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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: AMD has rewritten the rules
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But the age of the ultraportable is here. There’s now a 2.01-pound laptop with six cores, there’s a 3.3-pound laptop with a discrete GPU, and a 5-pound laptop i...
science
Go read this essay by a woman whose husband has COVID-19
Monica Chin//38 views/1 comments
Even as COVID-19 numbers explode around the country, many Americans are still experiencing the pandemic from afar. But when a family member is infected with the...
apple
Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows
Monica Chin//37 views
Speech recognition systems have more trouble understanding black users’ voices than those of white users, according to a new Stanford study. The researchers use...
science
Razer is using some of its manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks amid shortage
Monica Chin//39 views
Razer has devoted some of its manufacturing lines to produce surgical masks, according to a Twitter thread from CEO Min-Liang Tan. The company will donate up to...
science
As universities shut their doors, international students are left in limbo
Monica Chin//31 views/1 comments
“I’m kind of freaking out,” said USC senior Eudelio Garza, who is from Mexico. “No one really knows what’s going on.” For some of the university’s 12,000 intern...
science
Israel is using cellphone data to track the coronavirus
Monica Chin//41 views
Benjamin Netanyahu has authorized the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, to use cellphone location data to help combat the coronavirus. According to a...
gaming
Sony confirms Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC
Monica Chin//30 views
It’s official: Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC. Hermen Hulst, who runs PlayStation Worldwide Studios, confirmed in an interview with Sony’s PlayStation blog t...
apple
Apple Watches may soon detect blood oxygen levels
Monica Chin//39 views
Apple is working on a feature that will allow the Apple Watch to detect blood oxygen levels for the first time, according to snippets of iOS 14 code obtained by...