Pixel Chromebook, Google's new laptop with high definition touch screen

Earlier this month, leaked on the Internet a video of a supposed prototype Pixel Chromebook, Google's new laptop. On Wednesday, the company officially unveiled its new notebook, which has a very good screen technology.

This is not a Chromebook as we are used to seeing. Not only is it better than the rest, but also much more expensive, costing $ 1300. The notebook has a touch screen of 12.8 inches with a great resolution of 2560 × 1700 pixels, slightly better than the Retina display that brings 13-inch MacBook Pro from Apple.

Under his case, the Chromebook Pixel has an Intel Core i5 dual-core processor running at 1.8GHz, the graphics card is an Intel HD Graphics 4000, has 4GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD, but we can expect to acquire 1TB Google Drive storage for three years. The estimated battery life is about 5 hours and also has WiFi connectivity. Regarding the ports, has two USB 2.0, a headphone jack and a Mini DisplayPort. It also includes a SD card reader, an HD webcam and of course a trackpad.

There is a model with better specs that costs $ $ 1450 and comes with 64GB of SSD, 4G LTE connectivity and a 100MB monthly plan for LTE Verizon (available only to U.S. probably).

Pixel The body is made of aluminum and its entire design is intended to give the impression that this is a team "premium".

If we compare what it costs and what it offers, we will see that in the market there are better alternatives (except for the screen, obviously), but the Vice President of Chrome says this device is designed for those who rely heavily on the cloud. Even today, despite the fact that cloud services are becoming very popular, it is still very difficult to find someone to make use of the cloud in all its activities and even more, to trust all your data to it.

The Pixel Chromebook can be purchased from the store or from some stores Play Best Buy.

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NASA even steal their laptops

Anyone you can steal your notebook. To you, to me, a relative, a friend, a neighbor, even NASA. So, even the famous space agency saved from theft.
It seems that a number of NASA employees are at risk after the theft of unencrypted laptop and other important documents from an agency vehicle. The thief has forced them to change some rules to security level.
Charles Bolden Jr., the NASA administrator, is very unhappy with the situation and now has been given a high priority to all tasks that will respect the security and are conducting all investigations were possible. Recall that last year the agency suffered a major data loss involving all the codes and information on employees.
From now on, all laptops of employees should be encrypted before next December 21. In addition, the agency shall prohibit its employees store important information on devices like tablets and smartphones.
The agency's technology edge that once led us to the moon (if it was) must make some major changes.

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Plugin Ubisoft leaves computers vulnerable, says Google engineer

 

The information security engineer at Google, Tavis Ormandy noticed a security flaw in Uplay, plugin Ubisoft that comes along with various securities of the company.

The extension allows you to embed malicious code on any site, causing the charge by the page able to install software on a victim's PC without asking permission.

In Seclists , discussion forum about security, Ormandy noticed the account that failed to install "Assassin's Creed: Revelations" in his notebook.

There have been no reports of a malicious use of the fault, but the magazine Forbes confirms that the gap is present in browsers Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Sought by the team of Digital Look, a spokesperson for Ubisoft in Brazil said the company has not yet ruled on the matter.

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Lenovo IdeaPad Y580, a great laptop for gamers

 

Besides being a sector-oriented multimedia laptop, the Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 may be given other uses, which as a guess by the title includes gaming. This is because the team is a powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 2GB 660m inside, next to which we can place a Core i5 second generation, or a third-generation i3/i5/i7, as we need and can afford to buy. For a multimedia notebook, the Y580 is a bit poor in audio industry because it has only two 1.5 W speakers, but at least have support for Dolby Home Theater v4.
The rest of the specs of the Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 include up to 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, 32GB solid disk, Nvidia Optimus technology, optical drive of your choice (DVD, Blu-ray or Blu-ray Combo) and a HD webcam. Regarding connections, has WiFi, LAN, Bluetooth and WiDi, while among the ports we will find USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, VGA and a card reader.

 

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