Smartphone displays keep getting bigger, but your hands aren’t. That leaves engineers to figure out new and sometimes infuriating ways to cram in all the necessary sensors and hardware modules without making a phone gigantic or awkward to hold. Many phones have adopted a display notch in the last couple of years, but that may be a flash in the pan. Oppo and Xiaomi have just shown off their upcoming under-display camera technology. The display notch trend started with Apple on the iPhone X, which groups the front-facing camera, Face ID, and other sensors in the display cutout.
Should Americans care in the least if Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) merges with Renault, as is currently rumored? Should you get excited at the prospect of a, say, Renault Clio coming stateside, given that many American butts won’t fit on the seats of a 149-inch sub-subcompact hatchback? Probably not, so let’s keep it simple: FCA is doing well. It has money to invest because two of its brands (Jeep and Ram) are kicking butt in sales. Grown men drooled seeing the 2020 Jeep Gladiator pickup at the various winter-spring auto shows. So that gives the London-based (don’t ask) FCA multinational the ability to go on a shopping spree.
Today Dell is offering big savings on several of its products with promo code SAVE15AFF that drops the price on select products by 15 percent. We’ve looked through Dell’s deals and picked out the best items to use this code on, which you can find below. With a hexa-core Intel Core i5-9400 clocked at up to 4.1GHz and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, this system’s ready to tackle the most graphically challenging games on the market today. This system also comes paired with 16GB of DDR4 clocked at 2,666MHz, and it has a 1TB 7,200RPM HDD.
Apple has spent the last decade focused almost entirely on laptops and mobile devices. It releases the occasional iMac, but there’s still a market for the company’s ultra-high-end desktop computers. At WWDC today, Apple . The new Mac Pro has up to 28 CPU cores, 1.5TB of RAM, multiple GPUs, and a modular design. Bonus: it also looks like a cheese grater from the front. Kitchen utensil jokes aside, the new Mac Pro harkens back to the mid-2000s Power Mac G5 chassis. Instead of the “mesh” front, the new Mac Pro has a lattice of larger holes in the exterior stainless steel casing.
Augmented World Expo (AWE) is probably the largest and most important trade show and conference dedicated to all things “XR”, but with a heavy emphasis on Augmented Reality solutions (AR). (If you’re not up on the latest terminology .) AWE 2019 in Santa Clara (10th annual) was bigger than ever, with over 7,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors. But what struck me most was the number of real-world deployment stories spread among the exhibits and conference tracks, contrasted with the fact that most of us never see any evidence of AR technology in our everyday lives. Industrial and Commercial Usage Is Expanding Dramatically
Months rarely pass without news of an artificial intelligence dominating humans in a complex game, so it should come as no surprise that Google’s DeepMind has mastered winning strategies for . But unlike past AI victories, Google’s latest approach to reinforced learning allowed DeepMind to succeed with practically no instruction and even without its key technical advantages. Even if you didn’t already know how to play —the core gameplay mechanic in Quake III Arena—you could grasp the rules in under a minute. Strategic talent, on the other hand, can take a while to develop. If you wanted to program a machine to play even a simple game it would require significantly more instruction as well as time.
Earlier this year, we reported on a situation regarding Chrome and proposed changes to ad blocking that would greatly limit the ability of modern adblockers to filter content. Under Google’s new rules, extensions would be limited to a list of 30,000 items to be filtered. uBlock Origin, a popular ad blocking utility, currently ships with 90,000 filters, and supports up to half a million. But then, after massive user outcry, Google seemed to reverse course. The company announced that new dynamic lists would also be supported, implying this would be a partial solution to the 30K static list limit.
The end of the week is here, and what better way to enjoy it than with a new TV and a little robot to clean up so you don’t have to. This 2019 model of Samsung’s 40NU6070 4K Smart TV is one of the least expensive 4K TVs we have ever seen. At its original retail price of $299.99, this TV was already well priced as it features HDR support in addition to its 4K resolution and content streaming capabilities. Walmart has made it an even better deal, however, by offering on sale for just $228.00.
Microsoft took the unusual step of for long since discontinued operating systems like Windows XP and Server 2003 in mid-May. It said at the time that a newly discovered vulnerability in older versions of Windows had the potential to devastate computers on a scale similar to the WannaCry ransomware in 2017. The update has been available for weeks, but many systems remain unpatched, and Microsoft is confident exploits for the “BlueKeep” flaw now exist in the wild. It took Microsoft years to rid itself of Windows XP support, which it finally did back in 2017. Yet, there are still millions of computers running XP, and many of them are part of critical infrastructure and enterprise environments where newer operating systems won’t work.
