The sale of tablets plummets to Microsoft’s joy, which sets the standard in convertibles

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The numbers do not come back to the manufacturers of tablets, which a quarter more – and nine consecutive – have fallen in sales. A new IDC study reveals how sales of such devices have fallen 20.1% from a year ago, and it does not appear that this trend can change.

The bad news is not so great for Microsoft, which has gradually gained the confidence of users with its Surface Pro, the reference convertible tablets that are stealing the wallet to the pure tablets based on both Android and iOS.

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5 Great Apps to Help College Students Manage Life

If you’re currently attending college you probably know that life can become extremely hectic. There’s not just class, but extracurricular activities and a social life to maintain (though in the case of an emergency the latter is typically the first to go out the window). If this seems like your life, don’t worry too much. There are steps you can take to make things much easier and organized. Best of all, these steps are as easy as owning a smartphone, which you likely do.

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How to Get the Best Deal on a Laptop for Your College-Bound Student

We’ve all been there. Your student just got into college and you know it’s time to get them their own laptop, but the sheer thought of all the possible choices gives you a migraine. Fear not, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. The fact that there are so many options means that the right choice is out there somewhere, you just have to look for it. Here to assist you with that task are some recommendations on how to get the best deal on a laptop for your college-bound student.

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If you are going to buy a hard drive, look out for these models they are the ones that seem to fail

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The conventional hard drives offer large storage capacities with a very competitive cost price per Gbyte is clearly lower than in the case of SSDs, especially for increasing capacity, but some brands are more trouble than others.

That’s what reports backBlaze reports every year, a company that offers an online storage service and that every year studies the performance of the disks you have on your servers. Western Digital is the worst performer according to that report.

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The smartphone of the future will have holograms, virtual assistant and look like a sex toy, according to this concept

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Philippe Starck is currently one of the most important industrial designers of our time, his works have transcended due to its peculiar aspect that mixes aesthetics with functionality. Its work is present in a large number of architectural projects and various types of objects. Perhaps for many of us it will be easier to identify him if we say that he was responsible for the design of the Mi Mix of Xiaomi.

Now Starck has joined Jerome Olivet, another famous French designer, to create a concept that shows us what the smartphone of the future should be like, a radical change that completely eliminates the touch screen interface, to take a step towards the use Of holograms.

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Chrome OS wants to conquer us in 2017: More formats, stylus and Android applications are the keys

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This platform has gained strength thanks to the announcement last year that Android applications would be supported directly on these computers, but in 2017 Chrome OS wants to gain much more ground. Convertible formats will join other types of products based on Chrome OS and the stylus will become relevant, but we also have on the horizon that mysterious Andromeda project that wants to merge Chrome OS with Android.

Chromebook launches cheer up

The Samsung Chromebook Pro / Plus launched in the past CES 2017 already surprised us by its screen with resolution of 2,400 x 1,600 pixels, while the Acer Chromebook 11 N7 stood out for their splash resistance or drops. ASUS and its Chromebook Flip C302 appropriated the convertible format, but in recent days, we have seen even more models ready to conquer users.

Today we learned about the launch of the Dell Chromebook 11, which also adopt that format convertible to be able to use in tablet or portable format when we need it.

However, the option that stood out was to support the Productivity Active Pen, the optional pencil that Dell offers to take notes or draw on the screens of these devices. This type of option, already present in others such as the aforementioned Samsung Chromebook Pro, marks a clear turning point in the bet by the touch interface and pointer in these products.

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What happened to TVs with 3D support?

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‘Avatar’ unleashed 3D fever around the world. Suddenly that was the magic word in the mouth of industry, users and content producers. Televisions, computers, cinemas … all tried to take advantage of the pull of a technology that years later virtually disappeared from the map.

That apparent irrelevance of 3D content has been confirmed again at the recent CES, with manufacturers who have announced that they will no longer offer this capability in their new models to focus on other technical improvements. Sales have not stopped falling, less and less movies are released with that alternative version and users do not take advantage of that feature of their Smart TV more than anecdotally. Are we facing the death of 3D content in film and television?

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Internet is sick: Mozilla wants to cure it and protect its future

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Mozilla is an organization known for its defense of an internet in which everything is open and in which it maintains that original spirit with which the network of networks was born. Things have changed in recent years, and there are several threats that have made the health of the internet at risk.

That is what has made Mozilla launch the so-called Internet Health Report, an initiative that investigates five themes: decentralization, digital inclusion, open innovation, privacy and security, and web literacy. The findings of the report are compelling, and we have talked about them with Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation.

Many challenges to overcome for healing

As the report’s findings indicate, there are major challenges that need to be overcome in order to try to get the internet on the right track. For example: despite the great advances in Internet adoption, 58% of the world’s population cannot afford an Internet connection.

Another problem affecting the Internet is the massive use of English, which has become the “native” language of the network: 52% of the websites are in English, although only 25% of the global population understands this language.

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QLED vs OLED: Which technology is best for our TV?

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One of the technologies that have most sounded in this CES 2017 has been the QLED presented by Samsung in its new high-end televisions, which come to replace SUHD but with the same goal: to deal with OLED televisions. In fact, right now Samsung is the only major manufacturer that has decided not to bet on OLED, unlike LG, Sony or Panasonic, who already have several options in their catalogs.

Next we will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the QLED against the OLED so that we all have a little more clear why option decanter us in case we are thinking about buying a new television.

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