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How to Take a Screen Shot Or Capture Computer Screen

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Take a screenshot on Windows Look for the  Print Screen  key on your keyboard, which might be labeled  PrtScn  or some similar variation. To capture the entire screen (everything you see on the screen, including all open windows), press the  PrtScn  button. This screenshot will be placed in your clipboard. Alternatively, to capture just the active or foremost window, press  Alt + PrtScn . (Some machines may require you to tap  Fn  at the same time.) If you want to select a portion of your screen to grab, hit  Windows+Shift+S . In Windows 10, this will open the Snipping Tool, which we’ll explain below. Next, open a word processing or image editing program like Microsoft Paint and either go to  Edit > Paste  or hit  Ctrl + V  to paste the image into the program. Go to  File  >  Save As  and save the image to a folder so you can use it later.

NEW ARM-Based Amazon Graviton CPU

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It’s only been a few weeks since Amazon announced that it would offer AMD Epyc servers as an option for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now the company is announcing a new type of hardware platform for its just-created A1 instances — the Amazon Graviton processor. The Graviton CPU Here’s what we know about the Graviton to date. It’s based on the Cortex-A72, with a maximum clock speed of 2.3GHz. AWS VP James Hamilton  writes : These new instances feature up to 45% lower costs and will join the 170 different instance types supported by AWS, ranging from the Intel-based z1d instances which deliver a sustained all core frequency of 4.0 GHz, a 12 TB memory instance, the F1 instance family with up to 8 Field Programmable Gate Arrays, P3 instances with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, and the new M5a and R5a instances with AMD EPYC Processors. No other cloud offering even comes close. Almost an AMD Win It’s easy to forget, but once upon a time, AMD was making a huge bet on...