[ad_1] The pricing would be the selling point. The RTX 2070 Super will reportedly start at $499 when it arrives on July 9th, or $100 less than the Founder’s Edition of the plain 2070 when it surfaced in 2018. The RTX 2060 Super would cost more than the plain 2060 at $399, but you might […]
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Apple will reportedly manufacture its $6,000 Mac Pro in China
[ad_1] According to Wall Street Journal sources, Apple will work with Quanta Computer Inc., out of a factory near Shanghai. That facility is close to other Apple suppliers, which could help the company lower its shipping costs, and manufacturing labor costs in China are still much lower than those in the US. Apple has a […]
Apple will be fine without Jony Ive
[ad_1] Apple has always prided itself on its culture, rather than its personnel. Tim Cook once said that Steve Jobs’ greatest contribution to the company was its culture and work to nurture new talent within it. But Apple also lionized Ive as an embodiment of its design skill, as evidenced by his regular (much-parodied) appearances […]
The best 2-in-1 tablets for 2019
[ad_1] Buy Samsung Galaxy Book 2: $1,000+ Whether it’s a tablet or a phone, the reasons to pick Samsung over other brands tend to be its typically superior displays and the useful S Pen. But for the Galaxy Book 2, you might also appreciate the fact that it comes with built-in gigabit LTE support. It […]
Jony Ive helped make Apple what it is today
[ad_1] When Ive joined Apple in 1992, Apple was struggling, no longer the tech darling it once was back in the ’80s. Steve Jobs had been out of the company for seven years at that point, and it had become a shell of its former self. One of Ive’s first-ever projects for Apple was to […]
Microsoft continues distancing Cortana from Windows
[ad_1] This move suggests that Microsoft will choose to update the voice assistant separately from Windows in future. It could make Cortana more agile, giving developers the chance to update without having to push wider updates. A separate app may also one day give users more control over its usage, allowing them to uninstall it […]
Microsoft brings tracking prevention to its Edge browser
[ad_1] Once it’s on, there are three different levels of blocking, with intentions to filter out only known malicious trackers, some third-party trackers that are used for ad targeting or all third-party tracking entirely. Microsoft demonstrated the feature at its Build 2019 event earlier this year, so even if you’re not in that test group […]
Seagate’s 5TB Backup Plus Portable drops to $100
[ad_1] Plantronics BackBeat FIT 3100 (Black) Street price: $130; deal price: $100 Back down to $100 in black, this matches the low we saw for these headphones a few months ago. The Plantronics BackBeat Fit 3100 is a truly wireless option with ear hooks that keep each earbud securely in place as you run. They’re […]
New ‘Overwatch’ Lego sets feature Wrecking Ball, Junkrat and Roadhog
[ad_1] There will be two sets available: a smaller Wrecking Ball, the rotund robot piloted by Hammond the hamster, and a larger Junkrat & Roadhog set with a bike and signage inspired by the Junkertown map. The sets will be shown off at the Blizzard booth at SDCC next month, and they’ll be available to […]
Facebook, Google and others come together to set benchmarks for AI
[ad_1] The benchmarks, named MLPerf Inference v0.5, center around three common machine learning tasks: image classification, object detection and machine translation. Given the different processing abilities of different devices, there are separate benchmarks for AI across various platforms, such as smartphones, servers and chips. As well as providing best practice guidance for companies in the […]