There are numerous different types of external hard drives on the market, and choosing the fastest one is not as simple as just buying an SSD, buying a Thunderbolt drive, or a USB-C drive. There are significant performance bottlenecks that can make even a Thunderbolt drive perform below your expectations. For example: The Thunderbolt interface…
Blackmagic Design has announced a 4K pocket cinema camera for $1,295 that can record to an external USB-C SSD, has four microphones, and a 5″ screen.
Video creators have long struggled with the slow transfer speeds offered by external USB hard drives. Combine the slow transfer speeds of a conventional hard drive with the low transfer rate offered by the USB interface, and your 4K RAW video backups aren’t coming off it anytime soon. A 4K RAW video is no longer…
The Linux Foundation has released Acumos, an open source platform aimed at making artificial intelligence and machine learning more accessible to everyone.
If you sit in front of a computer with Arch Linux installed on it and see a command prompt, the first thing that will come to mind is: ‘What do I type?’. If you aren’t on a new installation and are just borrowing a friend’s computer, the first thing you may want to try is…
Apple will start manufacturing its own processors, and start shipping them in its new computers as early as 2020, according to Bloomberg. This marks the end of the use of Intel processors in Apple computers. The project is code-named ‘Kalamata’, and is part of a strategy to converge Apple’s mobile and desktop computer platforms, which…
NVidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said that cryptocurrency will stick around for some time, and that he expects blockchain and cryptocurrency will be an important driver for GPUs. To clarify, he said that: ‘Cryptocurrency will be here. The ability for the world to have a very low-friction, low-cost way of exchanging value is going to be…
Driverless, automated tractors are about to change farming, and this is a great opportunity to reevaluate the viability of automating home gardening.
A good phone system is essential for any business that wants seamless communication with its customers, suppliers, employees and other stakeholders. While some phone systems cost a lot, you can still find a good phone system when on a budget. However, the most important thing is to assess your needs to determine a phone system…
Multimeters are versatile electrical testers designed to check voltages, current, resistance, capacitance, circuit continuity among other metrics in electric circuits, depending on the model. A multimeter can’t do everything, but it can cover a wide range of applications. Choosing The Right Features High voltage protection is much a greater issue in certain fields than it…
IBM has invented a computer as small as a grain of salt, which will cost less than $0.10 to manufacture. It is equipped with hundreds of thousands of transistors, and has processing power equivalent to that of the 1990 x86 processor. This almost-microscopic computer is intended for embedded systems in advanced supply chain management applications,…
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter and Square says that Bitcoin will become the world’s single global currency roughly 10 years from now (possibly sooner). According to Fortune, he said: ‘The world ultimately will have a single currency, the Internet will have a single currency. I personally believe that it will be Bitcoin’ There are…