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Amazon’s Kindles are among the best ways to read without lugging around physical copies of all your favorite books and magazines, and if you’re looking to try one for yourself, today's your lucky day—our favorite e-reader, the Kindle Paperwhite, is on sale now for $90, its lowest price since Black Friday and down 25 percent from its $120 list price. ...

A new report claims that production has started on Apple new 7nm A12 processor. Here's why that's a big deal.

The hardest part of writing up Paradox games these days is trying to extrapolate where they’ll be in three or four years. A pioneer of games-as-a-service, Paradox’s grand strategy titles have a habit of growing into their skin over time, reinforced and patched up and given additional depth by an efficient (almost too efficient) post-release plan. ...

Dual tuners let you distribute two channels within your home, and you can stream one channel outside it.

I'm not a huge fan of smart TVs. You can often get a better deal by cutting out the 'smarts' and adding a Chromecast to your TV for an equal or better experience. But sometimes a deal is so good that you just can't ignore it.Right now, Newegg has a 40-inch Samsung 4K HDR TV for $268 after a mail-in rebate. ...

The screen on the HTC U12+ doesn’t have a notch.Whether that’s a conscious decision or the result of a design team decimated by Google’s billion-plus purchase of the company’s smartphone division is up for debate, but the fact of the matter is, HTC’s newest handset stands out among this year’s crop of Android phones for the same reason last year’s U11 did: It doesn’t follow ...

The Motiv Ring is a fitness tracker light on tracking but heavy on style, which is exactly what I want.

In Microsoft Word, templates are pre-designed documents that you or someone else (such as Microsoft) creates to use as a pattern for a project. The template could be for a business card, brochure, resume, presentation...the list goes on. Regardless of the purpose, templates provide the design consistency that any organization (or individual) needs to look professional. ...

Exquisite design plus impeccable craftsmanship on the Naim Audio Unit Atom equal sonic bliss.

On Monday, a slew of websites published news stories about the death of the Radeon-exclusive Arez GPU brand, which the @Asus_Arez Twitter account heralded in the wake of Nvidia ending the GeForce Partner Program. One problem: That account wasn’t run by Asus, as you could tell if you paid attention to the logo and actual words of the poorly faked Arez handle. ...

Netflix / ULULU Simpsons creator Matt Groening's next animated series will arrive on Netflix on August 17, the streaming service confirmed via Twitter on Wednesday. Netflix also took the opportunity to reveal a few preview screens of the fantasy-obsessed series, which—as we expected—looks like Tolkien through a bug-eyed, Simpsons/Futurama filter. ...

(credit: Comcast) Comcast today said it is preparing an offer to buy major portions of 21st Century Fox, which would give it majority control of Hulu and other media properties. Walt Disney Company already has a $52.4 billion all-stock deal to buy the 21st Century Fox properties. ...

Enlarge / The plasma vessel has a shape that mimics that of the magnetic field. (credit: Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics) Many moons ago, Ars was introduced to the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (W7-X), an experimental fusion concept. At the time, W7-X—the world's largest stellarator—had just completed some warm-up tests and had been shut down to install more bits and pieces. ...

Jonathan Gitlin FLAT ROCK, MICH.—If I were to tell you about an electric vehicle with 125kWh of batteries, 590hp (440kW), and a 0-60mph time of 3.5 seconds, you'd probably think 'Tesla.' But this EV is something a little more esoteric and one that can go places a Tesla would fear to tread. ...

Enlarge / NTSB officials inspecting the vehicle that killed Elaine Herzberg in a March crash in Arizona. (credit: NTSB) Uber is shutting down testing of self-driving cars in Arizona after one of its cars killed a pedestrian in a March crash. ...

iFixit The OnePlus 6 is starting to trickle out to consumers, and the phone brings you flagship-class specs in a package that only costs $529. OnePlus made a number of changes to the 6 over last year's OnePlus 5T, and in our full review, we found most of the changes to be, well, bad. ...

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | erhui1979) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has repeatedly claimed that it was unable to access data on nearly 7,800 encrypted devices in fiscal 2017, but the FBI now admits the number is far lower. In reality, there were just 1,000 to 2,000 devices that the FBI couldn't unlock last year, The Washington Post reported yesterday. ...

Enlarge / United States Consulate General Guangzhou, China, where an employee reported experiencing unexplained sounds and pressures that led to a brain injury. (credit: US Dept of State) The US government issued an alert Wednesday following reports that a government employee stationed in southern China experienced “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressureî and ...

SpaceX Most of us associate Southern California with Hollywood, beaches, and sunny weather. However, with relatively cold waters offshore and typically higher pressures over the Pacific Ocean, there is essentially a competition between air rising from the surface and sinking air further up in the atmosphere. ...

Enlarge (credit: Aaron Jacobs) Anyone who has tried to pull a late-night study session and wound up rereading the same pages of their textbook because they couldn't focus has experienced it. And countless studies confirm it: if you're sleep deprived, your brain starts functioning poorly. ...

Special limited-edition anniversary products announced

Fuse Audio Labs has released the F-59 Classic Guitar Amp Emulation plug-in, which is a recreation of the '58 – '60 era classic that set the course for decades of guitar amplification technology. [Read More]

Applied Acoustics Systems has released the Solids sound pack for the Chromaphone 2 and AAS Player plug-ins in collaboration with AAS newcomer sound designer Francis Preve of Symplesound. Solids [Read More]

Steinberg has announced the immediate availability of the Simon Phillips Jazz Drums expansion set for Groove Agent 4 and Groove Agent SE 4. The second release in the Artist Series of Steinberg [Read More]

Native Instruments has released Carbon Decay, a new Expansion bursting with the turbulent sound of industrial techno. Here's what they say: Carbon Decay captures a primitive strain of techno [Read More]

PreSonus is shipping Studio One 4, a major update to the company's DAW that combines the best of the traditional recording studio model with the modern methods of creating beat- and groove-oriented [Read More]

Stefano Daino has announced the release of version 5.0 of DSP-Quattro, the audio editor for Mac OS X. New in Version 5: 64-bits Audio and Graphic Engines. Multithread internal engine. Compiled [Read More]

LennarDigital has released version 3.040 of the Sylenth1 synthesizer. The update includes the following changes: Improved loading time. Fixes no sound issue when run in Akai VIP in Cubase. Fixes [Read More]

AdHd Audio Tools has announced the release of Transient Tool, a transient shaper designed to shape and customize all transient dynamics to your liking. AdHd AudioTools say Transient Tools is [Read More]

Mercurial Audio has updated the ReAxis amp sim audio plug-in to version 1.2. ReAxis is based on the MESA/Boogie Triaxis Programmable Pre-Amp, driven by the neural networks technology. To celebrate [Read More]

Keepforest has announced that its new AizerX - Trailer Sfx Designer Toolkit and AizerX - Modern Designer Toolkit for Kontakt are now available for pre-order. The main feature of AizerX Trailer [Read More]

Itâ€ôs Day 3 of #ICANN51 and Team XYZ is working extra hard for you, #GenXYZ. Weâ€ôre meeting with our amazing business partners so we can continue to build.xyz as the most popular, go-to ending for YOUR domain. In the midst of back-to-back meetings, panels, and events, we like to take a quick little mental break by exploring these fun, interactive.xyz websites. ...

WorkTime Personal Free is a free computer monitoring software for self-monitoring. The software displays how much you spend using the Internet, Facebo...

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iPhone, iPad / Education / Chords and Scales: Chord Rotator is a harmony generator or rotator instrument. It creates harmony from a single note in a rotating mode. Previously, this technology was only available for MIDI instruments. Now, it is available for single-note acoustic instruments! One...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Synthesizers: BiSynth is a virtual analog synthesizer. The audio output is produced by a pair of computed or sampled waveforms modulated by a note envelope. Choose between scrolling 5 octave classic and Janko keyboards with both hammered and slurred key activation, as...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Pianos: Directly from Digital_Darwinism a new application for your music entertainment! If a single keyboard is not enough for your talent, here is a piano with two octaves simultaneously available on the screen to your fingers, with the capability to choose among...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Synthesizers: Create music visually - with chain reactions! The music happens before your eyes. A plex consists of a network of nodes. Each node has a tone associated with it. When a pulse hits a node, nodes create pulses. The resulting chain reaction creates a...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Synthesizers: With Audulus, you can build synthesizers, design new sounds, or process audio. All with low latency real-time processing suitable for live performance. Audulus's user interface is clean, simple, and easy to learn, allowing you to focus on sound - now made...

iPhone, iPad / Portable Studio / Effects: New in 4.5: Live Mode optimized for on-stage use, deep integration with iRig Stomp I/O, expanded 2-track recorder included free, and new All-in 2018 bundles for even better value Want to turn your device into the ultimate mobile guitar and bass tone...

iPhone, iPad / Portable Studio / Effects: New in 4.5: Live Mode optimized for on-stage use, deep integration with iRig Stomp I/O, expanded 2-track recorder included free, and new All-in 2018 bundles for even better value Want to turn your device into the ultimate mobile guitar and bass tone...

iPhone, iPad / Education / Reference: NoteWorks Lite is a musical game, designed to teach note recognition and improve sight reading skills. Hungry Munchy is eager to swallow elusive blue notes. Your goal is to help Munchy catch each note as quickly as possible. The game combines learning and fun...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Synthesizers: Cube Synth is a groundbreaking new software instrument giving you the power and flexibility of additive synthesis together with easy editing and morphing capabilities. Macro parameters allow you to control this beast with unequalled ease. Intelligent...

iPhone, iPad / Instruments / Multi-Instruments: Idiotic is a fun, sound recording, pitch changing music keyboard for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. With lots of crazy built-in sounds and the ability to record your own, start making Idiotic music today! Slide the Pitch Control to make the...