Andromeda might be getting even more real as four Microsoft patents have surfaced recently, all of which hint at possible new use cases and other new configurations for the device.
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Microsoft is introducing a new light theme in the upcoming version of Windows 10 and is currently beta testing the change with Windows Insiders. The clean-looking theme brings a much-needed facelift to Windows.
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Compatibility issues between Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X may have diminished sharply over the years, but that doesn’t mean they’ve completely disappeared. Here’s how to make an external drive work between both operating systems.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation just announced a brand new model. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ is basically a flagship Raspberry Pi on a smaller printed circuit board, with a few compromises. It costs $25, or $10 less than the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+.
The lineup is getting slightly confusing but bear with me for a second. If you want the best Raspberry Pi, you should get the 3 Model B+. It comes with a 1.4GHz ARMv8 quad-core processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet (max 300 Mbps), USB 2.0 and HDMI.
The new Pi 3 Model A+ is supposed to be a smaller model but with most of the advantages of the Model B+. It has similar specifications except that you get 512MB of RAM instead of 1GB, there’s only one USB 2.0 port and the Ethernet port is gone.
But that’s about it. If you don’t need a ton of RAM or Ethernet, it’s a surprisingly decent mini-computer. Even if you played with a Raspberry Pi in the past, recent models have come a long way. The processor is now powerful enough to run demanding tasks.
Sure, it’ll take longer to transcode a video, unzip a large file or launch an emulated game on a Raspberry Pi than on a laptop. But if you want a fanless computer that runs 24/7, it’s hard to find something cheaper. Docker works pretty well on it, which makes it even easier to maintain if you’re into containers.
If you want to put a Raspberry Pi into a constrained location, the Raspberry Pi Zero models have a slim design and don’t require a ton of power. Those models are much slower though. The foundation still sells older models for those who need to replace old Raspberry Pis with the exact same models — but I wouldn’t recommend buying them.
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Rookout, a startup that offers debugging tools for applications that run on modern container and serverless platforms, is launching a new feature today that brings the equivalent of breakpoints to Kubernetes.
“Traditional debuggers leave developers helpless on Kubernetes, because they can’t debug multiple ephemeral, shifting, distributed concurrent instances of code,” the company argues in its announcement. “The powerful and familiar features that debuggers provide, like breakpoints, are missing.”
To get around this, developers tend to go for a more indirect way of diagnosing issues and debugging their apps running on Kubernetes. That mostly means logging and distributed tracing, both of which have spawned their own ecosystems of open-source projects and startups. Rookout argues that these systems are hard to set up and can only give you a relatively high-level view of what’s happening inside a container.
While the company talks about this feature as “breakpoints,” though, we’re not talking about the traditional breakpoints you are probably familiar with from your IDE. Instead, Rookout collects full-stack data but doesn’t actually stop the execution of the code. That may make it sound more like it’s closer to tracing and logging than the company makes it seem, but you can actually use the system to get data about a single variable state and the promise is that you can do so with just a few clicks. And because there are no real breakpoints, you can use the system on both development and production systems.
“Nobody wants to install and run complicated, high-overhead monitoring solutions just to be able to indirectly debug Kubernetes,” says Rookout CTO and co-founder Liran Haimovitch in today’s announcement. “Rookout goes beyond the trace level, giving developers and DevOps back the breakpoints they need to understand their applications, without having to stop the app to write new code.”
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And just in time for Black Friday: get up to $180 in games for free when you buy select AMD graphics cards.
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It isn’t on sale, but Amazon donates $10 to the Global Fund’s effort to fight AIDS for each one sold.
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These Amazon gadget sales go live starting on Thanksgiving Day — but you can score them as early as Nov. 18 by asking Alexa.
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The flagship phone was $720 just a few months ago. It’s new, not refurbished. Plus: a super cheap carrier deal, an early Black Friday deal on a huge TV and a chance to win an Apple Watch!
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Tech like this can vastly improve safety, but it can also improve your commute.
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