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Beta Version 14.31 is now rolling out to Fenix 7, Enduro 2, Epix 2, Quatix 7 and Marq 2 smartwatches, a minor update compared to Beta Version 14.30. According to Garmin, it has only included four changes this time around, compared to the near two-dozen that featured in Beta Version 14.30. Additionally, Beta Version 14.31 only introduces bug fixes to the platform, with new features or other such improvements escaping this week’s beta build.Nonetheless, the bug fixes should improve Garmin’s software experience in various areas. Specifically, Beta Version 14.31 should address an issue that prevented some Daily Suggested Workouts from appearing…

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Pork marbling is the representation of intramuscular fat, which contributes to pork quality and taste. Visual scoring is a subjective approach to evaluate marbling characteristics. However, it may produce unreliable and inconsistent results. Therefore, smart, non-destructive and low-cost techniques are necessary to quantitatively assess the marbling characteristics of pork.Data collectionThe researchers dissected the longissimus dorsi muscle from the freshly slaughtered carcass of 215 Large White and Tongcheng pigs. Then, they placed slices of this muscle in a black disk for image acquisition using the rear camera of an iPhone 6. Finally, they selected 173 high-quality images dissected from different pigs…

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Managing your PC or laptop’s CPU temp on Windows 11 is crucial to ensuring the longevity of your computer. Unfortunately, gaining access to it isn’t simple.Unless you’re digging deep into your BIOS, there’s no easy way to access your CPU temp without downloading a third-party app. We’ll briefly go over the steps you need to take to download one of the many options as well as what temps you’ll be looking for.How to see CPU temp on Windows 11Step 1) Download the Open Hardware Monitor app.(Image credit: Future)Step 2) Open the file and click Extract all.(Image credit: Future)Step 3) Open the…

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Explore VMware has kicked off its annual Explore conference with a series of announcements that advance its core strategy of using virtualized compute, storage, and networks to allow workloads to run with consistent security wherever their owners choose to have them execute. As such, this year’s conference represents steady advancement for VMware rather than the kind of ecosystem-advancing stuff it has pulled off in the past, for example innovations such as support for offloading housekeeping workloads into SmartNICs, or when the vendor almost reinvented storage with virtual volumes. VMware enlisted the star power of Nvidia boss Jensen Huang for the…

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The OnePlus 12 is expected to launch in January, a year after the OnePlus 11. We’ve already had not one, but two rounds of leaked specs for the upcoming device, and today it’s time for round three. According to the usually very reliable Digital Chat Station on Weibo, the OnePlus 12 will be a spec monster. It will employ a curved screen manufactured by a Chinese company, which will support high frequency pulse width modulation dimming and is apparently built on a new substrate tech. At the helm will sit the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, paired with either…

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It finally arrives: your 27-inch, 240Hz refresh rate $1,000 OLED gaming monitor. Eagerly, you unbox the hardware, clip the stand to the display, and press the power button. The incredible contrast, vibrant color, and instantaneous response times OLED panels deliver will likely demolish the display you had before. But slowly, over time, you notice something odd. The monitor’s brightness seems to rapidly swing up and down, especially when you open and close windows. The Word document you have open appears brilliant when the window is small but, when opened full screen, suddenly looks dull and gray. Welcome to the dark…

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Bill Dally — one of the world’s foremost computer scientists and head of NVIDIA’s research efforts — will describe the forces driving accelerated computing and AI in his keynote address at Hot Chips, an annual gathering of leading processor and system architects. Dally will detail advances in GPU silicon, systems and software that are delivering unprecedented performance gains for a wide range of applications. The talk will show how techniques such as mixed-precision computing, high-speed interconnects and sparsity can take the large language models driving generative AI forward to the next level. “It’s a really exciting time to be a…

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Apple’s M2 MacBook Pro is one the best laptops to for power users. And for a limited time, Best Buy is slashing up to $300 off select MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops for its loyal customers. One standout Best Buy’s exclusive member deal drops the M2 MacBook Pro to $1,049. It typically costs $1,299, so that’s $250 in savings and the lowest price ever for this Apple laptop. By comparison, it’s $50 cheaper than B&H’s current price. This is the best MacBook Pro deal you can get if you don’t qualify for Apple’s Education Store discount. In our Apple…

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A licence to import computers created panic and triggered abrupt disruptions. Incentivise local design, work with industry, encourage component makers to shift to India On August 3, GOI dropped a bombshell, frightening both industry and consumers. The free import of personal computers, laptops and tablets was banned with immediate effect. A licence would be needed to import a computer. Apple, Dell and Samsung stopped orders from abroad. Students asked where to queue up for a licence. Parents wondered if prices would go up. IT companies were worried about the future of their business. There were anxious calls from overseas investors,…

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Cheaper laptops are being built with more powerful processors and GPUs all the time, and games are getting more demanding. This year, affordable gaming laptops launched with the newest generation of graphics cards and processors from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, and we don’t recommend buying a laptop with the previous generation of Nvidia 30-series GPUs, AMD Ryzen 6000–series CPUs and GPUs, or Intel 12th-generation processors until we’ve finished testing. We are aware of stock issues with our current picks, but if you want a gaming laptop right now, our budget pick is still available.Our pickThe Predator Triton 300 has a…

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