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Lilbits: Intel Arc 750 GPU preview, Steam Deck replacement fans and batteries now available, and Amazon Prime Air drone delivery expands to Texas

by Brad Linder07/15/202209/08/2022 1 Comment

After launching a very limited trial in California last month, Amazon is expanding its delivery-by-drone service to residents of a city in Texas where more than 100 thousand people live. Intel has provided a performance preview of its upcoming Intel Arc A750 desktop GPU, claiming it can outperform NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060. Meanwhile the chip maker […]

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Amazon Prime Air drone deliveries inch closer to taking flight

by Brad Linder06/13/2022 8 Comments

Later this year Amazon customers in Lockeford, California may start to see some packages delivered by aerial drones instead of being dropped off by a truck or van driver. It’s the next step for Amazon Prime Air, a delivery-by-drone initiative that Amazon first unveiled in 2013, but which has only been deployed in very small […]

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Lilbits: Lenovo’s Linux laptop is here

by Brad Linder08/31/2020 4 Comments

Earlier this year we learned that Lenovo was going to start selling some ThinkPad laptops with Fedora Linux as an alternative to Windows. Now you can buy one. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 is a 2.4 pound laptop that measures 0.6 inches thick, features two Thunderbolt 3 ports, an HDMI 1. port, and two USB […]

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Amazon Prime Air makes it first delivery-by-drone

by Brad Linder12/14/2016 Comments Off

It’s been three years since Amazon revealed plans to start delivering products to customers using flying drones. Last week Amazon Prime Air made its first delivery. The company made the announcement this week, explaining that the delivery on December 7th took 13 minutes and was carried out to a UK customer by an aerial vehicle […]

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Lilbits (6-24-2014): Verizon cancels free data for Chromebook Pixel LTE users, Google responds with $150 credit

by Brad Linder06/24/201406/24/2014 6 Comments

When Google launched the Chromebook Pixel, the company partnered with Verizon to offer 100MB of free data per month for two years to customers who bought 4G LTE version of the premium, touchscreen Chromebook. This week Computer World noted that Verizon was no longer honoring that deal, claiming that the free data was only good […]

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Amazon Appstore tops 200k apps, Prime has tens of millions of subscribers

by Brad Linder04/10/201404/10/2014 4 Comments

Amazon’s annual report is out today, and tucked away in the lengthy document are some details about the company’s achievements over the past year. Amazon has a habit of being very selective with the details it provides, so we still don’t know how many Kindle eReaders or Kindle Fire tablets were sold in the past […]

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Amazon working on half-hour delivery-by-drone service: Amazon Prime Air

by Brad Linder12/01/2013 9 Comments

Amazon offers a range of shipping options, including free 2-day shipping for Amazon Prime subscribers and free 5-8 day shipping for customers that spend $35 or more on select items. Soon there may be another option: Delivery within a half hour… by air… by autonomous drone. Seriously. The company is working on a project it […]