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Recommended reading: Humble Bundle ebook deals

Tech book publisher No Starch Press is no stranger to Humble Bundle ebook deals, where readers pay what they want for collections of best-selling ebooks. No Starch Press fans love these bundles—two previous No Starch Press bundles brought in nearly $1 million each in just two weeks, raising $500,000 for charity.

Now No Starch Press is teaming up with Humble Bundle once again to offer a bundle of Python ebooks, featuring some of the best-selling titles on the market.

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Nvidia announces Titan Xp GPU, beta Pascal drivers for the Mac

Nvidia (www.nvidia.com) has announced its $1,200 Titan Xp GPU [graphics processing unit], as well as news that new beta Pascal drivers are coming next week for the Mac.

The company says it pushes more cores, faster clocks, faster memory and more TFLOPS than its predecessor, the 2016 Pascal-powered Titan X.
Stats for the Titan Xp include: 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4 Gbp; 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz; and 12 TFLOPs of “brute force.” Nvidia says its making the GPU open to the Mac community with new Pascal drivers, coming later this month.

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Server Ranger for macOS upgraded to version 1.5

LibertyApp has rolled out Server Ranger 1.5 (http://www.serverranger.com), the latest version of the website and server monitoring solution for macOS platform.

The utility scales to monitor the performance and uptime of any number of servers, as well as any type of server, including web, mail, file, routers and more. The app can send multiple alerts when a server’s latency is unacceptable or if the server has gone offline. Version 1.5 brings new features, such as an integrated main window, new filters on the server logs, and more.

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