Dell's latest notebooks are rugged and built tough

Dell announced the newest members of the Rugged family: the Dell Latitude 7424 Rugged Extreme and the Dell Latitude 5424 and 5420 Rugged notebooks. Built to take a beating, the latest Dell Rugged laptops offer the following highlights.

 Easier viewing, indoors or outdoors for greater usability, rain or shine

• (1000-NIT) sharper full high-definition displays with better color gamut
• Dual-batteries packing a combined charge that can last more than 14 hours
• External storage method of choice to back-up and offload data, the 7424 and 5424 offer an optional Blu-Ray burner for data density
• For those who need more portability, the new 5420 is up to 22% lighter and thinner for increased accessibility without giving up Dell’s classic rugged versatility
• Next-gen Cat16 4G/LTE for ease of connectivity

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Muse’s ‘Simulation Theory’ album artwork was made with the Apple iPad Pro and Pencil

Sometimes we forget how powerful the tools we carry are and it takes some skilled hands to remind us. Artist Kyle Lambert just showed us what he can do with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil when he designed the new album artwork for the English rock band Muse. Looking at the webpage for the band’s new album Simulation Theory, we see that the artwork and even video teaser have been made with the Apple products. You can see how the album artwork was done in the video above. Lambert is known for doing artwork for major films and TV shows like Stranger Things and Jurassic Park. 

Source: 9to5Mac 

'Game of Thrones' White Walkers demo productivity and multitasking on the Pixelbook

In the most unlikely team-up the Night King and his fellow White Walkers demo the capabilities of the Google Pixelbook (and all recent Chromebooks, for that matter). Focusing on productivity, multitaksing, multimedia and getting things done. The caper is conquering Westeros' and serves as a useful recap of where we left off in Game of Thrones which feels like it has been off the air for years.

Once an also see this ad as a hint that Chromebooks, like the White Walkers, are a force of nature and will eventually take over the personal computing and their time has come.

Nine of 10 smart speakers in the US are either from Amazon or Google

Strategy Analyitics conducted a new survey on smart speakers in the US in July and August and it revealed that 9 out of 10 smart speakers are either Amazon Alexa or Google Home devices. The results of that survey show that in the 50 million installed speaker market, the Echo and Google’s Home speaker occupy the top eight slots on a list of the ten most popular speaker models. The outlier is Apple’s HomePod, in the number nine spot, with a 4 percent market share.

Canada, a much smaller market, has seen the availability of Amazon, Google and even Apple's HomePod these past two years although there's no telling how well these devices are selling here. Google Home has been developed partly in Canada and has had the French Canadian language built-in since its inception. Amazon just unloaded new devices in the US and Canada.

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