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heise + | Photography in winter: mastering the times of day and white balance

Winter creates amazing plays of color. The camera often cannot capture these automatically. Photographers therefore have to take action themselves. In the polar night above the 64 ° latitude reached the direct light of the sun in December even at noon only higher cloud formations, such as this disintegrated storm system off the coast of… Read more

DarkMarket: Police are looking for administrators

After the closure of the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet, according to the authorities, investigations into further suspects are ongoing. “There were other administrators and so-called managers who have not yet been identified,” said the Koblenz attorney general Jürgen Brauer of the dpa. Because of the aliases they used, their number is still… Read more

Synology presents the RackStations RS1221 + and RS1221RP +

Synology now has RackStations RS 1221 + and RS 1221 RP + presented to the public. The 2U rack storage servers have a total of eight slots and, according to the manufacturer, were developed for smaller companies. The RS 1221 + and RS 1221 RP + are the first RackStation models according to Synology, equipped… Read more

Arctic BioniX P120 A-RGB Review

Introduction to the characteristics of the Arctic BioniX P 120 A-RGB The new generation of BioniX fans by Arctic are surprising for their design, which as we take out of the box already leaves us quite surprised by not having any cable connected to them and also by their strangely high weight for what comes… Read more

Relocation complete: The Eclipse Foundation is now officially European

As announced, the Eclipse Foundation has moved its legal headquarters to Europe. To this end, it founded the Eclipse Foundation AISBL (Association internationale sans but lucratif), which is known in German as an international non-profit association (IVoG), a legal form used in Belgium for non-profit organizations. Now the foundation has completed all the formalities for… Read more

heise + | VR headset in the test: HP Reverb G2 with 2160 × 2160 pixels resolution per eye

The announcement of the HP Reverb G2 had sparked a lot of hype in the virtual reality scene: For comparatively cheap 700 Euro it offers PC-VR with a resolution of 2160 × 2160 pixels per eye. Immediately after putting it on, you will notice that the display of the G2 is beyond any doubt. The… Read more

RISC-V Powered BeagleV Board Announced Via New Collaboration

Home News (Image credit: Seeed, BeagleBoard, StarFive) The RISC-V CPU architecture is making progress across a plethora of devices. From soldering irons and watches to desktop computers, the open source RISC-V CPU looks set to make an impact in 2021. Seeed Studio and Beagleboard have today announced an official collaboration with StarFive, a leading RISC-V… Read more

67% faster: AMD shows benchmarks for EPYC “Milan” processor

In addition to the presentation of the Ryzen Mobile – 5000 – series and a preview of other RNDA-2 GPUs (for desktop and Notebooks), AMD also spoke briefly about the next EPYC generation alias Milan, which is to be finally presented in the current first quarter 2021. The 3rd generation EPYC processors will use up… Read more

Advance for online sessions of the Bundestag met with strong criticism

In view of the high number of corona infections, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag is pushing for pure online parliamentary sessions. “Digital work is the order of the day”, said the Bremen CDU member Elisabeth Motschmann of the German press agency in Berlin. Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki rejected this immediately…. Read more

Motorola moto g 5G: winner for incredible autonomy! The review

With the new Motorola moto g 5G the winged company decides to continue on the open medium range 5G device line with the Plus version. The will is to ignite the desire of users for the old brand by offering good quality at an attractive price and even with the prerogative of the 5G network…. Read more

Nvidia answers AMD’s Smart Access Memory with its own boost to frame rates

Nvidia is officially launching its own resizable BAR support, which promises increased performance gains in some games. Resizable BAR has been part of the PCI Express specification for years, but AMD only recently made it an important feature to support with the introduction of Smart Access Memory. AMD’s Smart Access Memory effectively provides its Ryzen… Read more

Watch the Exynos 2100 launch live here

Samsung is having a launch event today, revealing one of the most important parts of the upcoming Galaxy S21 series (for most of the world anyway). We are about to witness the debut of the Exynos 2100 chipset that is the company’s most promising SoC in recent years. The fact that Samsung chose to hold… Read more

CES 2021: Intel Core i9-11900K to arrive this quarter with 8 cores at 5.3 GHz of Boost

Intel has revealed some more details of its new generation of Intel Core Rocket Lake-S processors for desktop computers. A new architecture that increases its IPC (instructions processed per cycle) by a 19% and that improves the graphic performance of its Integrated GPUs by up to 50% compared to the last generation . The Core… Read more

Intel plans to create chips with competitive manufacturing processes in its facilities

by Antonio Delgado 3 hours ago … Intel CEO, Bob Swan , has made some striking statements to Toms Hardware where he assures that the company would be open to using his facilities and factories to create chips using a competitor’s manufacturing technology. That would mean using the company’s manufacturing capacity, the only one in… Read more

CES 2021: ASUS unleashes its range of Z590 motherboards

After Intel introduced its 500-series chipsets yesterday, ASUS has announced a swathe of Z590 motherboards across the ROG, TUF and Prime families. There’s some familiar names but a number of new features on show from these boards. The first Z590 boards to be announced by ASUS include the ROG Maximus XIII Extreme, ROG Maximus XIII Extreme Glacial, ROG… Read more