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Shopping for a laptop can be extremely frustrating at times. Even when you already know the ins and outs of personal computers, there are so many different aspects to consider with laptops. Weight, battery life, and cost come into play right off the bat, and when you factor in specific work requirements, the number of decisions can be more than a little overwhelming. Thankfully, ...
Over the past few years, Valve has built grassroots support and interest for alternate operating systems, including OS X and Linux, as well as its own version of the Linux operating system. Unfortunately, there are clearly bugs still to be worked out of the Linux variant, and a new problem can lead to Steam wiping all of a users’ files. Here’s the problem: when Steam installs itself, ...
Two new tidbits on AMD’s next-generation GPU architectures have surfaced courtesy of LinkedIn — and while that’s not our typical avenue for discovering new data, past information cribbed from profiles has indeed panned out. In this case, it’s a pair of profiles — one from Linglan Zhang, a system architect manager at AMD, and one from Ilana Shternshain, an ASIC physical design engineer. ...
A modern spin on Islamic architecture characterizes the exterior of the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. As a form of practice, Your Shot member Zeqiant Wang tries to capture the museum from different angles and in different light, here shooting in the early evening. “I had already been waiting there for two hours when I saw a Qatari man in traditional clothes walk by,” Wang writes. “I got my camera ready fast. The walking posture ...
Our first painting of 2015 as part of our Great British Art series is by William Turner – this one is called Fisherman at Sea and it’s a beautiful and moody portrait of Britain’s maritime history. It also happens to be Turner’s first painting exchibited at the Royal Academy in 1796. About the painting: The first oil painting Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy, this is a moonlit scene in the tradition of Horace Vernet, Philip ...