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Apple appears to be gearing up to add topographic maps to the Apple Maps apps in iOS 18, macOS 15, and visionOS 2, according to code reviewed by MacRumors.
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The New York Times reports that Israel's military intelligence has been using an experimental facial recognition program in Gaza that's misidentified Palestinian civilians as having ties to Hamas. Google Photos allegedly plays a part in the chilling program's implementation, although it appears not to be through any direct collaboration with the company.
The surveillance program reportedly started as a way to search for Israeli hostages in Gaza. However, as often happens with new wartime technology, the initiative was quickly expanded to "root out anyone with ties to Hamas or other militant groups," according to The NYT. The technology is flawed, but Israeli soldiers reportedly haven't treated it as such when detaining civilians flagged by the system.
According to intelligence officers who spoke to The NYT, the program uses tech from the private Israeli company Corsight. Headquartered in Tel Aviv, it promises its surveillance systems can accurately recognize people with less than half of their faces exposed. It can supposedly be effective even with "extreme angles, (even from drones) darkness, and poor quality."
But an officer in Israel's Unit 8200 learned that, in reality, it often struggled with grainy, obscured or injured faces. According to the official, Corsight's tech included false positives and cases where an accurately identified Palestinian was incorrectly flagged as having Hamas ties.
Three Israeli officers told The NYT that it
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Saving money on an Apple HomePod or HomePod Mini isn't always easy, but it's still possible if you know where to look. Don't worry, we've done the hunting for you.
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Here's where all the recording industry profits are really going.
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The 20TB Western Digital hard drive deal on Amazon rings up as $349.99. But it also includes a $70 coupon on the front page (don't miss it!), which brings down the price to $279.99 after checking out.
According to Gordon Mah Ung, who has done the math, the 20TB option is the cheapest that WD offers for this product, at a mind-boggling $14 per terabyte. Remember when dollars per gigabyte was a thing?
Okay, so is there a catch? Not really, but there are some things you need to know about. As one commenter points out, the way drive manufacturers report capacity and the way in which Windows reports it differ. Windows will report it as 18.6TB instead. This is typical for virtually all drives, however.
This is a powered drive, meaning you'll need to plug it into a wall. It also uses the USB 3.0 interface, which transfers data at a comparatively paltry 5Gbps. If you want to back up files, you'll probably just need to plug it in, connect it, and let it do its thing in the background. While the drive comes preformatted for Windows, if you want to fully format it for whatever reason, it will probably take close to a day.
Amazon also says that there may be a limited number of coupons available, so don't dawdle if you want to take advantage of this deal!
In just a few days, however, the world will recognize World Backup Day, where you're encouraged to make a copy of your data and a copy of that copy. Combining your laptop's hard drive, this dea
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In part, that's because they've had to run via emulation, a way of translating the X86 code into instructions that can be understood by the Arm processor. Qualcomm claims that performance won't be a problem for its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors and the PCs they run on. But the company also unveiled a pretty major caveat to that, too.
According to The Verge, Qualcomm executives told a Game Developer Conference audience that the company believes that most of the games in Steam's list of the most popular games should run at close to full speed on Snapdragon X Elite.
Qualcomm engineer Issam Khalil told the audience that game developers could port their games over to Arm, or they could create an Arm64EC app, a hybrid approach where Qualcomm's drivers run natively but the rest of the app is emulated. They could also just let Windows on Arm's emulation shoulder the load. Khalil said he believes most games are GPU-bound, meaning that the performance of the emulator won't have a big impact.
There are some problems, though. Games with kernel-level anti-cheat drivers simply won't work via emulation, as will games that use AVX instructions, Khalil said. The latter is the subject of a
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If you're not sure where to begin your quest for a budget-friendly machine, don't sweat it. We did the heavy lifting for you. (Note that laptop prices can fluctuate and there might be times when the price of one of our picks hovers over $1,000.) For more recommendations on gaming laptops, see our roundup of the best gaming laptops across all prices, or take a look at our roundup of the best laptop deals.
Why you should trust us: Hey, it's in our name! PCWorld prides itself on laptop experience and expertise. We've been covering PCs since 1983, and we now review more than 70 laptops every year. All of the picks below have been personally tested and vetted by our experts, who've applied not only performance benchmarks but rigorous usability standards. We're also committed to reviewing PC laptops at every price point to help you find a machine that matches your budget.
Updated March 21, 2024: We added the recently reviewed Acer Nitro V 15 as the best connectivity pick. Not only does it have a ton of ports, but it also offers good game performance and build quality for the price. We also updated our list of recently reviewed laptops.
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