AMD has combined the powers of its new CPU and graphics chip lines into a single APU and showed it off at this year's Computex working inside an AMD-branded laptop, with what it claims, are big performance gains.
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Alexa can now remind you about appointments from yet another calendar service: iCloud. Devices including the Echo lineup and other Alexa-enabled gadgets have added support for iCloud calendars as of today. Amazon says that iCloud calendars have been a “top requested feature” from customers, which makes sense. A whole lot of iPhone and iPad users probably create one when setting up their device out of the box.
You can link your iCloud account through the settings section of Amazon’s mobile Alexa app. Once that’s done, you can ask what’s on your schedule for the day — or tell Alexa to add a new calendar entry.
With the addition of iCloud, Amazon now counts five “major” calendar services that Alexa works with. They are:
Called simply willrobotstakemyjob.com, the site is based on an academic paper by a pair of Oxford economists that set out some predictions for which jobs were most likely to have tasks automated in the future.
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The new Core X-series chips from Intel sound very powerful and good, but there's one caveat: you'll need a new motherboard. The current standard Z270 motherboard chipset is a "consumer" product, and the new X-series processors have a different pin layout, and are designed for a slightly more demanding customer with deeper pockets.
The X299 isn't a huge upgrade over the Z270, but it's a major leap past the X99 boards, which hosted the last generation of Intel's most extreme chips. X299 chipsets support up to 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes, compared to the paltry eight PCIe 2.0 lanes on X99. Paired with the new processors, you're looking at an embarrassment of I/O — you can load a system up with multi-gigabit Ethernet, a few GPUs, and a couple of M.2...
The Lanzante McLaren P1 LM set a new Nürburgring lap record for road-legal cars, besting the electric Nio EP9 and Lamborghini's Huracán Performante. When will the Nürburgring madness stop?
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The Mercedes-AMG Project One supercar will use a Formula One-derived hybrid powertrain, including the same 1.6-liter turbocharged V6 used in Mercedes F1 cars, plus four electric motors.
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Sega has inked a deal to publish the new project from Two Point Studios, a company made up of staff from the recently shuttered Lionhead Studios and its predecessor Bullfrog Productions.
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