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Imagine my chagrin when less than three months before my Peruvian trek , I found out from seasoned Inca Trail hikers that the most arduous part of the four-day journey is climbing those massive cobblestone staircases that make up a huge chunk of the trail and that they wished they focused on stair training before their very first hike. Being a Los Angeleno, I’ve been an experienced hiker for years. We’re a city of hikers, after all. It’s what we do here. I’ve hiked the surrounding mountain ranges in Southern California, the Sierra Nevada up north, the tall sand dunes in the Mojave Desert, and the Northern and Southern Coast ranges along the California coast. But, stairs?! More specifically, several miles of them and at above 9,000 feet elevation… well, they’re a different matter entirely and something I knew I wasn’t prepared for. At least with hiking, you get some respite in areas where the trail flattens out. Climbing stairs for miles means it’s a perpetual uphill. This is what ha...

Motorola has launched the budget-friendly Moto E13 in select markets across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America. The Moto E13 sports a 6.5-inch HD+ IPS LCD display and is powered by an octa-core Unisoc T606 SoC. It runs Android 13 Go Edition out-of-the-box. The phone also packs a 5,000mAh battery and comes with 64GB of inbuilt storage. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/tIAR2Sv

Continuing its foray into the healthcare industry , Amazon is launching its own drug prescription service for Prime members called RxPass, which lets consumers purchase generic medication for $5 a month. And that $5 goes a long way. Not only is it a flat fee but subscribers won’t be subject to hidden fees or random markups, plus delivery is free. You can purchase all the medication you need for $5, assuming it’s available through the program. At launch, you’ll have access to more than 50 different medications to treat over 80 common health conditions from diabetes to gout and even high blood pressure. Any extra prescriptions you need that isn’t available through RxPass must be purchased through Amazon Pharmacy for its normal price. Speaking of which, Amazon Pharmacy will also highlight which medicine can be purchased through the new service as a  new blue RxPass icon will appear in medicine descriptions.  Enrollment To enroll, the company states Prime members will have...

Nvidia finally revealed the official launch date of its RTX Video Super Resolution feature, which was first announced during CES 2023 . The tool, which upscales videos up to 4K resolution using artificial intelligence, is set for a February 2023 release window for both Chrome and Edge browsers. RTX Video Super Resolution, as clarified to PC Gamer , will allow “resolutions beyond 1080p. It'll upscale video with a native resolution anywhere between 360p and 1440p, and it'll work with video up to 144Hz frame rate.” This feature requires either an RTX 3000-series or 4000-series GPU to run. You can see how well it works in the video from Nvidia below. Could this be the future of video upscaling? Though 4K video upscaling isn’t new to TV, it’s a new technology to browsers and streaming video. The fact that it’s artificial intelligence doing the actual enhancing is both impressive and potentially divisive. Though this AI technology shows us truly incredible results as we can s...

According to multiple reports, it looks like Samsung’s latest flagship solid-state drive - the Samsung 990 Pro - is experiencing some serious hardware problems. A report published on Neowin , which was preceded by the author of the report posting on Reddit about his own experience with the issue, claims that the 990 Pro is losing ‘drive health’ at an alarmingly fast rate. Some users have reported seeing drops of 10% in total health or more within just a matter of days. The Samsung 990 Pro is perhaps the best SSD on the market right now (though it’ll cost you a pretty penny, since this is some seriously high-end storage), meaning that plenty of excited PC-builders will have purchased one for their custom rigs when it launched back in November 2022. It’s unclear at this point exactly how many SSDs are affected, but going by Reddit threads we can conclude that it has impacted multiple users. The severity varies, but so far the worst instance appears to be from Twitter user Neil Scho...

As Russia’s military was bombarding Ukraine, back at home, Russian companies were being bombarded with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks - with such incidents against Russian entities reaching new highs in 2022. Figures from Rostelecom, Russia's biggest ISP, claim there were 21.5 million DDoS attacks carried out against some 600 organizations in the country in 2022.  Most of the attacks happened in and around Moscow, where the majority of these companies are headquartered. None of the bigger sectors seems to have been spared, with firms in telecom, retail, finance, and the public sector, all experiencing attacks. Attacking the public sector The public sector was the most targeted, seeingalmost a third (30%) of all incidents (up 12x year-on-year). Financial institutions took up a quarter of all attacks (25%), followed by education (16%). The biggest attack was 760 GB/sec, Rostelecom further said, claiming it was almost double in destructive power, compared to last ...

BharOS, the Android-based indigenous operating system developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT) was tested by Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday. Union Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that there would be difficulties in the journey and there wer... from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/ugE2H7l