ComputersNews

Amazon discounts the 256GB MacBook Air to under $1,000

As part of its latest deal of the day, Amazon has discounted the 2019 MacBook Air. Until the end of the day, you can get the silver model — with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of internal storage — for $999. The $300 price drop is the biggest discount the online retailer has offered on this specific model to date. While we haven’t reviewed the 2019 model, we did put the 2018 one through…
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AI & RoboticsNews

LinkSquares raises $14.5 million to expedite contract management with AI

It takes between 20 days to 30 days for a company to create, negotiate, and finalize a contract, according to Aberdeen Research. And it isn’t cheap — the amount businesses spend on a standard procurement contract increased 38% from 2011 to 2017, to an average of $6,900. Spurred on by this, Chris Combs and Vishal Sunak, a former Raytheon software engineer and director of sales operations at…
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MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy S20 is the first phone certified for USB fast charging

The Samsung Galaxy S20 series is now the first smartphone lineup to receive USB fast-charger certification from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the organization leading the advancement of USB tech. The certification verifies that the Galaxy S20 series supports Programmable Power Supply (PPS) and USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 3.0 specification. For users, this means that the phones will work…
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MobileNews

HTC opens pre-orders for its $899 Vive Cosmos Elite VR headset

HTC’s new high-end virtual reality headset, the Vive Cosmos Elite, is now available for pre-order. The company unveiled the device a few days ago along with two other upcoming entries to the line-up: the entry-level Vive Cosmos Play and the business-focused Vive…
GamingNews

Xbox One gets another simplified dashboard redesign

Microsoft revealed last month it’s been working on a whole host of changes for the February 2020 Xbox One Update, and now they’re finally rolling out. The biggest change is yet another new Home interface — so if you’ve got downloads set to install…
MobileNews

Planet Computers' clamshell phone can dual-boot Android and Linux

Planet Computers’ laptop-like Cosmo Communicator phone just became that much more useful to its audience of very particular power users. The Cosmo now supports a promised multi-boot function, letting you run Android (both regular and rooted), Debian Linux and TWRP on the same device without one replacing the other. You’ll have to partition your storage and know your way around a…
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