When Intel launched Cascade Lake, it heavily segmented the CPU family depending on its various features. This isn’t a new strategy for Intel; the company has long broken its various enterprise capabilities into price bands where certain features cost substantially more money. Today, Intel announced that it’s making several changes to the Cascade Lake Xeon family, likely to better compete against AMD’s Epyc. Under the old Xeon lineup, Intel sold Cascade Lake Xeons in three buckets depending on memory capacity. Standard models support 1TB of RAM, M-series chips offered support for 2TB, and the L-series processors offered 4.5TB of RAM.
Scientists used to wonder how common planets were throughout the universe, and now we know — they’re everywhere. Even with our relatively rudimentary methods of detecting exoplanets, we’ve identified thousands of alien worlds, including some in our own backyard. In 2016, astronomers discovered an around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun. Now, it looks like orbiting that star. Proxima Centauri sits a mere 4.2 light-years away from Earth. It’s part of a triple star group along with the nearby Alpha Centauri AB binary system. Proxima Centauri is smaller and cooler than those stars — it’s what’s known as a red dwarf, the most common type of star in the Milky Way galaxy.
If you’ve been on the lookout for an excellent deal on a new laptop, look no further. Today you can get Dell’s XPS 13 9380 with an Intel Core i7 processor, a 4K touchscreen display, and a 2TB SSD all for a phenomenal price. Dell designed this notebook to be a high-end solution for work and travel. The metal-clad notebook features a fast Intel Core i7-8565U quad-core processor and a 4K touchscreen display along with an enormous 2TB SSD. According to Dell, this system also has excellent battery life and can last for up to 21 hours on a single charge.
The Turbo Boost modes designed by Intel and AMD are a way of delivering high performance in burst workloads without running the CPU at a constant high clock. What’s less known is that this feature comes with a massive hit to battery life, at least on Intel systems. I’m not trying to imply that AMD laptops don’t have a similar issue — I just haven’t tested the impact of disabling Turbo Mode on an AMD notebook. Developer Marco Ament has written a on the impact of disabling TurboBoost on his 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the difference is significant:
With browsers like Firefox and the new Edge clamping down on the excesses of Cookies, Google has been under increasing pressure to do the same with . The company has always held that restricting cookies too much would only lead websites to use more surreptitious means of tracking people. However, Google has relented and says that . Cookies are simply files deposited in your browser when you visit a website. They can retain state information like form entries, login status, and more. However, cookies have also become the most common means by which websites follow you around the web for advertising purposes.
Once upon a time, there was a company named Wyze that made cheap security cameras and other various IoT products. As of today, Wyze cameras won’t detect people anymore. People detection, to be clear, is a major feature of Wyze cameras. The Wyze Cam is advertised as offering “custom zone detection and sensitivity settings,” and you automatically get a clip of what the camera captures while the full recording is saved in the cloud. Yesterday, Apple bought the AI company Xnor.ai. In and of itself, that’s not particularly interesting, except for the impact it had on Wyze users. But firmware is now rolling out to Wyze devices that .
The lifespan of most tech innovations can often be measured in months, not years. But in some rare instances, what works can hang around for a long, long time. Case in point, the primary interface language of databases SQL is coming up on its 50th birthday. SQL is still with us a half-century later because it works. You could even say that since the ability to store and organize raw data has never more relevant, it’s never been a more in-demand tech skill. Even if you’ve never dealt with programming before, the (now just ) will help you grasp its importance as .
GameStop released its holiday earnings report this week, rather than waiting to roll holiday results into its next quarterly report. The company reported that store sales were down 27.5 percent for the Christmas holiday compared with 2018. Of course, GameStop has closed a number of stores recently, so same-store sales are a better metric for overall performance. Unfortunately, same-store sales also fell 24.7 percent. GameStop CEO George Sherman on this by referencing the new console launches of 2020. It’s true that new platform launches will probably drive GameStop’s revenue in a positive direction, but the company always made significantly more off game sales (both new and used) than it did off just hardware.
If you’ve been on the lookout for an excellent deal on a new laptop, look no further. Today you can get Dell’s XPS 13 9380 with an Intel Core i7 processor, a 4K touchscreen display, and a 2TB SSD all for a phenomenal price. Dell designed this notebook to be a high-end solution for work and travel. The metal-clad notebook features a fast Intel Core i7-8565U quad-core processor and a 4K touchscreen display along with an enormous 2TB SSD. According to Dell, this system also has excellent battery life and can last for up to 21 hours on a single charge.
