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Contactless payment: Samsung Pay starts in Germany

Samsung launched its own payment service in Germany on Thursday. After a four-week beta phase, Samsung Pay is now available in Samsung’s Galaxy Store and Google’s Play Store. The payment service works on numerous younger Galaxy smartphones that the South Korean manufacturer brought onto the market from 2018 and can be linked to “almost any… Read more

Brief information: Right to repair, zoom, TKG amendment, plastic waste

Right to repair and longer product shelf life With a series of measures, the Internal Market Committee of the European Parliament wants to see consumer protection as well as the sustainability and safety of products strengthened. In a resolution for an environmentally compatible internal market for companies and consumers, the MPs appeal to the EU… Read more

JavaScript: Next.js 10 aims to dynamically load images when needed

The developers of Next.js have released version 10 of the framework for creating server-side applications with React. An important innovation is the “lazy” loading function for images on the web, in which HTML elements in the markup with the tag are automatically replaced by next / image . Accelerated page loading: load images as required… Read more

GraphQL Editor 3 enables export of JAMStack sites and bundles

The third major version is available for the editor of the open source query language GraphQL. The development team behind the GraphQL Editor classifies the release as the largest since the project began. In addition to a number of new features, the update mainly brings changes to the user interface. Revised hierarchy view The new… Read more

Where to buy Nvidia’s RTX 3070 graphics card, starting at 6AM PT on Thursday

If you’re hoping to buy the $499 RTX 3070, Nvidia tells us that you’ll be able to do that starting on Thursday, October 29th, at 9AM ET / 6AM PT. And instead of Nvidia directly selling its Founders Edition (FE) GPU through its online store, it has ceded its stock to Best Buy and Micro… Read more

Official Radeon RX 6000: AMD challenges Nvidia for the scepter of the GPU sector

AMD introduced the first video cards of the Radeon RX family 6000: the company starts from three models – Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT – to challenge the top of the range Nvidia based on Ampere architecture, the GeForce RTX 3070, 3080 is 3090. AMD claims competitive 4K performance and… Read more

HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro: here is the unboxing and first impressions

We have it in our hands a few days after its presentation: let’s talk about the new HUAWEI Mate 40 Pro, the flagship of the Chinese company that wants to once again propose itself as the first of class in photography and video. Here’s how it’s done in our unboxing. by Bruno Mucciarelli published on… Read more

AMD announces RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 GPUs

Matthew Wilson 1 hour ago Featured Announcement, Graphics AMD started off October with a bang, announcing the new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and now to close out the month, we’ve got official details on three new Radeon RDNA 2 GPUs – RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800. All three GPUs are based… Read more

Chinese Chip-Producer Zhaoxin and Via Technologies Strengthen Ties

Home News (Image credit: Zhaoxin) Via Technologies and Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., a joint venture between Via and Shanghai Municipal Government, have announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Via will transfer some of its IP to Zhaoxin. The intellectual property will enable Zhaoxin to continue the development of its x86 PC… Read more

Review: Panasonic TX 55HZW984

Panasonic offers four OLED models , and that arouses our curiosity. We check what you get with the entry-level model. Extensive HDR support, top image processor, that looks fine. But we also look at what you just don’t get. Because there is no doubt that there are certain compromises against a lower price. Beautifully finished… Read more