Apple’s rackmount Mac Pro is now available

The system starts at $6,499, or $500 more than the standard tower. Like before, though, the price can quickly spiral upward depending on your needs. Max it out with a 28-core Xeon, 1.5TB of RAM, dual Radeon Pro Vega II Duo cards, 8TB of SSD storage, an Afterburner card and a Magic Mouse/Magic Trackpad combo…

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PlayStation’s new Back Button accessory is a wasted opportunity

The accessory is a $30 addition to your existing controller, which circles impulse-buy territory. But what does this peripheral's peripheral do?It plugs into the DualShock 4 through the 3.5mm headphone port -- there's a headphone port on the back button attachment, so it'll still work with headsets and PSVR -- and works straight off the…

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Translation gadgets in 2020 are nearly as good as Babel Fish

Brooklyn-based Waverly Labs has been making translation earpieces since its founding in 2014. The company released its first device, the Pilot, in 2016 and followed that up this past November with the Ambassador -- an over-ear device designed for travelers. The Ambassador detects and automatically translates any spoken word it hears within 8 feet. Well,…

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Microsoft is patching a major Windows 10 flaw discovered by the NSA

In the past, the NSA might have kept the security hole to itself, using it to spy on adversaries. The best examples of that are WannaCry and EternalBlue, Windows 10 vulnerabilities discovered and exploited by the NSA for years. The agency developed hacking tools to exploit those holes, but some of them were uncovered and…

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