Today, Dell is offering up a substantial discount on the Inspiron 15 5000 laptop. If you’re in need of a powerful 15.6-inch device, this is the perfect time to buy. With a full HD display, a Skylake CPU, a dedicated graphics card, and a sizable hard drive, this laptop offers a complete computing experience wherever you go. • (List price: $845.85 — Coupon code: EXTRA240) Inside, this model features a sixth generation dual-core 2.5GHz Intel Core i7-6500U CPU, a discrete AMD Radeon R5 M335 graphics card (with 4GB of memory), 8GB of DDR3L RAM (1600MHz), a 1TB 5400RPM hard drive, a DVD burner, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi support.
Cassini found cryovolcanoes at the south pole of Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of , back in 2005. These jets originate from the “tiger stripes,” four warm fractures in the moon’s icy surface. The chemical composition of the geysers points to a briny underground ocean that might extend the whole way to Enceladus’ rocky core, similar to the sub-surface ocean that is thought to exist on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Now a new study has been published that agrees with the 2005 results, and sheds further light. “During this flyby, we obtained the first and, unfortunately, only high-resolution observations of Enceladus’ south pole at microwave wavelengths,” said lead author Alice Le Gall in a statement.
Nintendo’s Switch has been flying off store shelves and is on track to hit the company’s target of two million devices shipped within March. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has also been extremely popular, selling almost as fast as the handheld itself. According to game and research firm , information its received from various sources indicate the Switch has shifted 500,000 consoles in this country alone, with 360,000 shipping to Japan, 85,000 units in the UK, and 110,000 in France (a full country-by-country breakdown was not available). These figures only reflect the first week of sales, which puts Nintendo well on its way to hitting its two-million Switch target.
Quick: Name five people you’d love to show all the internet traffic that has ever gone through your router. Every page you and anyone else using your unsecured Wi-Fi ever visited, every ad ever served to you from any of those pages, , whether you , and all of it time-stamped. Better yet, would you donate that information to a private mindshare broker, which brags about for the highest bidder? Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have introduced Congressional Review Act resolutions that would overturn the FCC’s privacy rules for ISPs. The resolutions will of their customers to whatever “trusted partner” they wish.
As NASA puts the finishing touches on the Space Launch System (SLS) and capsule, partner Lockheed Martin is proposing an ambitious project that would make use of them. Tony Antonelli, a former shuttle pilot and current head of advanced civil space programs for Lockheed Martin, says a manned Mars mission . The hypothetical project would be based on Lockheed’s Mars Base Camp design, which is capable of a three-year round-trip journey to Mars. The Mars Base Camp would not look like your typical spacecraft with its symmetrical appearance. The craft would be based around a pair of Orion capsules and additional habitation and research space.
Right after the Chevrolet Bolt EV raised the bar to 238 miles of range when driving on battery power, Hyundai announced the Ioniq EV with just 124 miles per charge. Honda is about to announce EV, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell versions of a new Honda Clarity. The Clarity EV may get just 80 miles per charge. What gives? Hyundai says the more important metric is MPGe, the measure of battery efficiency relative to gasoline power. Not surprisingly, Hyundai is the leader at 136 MPGe. Honda says some EV-intenders are turned off by dinky little EVs; the new Clarity is the same size as the Honda Accord.
When the news of Yahoo’s massive hack began to break last year — we can forgive you if you don’t remember which one that is, since there’ve been so many — the company attempted to perform damage control by claiming this was the work of These claims were initially met with disdain — there was no evidence, at the time, of foreign involvement. Now the FBI says that there was, and it’s named a group of hackers to its “most wanted” list:Karim Baratov, 22, a Canadian and Kazakh national and a resident of CanadaAlexsey Alexseyevich Belan, 29, a Russian national and residentDmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, a Russian national and FSB officerIgor Anatolyevich Sushchin, 43, a Russian national and FSB officerOne suspect, Baratov, yesterday in Canada and is in custody.
The outcry when Microsoft tried to was so great the company had to delay the shutdown multiple times. It’s unlikely Windows Vista will get the same treatment. Microsoft is planning to quietly end support for Vista in just one month. After April 11th, 2017, Vista will . Windows Vista was released in early 2007 after years of development. Despite the five year gulf between XP and Vista, there were numerous bugs and incomplete features. Performance was also sluggish, even on powerful systems. The problems with Vista ended up giving a boost to XP, which was a very reliable OS by that time.
Conventional wisdom holds that the fabled Silk Road began operating around 200 BCE and continued through the late 14th century. This trade route allowed the transport of goods between China and the Mediterranean region, but it may not have been an invention of powerful empires looking to expand trade. A new analysis of human movements across Asia suggests the Silk Road may have thousands of years earlier. This claim is not based on evidence, but rather by a modeling of “human geography” by researchers from Washington University in St. Louis. Lead author Michael Frachetti argues that mapping the path of the Silk Road by the so-called “least cost” method won’t give you an accurate result.
