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Apple iPad Pro 12.9 (2021)

Our Verdict It might be aimed primarily at creative types, but the new iPad Pro 12.9 is also the best tablet there’s ever been if portable cinema is your thing For Stunning picture quality Great sound with headphones Hugely powerful Against Expensive for a tablet At this stage, each new iPad feels like an incremental… Read more

TSMC to Start Risk Production Using 4nm Node in Q3

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is on track to start risk production of chips using its N4 (4 nm) fabrication technology in the third quarter, according to TSMC and DigiTimes’ sources in the semiconductor supply chain. The new node will enable chipmakers to slightly shrink the N5 design and further optimize power consumption… Read more

Sonos Arc review: Dolby Atmos soundbar delivers big sound

(Pocket-lint) – Sonos is not one for racing new products out for the sake of it. Its Playbar, for example, ruled the roost for seven years, being its only full-fledged soundbar in that time. The Sonos Beam arrived in the meantime, but was more meant for smaller TVs and rooms, giving you a better alternative… Read more

Future Apple Watches could feature blood glucose and body temperature sensors

This year’s Apple Watch could feature an improved screen and updated ultra-wideband support, Bloomberg reports, but more substantial improvements like temperature and blood glucose monitoring will not appear until later models. The company is also reportedly planning a successor to last year’s more affordable Apple Watch SE, as well as a new extreme sports-focused model,… Read more

Colorful Accidentally Reveals Eye-Popping iGame RTX 3090 Kudan

Home News (Image credit: Colorful) Colorful has started a promotion campaign for its upcoming top-of-the-range graphics card, the iGame GeForce RTX Kudan, but the secrecy didn’t last long — the company accidentally leaked its new design in its own blacked-out teaser image. Traditionally Colorful only makes a handful of boards for its Kudan products. They’re… Read more

Ubisoft’s extreme sports MMO Riders Republic is launching in September

Ubisoft’s upcoming extreme sports MMO, Riders Republic, will launch on September 2nd, the company announced at its Ubisoft Forward show on Saturday. In a nearly five-minute trailer, Ubisoft showed off some of the sports that you can play, including biking, snowboarding, and even wing suiting. The game will have a variety of modes, including mass… Read more

The Hoover Dam reservoir is at an all-time low

Lake Mead, the reservoir created by the Hoover Dam, that feeds water to 25 million people across Western states, is historically low. On June 9th, the water level dipped to 1,071.57 feet above sea level, narrowly beating a record low last set in 2016. The lake surface has dropped 140 feet since 2000, leaving the… Read more

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2: Benchmark Test & Performance Review

Introduction Sniper Ghost Warrior 2: Contracts is a long-range sniping assassination simulator wrapped in a beautiful first-person adventure. In its single-player campaign, you play as a contract killer who is supposed to plan and execute medium-to-extreme range assassinations using a sniper rifle. This isn’t a simple point-and-click, all the bullet physics from the real world… Read more

Sony WF-1000XM4

Our Verdict You won’t find many true wireless earbuds that come close to matching the all-round brilliance of the Sony WF-1000XM4 For Clear, detailed bass performance Wonderful sense of musicality Comfortable Class-leading battery life Against Missing Sony’s Multipoint feature Lacking ear tip choices No aptX HD How do you improve on arguably the best all-round… Read more

Sony WF-1000XM4 review: Class-leading noise-cancelling wireless earbuds, ’nuff said

(Pocket-lint) – There’s no beating around the bush, the Sony WF-1000XM4 true wireless in-ears are exceptional for their price. And, while there are one or two competitors that offer slightly better sound quality, they are usually more expensive and cannot match these for adaptive noise-cancelling (ANC) tech. Sony has taken an already excellent pair of… Read more

Core i9-11900KB Rumored To Power Intel’s Latest Beast Canyon NUC

Home News Beast Canyon NUC (Image credit: Koolshare) Twitter user HXL has discovered the first photograph of Intel’s upcoming NUC 11 Extreme (codename Beast Canyon) system. More interestingly, although the pictures don’t show the processor, the leaker claims that the NUC features one of the chipmaker’s latest Tiger Lake B-series processors. Take this claim with… Read more

Researchers Propose Graphene Overcoats for HAMR HDD Platters

Home News (Image credit: Seagate) Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology promises to enable hard drives with a 100TB capacity in about a decade from now. But HAMR requires all-new record heads with a transducer that heats up platters as well as new types of media. Researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Centre believe that in addition to new heads… Read more

AMD’s New Quad-Core Ryzen 3 5300G Overclocks to 5.6GHz, With Exotic Cooling

Home News (Image credit: AMD) An overclocked named Yosarianilives has published a cool 5.6GHz overclock result for the all-new Ryzen 3 5300G, AMD’s first quad-core Zen 3 chip to date. Paired with the 5300G were an Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming motherboard and 16GB of DDR4 RAM running at 4600MHz, with very low timings of… Read more

Anda Seat T-Pro 2 Series Review: Big Chair for Big People

Our Verdict The Anda Seat T-Pro 2 is a high-quality alternative to more expensive chairs for big and tall gamers. Shorter players aren’t a good fit, but this fabric-clad chair stays clean while feeling offering durable support. For + Built like a tank + Fabric covering doesn’t get as sweaty as faux leather alternatives +… Read more

Jack Dorsey would rather give you a bitcoin wallet than Twitter features worth paying for

Twitter Blue — the social network’s first subscription product that adds an undo button to tweets among other minor additions like changing the color of icons and adding folders for bookmarks — launched on Thursday. It’s limited to Canada and Australia for now but has already garnered attention for lacking the features people would be… Read more