Steam’s Summer Sale officially concluded last week, but Valve had one last surprise in store for cheaters who had hoped to score cheap replacements on games (or to build up a larger stockpile of titles while cheating in others). On July 6, Steam banned more than 40,000 people — 40,426 according to Steamdb.info — vastly exceeding its previous daily ban record. There’s a particular method to Valve’s timing here, as PC Gamer . Serial cheaters in popular titles will create multiple burner accounts to maintain access to their preferred titles, but the full-price cost of games can add up over time.
In search of an affordable desktop that has plenty of room for upgrades? Take a look at the XPS 8910 tower PC from Dell. With a sleek modern design, a Skylake CPU, space for three 3.5-inch drives, and support for up to 64GB of DDR4 memory, this PC is up for almost anything. (List price: $949.99– Coupon code: XPS599) So, what kind of specs are we looking at here? This tower ships with a sixth generation quad-core 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-6700 processor, a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT 730 graphics card (with 2GB of memory), 8GB of DDR4 RAM (2133MHz), a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, an optical burner, gigabit ethernet, Bluetooth 4.2, and 802.11b/g/n/ac WiFi support.
Traditional solar cells harvest only a narrow sliver of the electromagnetic energy pouring down onto Earth, and that’s one of the reasons it’s been so challenging to get solar efficiency beyond 20-30 percent. A team of researchers from George Washington University has devised a new layered solar panel that can , pushing the efficiency as high as a stunning 44.5 percent. This could be one of the most efficient solar cell in the world, if all goes as planned. These panels won’t look like the standard photovoltaics you see on roofs or in open solar farms. They are based on concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) panels, which uses a lens or reflector to focus sunlight on a smaller surface area.
The 2019 Audi A8 luxury sport sedan, unveiled this week in Barcelona, is awash in technology. Most importantly, the A8 offers self-driving via Audi’s AI Traffic Jam Pilot. This lets the car be fully in charge of driving on divided highways in slow traffic, up to 60 kph or 37.3 mph, while you catch up on your texts and Facebook notifications. That makes it the first production car with — and, possibly depending on timing, the first with lidar. From Traffic Jam Assist to AI Pilot
The first truly hands-off, self-driving cars will be here within five years. Fully autonomous cars without steering wheels or gas and brake pedals may be 10 years away. That’s the consensus among automakers. By some definitions, several automakers have cars on the road today that meet a limited definition of autonomous driving. But what does that mean exactly? Let us help. Here’s a rundown of the six levels of autonomous driving (0-5), as defined in 2014 by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) via . We’ll also go over the various hurdles to be resolved before cars can fully drive themselves: technical, cost, legislative, liability, and public acceptance.
The specifics of Apple leaks can be all over the map, but one thing is certain this year: Apple is planning something big to celebrate the iPhone’s tenth year of existence. The “iPhone 8” is expected to have a larger , similar to the Samsung Galaxy S8 and LG G6. However, analysts are now questioning whether Apple will be able to meet its deadline for cracking the in-display fingerprint sensor, or if the iPhone 8 will have to go without. That might make it a tough sell to consumers who are used to having a fingerprint reader in phones across all price brackets.
In August 1964, the US entered the Vietnam War, thanks to the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. The resolution gave President Lyndon Johnson broad powers to use the US military to defend any SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, now defunct) member state. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was itself passed in response to two separate incidents on August 2 and August 4, in which the USS Maddox (August 2) and the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy (August 4) were believed to have come under attack by the naval forces of what was then North Vietnam.
Back in 2010, Microsoft launched a major new mobile operating system based on an all-new design UI language, app model, and structure. It was explicitly aimed at the consumer market, rather than the enterprise or business segments. This version of the OS, known as Windows Phone 7, was later supplanted by Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1, which jettisoned the Windows CE-based core of WP7 in favor of Windows NT, and generally moved Redmond’s mobile and desktop operating systems into closer step with each other. Today, Microsoft ended Windows Phone 8.1’s run. The company will no longer provide updates, including security ones, and the OS joins its predecessors in the Great Bit Bucket in the sky.
It’s Prime Day, and bargain hunters across the internet are tracking down the very best discounts that Amazon has on offer. To help you save some time, we’ve scoured through the deals, and compiled a list of some of the very best ones below. However, it’s important to note that there are so many sales happening today that we’ll never be able to mention every major discount. As such, we encourage you to head over to the , look around for that special something you’ve had your eye on, and sign-up for a 30-day free trial if you are not already a Prime member.
