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Lenovo unveiled two new laptops made out of materials including recycled aluminum and “recycled black vegan leather,” delivered in packaging made from compostable bamboo and sugarcane. But beneath the environmentally friendly hardware there’s another innovation: Microsoft’s Pluton security processor. The new Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 and Z16, announced Tuesday at the International CES tech show in Las Vegas, are the first PCs to be unveiled with Pluton since Microsoft announced the security architecture in November 2020. Pluton takes security technologies that otherwise exist in a separate hardware component in Windows PCs and integrates them directly into the central processing unit. In...

Half-size: click for full-size. Found this with a search initiated on the term "exposed pluton". Looking Glass Rock turned up in that search, so I searched more until I found this picture.

Go to the link in the header for the article and explanation of what these are. The picture below is of the Monteregian Hills; Mont St. Hilaire is on the left. The picture is half-size; click for full-size. Mont St. Hilaire from the ground: As seen from Montreal: In winter: In autumn (even nicer if the light poles are cropped out):

This one was sure easy. The Brandberg is another one of those African features that stands out from space, and a unique hospitable environment in the hostile deserts of Namibia. Click on the picture below will provide the big image (~3.5 MB); in the big image, the striations in the metamorphosed gneiss are pretty remarkable. I sure wouldn't want to get lost there. Brandberg Massif