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11 of the best Spotify playlists to listen to right now

Home Features (Image credit: Spotify) Live concerts, gigs and festivals are still out as we march further into 2021, so the need to feel transported to somewhere more beautiful via melodies, lyrics and rhythms has rarely been felt more keenly. In short, music has never been in greater demand. Whether you’re after a selection of… Read more

New Intel Core i9-11900K benchmark shows improved performance

Home / Component / CPU / New Intel Core i9-11900K benchmark shows improved performance João Silva 1 day ago CPU, Featured Announcement, Featured Tech News We’ve already had one Intel Core i9-11900K benchmark leak, but an updated test run this week shows improved performance. In a new Geekbench 5 run, the Core i9-11900K scored over… Read more

KEF unveils Mu3 true wireless headphones with active noise cancelling

Home News (Image credit: KEF) UK Audio specialist, KEF, has just introduced the Mu3: the company’s first set of true wireless headphones that also boast noise cancelling. They’re designed by Ross Lovegrove – of KEF’s high-end Muon speakers and bijou Bluetooth Muo fame – and engineered by the firm’s Maidstone acoustic team. 2021 sees KEF celebrating… Read more

Amazon’s electric Rivian vans will start making deliveries in 16 cities this year

Amazon’s new electric delivery vans will hit the road in more than a dozen cities starting this year, the company announced Wednesday. The vans, which are being designed and built by buzzy EV startup Rivian, are already making deliveries to customers in Los Angeles. Amazon plans to expand its testing to 15 more cities this… Read more

PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Dragon Review

Introduction Today’s review is of the PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 Red Dragon graphics card. The Red Dragon brand by PowerColor strikes a balance between the enthusiast-focused Red Devil brand and the vanilla reference-design, and the new Fighter series. Competition in this segment comes from the likes of the Sapphire Pulse and ASUS TUF Gaming. The… Read more

Alienware m17 R4 Gaming Laptop Review: Can’t Get Much Faster

Our Verdict A speed demon that prioritizes raw performance, the Alienware m17 R4 puts plenty of pop into a sleek but bulky chassis. For Unrivaled performance Snappy keyboard Attractive design At present, RTX 3080 is the fastest laptop graphics card around, but not all RTX 3080-powered laptops are created equal. Many vendors use Nvidia’s Max-Q… Read more

Bridgerton is Netflix’s biggest show ever, but here are the caveats

Netflix has a new worldwide mega-hit on its hands with the Regency-era British drama Bridgerton, which the streaming service says is its biggest show ever with more than 82 million households tuning in to at least one partial episode in its first 28 days. It beats out the previous record-holder The Witcher, which was watched… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus 17G Review: Ampere and a Blazing Screen

Our Verdict The Gigabyte Aorus 17G pushes out solid RTX-30 series performance while offering a mechanical keyboard. For 300 Hz Screen Physical Mechanical Keyboard Against Not much faster than prior-gen laptops Slightly dim screen Slightly low color gamut Ampere has finally landed on laptops, with Gigabyte’s 2021 refresh of the Aorus 17G in particular representing… Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Defeats Intel Tiger Lake in Early Benchmarks

Home News (Image credit: AMD) The first alleged independent benchmark results of AMD’s recently introduced eight-core Ryzen 9 5980HS “Cezanne” laptop processors have been published. AMD’s Zen 3-based chip uses integrated Radeon graphics, and, according to the new numbers, beats its predecessor and Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake in single- and multi-core workloads, as well… Read more

Best Cheap CPUs of 2021, Tested and Ranked

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD’s Ryzen 3000 and Athlon processors (including the unlocked $49 Athlon 3000G) have shaken up the low-cost landscape and made a splash on our CPU Benchmark Hierarchy, but crushing shortages of chips has gripped the industry, which impacts the low end of the market in a particularly painful way. So… Read more

Intel Core i9-11900K @ 5.3 GHz beats competitors in Geekbench. Here comes the single thread performance leader

Upcoming 11. the generation of Intel Core processors promises to be very intriguing. So far, the results of the engineering samples of the new chips have promised a big leap in performance, but the grain of uncertainty in this topic has been sown by the recent leaks on the 6-core Core i5 model – 11400… Read more

Intel Core i5-11400 slightly faster than Core i5-10400 in Geekbench test. A surprisingly low score for the Rocket Lake system

The leaks so far indicate that the upcoming Intel Rocket Lake processors will literally dethrone their predecessors and raise the Blue on the seat again a leader in the segment of gaming systems. Everything clearly indicated that the new Cypress Cove architecture will bring a noticeable increase in performance, while the network has seen quite… Read more

Rumor: RTX 2060 and 2060 Super Getting OEM Re-Releases

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) Nvidia’s Turing architecture isn’t throwing in the towel just yet, according to a new report from French hardware site Overclocking.com . According to the site’s unnamed sources, Nvidia is currently prepping its OEMs to re-release the RTX 2060 and RTX 2060 Super lines of GPUs. This comes about a month… Read more

Best Beats wireless headphones 2021: Bluetooth Beats for every budget

Home Best-buys Best Beats wireless headphones Buying Guide: welcome to What Hi-Fi?’s round-up of the best Beats wireless headphones you can buy in 2021. Beats had already established itself as the headphone make of choice for youngsters, athletes and hip-hop artists alike, but since it was bought by Apple in 2014 the brand’s profile has… Read more

heise offer: Online workshop: Monitoring and data analysis with the Elastic Stack

The combination of Beats for collecting and Logstash for preparing data, Elasticsearch for storing and searching and Kibana for visualizing the data results in a powerful software stack. The areas of application of the Elastic Stack range from logging and monitoring of complex environments to complex data analysis. The online workshop Elastic Stack Fundamentals takes… Read more