Today you can grab one of Apple’s 2019 10.2-inch iPads from Amazon with a $100 discount. This makes Apple’s most affordable iPad even more so at just $329.99 for the 128GB model or $249.99 for the 32GB version. The new 2019 iPad features the company’s A10 processor that first debuted in the iPhone 7 at the end of 2016. Although that makes this tablet’s hardware a few years old, you get get the performance of this former flagship with a large high-def screen and with 128GB of storage space. Right now you can get one from Amazon marked down from $429.00 to $329.00.
Dynetics, a defense and aerospace company, has announced that it successfully tested its X-61A Gremlin Air Vehicle in November of 2019. The flight, which lasted for one hour and 41 minutes, demonstrated a number of the drone aircraft’s capabilities. The drone successfully completed the entire test but was destroyed after its main parachute failed to deploy. Dynetics intends to continue testing with its other four drones. The purpose of this test was for to demonstrate that its GAV could launch from a C-130, as well as test various capabilities like wing deployment, cold engine start, and transition to stable, powered flight, verify performance and communication links between ground and air controllers, and collect data on the drone’s overall performance.
Between Intel’s recently-filed annual report and its full-year 2019 results, some interesting information has dropped recently about the company. Intel had a record-breaking 2019, with $72B in yearly revenue across its various product segments. Data center (servers) and client PC (desktop, mobile) tend to be where we focus at ET, so we’ll check the big picture first. Data center revenue rose 19 percent year-on-year to $7.2B. Operating income rose in absolute terms though margin slipped slightly, from 50 percent to 48 percent. Meanwhile, in client, revenue ticked up very slightly, from $9.8B to $10B in the past quarter.
Over the last few years, we’ve seen a notable increase in the number of notebook shipping with AMD Ryzen processors. MSI’s is one of the company’s newest gaming laptops to ship with an AMD CPU. With the Alpha 15’s rich, gaming-oriented set of features, does it have what it takes to compete with Intel? Let’s take a look. Features & Design At the core of the Alpha 15 is an AMD Ryzen 7 3750H processor and an AMD Radeon RX 5500M GPU. Priced at $999.99, this system also comes with 16GB of RAM, a half-terabyte PCI-E SSD, and a fast 144Hz 1080p FreeSync display.
Minecraft. Fortnite. Red Dead Redemption II. Overwatch. In case you’ve been entirely disconnected, you know gaming in 2020 is all about online multiplayer games. And, for the PlayStation owners out there, if you want to play online, you need a subscription to PlayStation Plus. Right now, you can get for the regular annual price. Sony currently boasts , meaning you’ll always find healthy competition to play any of your favorites anytime, anywhere. But even if you’re a trend-bucking lone wolf, there are still loads of advantages to a PlayStation Plus membership. If saved games are clogging up your home console, PS Plus lets you just save them to the cloud, including up to 100GB of game storage.
As we’ve learned time and time again, “free” things on the internet are almost never truly free. If you’re not paying with money, you’re probably paying with your data. That’s the case with the free antivirus products from Avast, which harvest browsing history for sale to major corporations. Despite claims that its data is fully anonymized, an shows how easy it is to unmask individual users. Avast, which offers antivirus products under its own brand as well as AVG, has traditionally gotten high marks for its malware blocking prowess. When setting up the company’s free AV suite, users are asked to opt into data collection.
Facial recognition technology is more widespread than ever — many people have phones in their pockets that use advanced sensors and algorithms to make sure no one else can access their data. However, law enforcement is also increasingly using facial recognition data to scan crowds for known criminals. The city of London is the latest to add this capability to its public safety arsenal. The city claims it’s being careful with the data, though. London’s Metropolitan Police Service has technology at multiple points around the city. Signs will alert people that facial recognition is in use, but the cameras will scan crowds indiscriminately in search of wanted individuals.
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DNA testing used to be prohibitively expensive for the average consumer, but companies like 23andMe have made DNA testing kits an impulse buy. After enjoying years of modest growth, 23andMe has seen its sales drop in recent quarters. CEO Anne Wojcicki confirms the company is , or about 14 percent of its workforce. She speculates privacy concerns are the driving force behind the company’s declining sales. Wojcicki says she’s been surprised by the downward trend, but the company is committed to making changes to fit the market. This round of job cuts focuses mainly on the company’s operations division, which worked on 23andMe’s growth and scaling plans.
