Two weeks ago, Samsung launched its new . The new drives use 64-layer 3D NAND, offer MLC (970 Pro) and TLC (970 EVO) NAND, and are expected to outperform the 2016 960 EVO and 960 Pro SSDs. The launch prices, however, were a bit steep on the 970 Pro. Now that the drives are on-sale, we can see that they’re coming in well below expected price. We were expecting the 970 Pro at $330 for 512GB and $630 for 1TB, while the 970 EVO was $230 for 500GB and $450 for 1TB. However, the actual drives are coming in well below these price points, PCWorld .
The Uber self-driving car that struck and killed a woman crossing a roadway in March appears to have seen the victim and her bicycle with the car’s multiple sensors. But the car — the car’s software algorithms — apparently determined she was not in the car’s path, or she wasn’t a danger to the car. In other words, the car’s sensors generated what the car considered a false positive. The car has to ignore some objects it detects because they’re not really hazardous. One example would be a newspaper blown up from the ground by the preceding car that unfolds and creates a larger target, but slips past the car without causing damage to the car.
The Hubble Space Telescope has spied helium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, WASP-107b, for the first time in history. WASP-107b is a very unusual planet. It’s roughly Jupiter-size (0.94RJ), but has just 1/8 of Jupiter’s mass. And by terrestrial metrics, it orbits practically on top of its host star, at 0.055 AU (or roughly 6 percent of the distance between the Earth and the Sun). Consequently, WASP-107b whips around its host star in a matter of days — presumably in a vast, ill-defined cloud of atmosphere. Finding helium around an exoplanet is a genuine first for astronomy since, despite being the second-most abundant element in the universe behind hydrogen, we hadn’t previously detected helium in the atmosphere of any planet orbiting a star.
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After a number of mysterious delays, Microsoft finally to Windows 10 early this week. Wasting no time, Microsoft has that previews some more new features that you can expect in Windows 10 soon. This is intended as a minor update, but there are some surprisingly cool things included here. Build 17661 of Windows 10 finally gives the Snipping Tool a much-needed overhaul. This screenshot feature debuted in Windows XP Tablet Edition many moons ago, but it became a standard feature on Vista. It was a useful thing to have around, but unfortunately, Microsoft let it stagnate for many years.
When Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro, it debuted a new type of keyboard based on a butterfly switch design that was supposed to provide better tactile characteristics in a fraction of the travel depth of the previous scissor mechanism. Apple’s goal was to shave a fraction of a millimeter off its designs, and it succeeded — but more than a year after the design debuted, it’s clear the company made some compromises in the process. More than 3,500 MacBook Pro owners have now signed a Change.Org calling for Apple to recall the 2016 MBP and “replace the keyboards on all of them with new, redesigned keyboards that just work.
Last month, news broke of a new GeForce Partner Program, put in place by Nvidia to corner the market on high-end GPUs by requiring GPU manufacturers to “align” their brands with Nvidia if they wanted to receive GPU allocations or be considered for various marketing funds. GPUs manufactured by AMD were effectively kicked out of the NV-aligned tiers — something we factually saw evidence of when the impact of the GPP on partner brands, though the details of how the program was implemented remained contested. Nvidia insisted that the entire affair was a helpful program to assist manufacturers. Now, Nvidia has announced that it has canceled the program altogether.
The Great Pyramid at Giza, and its two cousins at the Giza pyramid complex, have long dominated popular understanding and discussion of the pyramids of Egypt. In some ways, this is deserved — the three structures are a testament to phenomenal human ingenuity and capability, as well as a demonstration of Ancient Egypt’s tremendous ability to mobilize thousands of workers across a considerable distance. But they’re literally just one piece of the story of tomb-building and artwork in ancient Egypt, and one that occupies a relatively small slice of time. Here, then, are five other major pyramid complexes in Egypt, as well as a discussion of what they taught us about the time period in which they were built.
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