Intel’s Subsequent Unit of Computing (NUC) platform has been round lengthy sufficient that it is in all probability misplaced its “subsequent” standing, however that does not cease the corporate from persevering with to churn out new variations as its Core processors get refreshed. With every new iteration of the NUC, we are able to anticipate an NUC Excessive model, designed for players and different high-performance PC customers, housed in a compact case with a cranium emblem etched on it, and code-named with a scary-sounding Canyon-based moniker.

Following within the lineage of such predecessors as Cranium Canyon, Hades Canyon and Ghost Canyon, the brand new Beast Canyon has simply been launched underneath the official title of NUC 11 Excessive Package. As with its predecessors, the package is predicated across the newest top-performing Intel Core processors housed in a small-form-factor chassis with room for a

British-owned schooling publishing firm Pearson introduced the creation of a brand new platform — Pearson+ — that may try to supply college students extra financially versatile methods to entry faculty textbooks. 

The app gives college students a number of shopping for choices for textual content books that Pearson stated are a extra “finances pleasant option to entry e-books and examine instruments.”

Throughout a press convention, Pearson representatives known as the app the “first of its type” and stated it can “essentially change the best way college students entry and expertise faculty textbooks.”

Pearson’s library of greater than 1,500 eTexts shall be out there to customers with month-to-month and pay-as-you-go choices resembling different content material subscriptions. 

Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill management about 80% of the faculty textbook market and the Faculty Board famous that the typical scholar spends greater than $1,200 every year on textbooks. Knowledge has proven that college students