Long Weekend in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico
Think of Chiapas as the Oregon of Mexico: It’s green and gorgeous and one of the best destinations in the republic for nature lovers. The state’s cultural capital, San Cristóbal de las Casas, is a town of cobblestone streets and red-tile roofs set at 7,200 feet above sea level, amid pine-filled forests. The city is a destination unto itself for great shopping, lively nightlife, appealing restaurants, and a fascinating glimpse of local indigenous
Acer has pulled the covers off a smorgasbord of new products, including new Switch laptops in multiple formats and its first US smartphone. At an event held earlier today, Acer premiered the new Switch 10, Switch 11 and Switch 12 models, which are headed by the SW5-15 that is inspired by the Aspire S7. It has a full-HD display encased in striking white Corning Gorilla Glass 3, a keyboard dock
The PC industry might be on the decline, but Acer’s not going down without a fight. CEO Jason Chen told an audience in New York that Acer will “be the last man standing in the PC industry.” Sounds like fighting talk to us. Acer also revealed that it currently sells 100,000 devices each day. Which, you know, is quite a lot.
Smartphones: is there anything they can’t do? Phone, camera, music player, portable console, the list of jobs your mobile can take on is an impressive one, and you can now add optometrist to the list too. Well, not quite – but your smartphone can be used to gather the data your optometrist needs to work out if you need glasses or not. It’s the brainchild of US startup Blink, which
Nvidia has lifted the curtain on what you’ll need to run the upcoming PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight – and like the angsty caped crusader himself the requirements are fairly demanding. A scan of the recommended system requirements reveals that you’ll need at least an Intel Core i7-3370 CPU/AMD FX-8350, 8GB of RAM and at least an Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 to play the game as its maker intended.
Details of the LG G4 have been leaking out left, right and center – today we managed to get our first inkling of the price, and it’s not good news. According to South Korean carriers SK Telecom and T World Direct it’s going to cost around the $825 mark – in the US that’s in between the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge It gets a little more complicated for
It’s 10 years to the day since the first clip (“Me at the Zoo”) was uploaded on YouTube, and the service – now owned by Google Inc – has dominated online video-sharing ever since. Facebook Inc said on Wednesday that its users were watching 4 billion videos a day, compared with 3 billion in January and just 1 billion in September. Almost all analysts saw video advertising as one of
By Se Young Lee SEOUL, (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics has pulled out all the stops on its new Galaxy smartphones, but their modest prices compared to the latest iPhones throw an uneasy spotlight on the long-term cost of fighting Apple’s premium branding. The 64-gigabyte model of the Galaxy S6 edge costs $290.45 to make, according to IHS Technology. For the price of producing 100 sets of this S6 edge model,
Nasdaq OMX Group said on Thursday it set aside $31 million for ongoing litigation arising from the bungled $16 billion initial public offering of Facebook Inc on its U.S. stock exchange in May 2012. The reserve is intended to cover the estimated amount of a settlement of class-action litigation initiated on behalf of investors in Facebook common stock on the date of its IPO, the company said in a filing
By Phil Stewart REDWOOD CITY, California (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is due to unveil an updated cyber strategy on Thursday that will stress the military’s ability to retaliate with cyber weapons, a capability he hopes will help deter attacks. The strategy presents a potentially far more muscular role for the U.S. military’s cyber warriors than the Pentagon was willing to acknowledge in its last strategy rollout in
