It’s almost hard to believe that the BMW-reimagined Mini is now in its 15th year. Call it a birthday, if you will, that the Cooper Convertible arrives this month in its third-generation and best-looking guise to date; a little puppy fat, cute looks, bags of adolescent vigour and tireless energy are embodied in this coming-of-age convertible.
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Attractive and durable design; Great performance; Strong battery life; Comfortable keyboard; Detailed webcam
Very expensive as configured; Heavier than competitors
The Dell Latitude E7270 is a powerful, portable business notebook that can go the distance.
The Dell Latitude E7270 may be small, but this 12-inch business laptop is powerful enough to plow through any workload. While it starts at $1,079, our premium $2,097 configuration packs a Core i7 CPU, a speedy 256GB SSD and a beautiful full-HD touch screen in a design that’s built tough but is also comfortable. Other business ultraportables may be lighter, but the E7270 offers the performance and speed you’ll need to get the job done.
The E7270 has a utilitarian look (it’s a tool, after all), with an all-black case, a woven carbon-fiber lid and few adornments besides the Dell logo in black plastic on the lid. The checkered pattern on the lid adds a bit of business flair. Upon opening the lid, you’ll find a backlit Chiclet-style keyboard and a 12.5-inch 1080p touch screen surrounded by a thick, black bezel.
The laptop is right in the middle of the field of 12-inch business notebooks, at 12.2 x 8.47 x 0.47 inches. The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 is a tiny bit larger, at 12.20 x 8.66 x 0.70 inches, and theLenovo ThinkPad X250 is just a little smaller, at 12.0 x 8.2 x 0.85 inches. The HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G2 is larger all around, at 13.3 x 9.2 x 0.63 inches, but that machine has a larger, 14-inch screen. The E7270 is heavy for its size, though, at 3.6 pounds — the next heaviest notebook is a third of a pound lighter.
Dell says the Latitude E7270 has been put through MIL-STD-810G testing, which means that it passed a number of stress tests, including exposure to drops, extreme temperatures and high altitudes. In addition, our review unit came with a Gorilla Glass display, though that is an optional upgrade for an additional cost.
Dell’s Data Protection software allows for continuous backups and recovery, which can help IT managers move or restore data in the case of damage or loss. Both smart cards and fingerprint readers are available add-ons for security-minded businesses.
With ports on three sides and the back of the E7270, this laptop has everything you need and more for expansion and peripherals.
The left side is where you’ll find the lock slot and smart-card reader, while the right side is home to the headphone and microphone combination jack, the SD card reader, a USB 3.0 port and a SIM card slot.
There are even more ports on the back, including the power port, two USB 3.0 ports, a mini DisplayPort, an HDMI and Ethernet ports. The bottom of the laptop hosts a dock adapter.
The 1080p webcam produced color-accurate, sharp images that would work well while teleconferencing. Some of the highlights were blown out in a photo I took, but the detail in my face was all there.
The E7270’s backlit keyboard has 1.6 mm of key travel, and feels nice and clicky, despite requiring only 55 grams of force to press. On the 10fastfingers.com typing test, I sped along at 107 words per minute, which is in my average range of 100 to 110 wpm, and my error rate of 2 percent was also business as usual.
The 3.9 x 2-inch touchpad can feel a little cramped at times, but it’s enough room to navigate and perform gestures like pinching to zoom and swiping three fingers away to show all of my open windows. Two buttons below the touchpad are used to click (you can’t do so on the touchpad itself).
The 12-inch 1080p screen on the E7270 is sharp and bright enough for spreadsheets and word processing, but it’s also great for enjoying videos.
When I watched the trailer for Captain America: Civil War, the colors were accurate, the details were clear and viewing angles were great.
The display on the Dell has a brightness of 317.4 nits, which is higher than the category average of 309. While I found it perfectly usable, some competing machines are even brighter, like the ThinkPad Yoga (328 nits) and the ThinkPad X250’s astounding 387 nits. The HP EliteBook Folio fared worse, though, notching just 264 nits.
The Latitude produces a respectable 74.7 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which is higher than both the ThinkPad X250 (64.3) and the ThinkPad Yoga 260 (68.5) but lower than the HP’s 105 percent.
Dell’s notebook is the most accurate of the bunch, with a Delta-E color accuracy score of 1.15 (the closer to zero, the better).
The speakers on the Latitude E7270 will be fine for rocking out in your cubicle, but you won’t be using it to DJ the office Christmas party. I listened to Adele’s “Hello” and found the singer’s voice to be crisp and clear, though mids sounded just average.
The Dell Audio app features some presets and adjusters for bass and treble, but after having played with it, I recommend leaving everything where it is.
With a 6th-generation Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and a speedy 256GB PCIe SSD, the Latitude E7270 is a quick, powerful workhorse. I had 16 Chrome tabs open, 1080p video streaming from YouTube and was writing in OpenOffice, and I saw no noticeable lag.
The numbers back up the performance — in Geekbench 3, the Latitude E7270 notched an impressive score of 7,544. The HP EliteBook 1040 (6,408 with a Core i7 CPU), Lenovo ThinkPad X250 (5,259, Core i5) and Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 (6,027, Core i5) all lagged behind.
The PCIe SSD blazed through our file-transfer test, copying 4.97GB of mixed media files in 28 seconds, for a rate of 181.75 MBps. That beats all of this Dell’s closest competitors.
The Latitude E7270 is a quick and powerful workhorse.
In our spreadsheet test, the E7270 paired 20,000 names and addresses in 3 minutes and 41 seconds. The HP EliteBook 1040 was the next fastest, at 4:14, and the other competitors were more than a minute behind the Latitude.
If you were hoping to play the next Far Cry on your lunch break, it won’t happen on this laptop. Its 3DMark score of 74,468 and integrated Intel HD Graphics 520 are better for simple Flash games and Facebook games than for running intensive titles from your Steam account. Still, it outperformed all of the other laptops in the field, so when push comes to shove, maybe you can try a game on its lowest settings.
Even during tense business negotiations, the Latitude E7270 will keep its cool. After we stressed the laptop with 15 minutes of streaming HD video from Hulu, its underside reached 81 degrees Fahrenheit, the center of the keyboard hit 80.5 degrees and the touchpad was a frosty 76 degrees. All of those measurements are well below our maximum comfort threshold of 95 degrees.
The Latitude E7270 will survive your 9-to-5 workday. On the Laptop Mag Battery Test, which involves browsing the Web at 100 nits of brightness, the notebook lasted 8 hours and 2 minutes. That runtime is longer than that of the HP EliteBook 1040 (7:11), the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260 (7:46) and the Lenovo ThinkPad X250’s default battery (7:39). When you plug in the X250’s extended battery, though, it blows the Dell away, with a whopping 15:12 of endurance.
I like taking a break from work as much as the next guy, but there’s some preinstalled software on the Dell Latitude E7270 that you simply don’t need on your business notebook. I found Candy Crush Soda Saga and Twitter preinstalled with links to download Flipboard and OneNote placed prominently in the Start menu.
Dell’s Update and Power Manager software are included to make sure you have the latest software and allow you to customize your battery settings. A 30-day free trial of Microsoft Office is included.
Dell provides a three-year warranty on the E7270 and offers options for four- or five-year warranties for an additional cost.
Our review unit of the Dell Latitude E7270 came fully specced with a Core i7-6600U CPU, a 1920 x 1080 full-HD touch screen with Gorilla Glass, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB PCIe SSD for a grand total of $2,097.30.
The base model costs $1,079 and has an Intel Core i3-6100 processor, 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SATA SSD and a 1366 x 768 nontouch display. Dell offers eight configurations on its website, all of which include the lesser screen by default, and have either 4GB or 8GB of memory, between 128GB and 256GB of SATA SSD storage, and processors ranging from Core i3 to Core i7.
We recommend a build with at least an Intel Core i5-6200U processor, a 1920 x 1080 nontouch display, a four-cell battery, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SATA SSD (though, if you can get along with 128GB, more power to you). That will run you $1,474.80 as of this writing, assuming that you don’t add a fingerprint reader or a smart-card reader.
The dock connector on the bottom of the laptop works with Dell’s E-Port docks, such as the $220 E-Port Plus Replicator, which has charging, dual-DVI outputs and a variety of legacy ports, including a parallel port, a serial port and two PS/2 ports.
As powerful as it is portable, the Dell Latitude E7270 offers a comfortable keyboard, a durable design and long battery life. If you’re looking for something with a lower starting price, the Lenovo ThinkPad X250 is another great business laptop with a fantastic display and great battery options (though it’s being replaced with the X260). Overall, the Dell Latitude E7270 is one of the best business portables money can buy.
(laptopmag.com)
Big sound & bass, quirky & colourful designs, multi-room/pairing possible, affordable considering competition, simple app setup & control
Not the very cleanest sound (great for the price though), it’s rather large, touch control occasionally fussy
Libratone is a Scandinavian company and does things a little differently. First, it likes its materials: whether woolly coats or similar, like with its Diva soundbar. Second, its products aren’t as outlandishly expensive as most things in Copenhagen.
The Libratone Zipp is a typically quirky product: the second-generation model (and entirely different from the vertical-zip-up-jacket version of 2012) this is the Zipp all-new, and it’s curiously larger than, well, pretty much any other portable speaker at this price point.
The company might not be the best known in the UK, but even so does it have the at-home and portable Bluetooth speaker market all zipped-up with the new Zipp? We’ve been listening for a week to take it all in.
When the Zipp boxes arrived at the office – we also had a Zipp Mini delivered to test out multi-room and multi-speaker capabilities – we were baffled as to why they were so big. “This is a portable speaker”, so we thought, but perhaps not in the traditional sense.
Sure, the Zipp has a hangy leather handle – much like other Danish manufacturer Bang & Olufsen also opts for in similar products – so it can be hung up, or be carted around while active thanks to its on-board battery. But the product’s overall 260mm height and 125mm diameter (without the hangy handle protrusion considered) make the Zipp, well, just large. Similar £200/$300-odd portables tend to be diminutive by comparison.
Which isn’t necessarily a problem, because what you’re getting with the new Zipp is a lot for your money. That larger space means larger speakers and more bass than smaller constructions can manage. Plus it’s cylindrical by design, so sound is projected out through 360-degrees, rather than being in a predominant single direction.
As we alluded to, Libratone likes its materials and quirks, the Zipp’s point of distinction being – you guessed it – a zipper. Yep, an actual zip; one used to hold the external mesh jacket around the cylinder, sat above the rubberised white base.
The point of the zip? You can swap out the jackets for other colours if you’re feeling a bit Ikea. Although we’ve tried and struggled to actually remove the red jacket of this particular review model. No biggie, though, we think it’s a rather fetching colour. There are also graphite, grey and blue (Lagoon) colour options to choose from, or sold-separately colour jackets with suitably silly names: orange (Signal), green (Atlantic Deep), and deep red (Sangria).
Pairing via Bluetooth is no issue at all, with the Zipp found rapidly on our Macbook Air’s drop menu. The range has been decent too, even surviving being carted into a second room away from the source with the signal holding up well. Good job.
But Libratone is more interested in pushing its SoundSpaces, the idea being a Wi-Fi/multi-room/synced app-based experience. Setting up is relatively simple, with everything prompted through the app – you’ll just need your Wi-Fi network to connect the speakers to the same network as your source device for a solid connection.
Everything can be controlled within the app too, from the volume to the speaker position (not physically, of course) to equalisation pre-set – each of which are named with practical name for “Voicing” and “Room Setting” sections. You can even click and drag two speakers together to form one space, which output together – it works really well (we tested the Zipp paired with the Zipp Mini).
The Zipp itself also houses physical controls in a light-up touchpanel up top. By default there’s the company’s “bird” logo/symbol, but press down and you can twirl a finger around the circular panel to dip or raise the volume, or press the left/right illumination arrows to skip tracks direct from the product. Sometimes that circular “twirl” control for volume adjustment can be fussy, but we like the haptic feedback and ability to stop music by covering the logo with your hand.
We’ve tested the Zipp using three different phones: two Android and oneiPhone. The latter works a treat, with AirPlay easily handling output if music is on-device, or other services – Spotify Connect, Tidal, Deezer, Apple Music and more – or firing up internet radio stations from within the Libratone app. Switch to Google Musice on Android and it’s a bit trickier to out audio, unless using a third party app via UPnP/DLNA – a limitation of Google rather than Libratone, though.
Where the Libratone really excels is with the sheer oomph of its audio output. We’ve seen a bunch of £179/$238 speakers, such as the Beats Pill, flip-flop their way through tracks and miss out on bass. Not so the Zipp: although it’s £219/$329, and a whole lot larger than said Pill, that reflects in the sound quality.
Bass kicks hard, to the point you can feel it resonate on whichever surface the Zipp is sat (if, of course it is). But this doesn’t overwhelm, with the likes of The Black Queen’s Fever Daydream album vocals cutting through those poppy kicks and basslines nicely.
However, we use the £900/$1,350 Naim Mu-so and the Libratone Zipp couldn’t nearly be compared to the clarity of such a high-end device. For it’s £219/$329, however, the Zipp is quite something, our only real criticism being that there’s the lack of overall clarity; it’s not the cleanest sound ever.
Volume is also more than ample, with a 100W output big enough to fill a room, whether you’re casually working with a little background noise or want to go opposite and hear nothing else around you. The 360-degree output does a good job of firing sound all around, although the rotation of the speaker relative to your position will give a slightly different experience – so there are still some spots sweeter than others.
When the Zipp isn’t wired up to the mains – and there’s a UK and EU adapter in the box – its battery will give a full day’s use. We’ve been getting a full office day at considerable volume, so think around 8-hours per charge and you won’t be disappointed. You could, therefore, lob the Zipp in the car and have it as your outdoor picnic companion this summer, a task it’s more than equipped for.
The Libratone Zipp is a total rework of its 2012 original. The new quirky zip-up design is fun, while the physical size – which perhaps makes it a bit too large to cart around outside of the house – lends well to stomping bass and audiooutput considering its £219/$329 price point.
That’s the rub of it really: for only about £50/$75 more than many smaller portable competitors, the Zipp gives an extra wallop of sound. If you’re after an at-home portable speaker then Libratone, whether you know the name or not, seems to have that corner of the market neatly zipped-up here.
(pocket-lint.com)
You may feel disappointed when Huawei P9 did not show up at MWC 2016. But don’t worry, it is said to be officially introduced this month…
As we know, Huawei did not introduce their flagship P9 at MWC 2016 perhaps because the company was not ready enough; they want a big event for their star. And since the handset is still a secret, we still see many leaks spread on the internet. The latest reliable one is that Huawei P9 will sport a metal frame, a dual rear camera setup, a USB Type-C port and a fingerprint scanner placed on the back.
Furthermore, not long ago, some renders were spotted, showing a device featuring a 2.5D curved screen on the front. The borders seem very slim and the power button and volume controls are built in the P9’s right side. Moreover, we’re pretty sure that the phone will be available in gold, white, pink and gray. Those are some main points about Huawei P9 design. How about its specifications?
Accordingly, Huawei P9 specs will include a Kirin 950 chip, 4GB of RAM and a 5.2-inch display to be basic. Besides, there are also rumors saying that the P9 will come with other variants such as a cheaper Huawei P9 Lite and a phablet Huawei P9 Max. Though, they have not been confirmed by the manufacturer yet. So, let’s wait and see!
A few days ago, Huawei released a new teaser, claiming that the maker has prepared a launch event held in Berlin, Germany on March 9, 2016. Unfortunately, we do not know what they will bring there exactly. Hopefully this Huawei flagship 2016 will debut this time with a reasonable price, say, around $400 or so. What do you think?
(pricepony.com.ph)
DJI has taken the wraps off of its Phantom 4, a $1,399 camera drone that can avoid obstacles and follow people while filming 4K video. The company hopes these improvements will reduce the learning curve for newbie pilots. It is available for pre-order today, and the drone will be shipping on March 15 through DJI or in Apple stores.
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DJI built obstacle avoidance into the Phantom 4. The quadcopter uses two front-facing sensors to know its own distance and speed. When the drone gets within 50 feet of an obstacle, it will slow down. At 6 feet, it will decide for itself whether to stop and hover, go over an object or go around it.
What does this all mean? If you tell the drone to return to home, it will sense a tree or building on its flight path and not run headlong into it. The demoed flight looked smooth and effortless for the pilot.
Among other new features the company has added is its Active Track technology. Using machine learning and computer vision, the Phantom 4 will keep the subject of your choice (by a simple tap on the screen) in the middle of the frame. The improved 12-megapixel camera can shoot in 4K and at up to 120 frames per second.
The Phantom 4 also features a simplified controller mechanism, called Tap Fly. It lets you tap Go on your iPad or iPhone to tell it what direction you want the drone to go. You can also tap a different direction to have it smoothly change.
The new model keeps the same uniform quadcopter design we saw in the Phantom 3. It felt relatively light, but will still need to be registered with the FAA before you fly it outside. On the side we saw a microSD card slot for onboard storage, right next to a microUSB port.
The company raised the motors to improve efficiency and redesigned the gimbal to lighten the weight for better flight performance. The new push-and-lock propeller system makes changing propellers simple and tool free. I easily popped the propeller off with a push down and twist.
On the bottom sits a new optical sensor that joins the previous two sonar sensors. This helps it track how close it is to the ground and to know exactly what’s beneath. The new model can fly up to 33 feet in the air at up to 45 miles per hour.
DJI improved its endurance, adding a 5,250mAh battery, which should lead to 28 minutes of flight time. The previous model got 21 minutes of flight time. DJI claims 28 minutes is longer than any other drone, but it’s likely to leave some newbies wanting.
The Phantom 4 can go up to 45 miles per hour, which is impressive but not as fast as the 50 mph on the new Parrot Disco, which will cost about half as much as the DJI.
DJI claims that people took 70,000,000 aerial photos with its products in 2015. Company reps also say that DJI drones collectively traveled 12,500,000 million miles and spent 3.9 million hours in the air last year. A representative told us he hopes the Micro Drone Act, currently before Congress, will pass. That will allow these numbers to go up dramatically, as the Phantom 4 will then easily be used for commercial purposes without piloting certifications.
(tomsguide.com)
The Macan is the current “it” car of the SUV world. Since it appeared on our roads in 2014, demand has outstripped supply for Porsche’s newest model. Even now, order new and you’re likely looking at a nine month wait to get behind the wheel of your new car.
Even for the SUV haters of this world, it’s easy to see why: for its type, thePorsche Macan is impeccably designed; it’s the right size and price for many well-healed, small-family-in-tow buyers; and it has few real rivals – the Audi Q5is of pensionable age, the BMW X3 is Bavaria at far from its dynamic best and the Range Rover Evoque is more about style than the dynamic performance that Porsche provides.
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If you think sub-$200 smartphones are cheap-feeling and bad, you may want to change your mind after knowing how good and beautiful Lenovo Vibe K5 and K5 Plus are.
Firstly, let’s check what Lenovo Vibe K5 and K5 Plus look like and please note that they are totally different from Lenovo K5 Note. They have just been launched at MWC 2016, considered as really great budget-friendly Android handsets at the event. Design-wise, it is easily to recognize the phones sport full aluminum-clad bodies and bring premium feelings just like HTC, Samsung, or Apple products.
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Here is a quick review and comparison for the Nikon D810 vs Pentax K-1 DSLR cameras with full-frame image sensors.
To see the difference between Nikon D810 vs Pentax K-1 cameras we have put together Nikon D810 vs Pentax K-1 specs comparison table below.
Nikon D810 ($3,296 – Amazon | B&H | Adorama) features a 36.3 megapixel sensor with no optical low pass filter, Expeed 4 image processing engine, 51-point auto-focus system and 5fps burst shooting at full resolution.
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Nokia 809 PureView has a very outstanding design and super powerful camera. We bet it will become one of the most gorgeous smartphones by Nokia this year. Check it out now!
To make the comeback more special and impressive, we guess Nokia would need something like Nokia 809. It is not like any phones out there, especially the camera. Specifically, 809 has a glossy all-metal body with a big Nokia logo on the back and physical buttons for volume and photography on its sides. As for the main cam, it can be rotated to become a selfie shooter. So cool, isn’t it?
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Finally, Vivo Xplay 5, the first 6GB RAM smartphone in the world has been launched with detailed specifications and price. Check it out now!
In the very first day of March, Vivo released their superphones called Vivo Xplay 5 and Vivo Xplay 5 Elite at a special event in China. Actually, there are some changes compared to previous rumors. You need to note that there are two different models and the 6GB RAM device is not the Xplay 5, but Xplay 5 Elite. Anyway, it does not change the fact that Vivo is the one producing the world’s first 6GB RAM handset.
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If you’re wondering why your Mac’s Ethernet connection suddenly stopped working, the culprit may be Apple itself, as an the company released an update that inadvertently disabled those ports on some of its computers. The update silently downloaded and installed on Macs over this past weekend (Feb. 26 to 28), so effected users had no way to know what had caused the malfunction.
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Fujifilm has always been open about its plans for future lenses and the development of new optics. The manufacturer’s roadmaps offer a great clue as to what we can expect to see in the future and one lens we’ve been eager to get our hands on ever since the first rumours started circulating is the XF 35mm f/2 WR. As many X-series users will be aware, Fujifilm already has a wide-aperture 35mm lens in its range of XF prime lenses, which begs the question, why the need for another?
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Given how Nintendo’s performance in the hardware area has been rather disappointing these past years, it is understandable that a lot of attention, which includes speculation and anonymous insider tips, is being lavished on the promised Nintendo NX. Sometimes, however, those also turn more into wish lists rather than plausible features. This latest tidbit almost seems like an example. According to the supposedly reliable source, the Nintendo NX will veritably be a handheld device with the processing might of an Xbox One and connects to at TV wirelessly with an HDMI dongle.
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This week is a big week for “unreal” reality. Microsoft has just started the pre-orders of its prohibitively expensive augmented reality HoloLens development edition headgear. HTC has also started the same for its Vive virtual reality headset. Google has put up a section on its Store for Cardboard goggles, including Mattel’s new ViewMaster. And now, Razer is announcing the first games, all from Steam, that you will be able to play in virtual reality mode on any Open Source Virtual Reality development kit that you may have.
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British automaker Morgan might not be the first company you think of when it comes to electric cars, but the storied marque’s latest model switches gas for green in an eye-catching way. The Morgan EV3, shown off in pre-production form for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show 2016 this week, keeps the three wheels of the company’s earlier cars but drives them with an electric powertrain.
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Apple Watch and Android Wear users will be able to control the likes of the Neato Botvac Connected as its released this year. The Neato robot will work very similar to what you’ve come to expect from a robot vacuum – cleaning your home automatically. What it will also do is respond to your commands – from your wrist. This action will work via the same Wi-Fi network as the vacuum robot – hopefully keeping your cleaning activities private as it does so.
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Firefox OS might be defunct on smartphones, but Mozilla is still trying to push its Web-based platform to other devices instead. Luckily for it, at least one major brand has decided to invest in it by making Firefox OS the OS for its smart TVs. Panasonic has just announced its latest 2016 batch of 4K Pro UHD LED VIERA TV, specifically its brand new DX series. Along with the latest and upcoming Firefox OS versions, the smart TVs also feature Panasonic’s new Studio Master HCX+ chipset to deliver HDR performance.
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Mercedes-Benz’s most important car line just swelled with two new models tonight, with the reveal of the 2017 C-Class Cabriolet, and Mercedes-AMG C43 Cabriolet here ahead of the first day of the Geneva International Motor Show. We were early fans of the class-leading interior of the new C300, and now the bread and butter line is adding topless and performance models that will arrive in the U.S. later this year.
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PCs today, especially laptops but even some desktops, are starting to useSSDs for data storage. They are, however, also starting to get into servers. The relatively (compared to HDD) younger technology is often praised for its speed and its reliability, mostly due to its use of NAND flash memory instead of physically moving parts and magnetic platters. A new study, however, shows that while that much is true, SSDs fail in a different set of reliability tests that might even be more problematic. The paper chose for its subject the company that eats through data storage devices like there’s no tomorrow: Google.
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Companies, both in consumer electronics and mobile, have been quick to push the Internet of Things idea to customers. That haste, however, might be causing those customers problems down the line. From possible security breaches to potentially dangerous bugs, the warts of IoT are only recently starting to surface. Take for example the Hive Home Heating device in the UK, which, thanks to a bug in its iOS app, has caused home owners to experience summer a tad too early for comfort.
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The next Apple event has been tipped to contain more than one device, the larger of these being a new iPad Pro. Not an iPad Pro that’ll replace its even larger relative, the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro, but one that’ll offer another size in the increasingly powerful iPad market. This iPad Pro (the smaller) has been rumored to roll with a 12-megapixel rear camera, coming with a sensor that’s rather similar to that of the iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus.
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Sennheiser has taken the wraps off a new pair of limited edition headphones, the F703 Sennheiser + FREITAG model. The limited edition model is comprised of Sennheiser’s own black Urbanite on-ear headphones paired with unique styles from FREITAG for a one-of-a-kind look. The limited edition models are made with recycled truck tarpaulins over the headbands, says Sennheiser, each adding bold colors and more.
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The Veyron is dead: all hail the Bugatti Chiron, 1,500 horsepower of insane luxury coupe. Making its long-awaited debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2016, the Chiron takes the Veyron equation of a huge engine, ridiculous top speed, and opulent accommodation and cranks it up even higher, with a newly-developed W16 engine packing 1,180 lb-ft of torque.
That means a massive top speed, and in fact the Chiron is capable of over 260 mph. It’ll be artificially limited to less than that on the road, mind – you need a special, second “Speed Key” to unlock it – but Bugatti is already talking about setting new world records for production car speed.
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Today Microsoft HoloLens was released for purchase – sort of – for developers, in a kit that’s made strictly for those that plan on making software for the device. This version of Microsoft HoloLens is not meant to compete with the other virtual reality headsets being revealed and/or released in the next several weeks. The Oculus Rift, for example, has had several developer kits released in the past. The HTC Vive, too, has had its own developer release before now. This is just the beginning.
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E-ink iPhone case-maker popSlate is back, with a new, sleeker, more functional version of its customizable shell for Apple’s smartphone. Just like the first-generation case launched a year ago, the premise for popSlate 2 is straightforward: we’re addicted to checking our phones for notifications or simply what time it is, and so why not give the iPhone a second, low-power screen that can deliver that more frugally?
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Last week Apple released a minor patch for OS X in the form of a kernel extension update. Labeled “031-51913 Incompatible Kernel Extension Configuration Data 3.28.1,” the update turned out to be bugged, leaving many Mac users without a working ethernet port. Well, at least those with Macs that still have ethernet ports. It took a little time, but Apple has acknowledged the bug offered a solution for those affected.
First off, if haven’t already downloaded and installed the update, there’s no need to worry. Apple pulled the update, fixed the bug, and has released a new version. So if your Mac is showing that you need the kernel extension update, go ahead and grab it. On the other hand, if you installed the patch and your ethernet port doesn’t work, Apple’s Support site has you covered.
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While personal computers have mostly migrated to 64-bit CPUs more than a decade ago, mobile devices and embedded computers have only started their journey a year or two ago. With smartphones starting to carry 64-bit processors inside, the interest in 64-bit CPUs have also trickled down to development boards, including the Raspberry Pi. The latest and smallest RPi Zero is barely three months old and yet now we have a new, 3rd gen, regular-sized board. Called the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B in the tradition of other RPis, this DIY darling actually breaks tradition, with a 64-bit processor and built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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The Microsoft Band 2 hit the market in late 2015 and looked much better to the eye than the original wearable from Microsoft. The biggest downside to that wearable was the price tag for many people, when it originally debuted the Band 2 sold for $249.99. Microsoft is aiming to make its device more appealing to buyers not by adding features or updating software, but by slashing the price by $75.
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If at first you don’t succeed…how about 400 horsepower? That seems to be the guiding philosophy behind the redesigned 2016 Infiniti Q50 Red Sport 400, the latest luxury sedan from a Japanese brand tired of being relegated to third-pick status amongst fans of conspicuous consumption.
What better way to turn heads than by surging past the competition with an all-new turbocharged engine that promises class-leading performance in a straight line? How else to shake awake legions of loyal BMW and Audi fans than by upping the driver tech ante with the Red Sport gambit aimed squarely at M Sport and S Line models?
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