Kingston created its UV500 SSDs as a budget-friendly product line to combat the likes of Crucial’s BX500 and Mushkin’s Source SSDs. All of these products are intended as entry-level models and have been reviewed by our sister site PCMag. Using the data gathered by our fellow reviewers on that site, and up-to-date pricing information, let’s look at how the matches up against the competition and give our own insights about the drive. Features and Specs In the storage world, two details always get more attention than anything else: capacity and read/write speed. Kingston offers its UV500 in a wide range of capacities ranging from 120GB up to 1.92TB.
With the excitement of E3 in the air, retailers are working to offer excellent deals on video games and gaming hardware. Sony has stood out quite prominent in this with deals on its PlayStation Classic and PlayStation Now 12-month membership, but there is also a fine deal on Dell’s G5 gaming laptop. Sony’s PlayStation Plus membership will let you play your favorite games online with friends and give you discounts on new games bought through PlayStation’s marketplace. As a member, you will also receive two free PS4 games each month.
Scientists studying the moon have made an unexpected discovery. While we have good data on the surface topography, there’s still a lot we don’t know about what lies beneath the craggy craters and dunes. A large crater in the southern polar region , possibly the remains of an ancient metallic asteroid. The region, known as the South Pole-Aitken basin, is one of the largest known impact craters measuring about 1,600 miles (2,500 kilometers) in diameter. While larger impacts have occurred (including some on Earth) the moon’s unchanging environment is much better at preserving the evidence of impacts. This distinction makes the South Pole-Aitken basin a subject of frequent research.
A great game makes life better. Whether you’re a professional gamer or simply like to unwind with a quick game of Mario Kart after a long day, these virtual adventures help us forget about real life and enjoy one that’s slightly more idyllic. So why not develop your very own games from scratch? A lifetime membership to the is available for over 95 percent off at just $59. With 120 hours of expert-led content, this bundle walks you through building games from the ground up. You’ll have unlimited access to 120 hours of easy-to-follow training videos and direct support from instructors, who’ll walk you through everything from coding exercises to 3D modeling techniques.
A security researcher named Cwerling has released a new tool, called PSPTool, that researchers can use to analyze the firmware used by AMD’s Secure Platform Processor (PSP). Note: PSPTool has nothing to do with Sony’s old PSP handheld. AMD’s PSP is its equivalent of the and has been criticized for many of the same issues as . Security researchers have been publicly unhappy with AMD and Intel’s decision to keep details of how these chips operate under wraps because they function in secret, entirely divorced from the operation of the primary CPU or operating system. If you can hack the IME or AMD’s PSP, you can theoretically run code on a computer that’s completely invisible to the end-user.
Google revealed more information about its Stadia service this week, including the expected bandwidth required for the service to work properly. If you want to stream games in 4K, you’d better either have a no-cap ISP or do relatively little gaming on a household basis. According to Google, Stadia will require a 35Mbps connection to maintain a steady 4K service. That’s 1.4x more bandwidth than Netflix, which requires a 25Mbps connection for 4K. In per-MB terms, a 35Mbps connection will eat 15.75GB per hour. If you have a 1TB connection, that’s about 65 hours of gaming per month — if gaming is all you do.
Today we kick things off with an unbelievable deal on a 1TB NVMe SSD that seems almost too good to be true. This NVMe SSD isn’t one of the fastest models around, but it is capable of read/write speeds of around 1,000MB/s, which is twice as fast as the best SATA-III SSD. It also features a large 1TB capacity and is remarkably priced at the moment at just $99.99 from Amazon, which is down from its original retail price of $209.99.
On Monday, Apple announced a number of products, including the long-awaited Mac Pro follow-up and a new professional display. But what turned people’s heads the most is the fact that Apple thinks you should have to pay $1,000 for a monitor stand. People in the audience didn’t clap when the announcer unveiled the price — they audibly groaned. And Apple doesn’t want people to know that. The Register a clip of the audience reaction in one of its stories — and Apple killed the video on the grounds that it supposedly infringed on the company’s copyright. As of this writing, the original clip of Apple announcing the $1K price tag that The Register embedded in its own story remains offline.
Microsoft has tried to leave Windows XP in the dust, but it just can’t get away. The company recently in older versions of Windows so severe that it decided to go back and patch XP, along with several other ancient versions of the OS. People aren’t updating fast enough, though. Now that the so-called BlueKeep flaw could result in a dangerous worm that spreads across the globe, wreaking havoc on unprotected computers. Before it was dubbed BlueKeep, Microsoft talked about the bug in a security bulletin on its blog. At the time, Microsoft chose not to disclose too much about the vulnerability, which exists in the remote desktop module of Windows.
