LG has a similar release cycle to Samsung with a flagship phone in the spring (the G series) and a larger companion to that phone showing up in the fall (the V-series). However, . With the IFA trade show coming up in Berlin, it’s almost time for to start talking about the rumored V30. Indeed, a “save the date” notice sent out by the company makes it look like the V30 is on the way. The image (see below) is easy to discern, as such teases tend to be. However, there’s not a lot of information about the device.
Most of us don’t have anything really interesting in our basements, and certainly nothing of historical significance. In the case of a former engineer from Pittsburgh, his basement was home to a pair of NASA computers from the 1960s. After the unnamed engineer passed away, a scrap dealer was preparing to haul away the machines when he noticed the “Property of NASA” labels. The agency was contacted to figure out what the machines were and if they had any historical significance, but . This happened in late 2015 and early 2016, but we’re only hearing about the discovery now thanks to a report from the NASA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that was part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Yesterday, the Trump Administration released a statement indicating that Kaspersky Lab, one of the largest security companies in the world, would no longer be allowed to sell its products or services to the federal government. At the time, it wasn’t clear why the government had taken this step, and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, has strenuously argued that his company is being treated as a pawn in a game of chess between the US and Russia. Kaspersky ABC News that any concerns about his product were based in “ungrounded speculation and all sorts of other made-up things,” before adding that he and his company “have no ties to any government, and we have never helped nor will help any government in the world with their cyberespionage efforts.
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AMD released a number of announcements about Threadripper as the product moves towards production. First, the company reaffirmed that Threadripper, with its 16-core/32-thread CPU, will launch in early August, though an exact date has not been given. But we do have some new information about speeds, pricing, and configuration options. First up, the Threadripper 1950X (16-core) will have a base clock of 3.4GHz and can boost up to 4GHz. How well (and for how long) it can hold its boost clocks will have some significant impact on how it performs. But it should do well in games and avoid clock drops that could penalize its performance compared with Ryzen 7 1800X.
Ever since Windows 10 was announced, there’s been that Microsoft’s free upgrade model for the OS was ultimately a trap. Once enough customers had signed up, the thinking went, Microsoft would suddenly start charging a monthly fee for access to the product. It’s not as if this is without precedent. We’ve seen a number of high-profile companies introduce this kind of subscription model (mostly to the considerable detriment of users’ pocketbooks), and Office 365 is Microsoft’s attempt to convince users that paying 3-5x more for Office over the useful life of the program is, in fact, a good idea.
About two weeks ago, we covered a report from overclocker , who claimed that the X299 VRM cooling situation was a disaster due to improper cooling decisions from a number of motherboard manufacturers. This kind of claim is always controversial, but it’s now been verified — and to some extent, sharpened and clarified — by more advanced testing. Tom’s Hardware has published an extensive on how the top-end Skylake-X parts, like the Core i9-7900X behave under heavy load in a variety of conditions and when mounted with top-end water cooler chillers that can run you $1,500 per system. But the problem isn’t limited to the VRM cooling issues that can hit X299 motherboards, though Der8auer wasn’t wrong about that issue.
Dell’s new Latitude 7000 series of 12-inch 2-in-1 laptops has begun shipping, with a number of firsts and impressive capabilities baked into the hardware. The Latitude 7000 series is the thinnest and lightest system Dell has ever built. It also offers integrated wireless charging, courtesy of a partnership with Witricity; the first specific model to launch with this is the Latitude 7000 12-inch 2-in-1 (7285). Dell reports that interest in its 2-in-1s and total shipments have both been growing rapidly, and were up 1.48x in Q1 2017 alone. While we haven’t gotten to see the Latitude 7000 in-person yet, Dell is claiming to have dotted an awful lot of i’s and crossed its t’s with this design.
Yesterday was the net neutrality “day of action” protest around the internet. Companies and websites posted messages of support for net neutrality, which is imperiled by a Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Some sites even provided easy ways to get in touch with your federal representatives to tell them to support net neutrality. However, you probably didn’t expect AT&T to be among them. That’s because it wasn’t — it just to make people think that it was. The battle over net neutrality was fought during the Obama administration under FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. After implementing rules that required ISPs to treat all data equally (the heart of net neutrality), Verizon sued and got the rules overturned.
