USB4 Will Usher in Support for 8K, 16K Displays We already knew that USB4 would be a versatile standard partly derived from Intel’s Thunderbolt technology, but it looks like the upcoming standard will have more features than we knew. VESA has announced that USB4 will fully support DisplayPort 2.0 through …
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HTC’s Cryptocurrency Mining Phone Takes Half a Millennium to Pay for Itself Last year, HTC launched its blockchain/cryptocurrency-focused smartphone, the HTC Exodus. While the specs on the device are decidedly modest, it made a serious attempt to integrate blockchain-based security and cryptocurrency capabilities. I’m not here to talk about the …
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NASA Awards Lunar Lander Contracts to SpaceX, Blue Origin, Dynetics NASA hasn’t landed humans on the moon in decades, but the agency is pursuing an ambitious timeline for the Artemis program. Currently, NASA hopes to have crewed lunar missions ready to launch in 2024, and to further that goal, it …
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Hands On With the New DJI Mavic Air 2 While those of us who are loyal Mavic Pro users will have to wait a bit before “the 3” comes out, in the meantime DJI has introduced a tantalizingly feature-rich successor to the Mavic Air. The Mavic Air 2 ($799) upgrades …
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Vietnam Has Very Rich Genetic Diversity, New Research Shows Vietnam features extensive ethnolinguistic diversity and occupies a key position in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). Yet, the genetic diversity of the country remains relatively unexplored, especially with genome-wide data, because previous studies have focused mainly on the majority Kinh group. In …
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Researchers Find Nitrogen-Bearing Organics in Ancient Martian Meteorite Four-billion-year-old carbonates in a Martian meteorite called Allan Hills (ALH) 84001 contain nitrogen-bearing organic molecules, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. A fragment of the ALH 84001 meteorite. The whole size is 1.5 cm. Image credit: Koike …
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People choosing trusted brands but marketers pulling brand campaigns Should marketers be investing in top-of-funnel campaigns or performance advertising right now? That question is being hotly debated in a lot of places, including major earnings reports where performance seems to be winning. (We’ll be debating top vs. bottom of the …
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Is an Asset Protection Trust the Right Solution to Your Long Term Care Riddle? QUESTION: What is very expensive, absolutely necessary for everyone, but only useful to somewhere around 50 percent of retirees? ANSWER: A plan for funding long term care You see, figuring out how you are going to …
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Tips for Rebalancing Your Portfolio Amid the PandemicThe headlines are all doom and gloom and yet the markets are off their 2020 highs, but not that far off. What is going on? And, what are you supposed to do? A recent poll on NewRetirement found that most people with a …
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Intel Unveils Comet Lake Desktop CPUs: Up to 5.3GHz, 10C/20T, and Some Unanswered Questions The existence and imminent launch of Comet Lake, Intel’s first 10th Generation mainstream desktop CPU family, has been an open secret for several months. But Intel has stayed quiet about the specs and capabilities of the …
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