It’s not a matter of if, but rather when, a large asteroid or comet impacts Earth. It has happened many times in the past, but Earth has never been home to a spacefaring species before. With enough warning, humanity could potentially avoid impacts, or at least mitigate the effects. NASA just . It addresses five goals for the US government to work on in order to save us from the next killer impact. The preparedness plan involves input from more than a dozen government agencies. including NASA, FEMA, and NOAA. The report begins by stressing the potential danger of near-Earth objects (NEOs).
Oppo is a massive smartphone maker in Europe, but its presence in Europe and North America has been extremely limited. That’s changing with the flashy new Oppo Find X. This phone (apparently named after a math problem) will be the first Oppo phone to launch internationally since the ill-fated N1. It has an edge-to-edge screen with no notch thanks to its bizarre pop-up camera module. This funky design won’t come cheap, though. Oppo is . That works out to around $1,155. Phones like the , OnePlus 6, , and Huawei P20 Pro have all popularized by the iPhone X.
For a limited time, Dell is running a superb sale on the 14-inch Inspiron 14 7000 laptop. For just $832.99, you can enjoy the full HD IPS display, a 1TB drive, a 128GB SSD, and a discrete Nvidia MX150 graphics card. And if you’re all set on the laptop front, the folks at have also put together a long list of the best deals from across the web. Snag an electric scooter, a 4K waterproof camera, a wireless charging pad, and so much more. Featured Deals Intel Core i7-8550u Quad-Core 14-inch Laptop with 1080p IPS Display, Dual 128GB SSD and 1TB HDD and Nvidia MX150 4GB GPU for $832.99 at Dell (Coupon code: 50OFF699 – List price: $1079.99).
Ever since the original iPhone proved smartphones with full-body screens are attractive and interesting to consumers, a few companies have been working to demonstrate a device with at least two integrated displays that’s attractive, interesting, and desirable. Some of these products, like the magnificently weird , even came to market. They don’t exactly sell well, but that hasn’t stopped multiple manufacturers from taking on the category. Samsung also had such designs once upon a time, and the product its Project Valley produced several years ago is another excellent example of why nobody should bother trying to take the greatest weakness of a smartphone and turn it into a strength.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been churning out groundbreaking science ever since it went into operation in 2010. The giant particle accelerator, perched on the border of France and Switzerland, has gotten several upgrades over the years, and a new project is just getting underway now. CERN has (HL-LHC), which will result in more particle collisions and more data to help scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe. The operates by accelerating protons around the 16.8-mile (27-kilometer) ring using cryogenically cooled, superconducting magnets. Some of those protons smack into each other in the detectors at nearly the speed of light.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is prepping the most powerful ARM-based supercomputer ever built for installation at Sandia National Laboratories later this year. The system, codenamed Astra, will be built around HPE’s Apollo 70, with 2,592 dual-socket nodes and a total of 145,152 cores. But unlike most today, including virtually the entire TOP500 list, Astra isn’t built around the x86 architecture. It shares that distinction with just 24 other systems on the existing TOP500, with the other 476 systems based on Intel or AMD hardware. Astra will pack 5,184 ARM CPUs — each a 28-core Thunder X2 CPU built by Cavium. Each CPU is clocked at 2GHz, for a total of 2.3 peak petaflops in theory, a rank which would put the new system roughly around #87 on the latest TOP500 list released in November 2017.
The Jaguar I-Pace sport crossover is a landmark vehicle: for the EV industry, for Jaguar, for enthusiast drivers, and for Elon Musk, who needs to check his rear-view mirror. Finally, someone has built a car that matches and surpasses Tesla. Surprisingly, it isn’t one of the likeliest suspects — Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, or Porsche — but rather JAG-you-are, if you pronounce the name as the Queen and founder Sir William Lyons intended. The 2019 I-Pace is a compact four-door crossover, 12 inches shorter than the Tesla Model S, with a 240-mile range that equals the Model S 75D.
Filming slow-motion video requires capturing more than the standard 30 or 60 frames per second. You might not always have hardware around that can do that, but Nvidia has a workaround. It has developed a new AI algorithm that can take your regular video and to create high-speed video after you’ve filmed an event. Nvidia accomplished this feat with an array of GPUs and a neural network. High-speed video is more accessible than ever. You don’t need multi-thousand-dollar camera rigs to capture something in slow-motion when phones like the Galaxy S9 can film in 240 frames per second.
You can use any keyboard for gaming in a pinch, but you’ll have more fun when you use a board you like and find comfortable. That’s all it takes for something to be a “gaming keyboard” in my opinion, but peripheral makers have increasingly decided gaming keyboards should look like neon stealth fighters. So, I’ve built a few custom gaming mechanical keyboards of my own, but it occurred to me recently I don’t usually need a whole keyboard for playing a game. What if I stripped the gaming keyboard down to the bare minimum — what would I get?
