The age of ultrathin gaming notebooks is finally upon us. Or so that’s what NVIDIA is promising with its newly announced Max-Q tech that slims gaming laptops down to 18 mm. It’s no MacBook Air, but Acer’s new Predator Triton 700 comes close at 18.9 mm. This is one of first promises laptops bearing that Max-Q promise that will give … Continue reading
Intel’s Compute Card seemed like a logical step forward for the chipmaker when it was announced back at CES. It’s basically a small, credit-card sized device that packs in everything you’d need to make a device “smart” — an Intel system-on-a-chip, m…
Last year at Computex, Intel unveiled its first 10-core consumer CPU, the company’s move into the world of a “megatasking.” It was a pricey chip, launching at around $1,700, but it satisfied the needs for users who needed to juggle several intensive…
Garmin hits back with a new rugged 360-degree action camera, the VIRB 360. This waterproof action camera has the ability to capture stitched-in-camera, 360-degree, 15-megapixel spherical photos as well as up to 5.7K/30fps unstitched video.
Coming with four built-in microphones for capturing 360-degree audio, the VIRB 360 features built-in GPS, one-touch button control and voice controls to start and stop recordings, snap photos and more.
Not to mention, the camera also comes with a sunlight-readable display for users to identify battery life, storage capacity and video modes, and a microSD card slot that can handle up to 128GB.
For connectivity, the VIRB 360 provides WiFi, Bluetooth, ANT+ and NFC (one-tap connection with Android devices). The Garmin VIRB 360 is available now for $799.99. [Product Page]
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Enjoy a true cinematic experience from the comfort of your own living room with this 4K Android TV box ‘T99’. Powered by a 1.5GHz Rockchip RK3328 Cortex-A53 quad-core processor, this affordable Android TV box is packed with a Mali-450 GPU, a 1GB RAM and an 8GB of expandable internal storage (up to 64GB).
Running on Android 7.1 Nougat OS, the T99 comes with 4K ultra HD resolution output support, 4K ultra HD video playback support, Kodi 16.1 / XBMC support, Miracast support, 1x USB 2.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x HDMI 2.0 output port and 1x LAN port.
Connectivity-wise, the T99 provides WiFi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity. Backed by a 12-month warranty, the T99 will set you back just $47.85 (remote control + wireless QWERTY keyboard included). [Product Page]
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The PC industry seems to have finally realized that while gamers want all the power they can squeeze out of a laptop, they don’t necessarily want to carrry their desk on their backs. We are starting to see the emergence of thin and lightweight gaming laptops that, while definitely thinner than old bricks, are still not what you’d exactly consider … Continue reading
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who spied for the CIA before his drug trafficking and brutal regime sparked a U.S. invasion in 1989, has died aged 83.
President Juan Carlos Varela announced Noriega’s death on Twitter late on Monday, and said his passing marked the closing of a chapter in Panama’s history.
Noriega, who ruled Panama from 1983 to 1989, spied for the Central Intelligence Agency until the United States invaded and toppled his corrupt government, ending a criminal career that saw him working with drug traffickers like Pablo Escobar.
Noriega was initially sentenced in the United States in 1992 but was serving a sentence for murder in Panama when he died.
The wily military ruler of the Central American nation made world headlines as his relationship with Washington soured, culminating in the United States sending nearly 28,000 troops to seize Panama City and capture him in a house-to-house hunt.
Noriega spent the rest of his life in custody between the United States, France and Panama for crimes ranging from murder to racketeering and drug-running.
The former dictator had undergone an operation in March to remove a brain tumor but suffered a hemorrhage and had been in a coma since a second surgical intervention.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Noriega died at around 11 p.m. local time after his condition suddenly worsened.
With the knowledge of U.S. officials, Noriega formed “the hemisphere’s first narcokleptocracy,” a U.S. Senate subcommittee report said, calling him, “the best example in recent U.S. foreign policy of how a foreign leader is able to manipulate the United States to the detriment of our own interests.”
After his capture, Noriega tried to turn the tables on the United States, saying it had worked hand in glove with him.
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Based on NVIDIA’s 2017 Computex announcements, PC gamers won’t have to choose between bulky gaming laptops and desktop-level processing power for much longer. A new design called “Max-Q” is arriving in new laptops that it claims are both 3x thinner a…
Investigations into Russian interference in the American presidential election aren’t only getting close to Donald Trump, they’ve begun to stir up concerns about the chain of command.
Reports that top White House adviser Jared Kushner attempted to establish a secret communication link with Russia has an ex-CIA official wondering if he was acting on his or following orders— and if so, whose orders.
“I’m going to presume he did this at the behest of the president-elect of the United States,” former CIA official Phillip Mudd said on CNN Monday.
Mudd was referring to last week’s Washington Post report that Kushner met in December with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. to discuss establishing a secret communication channel to the Kremlin that could not be monitored by U.S. intelligence — using Russian facilities. The link was not established, The Post reported.
“There’s a judgment by Jared Kushner and the president’s team that says, ‘I trust the Russians more than I trust the Americans. I’m going to go talk to the Russian embassy because I don’t trust American channels,’” Mudd said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”
CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza also said he doesn’t believe Kushner was “lone-wolfing” it at the time, but was following orders from his father-in-law or Michael Flynn, who would later be booted as Trump’s national security advisor over his ties to Russia.
“I find it hard to believe … that he was lone wolfing it on this — that he developed a plan entirely independent of Donald Trump or Mike Flynn or anybody else,” Cillizza said.
“Yes, he is a member of the family, he is a trusted adviser. But he’s not someone who believes he should just go and run channels, particularly at that point, particularly in the transition period.”
Without directly addressing the Post report, Trump defended Kushner in a statement to The New York Times published Sunday, saying he has “total confidence in him.” Kushner, Trump added, is “respected by virtually everyone” and “is a very good person.”
After he returned from Europe, the president also disparaged White House leaks and “fake news” from the media in a series of tweets, apparently in response to a number of damaging news stories last week, including the Kushner report.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has called for a review of Kushner’s security clearance.
Kushner emerged last week as a person of interest in the FBI probe into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election and possible links to the Trump campaign.
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A California kayaker in scenic Monterey Bay got the scare of a lifetime when a great white shark knocked him into the water, then repeatedly attacked his boat.
Footage from the incident showed Brian Correiar swimming away from the scene as the 14-foot-long shark went after his kayak.
“Bite marks show that it had the whole girth of the boat in its mouth,” Correiar wrote in a blog post describing the encounter. “My boat is covered with bite marks from end to end with multiple punctures.”
The incident took place in March but recently went viral after footage was posted on YouTube.
Correiar wrote that he was about 100 yards from shore when the shark attacked:
“Suddenly, I heard a loud Bang as my kayak and I flew into the air. I landed outside my boat, look back to it and to my horror saw a large great white shark no more than three feet away had my kayak in its mouth. I could clearly see its 2-inch teeth and it’s black eye that looked lifeless.”
Correiar said the shark was using his kayak “as a chew toy,” and feared it would come after him next.
“I put my face in the water to see if it was under me, but I couldn’t see anything,” he wrote.
Correiar tried to board a passing sailboat but was unable to climb aboard because it didn’t have a ladder or transom. So he asked the boaters to call the Coast Guard. A rescue team arrived about five minutes later.
“I had always thought that great whites hit a target to test it and then backed off,” Correiar wrote. “This was a prolonged attack on the surface.”
Shark sightings have been on the rise along the California coast, which some experts believe is due to warmer waters caused by a combination ofclimate change and the recent El Nino.
(h/t SF Gate)
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