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Feature AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple has decisively transitioned its new MacBook Pros to use the slim, unidirectional new USB-C port first introduced on the Retina MacBook a year and a half ago. Its latest MacBook Pro machines not only supply more connectors, but also support the enhanced new USB 3.1 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3 protocols for blazing fast wired connectivity and high resolution displays. Flex your power Like the Retina MacBook, the new MacBook Pro models no longer use MagSafe, Apple's quick release magnetic plug for delivering power. Power is now delivered via USB-C, which fits snuggly enough to pull your laptop off the edge of a table if something inadvertently tugs the cable hard enough. While many are weeping over the death of their beloved MagSafe, I've … [Read more...] about Everything you need to know about USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 on Apple’s new MacBook Pro

AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. USB-C is the future of computer connectivity, but there is a great deal of confusion over USB-C, Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1, and what any given cable with USB-C connectors is capable of. AppleInsider breaks it all down. Apple introduced USB-C to its user base with the retina 12-inch MacBook. At the time, it was a fancy USB port limited to USB 3.0 speeds of 5Gbit per second, and was officially called USB 3.1 Type-C Generation 1. The same physical port was used in the 2016 MacBook Pro refresh, offering a faster, more capable Thunderbolt 3 port with the same USB-C physical connector. The Thunderbolt 3 protocol allows for 40Gbit per second — assuming the cabling for it is right. But, right now, confusion reigns — and a simple choice that Apple made in the 2016 … [Read more...] about PSA: Thunderbolt 3 cables longer than 0.5m generally don’t support USB 3.1 speeds

Once you start down the HomeKit route, the convenience of having everything controlled from a single app is pretty addictive. So these days I view HomeKit compatibility as a pretty non-negotiable item with any smart home tech. But there are limits. And paying £16,500 ($22,000) for a Lutron system was definitely well beyond them! However, the thing about having a lot of windows – especially floor to ceiling ones – is that good-quality blinds are expensive no matter what. And in the winter garden (glazed balcony) in particular, which is where we spend a huge amount of our time, we wanted really nice ones. So when we found that we could have great blinds with iPhone control and promised HomeKit support for a little under half that price, we gulped and went for it … I should explain that we didn’t decide on spending that kind of money casually. It was a somewhat gradual process. My partner loves Luxaflex Duette blinds – which I’ll talk more about in a moment. These aren’t … [Read more...] about Smart Home Diary: Ending up with iPhone-controlled blinds after all … [Video]

Learning is fun: Kids at the Lùng Vai Kindergarten in northern mountainous Lào Cai Province during playtime. Experts advocate initiatives to draw resources from both the public and private sectors to promote equity in education and ensure access to learning opportunities for all children, regardless of their age, gender, residence, ethnicity, social status. VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Hà Viet Nam News By Vy Vy When Minh Hạnh’s five-year-old daughter Mai told her she had a class presentation about her favourite pets later that week, Hạnh knew just what to do. She gathered all the photos and videos she had of little Mai with the animals her great grandparents have in Hải Phòng City, 100km from Hà Nội. There were photos of a cow, a dog and a mother pig with her herd of adorable newborns. After making them into a short clip, she used Google Photos to share it with Mai’s teacher. She asked the teacher to help screen the clip for the class when it was her daughter’s turn to present. … [Read more...] about Embracing tech in early childhood education

A person living with HIV/AIDS receives ARV at the District 11 Preventive Medicine Centre. Photo Thu Hằng Viet Nam News San Hà HCM CITY — N.C.T, a 32-year-old man, and his partner, a 38-year-old man, are waiting at the District 11 Preventive Medicine Centre to receive free antiretroviral drugs. With international support, ARV treatment has been made available free of charge in Việt Nam. But from next year the two men will no longer enjoy free medicines and treatment, and health insurance cards will be the lifebuoy for HIV patients like them. They live together in a rented house in Bình Tân District, but have been coming to the centre for HIV treatment for the past three years for fear of being seen in their neighbourhood waiting in a queue to pick up medication for HIV. But since social stigma and discrimination remain widespread in the country, most insured people living with HIV are unwilling to use their health insurance cards for fear of revealing their … [Read more...] about Govt to bring all HIV patients into insurance net

Trương Văn Cheo (leftmost), the soldier thought dead in a fight in Cambodia in 1985, returned to his family in Cần Thơ City last week, surprising his mother and relatives. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Liêm Viet Nam News C Ầ N TH Ơ — The sudden return of a soldier thought to be long dead in Cambodia during the 1980s has brought immense joy to his family. Authorities, however, are puzzled as they have not come to a conclusion what to do with the war martyrs’ that the family has received in the past two decades. The story of Tr ươ ng V ă n Ch ó ng, 58, finding his way back home and reuniting with his mother, Huỳnh Th ị N ứ a, now 88, after 33 years has garnered widespread attention, with many calling the journey home a “rare miracle”. The mother-son duo lives in a village in Đ ị nh M ô n Commune in Th ớ i Lai District. Chóng is the sixth child in a family of 10 … [Read more...] about ‘Dead’ soldier reunites with mother after 33 years

Banks should compete relying on their unique strength By Kim Ngoc Every bank should find out its own strength and formulate strategies relying on that strength - PHOTO: THANH HOA Not only should the State Bank of Vietnam maximize its flexible and effective monetary policy, but commercial banks also need to actively improve their internal strength and gain their own competitive advantages to be on the same footing with regional rivals. This is one of the key messages passed on during the Banking Panorama Forum 2019 jointly hosted by the Saigon Times Group and the central bank in Hanoi on May 8. Participants in the forum agreed with one another on the key role of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), the central bank, in maintaining a flexible monetary policy to ensure the financial market’s stability in 2019, the year in which negative impacts on the Vietnamese economy are projected given global market fluctuations. Citing this positive point, Can Van Luc, a banking … [Read more...] about Banks should compete relying on their unique strength

Flood Control in HCMC: Not A Tough Problem By Nguyen Minh Hoa A man waiting for rainwater to drain in HCMC - PHOTO: TRUONG THANH TUNG “Natural drainage” is arguably the best solution for flood control in HCMC in the current situation. With this solution in effect, there is no need for capital intensive flood control projects, land for artificial lakes and huge pumps as well as the controversial initiative of using jars and vessels for rainwater storage. Saigon was established more than 300 years ago from a fishing village of tens of houses in a small basin called “Ben Nghe.” As a common practice worldwide, the first agglomerations always chose a high area for living, and so did the Saigonese at that time. The French vision As early as in 1862, when Saigon was still under the French domination, the French administrators zoned Saigon the way they would do to a European city and thought of the optimal solution for drainage. The first urban planning for Saigon … [Read more...] about Flood Control in HCMC: Not A Tough Problem

Workers of Tuấn Dũng Co-operative collect honey from beehives in Há Pống Cáy Village in Hà Giang Province. - Photo baohagiang.vn Viet Nam News HÀ GIANG – Last month, Lê Tiến Tuân, a beekeeper from the northern province of Tuyên Quang, moved 320 foreign beehives into local gardens in two villages of Thài Phìn Tùng Commune, Hà Giang Province, as per an unwritten agreement with gardens’ owners – which should have transpired fuss-less. But the following day, local authorities demanded that Tuân move all his beehives out of the commune before 8:00pm the same day. However, he didn’t comply, insisting that his actions were fully legal by state law. Commotion broke out in the morning two days later, when villagers removed all of his beehives and deposited them 700m from the National Road 4C. Some even deliberately kicked over the bee boxes. Such forceful removal of ‘foreign’ beehives, and by implication, beekeepers from other provinces, involving the provincial police and other … [Read more...] about Hà Giang’s buzz over bees creates chaos

The head of the HCM City AIDS Prevention Centre has asked the Việt Nam Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS to help the country reach the 90-90-90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS to help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. — Photo laodong.com.vn HCM CITY — The head of the HCM City AIDS Prevention Centre has asked the Việt Nam Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS to help the country reach the 90-90-90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS to help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Speaking at a forum on MSM (men who have sex with men) and transgendered people about the UN targets on Monday, Tiêu Thị Thu Vân, said that Việt Nam was one of the first 30 countries to try to achieve the targets by 2020. The 90-90-90 goals ensure that at least 90 per cent of all people with HIV will know their status, and that 90 per cent of people diagnosed with HIV will receive sustained antiretroviral ( ARV) therapy. In … [Read more...] about VN push to achieve UN’s AIDS targets