Over the last few years, Samsung has quietly taken over the SSD industry, and now fields some of the highest-performing you can buy today. Samsung’s 960 Pro and 960 Evo drives won accolades in 2016, and the company is hoping to repeat that hat trick again with the 970 Pro and 970 Evo. Samsung’s latest NAND capacities allow for up to 512Gb (64GB) dies with total storage of 1TB per chip, which means it’s no longer difficult to fit a 2TB M.2 drive on a single-sided card. Samsung provided the following summary of the capabilities of the two new designs:
For months now, the enthusiast PC industry has been effectively held hostage by the cryptocurrency market. Demand for GPU miners skyrocketed to such extremes, it became effectively impossible to recommend building a PC. This wasn’t just a theoretical; I wound up steering a friend of mine towards a boutique OEM after he told me he had a $2,000 budget, $1,200 of which would’ve gone to the GPU of his choice had he built his own system. With GPU price inflation pushing cards to double their original MSRPs, or even higher, gamers have coped by sticking with hardware they already owned, buying used cards, adopting (or possibly Intel’s Hades Canyon), and hoping people would move over to ASICs and leave those of us who want to slaughter things at 120fps alone.
AMD’s Ryzen-fueled recovery handed the company its first full-year profits in years in 2017, and 2018 appears to be off to a very strong start. The company posted revenue of $1.65B for Q1 2018, up 1.4x from the same period in 2017. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, Ryzen processor shipments grew significantly, from a bit more than 40 percent of client APU/CPU revenue in Q4 2017 to 60 percent in Q1 2018. This surge was undoubtedly helped by the launch of both Ryzen Mobile in very late Q4 and new Ryzen desktop APUs like the 2400G and 2200G in mid-Q1.
It’s very rare these days that a hotel will give you a real key when you check in. Instead, most chain hotels and mid-sized establishments have switched over to electronic locks with a keycard system. As researchers from F-Secure have discovered, these electronic locks may not be very secure. Researchers from the company have managed to create a “master key” for a popular brand of hotel locks that can . The team began this investigation more than a decade ago, when an F-Secure employee had a laptop stolen from a hotel room. Some of the staff began to wonder how easy it would be to hack the keycard locks, so they set out to do it themselves.
Should astronauts ever make a trip to Uranus, they’ll want to hold their breath. Scientists have confirmed that smells really bad. That’s not a joke — well it is, but it’s also a true fact about the seventh planet in our solar system. The clouds of the gas giant if you could take a sniff. Of course, you’d have much bigger problems if you were breathing the atmosphere on Uranus. Note: there will be no further jokes in this article, but that won’t stop it from being funny. Earthlings have sent probes to the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter.
Last year, news broke that scans of the Great Pyramid using muon tomography had detected a in the structure, located directly above the Grand Gallery. The news was hailed as a tremendous breakthrough — it’s the first time a hidden chamber of this sort had been detected since the late 1800s, and it’s the first and only known chamber of this type. But one Egyptologist, Dr. David Lightbody, has proposed an alternate explanation in which what appears to be a hidden chamber is an artifact of the scan with a much more prosaic explanation. Lightbody as follows:
Gmail changed the way we use email when it launched 14 years ago, but not much has changed in the UI since then. Google has fiddled around the edges, adding a feature here and there, but it’s still been the same Gmail. Today, has revealed the . The design is more visual, comes with big new features, and includes Google app integrations. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, the new has a light theme with rounded buttons. Most menu items have icons instead of just text, which is a bit more friendly in appearance. The new Gmail bears a resemblance to the redesigned versions of other Google web apps like Calendar.
The 2019 Toyota Avalon is the answer to a popular question from the 20th century: What is the best big family sedan for comfortable driving? All-new for the 2019 model year and shipping in May, the Avalon provides comfortable travel for four or five, superior standard safety equipment, and Apple CarPlay, the first Toyota so equipped. If you want mileage and price both in the low 40s, the hybrid version is just $1,000 more than the comparable V6 gasoline Avalon and you lose no trunk space to the battery. Toyota is one-upping the competition by making not just Toyota Safety Sense (TSS-P) standard, with its adaptive cruise control and lane departure warning, but also putting blind spot detection on all Avalons.
OnePlus stopped selling the OnePlus 5T a few weeks ago, and that usually means a new smartphone is on the way from the Chinese company. Sure enough, OnePlus has announced the OnePlus 6 will be revealed in just a couple more weeks. The , and there’s an event happening in London that’s open to fans. It won’t be easy to get into, though. While the phone isn’t official yet, we have a good idea what it will offer based on a combination of leaks and information from OnePlus itself. The company confirmed just the other day that it would use a glass back design for the OnePlus 6, which will be a first for .
