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10 best Lego sets 2021: Our favourite Star Wars, Technic, City, Frozen II sets and more

(Pocket-lint) – Each year Lego unveils stacks of new sets that combine top name franchises, other brands and the best of traditional series such as Lego City and Lego Technic. There are hundreds of new sets to choose from and, now that Lego appeals to huge numbers of adults as well as kids, the choice… Read more

A year into coronavirus, we’re still counting the dead

A year ago this week, The Verge published our first story about the virus. It was January 21. The first case had arrived in the US. We’d only heard of about 300 cases reported in China and six deaths. We still knew there was a chance it could get bad. “It’s bringing back SARS flashbacks… Read more

LG reportedly in talks to sell smartphone business to Vietnamese conglomerate

LG Electronics has been making headlines with reports that the company plans to exit the smartphone business. The latest development involves a Vietnamese conglomerate, which is reportedly in talks of buying the smartphone business from LG Electronics. According to BusinessKorea, Vietnam’s Vingroup Co has put the most attractive offer to buy LG’s smartphone business. The… Read more

Samsung Display ready with a 14-inch 90Hz OLED for notebooks

Samsung has developed a panel OLED from 14 inches and refresh rate at 90 Hz intended for notebooks. Volume production will start in March. by Manolo De Agostini published 21 January 2021 , at 10: 21 in the Portable channel Samsung Samsung Display announced the start in March of the volume production of an OLED… Read more

What gaming mouse? What mechanical keyboard? What to choose? Purchasing guide and recommended peripherals for January 2021

The customer’s life is not easy today. To buy a good product, it is not enough to have only money. In the era of such a diverse product range, equally important (maybe even more important) is the knowledge of product specifications, as well as the awareness that certain elements of this specification are more important… Read more

Storytelling incubator Wattpad is getting bought for over half a billion dollars

Last week, we told you how Wattpad has become a place where budding authors can sometimes turn their work into Hollywood film and TV, with Hulu, Netflix and others adapting Wattpad writers’ labors into titles like The Kissing Booth, Light as a Feather and After We Collided. But it looks like Wattpad may no longer… Read more

“Hitman 3” alluded to: Death suits him well

Bald man and master assassin agent 47 is a real Methuselah of the video game scene. For around 20 years, corpses pave its way through the High society of gangsters and agents. Since 2016 there is agent 47 in reboot mode: With “Hitman 3” the World of Assassination trilogy is now completed, the was only… Read more

New Intel boss wants to compete again with “lifestyle company” Apple

The freshly baked new Intel boss does not want to be stolen from the bread in Apple’s processor business. In an address to employees reported by the Oregonian local newspaper in the US state, Patrick P. Gelsinger said his company had to deliver “better products” to the PC ecosystem as “every possible thing a lifestyle… Read more

KW02 / 2021: Our articles from the last week

This week, too, numerous exciting articles went online at Hardwareluxx.de. We not only subjected the MSI MPG Sekira 30 R to a detailed practical test , but also the ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 AMP Holo, the AVerMedia GC 311 Live Gamer Mini, the HP P 700 or the WD_Black SN 850 in the RAID… Read more

Study: The number of e-cars is expected to increase thirty-fold by 2030

The importance of electromobility will increase significantly globally. The Association of Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE) describes this development in its recently published study “Logistics, Energy and Mobility 2030″ (PDF). 2019 the number of electric cars including plug-in hybrids and fuel cell vehicles was 4 worldwide, 79 Millions. The experts estimate: By the year… Read more

Ubisoft’s Riders Republic has been delayed

Mustafa Mahmoud 58 mins ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming In the wake of the global pandemic (and perhaps also due to the example set by the controversial launch of Cyberpunk 2077), many video game developers and publishers have reviewed the current state of their in-development titles – with a number of games being… Read more

Frustration factor distance learning – only worksheets again?

With the corona crisis, many new words have found their way into everyday language: no one has to look up incidence, intensive capacities or R-value. In the school sector, the word creations and paraphrases for the new pandemic-related non-normality are particularly diverse: “presence operation”, “restricted regular operation”, “alternate model” or “hybrid teaching”. And meanwhile it… Read more

More than 500 brown dwarfs: 3D map of the neighborhood of our sun

With the help of thousands of volunteers, a team of astronomers has created the most comprehensive 3D map of so-called brown dwarfs in the vicinity of the sun to date. You have now presented the map with 525 celestial bodies, including 38 newly discovered objects. According to the research results, the closer environment of our… Read more

The ten most popular posts on heise Developer in 2020

The year 2020 was marked by the corona pandemic, which will continue to be with us. But what were the most important trends and the most interesting topics from the point of view of the readers of heise Developer ? In the following, the team takes a look back and presents the top – 10… Read more

SpotCam Eva 2 in the test: For a look from the cloud

Page 1: SpotCam Eva 2 in the test: For a look from the cloud Even if there was recently a historical low in burglaries nationwide, the reasons for video surveillance of your own four walls are quite diverse. But not every system with IP cameras makes sense for home use. The administrative effort often exceeds… Read more