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Intel Teases 10nm Alder Lake-S, Announces Ice Lake Server Production

Home News (Image credit: Intel / YouTube) Intel’s CES livestream included plenty of new chips to chew over, including new Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake models, but the company held out one teaser for the end – a quick demo of an Alder Lake-S system. During the keynote, Intel also announced that its 10nm Ice… Read more

Vuzix’s new microLED smart glasses look like tech you’d actually want to wear on your face

Wearable tech and augmented reality provider Vuzix is back at CES 2021 with another pair of its smart glasses, this time with a new advancement. The latest pair is powered by microLED technology, thanks to a partnership with the Chinese firm Jade Bird Display. MicroLED displays have emerged in recent years as viable alternatives to… Read more

Dolby wants to boost the audio quality of your laptop’s video calls

Two of Lenovo’s upcoming laptops will be the first to feature Dolby Voice, an audio technology that’s aimed at making it easier to hear people during conference calls. The feature combines elements like background noise reduction and dynamic leveling to make meetings sound “clearer, more natural, and feel less fatiguing,” Dolby says. Lenovo’s upcoming ThinkPad… Read more

New Fossil (with LTE), Michael Kors and Skagen (with e-ink) watches announced at CES

The Fossil Group and its subsidiary brands brought out their next generation smartwatches to show off at CES 2021. This means the watches share some hardware (but have unique designs). Note that they are split into two groups – the more capable Google Wear OS watches and the hybrid designs with longer battery life. The… Read more

FTC settles with photo storage app that pivoted to facial recognition

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with photo storage app Ever that it says used customers’ photos to develop facial recognition technology without telling them, the agency announced Monday. Under the terms of the agreement, Everalbum Inc. is required to delete photos and videos of its users who deactivated their accounts, as well… Read more

heise + | Web browser: Google's (un) secret browser predominance

Web browser: Google’s (un) secret browser predominance Hazardous concentration Web browser diversity, power bundling and Chromium project Advertising Monopoly Change without Risk Article in c’t 2 / 2021 read At the latest with the October update 2020 every Windows user should have a new browser. Edge is not simply an update of the unpopular old,… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 starts receiving One UI 3.0 + Android 11

Samsung is seeding the much-awaited stable version of the One UI 3.0 software, which is based on Android 11, for the Galaxy Z Fold2. Users in Germany and South Korea are already receiving the latest version of the OS. Screenshot of the software information on the Galaxy Z Fold2 Along with the big One UI… Read more

TCL 20 SE official at CES 2021, and new smartphones of the new 20 Series are coming

The Series 20 expands with TCL 16 SE, officially announced on the occasion of CES 2021. The company also anticipated the arrival of three other smartphones, including a new model with 5G connectivity of Nino Grasso published on 11 January 2021 , at 17: 26 in the Telephony channel TCL To CES 2021 TCL ha… Read more

TCL at CES with the new generation of OD Zero Mini LED TVs: reduced thickness and thousands of dimming areas

At the top of the range we will find two families of 8K TVs, with OD Zero Mini-LED technology, which eliminated the gap between the LED backlight layer, the Quantum Dot layer and the LCD panel. In this way the TVs can be very thin compared to the Full Array Local Dimming models and on… Read more

Briefly informed: CES, Apple, COVID-19, Delta Air Lines

CES starts virtually On Monday, the starting shot for this year’s consumer electronics fair CES was officially fired – due to the coronavirus Pandemic in virtual form. Many manufacturers have already started to announce their new products in advance. The Thinkreality A3 data glasses from Lenovo are supposed to increase productivity by displaying virtual monitors…. Read more

TCL to launch Google TVs this year

TCL will introduce its first Google TV models this year, the company has announced. The Hong Kong-based budget TV maker said at CES 2021 that it will roll out a series of TV sets toting the Google TV smart platform, starting in the US and expanding to other parts of the world later in the… Read more

The TCL NXTPAPER is a cross between a tablet and an e-reader

TCL has announced the NXTPAPER 8-inch tablet using technology it teased with its IFA 2020 announcements, which the company calls an “artistic combination of screen and paper.” The tablet features a full-color display without backlighting to reduce power consumption and provide a comfortable, E Ink-like viewing experience. The 1440 x 1080, 8.88-inch screen uses a… Read more

CES: LG: Upcoming TVs with “Game Optimizer” and cloud gaming

Upcoming OLED TVs from LG will offer a function called “Game Optimizer”, which allows users to access all important settings in gaming mode – including, for example, whether playback with variable refresh rates is activated and which system is used is used. The television manufacturer announced this on Monday at the CES. Furthermore, OLED TVs… Read more

heise + | Bookmark management: Use bookmarks with multiple browsers

Bookmark management: use bookmarks with multiple browsers Web command centers Write start page with HTML direct matcher Read article in c’t 2 / 2021 The cryptic URL from the page in the company intranet with the deadlines; the address of this (what’s his name again?) blogger with the interesting political analysis; the collection discovered by… Read more

Pharmaceutical research: Boehringer and Google jointly rely on quantum computers

The Rhineland-Palatinate pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and Google want to work together on the search for new applications for super-fast quantum computers for the development of drugs. The partnership announced on Monday is to combine the experience of Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) in the field of drug design in the pharmaceutical industry with the technical capabilities… Read more