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Samsung has announced availability of the next generation of its popular line of M.2 SSDs: the Samsung 970 Pro and 970 Evo will be available worldwide starting May 7. Samsung impressed users with its V-NAND technology in the 950 Pro back in 2015. That SSD ditched SATA in favor of M.2 2280 and PCIe 3x4. That was a big change, given that the 850 Evo was already hugely … [Read more...] about Samsung announces 970 Pro and Evo NVMe SSDs

EPI this week announced a new 4K monitor under the Philips brand called the Philips Momentum 436M6, which will arrive in mid-to-late June for $999.99. At 43 inches, it’s big, but most notably it’s the first PC monitor to gain DisplayHDR 1000 certification from the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), the organization that sets standards for displays and … [Read more...] about Philips launches a 43-inch HDR monitor that reaches 1,000 nits of brightness

Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless principles to containerized applications. Serverless computing, pioneered by Amazon's Lambda and found on Azure as Functions, is designed to defer all system management (physical and … [Read more...] about Azure Container Instances bring serverless computing to containers

Facebook has increasingly been reckoning with the many problems its network has, and today, the company released an ad acknowledging the issues and promising to get back to “what made Facebook good in the first place.” The minute-long spot starts with a look back at Facebook’s older interface and tries to humanize what we do on the network by connecting posts … [Read more...] about Facebook made an ad about how bad Facebook has become

The US Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on electronic cigarette use among teens. The agency announced a new, five-point initiative this week that it says should stop vape companies from marketing to teens and prevent retailers from selling to underage kids. It’s also investigating Juul, the company that’s become synonymous with the cool teens vaping … [Read more...] about The FDA is coming for teens’ Juul vapes

Signs point to the rumored Amazon Fire TV Cube being a real device that may debut soon. AFTVNews first spotted a new page on Amazon.com that promotes the device with the slogan, "What is Fire TV Cube?" The page provides no other details about the device, but it allows those interested to sign up to receive more information as it becomes available. Last September, AFTVNews … [Read more...] about Mysterious Amazon.com page hints at forthcoming Fire TV Cube

Today, Google is making the biggest changes to Gmail since 2011. The huge redesign that leaked earlier this month is finally going live, and all the features in that leak have been confirmed by Google. Gmail is getting a new design that seems to align with our theorized "Material Design 2" design principles. A pane on the right side shows in-line interfaces for … [Read more...] about Gmail.com’s massive redesign launches today

Those with an Amazon Echo device in their home have likely already exposed their children to Alexa. Now, Amazon wants to give kids the opportunity to turn Alexa into their friend with the new Echo Dot Kids Edition. The hockey puck-like smart speaker doesn't look much different than the original Dot, but it comes with new "Amazon FreeTIme" content that gives kids new ways to … [Read more...] about Amazon made an Echo Dot for kids, and it costs $30 more than the original

Oh that dastardly Amazon. First it upends the book industry, then it turns Bezos from a nerd into some sort of killer robot from the future, and now (in the US at least) it wants to drop loads off in your boot. No, not that, I mean, the company wants to put a package in your trunk. Damn, that’s not it either, how about: Amazon wants to put its valuables inside your … [Read more...] about The people in Amazon’s car delivery promo, ranked by how gladly we’d give them our keys

The European Emergency Number Association (EENA) and the Chinese drone manufacturer DJI just announced a new joint pilot project for using drones for emergency services in Europe. The project was announced at the EENA conference in Slovenia and will be the second partnership between EENA and DJI. The goal of the project, which will take place in Ireland and Wales, is to … [Read more...] about DJI launches a new emergency drone program in Europe