the red planet’s story. We used to think of Mars as a dead world, but missions like InSight have increasingly shown there’s a little life left in Mars. In a series of newly published papers, NASA scientists report that InSight has detected more than 450 marsquakes in the last year. That’s more than they expected to detect, but the magnitude is . InSight is a stationary lander that touched down in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars in November 2018.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the United States will triple its operational weather and climate supercomputing capacity, and double its storage and interconnect speed, thanks to the installation of a pair of new Cray systems in Manassas, Virginia and Phoenix, Arizona in the next two years. The goal is to boost weather and climate forecast with more detailed, higher-resolution Earth models that will employ larger ensembles, advanced physics, and improved data assimilation, the NOAA said in a . Each new Cray machine will have a 12-petaflop capacity, meaning it can do 12 quadrillion floating-point operations per second (FLOPS).
HTC has struggled to remain relevant in smartphones, but it’s still hanging on in . While Oculus has seen massive success with the Quest, HTC is planning for the future with the Vive “Project Proton” concepts. The company alongside the updated Cosmos VR headset lineup, but unlike the latter, Proton isn’t ready for prime time. If these headsets ever do launch, they could really change the game. HTC has a pair of Proton concepts. There’s an all-in-one model and a two-in-one, which requires an external device like a phone or computer. HTC CEO Yves Maitre says the new headsets will be “really, really close to normal glasses.
You could be the greatest driver in the world, but if you don’t know your way around under the hood, it could take no more than an unscrewed cap to put you on the sidelines. Similarly, you could have the greatest app idea ever, but if you don’t know how to build it, your brilliant idea goes unexplored. () can help make sure that never happens to you, offering beginner-friendly training in the most important languages, platforms and tools for getting a mobile app off the ground. The 20-plus hours of training gets started with Intro to Java for Android Development and iOS Application Development for Beginners, two courses designed as a primer on Java, a primary coding language for mobile development; as well as Android and iOS, the two most robust operating systems for new app usage.
Smartphones collect a mountain of data about the person using them, and apps have long abused that fact for advertising and marketing purposes. Your location is one of the most sensitive bits of data apps can collect, and Google is . Android 11 includes some new location privacy features, but those on older versions of Android will benefit from a spate of Play Store policy changes. Even in the early days of Android, Google allowed users to block location access. However, it was an all-or-nothing situation. You could turn off all location access on the device or leave it on.
