Amazon’s Prime Day is on day two! And if you’ve had your eye on a discounted MacBook ($600 at Amazon), today could be your lucky day. Apple made some changes to its line of MacBooks last week, bringing two updated models to its lineup. The updated MacBook Air added a True Tone screen and dropped …
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Prime Day sales are in full bloom and have certainly attracted the attention of Amazon’s retail rivals. If you’re not an Amazon Prime member (or you’re protesting Amazon), then you shop competing sales at Walmart, eBay and Best Buy. Like Amazon’s Prime Day, Best Buy’s flash sale ends tomorrow. (Procrastinating night owls should know that Best Buy’s sale ends two hours sooner …
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The human brain is made of something like 86 billion interconnected brain cells, or neurons. Intel has now taken a notable step toward a digital equivalent, building a computer system with 8 million digital neurons. The system, called Pohoiki Beach, is packed with 64 of Intel Labs’ Loihi chips and will be available to researchers who can help the chipmaker …
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Update, Nov. 13, 2019: Apple has introduced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro with a larger screen and improved keyboard. It completely replaces the previous 15-inch model. Apple kicked off the back-to-school season with some pretty significant changes to the MacBook lineup on Tuesday. There were price cuts, trickle-down features and a few quiet cancellations, including the old, pre-redesign MacBook Air and the cult favorite …
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Apple upgraded its newest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops on Tuesday, but it looks like two notebooks have vanished from the company’s site. The smallest of the MacBooks and the cheapest MacBook Air are now gone. The $999 MacBook Air and 12-inch MacBook are no longer available on Apple’s website as of Tuesday. It appears the company’s $1,099 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook …
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There’s no doubt that we’re living in a golden age of PC gaming. The 4K, HDR graphics on games like Metro: Exodus and The Division 2 put their console counterparts to shame, and amazing new hardware from Nvidia and AMD, led right now by Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards, and even new RTX “Super” GPUs, are blowing away previous performance benchmarks. …
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Apple’s next MacBook Pro model appears to have been filed in an application to the US Federal Communications Commission. The documents say the laptop will be a 13-inch model, 9to5Mac reported Tuesday. Apple had unveiled a slight update to its MacBook Pro lineup during its WWDC event last month. Its 13- and 15-inch computers now feature Intel’s faster eighth- and ninth-generation Core processors, including an …
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Quantum computing, the processing technology that’s turbocharged by the weirdness of subatomic physics, is only just becoming a reality. But the newness of the field hasn’t stopped AT&T from going another step further. The telecommunications giant is researching technology to link quantum computers, hoping to amplify their power much the way networking of conventional computers led to massive supercomputers and …
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Best Buy has gaming laptop deals that rival those you’ll find on Amazon as Prime Day draws near. You’ll find discounted mobile rigs right now at Best Buy from Alienware, Asus, Razer and others just as we’re starting to see pre-Prime Day laptop deals on Amazon. You can scope all of Best Buy’s gaming laptops on discount here. Below are …
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Fortnite season 9 is past the halfway point and will end soon. This means players have a short amount of time to complete all the challenges to get the final Battle Pass reward. Challenges for Fortnite season 9 week 7. Epic Games Free challenges Search chests at Junk Junction or Neo Tilted (0/7) Search ammo boxes in different locations (0/7) …
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