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Xgimi Halo

Our Verdict The specs and feature highlights are appealing but the Halo falls short when it comes to subtlety For Excellent black depth Bright for the money Handy portable features Against Blunt contrast control Poor speaker placement If you’ve ever had to pull an all-nighter for work, then you’ll know the taste of the 4am… Read more

Climate tech is about to fly commercial

A greenhouse gas-tracking technology is about to go commercial. Greenhouse gas detectors will soon take flight on an Alaska Airlines-run Boeing 737-9, in an effort to help federal scientists get even more information about how we’re changing the climate. The tools would measure concentrations of planet-heating pollution in the air, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric… Read more

Nanoleaf’s light-up wall panels now look like wood accent pieces

Nanoleaf, the company best known for illuminated panels that you stick to your wall, has announced the new Nanoleaf Elements line, a set of wall panels that are designed to look as nice turned off as they do when on. The new Elements line accomplishes this through a wood-like veneer that allows the light to… Read more

Google Pixel Buds A-Series review: Sounds familiar

(Pocket-lint) – Google has announced a new version of the Pixel Buds, its true wireless headphones that originally launched in 2017 – the first-gen weren’t all that, though, while the second-gen Buds 2 stepped things up a little in 2019. The third model belongs to the A-Series, picking up on the A series that we’ve… Read more

AMD Passes 30% CPU Market Share in Steam Hardware Survey, Loses in GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock ) Valve has released the results for the May 2021 installment of its monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The biggest takeaway is that AMD took one step forward by claiming 30% of the CPU market, at least as represented by Steam users, but it also took one step back… Read more

Google Pixel Buds A-Series review: price is everything

The new Pixel Buds A are available in a dark green color The $99 Pixel Buds are a better buy than their pricier predecessors With the new, awkwardly named Pixel Buds A-Series, Google is trying to do more than merely introduce a much cheaper set of true wireless earbuds: the company wants to get it… Read more

NZXT N7 Z590 Motherboard Review: Unique Style, and Capable

Our Verdict NZXT’s N7 Z590 is a full-featured Z590 motherboard that includes two M.2 sockets, Intel-based Wi-Fi 6E, capable power delivery, premium audio, and more. It’s a well-rounded mid-ranger for Intel’s Z590 platform, though for a similar price, there are other options with more and better parts. For + Wi-Fi 6E/2.5 GbE Networking + Improved… Read more

Norton Added Ethereum Mining Capabilities to Its Antivirus Software

Home News (Image credit: NortonLifeLock) NortonLifeLock announced yesterday that it’s adding Ethereum mining to its Norton 360 antivirus software with an upcoming feature, Norton Crypto, that “select Norton 360 customers in Norton’s early adopter program” are invited to test. Let’s make this clear from the start: Enthusiasts will probably be better off learning how to… Read more

Raspberry Pi RP2040 Stamp Gets New Arduino Inspired Carrier Board

Home News (Image credit: Arturo182) Makers have been eager to integrate the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip into boards of their own since the Pico was first revealed. The recent release of the RP2040 for general sale is going to fuel further maker projects, and we cannot wait to see what is on the horizon. One… Read more

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 Ti is available online right now

The Nvidia TX 3080 Ti is here, at least for those lucky enough to find one. Announced earlier this week alongside the forthcoming RTX 3070 Ti, the 3080 Ti serves as the pricier successor to the GeForce RTX 3080, an excellent graphics card that made 4K gaming that much more affordable and exemplified just how… Read more

Spotify ‘Only You’ and ‘Blend’ features now live

Home News (Image credit: Spotify) Building on the success of its yearly ‘Wrapped’ feature, which gives subscribers a visualisation of their listening data, Spotify has launched ‘Only You’ – an in-app experience with listening statistics and personalised playlists. ‘Only You’ includes information such as ‘Your artist pairs’, highlighting a user’s diverse tastes; ‘Your Song Year’,… Read more

Google TV could soon offer personalised homepages for each user in your family

Home News (Image credit: Google) Looks like Google TV could soon support different user profiles on the home screen. 9to5Google has dug into the source code of the latest version of the operating system and found mention of personalised home screens, which would offer a much more tailored experience for anyone watching. Google TV already… Read more

Amazon will stop testing most employees for weed

Amazon is relaxing its policy around employees using weed, according to a new blog post, and will no longer enforce marijuana drug tests for any employee who isn’t also regulated by the Department of Transportation, like a delivery driver. In the past, Amazon used positive tests as a reason to disqualify applicants during the hiring… Read more

Intel Could Enable AMD’s FidelityFX SuperResolution on Xe-HPG GPUs

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s FidelityFX SuperResolution technology works not only on the company’s Radeon graphics processors, but also on Nvidia’s GeForce GPUs so developers can support it across all the best graphics cards. For Nvidia’s, which has its own deep learning super sampling (DLSS) technology, ensuring compatibility with AMD’s FSR is not a priority, but… Read more

Patriot Brings The Sting With New Viper Elite II RAM

Home News Viper Elite II (Image credit: Patriot) Patriot, which produces some of the best RAM on the market, has presented the new Viper Elite II, the successor to the brand’s award-winning Viper Elite family. Retaining its successor’s DNA, the Viper Elite II memory arrives with an aggressive design that’s devoid of flashy RGB illumination…. Read more