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Samsung could launch three phones alongside the Galaxy Buds 2 in August

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung is never exactly a quiet company when it comes to launching smartphones, but even by its standards, August is looking like a particularly busy month. The firm is plotting three major phone launches that month, according to sources, possibly alongside the Galaxy Buds 2 true wireless earbuds. The phones… Read more

Here are all the new laptops with Intel 11th Gen H-series chips announced today

The Razer Blade 15 Advanced, one of the numerous laptops announced today with Intel’s new chips.Image: Razer Over half a dozen manufacturers have announced new models Intel is adding new processors to its 11th Gen Core H-series lineup today, and over half a dozen laptop manufacturers are announcing new machines that make use of them…. Read more

Meet the real Alexa: voice actor reportedly responsible for Amazon’s AI assistant revealed

Amazon’s Alexa has a voice familiar to millions: calm, warm, and measured. But like most synthetic speech, its tones have a human origin. There was someone whose voice had to be recorded, analyzed, and algorithmically reproduced to create Alexa as we know it now. Amazon has never revealed who this “original Alexa” is, but journalist… Read more

Getting hospitals ready for the next pandemic

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The more hospitals cooperate, the better they’ll fare in an emergency As surges of COVID-19 cases spread throughout the United States over the past year, hospitals overwhelmed with patients quickly ran out of everything: masks, gloves, beds, space, doctors, nurses. Hospital workers in New York City, one of… Read more

ASRock Z590 Taichi Review: Cogs Aplenty

Our Verdict ASRock’s Z590 Taichi is a well-rounded premium mid-range motherboard, with more-than-capable power delivery, Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports, three M.2 sockets, Intel- and Killer-based networking, including Wi-Fi 6E. For + Unique style + Killer 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6E Networking + Robust 90A power delivery + 2x Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports (40 Gbps) Against… Read more

How Initial D Manga Inspired My First PC Mod

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MSI Launches Its Own Cryptocurrency Mining CMP

MSI has quietly added its first CMP-series board for cryptocurrency mining to its lineup. The Cryptocurrency Mining Processor (CMP) card looks exactly like the company’s mid-range GeForce GTX 1660/1660 Super graphics boards, but lacks display outputs and cannot be used to render images or video. Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: MSI) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit:… Read more

Intel’s flagship Tiger Lake-H mobile chips are here to take on Ryzen 5000

Intel has added five consumer processors and five commercial processors to its 11th Gen Core H-series generation (codenamed “Tiger Lake-H”). Both groups include three eight-core chips and two six-core chips. All of the parts are 35W, save the flagship Core i9-11980HK, which is clocked at 65W. You’ll see them in over 30 upcoming ultraportables (laptops… Read more

Lenovo’s Legion 7i and 5i Pro gaming laptops have tall 16:10 QHD displays

Lenovo is banking hard on 16-inch QHD displays in the taller 16:10 aspect ratio with its new lineup of Legion 7i and 5i Pro gaming laptops, and I’m all for it. These laptops are a showcase for crisper, more spacious displays that have a fast 165Hz refresh rate and G-Sync support, as well as faster… Read more

MSI’s new laptops take aim at the 16-inch MacBook Pro

MSI has announced a number of gaming and creator laptops that include Intel’s brand-new Tiger Lake H processors. The models will be available for purchase on May 16th. MSI is best known for its high-end gaming laptops, but the company has made a few attempts to diversify its portfolio over the past few years. The… Read more

Intel Launches Eight Core Tiger Lake-H Processors: More Power, Lower Clocks

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel introduced its long-awaited eight-core Tiger Lake-H H35 chips for laptops today, vying for a spot on our best gaming laptop list and marking Intel’s first shipping eight-core 10nm chips for the consumer market. These new 11th-generation chips, which Intel touts as the ‘World’s best gaming laptop processors,’ come as… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Bring RT and DLSS to Budget Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050 will almost certainly come to desktops and finish filling out the bottom end of our list of the best graphics cards, but the new GPUs are slated to be mobile solutions first. That can be good or bad news, depending on… Read more

HP ZBook G8 Line Gets Tiger Lake-H

Home News (Image credit: HP) HP’s first laptops to use Intel’s 11th Gen Tiger Lake-H processors are its ZBook G8 line, which consists of four notebooks. There are two ZBook Fury laptops — one 15.6-inch and one 17.3-inch — along with the ZBook Power and ZBook Studio. The ZBook Power is the entry-level workstation, going… Read more

Samsung Announces First Compute Express Link Memory Module

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) In a press release today, Samsung has announced memory modules based on the CXL standard, bringing together PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 for AI and high-performance computing work in data centers. (Image credit: Samsung) CXL is an open standard first mooted in 2019, with a view to bringing high-speed, low latency… Read more

Nothing’s first wireless in-ear headphones are coming in June: get ready for Ear 1

Home News (Image credit: Nothing) In the six short months since Carl Pei (the brains behind smartphone brand OnePlus) announced the launch of his new London-based tech brand, Nothing, the firm has not only garnered plenty of interest and investment, but clearly has been working long hours. Because Nothing has revealed that it’s first product… Read more