With July half over and school starting back next month, lots of online retailers are running sales on notebooks that would be perfect for getting you or your kids through their next year of school. Apple’s MacBook Air was designed to be exceptionally lightweight at 2.75lbs. It also has a high-quality 2560×1600 display, and Apple built the system out of durable 6000 series aluminum. If you would like to buy one of these systems with the larger 256GB SSD, you can get it marked down from $1,399.00 to $1,199.00 at Amazon. This inexpensive laptop with its dual-core processor and 8GB of RAM offers solid performance for everyday home tasks like web browsing and school work.
ZIP files have been a handy way to compress information for easier transport and storage for decades. But the realities of 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy longevity made relying on multi-disk zip archives a gamble when it came to long-term data preservation. For years, we’ve known it was possible to create a type of file known as a “zip bomb” — a seemingly small zip file that contained layer after layer of nested zip archives, such that the final unzipped version of the data set would be many orders of magnitude larger than the final version. A file of unknown provenance, named 42.zip, has floated around online for years, packing 4.5PB of data into a 42KB file by using this method.
After months of rumors, Nintendo has . The so-called Switch Lite is smaller, lighter, and less versatile than the original console. However, it costs a mere $199. It plays all the same games, but it’s not a replacement for the OG Switch. Buyers can choose the version that works best for them when the Switch Lite launches on Sept. 20th. The rumors, in this case, were pretty dead-on. The Switch Lite has a 5.5-inch 720p LCD instead of the 6.2-inch display on the original Switch. The bezel around the display is a bit slimmer, and the color matches the console.
If you are building a gaming PC this summer then we’ve got plenty of deals to help you. Notable among these is one of Dell’s high-end Alienware displays that supports G-Sync and is marked nearly half off. Dell loaded this 34-inch display up with plenty of gaming feature, including Nvidia’s G-Sync technology to smooth out the monitor’s refresh rate and avoid image ghosting and tearing. Currently, Dell is offering this display with a heavy discount that drops its price from $1,499.99 to $799.99. If that wasn’t good enough, it also comes with a $75 gift card.
A new version of Android Q is , moving us one step closer to a final release. This fifth beta is also the first “release candidate” build of Android Q. Developers can test their apps against Beta 5 and feel confident they’ll work the same way on the final version launching later this summer. While the feature set of Android Q is pretty well fleshed out at this point, there are a few new things in Beta 5. Google says all developers should implement and test dark mode, gesture navigation, and foldable optimizations. That last point seems awfully optimistic considering Samsung hasn’t even managed to release its folding phone yet.
As Moore’s law has slowed, manufacturers have turned their attention to optimizing other aspects of their devices. Shrinking transistor designs and building smaller chips no longer delivers the performance and efficiency improvements that it once did. Improvements in packaging technology, on the other hand, offer real potential for performance gains and power consumption reduction. At Semicon West, Intel unveiled multiple new tools in its proverbial toolbox for addressing advanced packaging questions. In the past, we’ve discussed Intel’s two-dimensional technology for connecting technology packages (EMIB, aka Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) and the three-dimensional technology it uses for upcoming parts like Lakefield (Foveros):
Apple made a variety of changes to its product lines yesterday, with some systems becoming genuinely better deals and a few others shuffling off the mortal coil altogether. First, the last 13-inch MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar has been axed, which means the entire 13-inch product family now includes this feature. The cheapest MacBook Pro is now $1,299, with a 128GB SSD and features like the T2 security chip, Touch Bar, and True Tone, a technology that matches a display’s white point to ambient conditions. The fact that the bottom-end Mac now includes Apple’s T2 security processor could mean it’s now more susceptible to the same USB audio bugs that have affected every other T2-equipped system.
There’s never been a better time to work in IT. As the world becomes more interconnected by the day, companies large and small are scrambling to hire talented and trained professionals who can install, maintain, and troubleshoot a wide range of increasingly complex networking infrastructures. But, if you want to stand out from the crowd, you need to have the right certifications under your belt. The will prepare you to earn some of the field’s most valuable certifications, and it’s currently available for over 95% off at just $69. With 12 courses and over 200 hours of content, this bundle will help you begin or further a career in the increasingly lucrative world of IT.
One of the primary selling points of USB Type-C is that it can become a universal standard — one cable for power, data, video, and more. Not all implementations of Type-C are created equal, though. The Raspberry Pi 4 , moving from micro USB to USB-C for power. However, it looks like the designers made a crucial error in designing the board that limits which USB-C cables you can use. The Raspberry Pi 4 has been lauded for its improved specs while keeping the low price tag of the original. Starting at $35, the Raspberry Pi 4 has a more powerful Broadcom BCM2711 chip with four ARM Cortex A72 CPU cores at 1.5GHz.That chip can decode 4K videos at 60fps using HEVC/H.265, render OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics, and output 4K video to a monitor via micro HDMI.
