Woof. The run-up to launching 7nm Ryzen and Navi has been the most aggressive period of hardware testing I’ve done in a long time — maybe ever. We made the decision to focus on pushing out as robust a data set as we possibly could for both CPUs and …
Read More »New Ookla Speedtest Data: AT&T Wins Performance, Verizon Holds Reliability
New speed test data from Ookla shows that both Verizon and ATT have boosted mobile network performance in the past 12 months, though our absolute world ranking compared with other nations remains mired in the middle of the pack. In Q1 2019, the United States ranked 40th in the …
Read More »Bonobos Consume Iodine-Rich Aquatic Plants, Study Says
Scientists have for the first time observed wild bonobos (Pan paniscus), a hominoid species endemic to the central Congo basin, searching for and eating aquatic plants rich in iodine, a mineral nutrient which is critical for normal growth, development and functioning of both brain and body. An adult female bonobo …
Read More »Rare Byzantine Gold Coin Found in Israel
A rare gold solidus dating back 1,600 years has been found by a group of Israeli students in the Galilee region. The 1,600-year-old gold solidus, obverse. Image credit: Nir Distelfeld, Israel Antiquities Authority. “The gold coin is a solidus minted by the emperor Theodosius II in Constantinople around 420-423 CE,” …
Read More »App revenue tops $39 billion in first half of 2019, up 15% from first half of last year
App store spending is continuing to grow, although not as quickly as in years past. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the iOS App Store and Google Play combined brought in $39.7 billion in worldwide app revenue in the first half of 2019 — that’s up 15.4% …
Read More »How to Build a Comprehensive Data Strategy
The phrase “garbage-in/garbage out” applies to virtually every initiative modern marketing and sales teams are working on today, including ABM, predictive, and marketing automation, to name a few. However, companies are struggling to make these programs a success because they don’t have a solid data foundation to build on. Join …
Read More »SpaceX Lost Contact With 3 Starlink Satellites
SpaceX launched its first full batch of Starlink internet satellites in May aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. These spacecraft will eventually become part of a massive swarm that beams broadband data down to the masses, but the reliability of SpaceX’s hardware isn’t perfect just yet. The company reports that …
Read More »Udemy Class Review: Rocket Engineering and Interstellar Space Propulsion
Rockets and space travel are both fascinating topics, but few people really hold a firm understanding of just how rockets work or how space travel is possible. Udemy’s Rocket Engineering and Interstellar Space Propulsion course ($12.99) provides a considerable amount of information on both topics crammed into a short …
Read More »If You Plan to Upgrade RAM on a DDR4 System, It’s Time to Pull the Trigger
If you intend to upgrade the RAM on any of your computers and said machines are powered by DDR4, it’s time to bite the bullet and do the upgrade. While we can’t literally guarantee that RAM prices won’t continue to decline, they’ve fallen far enough to qualify as an …
Read More »Microsoft Kills Automatic Registry Backups in Windows 10
You might be the type to dig around in the Windows settings to make tweaks, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The Windows registry contains a plethora of low-level settings that control various aspects of the OS. Microsoft used to perform regular backups of the registry, but …
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