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  • New iPad Pro Benchmarked: This Blows Away Windows PCs (laptops)

    11/05/2018 7:27:11 PM PST · by Swordmaker · 103 replies
    Tom's List ^ | November 5, 2018 | By Mark Spoonauer
    When Apple introduced the new iPad Pro, the company boasted that its slim slate is more powerful than 92 percent of PCs out there. Now that we've benchmarked the 12.9-inch iPad Pro for our review over at Laptop Mag, it looks like that claim could very well be legit. Credit: Tom's Guide The 7-nanometer A12X Bionic chip processor inside the iPad Pro packs four performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, and there's a new GPU that promises twice the graphics performance as the A10X processor inside the last iPad Pro. And the benchmark results are quite impressive. Geekbench 4 On...
  • Polar Bear That Starved to Death, Allegedly Due to Climate Change, in Viral Photograph

    02/18/2016 12:59:54 PM PST · by PROCON · 52 replies
    theepochtimes.com ^ | Feb. 18, 2016 | Epoch Newsroom
    A photographer captured an image of a polar bear in the Canadian Arctic that has gone viral. Sebastian Copeland blamed climate change for the death--or more specifically, the melting sea ice in the area, which makes it harder for the polar bears to hunt. The picture shows a polar bear's emaciated corpse on a patch of rocky ground, which Copeland came across while trekking in the Arctic. "For the state of the ice in general, we're headed into uncharted territory. There's no doubt about it," Copeland wrote accompanying the photograph in his new book "Arctica: The Vanishing North," reported the...