If you want to buy a new high-end tablet then today is your lucky day. Apple’s 2018 iPads are on sale from Walmart with significant discounts that will save you hundreds of dollars. Apple built this version of its iPad Pro with its in-house designed A10X processor that offers excellent performance. This model also has a large 512GB storage capacity, which will let you store a large amount of MP3s and videos. Right now it’s marked down from $999.00 to $699.00 on Amazon. Measuring just 9.7-inches diagonally with a LED backlit IPS display, this is one of Apple’s smallest tablets currently on the market.
Whether Nvidia’s bold claim that its new Xavier NX ($399) is “the world’s smallest supercomputer for AI at the Edge” is true or not, there is no doubt it will be an impressive accomplishment when it ships in March. Packing similar power to the current Xavier into the tiny form factor of a Jetson Nano, it will greatly multiply the amount of inferencing and training that can be performed in small, low-power, devices. Nvidia expects the new module to find a home in a wide variety of AI and vision-centric applications, including autonomous machines, high-resolution sensors for robots, video analytics, and a variety of embedded devices.
Microsoft’s Surface Pro family has been due for a redesign and the Surface Pro X delivers one. Unfortunately, the Pro X lags behind other tablets already on the market, held back by its use of an ARM chip as a primary SoC, the Qualcomm-powered SQ1. That’s the general conclusion from three reviews: , , and . High Marks for Beauty Everyone loves the physical design of this hybrid machine. CNET calls the redesign “spot on.” The Verge waxes poetic, writing: “It is a beautiful, well-made hybrid tablet device that looks better than any other computer I’ve tried in at least the past year.
Genetic testing has become sufficiently cheap and fast that companies like 23andMe and Ancestry have sprung up to offer consumer genetic testing services. That means millions of people have copies of their genetic profiles sitting on a server someplace for the first time, and police have taken notice. A Florida court has set a potentially troubling precedent by , even if users opted out of law enforcement searches. The warrant, signed by Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in July, granted Orlando police full access to the genetic profiles stored on GEDmatch. You might remember that site from when police in California used it to in 2018.
As Adobe continues to broaden its Creative Cloud offering it’s hard to keep track of all the new applications, let alone all the new features. This week at MAX, updates arrived for just about every piece of Adobe’s creator ecosystem. We’ll take you through some of the most significant for photo and video creators — specifically updates to Premiere Pro and Rush, Photoshop, and Lightroom. Auto Reframe Comes to Premiere Pro With the proliferation of different social media video formats and the requirement for specific aspect ratios for web video embeds, re-framing existing videos has become a major time sink for many creatives.
Fresh off the PR firestorm surrounding its for supporting the Hong Kong protests, has finally announced the long-awaited Diablo 4 at Blizzcon 2019. We don’t have many details on the game, but the 9-minute cinematic trailer should get Diablo fans sufficiently hyped. The Diablo franchise stretches all the way back to 1996 when the original game marked a significant advance in the hack-and-slash RPG genre. Diablo pioneered many elements of the modern RPG that we take for granted, and both sequels have proved to be major successes in their own rights. For the uninitiated, the Diablo games take place in the world of Sanctuary, a realm created by an archangel for angels and devils who were sick of the eternal conflict between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells.
Today you can get a microSDXC card with an enormous amount of high-speed storage for just $77. In addition to its large 512GB capacity, this microSDXC card is also fairly fast and able to transfer data at up to 100MB/s. Currently, you can get it from Amazon marked down from $94.99 to $77.99. Logitech’s MX Master versatile mouse can be used either wired or wirelessly. It also has an exceptional battery that can last up to 40 days and can gain sufficient charge to last for an entire day in just four minutes.
Microsoft has moved with surprising speed ever since it announced the move to the Chromium browser engine. It spent years toiling in an attempt to make EdgeHTML work, but it could never compete with the speed and near-universal compatibility of Chromium. Microsoft launched test versions of Chromium Edge earlier this year, and now we have a final date (and logo) for the new browser. It’s . Microsoft is taking a more Chrome-like approach to releasing its new browser. The version from early 2019 was akin to Chrome’s Canary build, and Microsoft later added . You can download the beta right now, and you’ll continue getting updates every six weeks.
Last month, we covered rumors that Samsung’s custom chip department and R&D department in Austin, TX was being targeted for layoffs following the disappointing performance of Samsung’s own M3 and M4 CPU cores. That news has now been confirmed in a letter Samsung provided to the Texas Workforce Commission (by law, Texas is required to give notice). The letter Samsung sent can be viewed . It states that Samsung will close its CPU project at SARC and that the cancellation is expected to be permanent. The number of affected employees is unknown, but there are supposedly ~300 people working on the CPU dev team at SARC.
