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Acer Laptops Get RTX 3000, Tiger Lake H-Series

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Acer’s bringing Intel’s new high-powered 11th Gen Tiger Lake chips to its gaming laptops, alongside new mobile RTX 3000 GPU options and a new design for one laptop in particular. New, more budget-friendly RTX 3000 gaming desktops are also joining those mobile options, giving gamers who haven’t been able to… Read more

Acer Joins the Polling Rate Race With 2,000 Hz Predator Cestus 335 Gaming Mouse

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Acer is joining the likes of Razer and Corsair in pushing gaming peripherals that changes the rate at which your mouse sends data to your PC. Most gaming mice offer polling rates of 1,000 Hz max, meaning it sends a report to your PC telling it of your mouse’s position… Read more

Acer Tempts 4K Gamers With Massive HDMI 2.1 Monitor, G-Sync ESports Mode

Home News Acer Predator CG437K S (Image credit: Acer) Acer is growing its Predator lineup of its best gaming monitors with some extreme specs that should appeal to both console and PC gamers who enjoy the finer things in life. The company announced three upcoming 4K gaming displays today, including a 42.5 inch model with… Read more

Netflix ‘Play Something’ feature comes to Android smartphones

Home News (Image credit: Netflix) Binge-watching Netflix on your smartphone just got easier. The streaming service is letting some users of its Android app try ‘Play Something’, a feature that suggests content for you to watch, Engadget reports. The feature is already live on Netflix’s TV apps but it’s only being tested on select Android… Read more

Acer’s Predator Triton 500 SE has a new 16:10 Mini LED display

There’s a new Acer Predator in town: the 16-inch Predator Triton 500 SE. It has a new subtle design with a touch of RGB as well as the latest chips from Intel and Nvidia. It also has a feature that I am much too excited about: a 16:10 display. Put this next to the previous… Read more

Acer Chromebook Spin 713 (2021) review: victory lap

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Acer has made three significant upgrades to the best-in-class Chromebook Spin 713. The first is that the device now has Intel’s newest 11th Gen processors. The second is that the USB-C ports both support Thunderbolt 4. And… Read more

Best gaming microphones 2021: immerse yourself in the action

(Pocket-lint) – Your computer’s microphone or Airpods might be good enough for Zoom calls or chats to your friends on the other side of the world, but for organizing coordinated attacks against online foes, you’re going to need something more dedicated. Gaming microphones take all the expertise from the recording studios and bring it right… Read more

HTC Vive Pro 2 review: The ultimate virtual reality experience

(Pocket-lint) – The HTC Vive Pro 2 has arrived – and you could easily be forgiven for thinking it’s virtually the same VR headset that the company released back in 2018. That’s because outwardly it hasn’t changed much from the original, aside from some colour changes on the front faceplate. However, under the hood things… Read more

Indy 500 live stream: how to watch the 2021 IndyCar race, start time, line-up

Home Advice (Image credit: Wikipedia / The359 – Own work) The 105th Indy 500 date is set and the race underway this Sunday, live from the world famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The biggest oval race of the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series will see 135,000 fans (in face masks, of course) cheer on defending Indy 500 winner… Read more

Taiwan SSD Makers to Sell Drives Directly to Chia Miners

Home News (Image credit: Micron) The ongoing Chia coin craze has already increased prices of high-capacity HDDs and SSDs in retail quite significantly. Since demand for storage devices is not going to get any lower, Taiwan-based makers of SSDs are developing special-purpose SSDs for Chia mining that they plan to sell directly to miners. Furthermore, drive makers… Read more

Western Digital’s Latest WD_Black SSDs Target Consoles, Affordable PCIe 4.0

Home News (Image credit: WD) While in-person Computex has been canceled, companies still have new product to roll out, and today Western Digital adds a trio of new drives to its gaming-focused WD_Black line. There are a pair of D30 Game Drives targeting next-gen consoles, with one model aiming for the PlayStation 5 market, and… Read more

3D Printed RP2040 Powered Ring Measures CO2

Home News (Image credit: Guido Burger) Sometimes a little ingenuity is all it takes to solve a potentially life-threatening problem—such is the case with Guido Burger’s Raspberry Pi RP2040 CO2-detecting ring. This isn’t Burger’s first rodeo with RP2040, we previously covered his homemade Adafruit Feather RP2040 which he managed to assemble before the board officially… Read more

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 C18 2x8GB Review: Short On Height, High On AMD Performance

Our Verdict The Vengeance RGB Pro SL DDR4-3600 C18 is a great memory kit for AMD owners that don’t have the luxury of a lot of clearance space under their CPU air coolers. For + Great performance on AMD platforms + Competitive pricing + Only 44.8mm tall Against – Disappointing overclocking headroom – Poor performance… Read more

Waze names former Hotwire president Neha Parikh as CEO

Waze has a new CEO: Neha Parikh, the president of Hotwire and a board member of Carvana. Parikh replaces Noam Bardin, who stepped down as CEO of the Google-owned navigation service last November after leading the company for 12 years. Parikh will join Waze as CEO starting in June, the company says. She is a… Read more

Disney’s Cruella is absolutely absurd

Walk walk fashion babyDisney Filed under: Movie Review It will delight you even as you question its need to exist I spent the entire run of Disney’s Cruella torn between delight and horror. Rarely has a film so neatly emotionally vivisected me as this one about a villain best known for wanting to skin puppies… Read more