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USBCopier Releases More Options For Their Custom USB Drives To Personify Any Company’s Logo Or Mascot In USB Form.
Press Release:
LAKE FOREST, CA – CALIFORNIA, ORANGE COUNTY, June 6, 2016 – USBCopier, manufacturer of the most customizable USBs in the industry, has expanded their available selections to include human-shaped USB drives in any fashion imaginable. In addition to the endless possibilities and designs conceived by clients and brought to life by USBCopier, personalization has now expanded to mascots, avatars, or even a detailed rendition of a particular individual.
Consisting either of elastomers such as silicone, or low malleability plastics, the new generation of personified flash memory will stay unblemished and unbroken to act as a long-lasting reminder of any business’s commitment to quality. Cyrus Riahi, Marketing Manager for USBCopier states, “The new line of USB people makes branding a product or service incredibly easy. For any instance of data load distribution, not only will it always be simple for the receiver to identify and remember a company’s USB, but it’s unique and fun both in personal and professional use.”
As one of the largest audio hardware providers, Bose has become synonymous with quality and consistency. Speakers and music systems are some of their most popular items but the QuietComfort 35 headphones are the active noise cancelling headphones that many users have been waiting for.
At $350, it is a small price bump compared to the previous QuietComfort 25 model which puts it closer to the Beats’ Studio wireless cost. Like the previous model, the QC 35 is lightweight, comfortable, and immersive according to user reviews. With microphones inside and outside the earcups, Bose says the QC35 senses, measures, and sends unwanted sounds to two digital electronic chips, one for each ear, that respond with a precise, equal and opposite signal in a fraction of a millisecond. Also equipped with a brand new equalizing system, the QC35 can balance sound at any supported volume.
ASUS has just unveiled the next iteration of their GX series gaming laptops and it is everything a gamer could ask for. Here are the top three reasons why the GX800 is the laptop of choice in the gaming world.
As we mentioned in our previous post about Amazon cracking down on sellers of unsafe USBs, it’s now evident that many USB Type-C cables are just plain dangerous. With incredible utility does indeed come great responsibility but manufacturers and resellers have not been prioritizing manageable temps and safe power transfers in efforts to maximize data speeds. Fortunately, USBCheck has a solution to put testing for cable integrity directly into the user’s hands.
USBCheck checks current draw when a compatible device is connected to a PC USB port and will tell you if the current draw is following appropriate USB specs and recommendations. While it’s not 100% accurate to keep up with all the devices out there, it gives a strict value which a user can then check against manufacturer power specs.
Earlier this month, IBM announced a more efficient way to use phase-change memory (PCM). This isn’t just another lab headline — it’s a meaningful step toward memory technology that could eventually outperform both traditional RAM and NAND flash. PCM is a type of non-volatile storage that works by changing the physical state of chalcogenide glass between amorphous and crystalline forms. That state change represents binary data, similar in concept to rewritable optical media, but operating at electronic speeds.
Put simply, instead of storing charge like flash does, PCM stores structure. That distinction matters. Charge-based memory wears out faster, is sensitive to leakage, and becomes harder to scale as transistor sizes shrink. Structural state-change memory doesn’t have those same limitations, which is why researchers keep coming back to it whenever they talk about the “post-NAND” future.
Until recently, PCM’s biggest limitations were cost and density. IBM researchers have now demonstrated a method that stores three bits per cell instead of one by carefully controlling heat and observing how each cell behaves at different resistance levels. Haris Pozidis, IBM Manager of Non-Volatile Memory Research, summed it up clearly: “The jump is significant because at this density, the cost of PCM will be significantly less than DRAM and closer to flash.” That’s the inflection point everyone has been waiting for.
As computer hardware becomes cheaper and more powerful, leaps such such as NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 1080 are why it has never been a better time to be a PC gamer. The rise of virtual reality and the growing 4K trend makes the power and efficiency of the GTX 1080 heavily desirable. Not only that, but with a $599 price tag and claims by NVIDIA of faster speeds than the $1000 Titan X, the GTX 1080 is an incredible value for the most powerful graphics card on the market.
Running at over 1600 MHz and with 8GB of Micron’s new DDR5X RAM, it’s a massive megahertz bump which will hopefully spur other manufacturers to do the same and mirror the performance increases of modern day CPUs. By comparison, last year’s 980 Ti card came in at 1000MHz with 6GB of standard DDR5. Most of the GTX 1080’s performance upgrade can be accredited to NVIDIA’s new Pascal architecture making its consumer hardware debut in this card. The big benefit with Pascal is its 16nm FinFET transistor technology, allowing NVIDIA cards utilizing the new style to reach higher clock speeds as well as make their cards much more power efficient.
Understanding language can be difficult from human to human, much less for machines attempting to understand the intricacies of human speech and text. Google knows this as well as anyone considering the countless queries made every hour which take a user where they need to go, even in the face of abhorrent sentence structure and unfortunate spelling mistakes. Today, Google is open-sourcing something called SyntaxNet and specifically a component for it, Parsey McParseface. With an endearing reference to the polled name Boaty McBoatface for NERC’s research vessel earlier this year, Google is releasing the tools it uses to understand natural language when typed into a box or interpreted via spoken word.
SyntaxNet is the overall framework for parsing sentences, called a “syntactic parser.” Mr. McParseface is the English language plugin for SyntaxNet. Google claims the plugin can identify objects, subjects, verbs, and other grammatical building blocks of sentences as well as, or even better than, trained human linguists.
As AI technology grows in popularity and complexity, the natural progression would then be to shrink the actual size this tool needs to function and that’s exactly what a Silicon Valley chip designer has done.
Chip designer Movidius has launched a USB stick with a supercomputer onboard, essentially taking the deep learning paradigm of artificial intelligence to the spacial efficiency of a USB drive. Deep learing involves training a computer which, as we saw with Google’s AlphaGo, can create a true force to be reckoned with. Dubbed, the “Fathom Neural Compute Stick”, the device has been designed to connect to existing systems and increase the performance of deep learning tasks by 20-30 times.
The chip maker is applying the leap to other endeavors such as helping drones avoid obstacles, and developing higher sensitivity thermal imaging. The company has also signed a deal with Google which may take their DeepMind project to new heights as well.
There have been many interesting hacks to increase the battery life of an iPhone since its release but hearing “light it on fire” has probably not been one of them. Lighting your phone on fire is still a terrible idea and should not be attempted to charge ANYTHING but a device called the FlameStower USB Fire Charger lets you harness humanities oldest discovery to power one of its newest inventions.
The FlameStower is useful when camping, and especially useful for those unfortunate times stranded on a desert island. It works by converting thermal energy to a generator which juices the phone. A blade protruding from the device is placed into the fire to get a generator going. From there, the attached phone will begin to receive power, albeit at a crawl. With the ability to charge small electronics, cameras, and flashlights as long as the device receiving charge is USB compatible.
Printers, phones, laptops, even particularly high tech coffee makers. Everything in our daily lives has a network connection to the other devices around them. By utilizing this connectivity, the USB Network Gate allows you to connect to remote USB devices over the internet and local networks as if they were directly connected to your computer.
Available for both Mac and PC, USB Network Gate allows computers to operate USB devices from virtually anywhere in the world. With Mac, Windows, or Linux based systems that call for USB security authorization, you can share access without the hassle of running a physical device between systems.
Syncing remotely can be an invaluable tool when traveling, leaving valuable storage at home or work, or to avoid the hassle of getting up and migrating to where your hardware is instead of having that data come to you. Up to 10 USB devices can be supported using the USB Network Gate.
Smartphones are not in short supply when it comes to software gadgets. Rulers, levels, and calculators are great examples on the software side, but hardware extensions for our powerful devices have been relatively scarce in recent years. Android now offers a tool that leverages the processing power, camera, and display of a smartphone to function as a compact endoscope with impressive versatility.
The endoscope can take photos, record video, and store media directly on an Android smartphone or tablet. The IP67 waterproof camera includes six adjustable LEDs, which pairs well with the growing trend of waterproof mobile devices. This makes the endoscope a practical tool for mobile drainage inspection, cost-effective intraoral imaging, motor vehicle examination, and even household uses such as inspecting vents or other hard-to-reach spaces.
While there has been a recent push for more customizable mobile phones, most carriers still offer a fairly limited variety of hardware options. There isn’t much a user can purchase to make an iPhone battery last longer, but the SanDisk iXpand flash drive is emerging as a compact solution to make the standard 16GB iPhone feel far less limiting.
Services like Google Photos and other cloud-based backup methods can be useful, but they require a stable internet connection to save and access files. The appeal of an iPhone-compatible flash drive is that it is portable, secure, and provides a substantial amount of local storage. SanDisk’s iXpand is designed as a true iPhone companion by automatically backing up the camera roll, allowing video playback directly from the drive, and serving as storage for larger applications and files.
