Oct 02
Las Vegas Police Investigate Reports Of Active Shooter At Country Music Fest
Posted in: Today's ChiliLocal news stations are reporting multiple people were shot at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
Oct 02
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is nearly the perfect flagship smartphone, at least for those who can stomach phablets, except for two critical problems. It is expensive as hell and it has a battery smaller than its closest cousin, the Galaxy S8+. There’s really no going around the first problem except for waiting for prices to drop, waiting for promos discounts, … Continue reading
Oct 02
There’s a common problem with health-tracking devices like smartwatches: they’re not really attached to you, which leaves you relying on a short-lived battery and a wireless connection. Even a self-powered patch has its limits. That’s where Harvard…
Oct 02
Since it’s been a year since Rosetta landed on the comet it orbited for a couple of years, you’d think the ESA had already decoded everything the vessel sent back before its demise. Apparently, the probe has one last surprise for all of us: a close-u…
Oct 02
Harris defended the action, saying that kneeling was to “call attention to injustice.”
Oct 02
Enjoy fast and reliable everyday computing performance with this ASUS VivoBook X540YA. Outfitted with a 2.2GHz AMD A8-7410 processor, this budget-minded laptop sports 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 HD display, an AMD Radeon R5 graphics card, a 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 500GB 5400rpm hard drive.
Not just that, the system also has a built-in webcam, an SDXC card reader, 1x USB 2.0 port, 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x USB 3.1 Type-C port, 1x HDMI port, 1x LAN port and a 3-cell li-ion battery.
Running on Windows 10 64-bit OS, the VivoBook X540YA provides WiFi 802.11ac for connectivity. If you’re interested, the ASUS VivoBook X540YA is available now for just $399.99. [Product Page]
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Oct 02
Here comes a new graphics card from Gigabyte, the GeForce GT 1030. Designed with the highest class choke coils and capacitors, this low-profile yet durable graphics card is packed with a 64-bit memory interface, a core base clock of 1227MHz, a core boost clock of 1468MHz (Gaming Mode), a core base clock of 1252MHz, a core boost clock of 1506MHz (OC Mode) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz.
Utilizing a PCI-Express 3.0 (x16) bus interface, the GeForce GT 1030 comes equipped with a passive heatsink and provides 1x DVI-D and 1x HDMI output ports. Codenamed GV-N1030SL-2GL, the Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 is scheduled to hit the market from early October for 9,000 Yen (about $80). [Product Page]
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Oct 02
Synology has introduced another 4-bay NAS server ‘DiskStation DS418play’ to its range. Ideal for serving as a home multimedia center, this 4-bay NAS server is equipped with a 2.0GHz Intel Celeron J3355 64-bit dual-core processor, a 2GB DDR3 RAM and four 2.5-/3.5-inch SATA HDD/SSD bays (up to 40TB).
Supporting 4K H.264/H.265 online transcoding via Video Station and DS video – allows 4K videos to be converted and played on the fly on other computers, smartphones and media players that originally do not support ultra HD formats, this 4-bay NAS server comes with a Kensington Security Slot, 2x USB 3.0 ports, 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports and 2x built-in 92mm fans.
Running on DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.1 OS, the DiskStation DS418play supports for multiple RAID setups including Synology Hybrid RAID, Basic, JBOD & RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10. Unfortunately, there’s no word on pricing yet. [Product Page]
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Oct 02
Samsung may have just revived the “Phone as your PC” idea with its DeX platform and it seems to have inspired another OEM to follow suit. Whispers are going around that Huawei, who now ranks as one of the world’s top three smartphone makers (depending on which market analyst you ask) is reportedly planning on a similar feature that will … Continue reading
Oct 02
Ever since the first version of OS X, Apple has regularly released the kernel source code for Macs. In theory, you could learn from it or even build your own projects from it. For iOS, though? Not so simple. Even if you had source code, it wouldn’t m…
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