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JBL celebrates 75 years with two products for enthusiasts, including the limited edition of the L100 Classic speakers

For his birthday JBL gives enthusiasts a celebratory version of the JBL L speakers 75 Classic 75, which resume in all respects the style of the ‘years 70 with Quadrex foam front grille, plus JBL SA integrated amplifier 750 by Roberto Colombo published 08 January 2021 , at 12: 11 in the Audio Video channel… Read more

LG presents webOS 6.0 for OLED Smart TVs, QNED Mini LED, NanoCell and UHD for 2021

The South Korean manufacturer presents the largest system update for smart TV since the launch of the webOS platform in 2014. The new edition – webOS 6.0 is primarily a new user interface, the Next Pics function based on the analysis of user preferences and Magic Explorer, i.e. a development of the previously used Magic… Read more

heise + | Nine desktop browsers in comparison: from slim to versatile

Nine desktop browsers in comparison: from slim to versatile Comfort and expandability Performance Individual meetings Conclusion and test table Read article in c’t 2 / 2000 No question: The system browsers Edge, Safari and Firefox – the standard for many Linux distributions – are powerful. Nevertheless, Chrome (or Chromium under Linux) could break into all… Read more

More security for OpenShift: Red Hat wants to take over StackRox

In the future, StackRox will belong to Red Hat, with the planned takeover of the Kubernetes security provider, the software manufacturer primarily wants to strengthen its OpenShift. The latter is Red Hat’s cloud management platform, which combines a Kubernetes distribution with other services and support for corporate use. Red Hat wants to integrate the StackRox… Read more

LG unveils web0S 6.0 and updated Magic Remote for 2021 TVs

LG has upped its TV game with the integration of a new build of its webOS into the LG 2021 TV range. With its integration of content from your streaming services and all the TV settings, the webOS 6.0 home page very much aims to be the focal point of the user experience. Much like… Read more

Sony’s 360-degree audio is coming to streaming video

Sony has announced an expansion of its 360 Reality Audio platform, bringing the 360-degree music format to more devices and media as well as offering new creation tools. 360 Reality Audio uses object-based spatial audio technology to place instruments or vocals around the listener’s head in a virtual sound field. Now, Sony is expanding the… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2, a new convertible with Chrome OS and QLED screen

Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy Chromebook 2, a convertible with Google’s Chrome OS and QLED Full HD display from 13, 3 inches. Based on Intel platform, supports Universal Stylus Initiative (USI). by Manolo De Agostini published 08 January 2021 , at 09: 21 in the Portable channel Samsung Chromebook Samsung announced the new Galaxy Chromebook… Read more

RoboScan: Automated film scanning with Raspberry Pi

RoboScan automatically digitizes analog films with a DSLR camera. A Raspberry Pi is used for this, which uses machine learning and a stepper motor to move the film in a Lego frame. RoboScan is an open source project by Maker Benjamin Bezine that was created in lockdown and is active on GitHub as bezineb5. During… Read more

CES: “Bravia Core”: Own video streaming service for Sony TVs with up to 80 Mbit / s

In the run-up to the CES, Sony announced its own video streaming service called “Bravia Core” for televisions in its Bravia series, which will apparently deliver films from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment exclusively to the manufacturer’s TVs. According to Sony “all titles are offered in the best available format”, including Standard Definition, High Definition, 4K,… Read more

Clearly White unlocked Google Pixel 4a 5G variant arriving to the US soon

Google surprised us when it launched three Pixel devices this year, but it also surprised some when it only released the Pixel 4a and 4a 5G in black models while the more expensive Pixel 5 got the Sage Green option. Eventually, a Clearly White variant would arrive as a Verizon-exclusive, and more recently a Barely… Read more

Microsoft Edge rolls out cross-platform tab and history sync

Microsoft’s Edge browser is based on Chromium, an open-source web browsing platform from Google that’s also the basis for other browsers like Opera and Amazon Silk. The browser has proven to be quite a popular option for those who’d rather not use Chrome. The latest feature that enables cross-sync for open tabs and browsing history… Read more

Samsung unveils Galaxy Chromebook 2, the first with a QLED display

At last year’s CES Samsung introduced the first Chromebook with an AMOLED screen. This year the company marks another first with the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2, the first of its kind to have a QLED display. It’s a 2-in-1 device with a 13.3” touchscreen with 1,920 x 1,080 px resolution. The narrow bezels enclose an… Read more

Sony squeezes OLED panels to the max for its 2021 TV range. What's new at CES 2021

Interesting news for Sony at CES 2021: the OLED panels are squeezed to the maximum and gain luminance and color volume, while the intelligence artificial optimizes images using technologies such as Face Detection by Roberto Colombo published 07 January 2021 , at 19: 01 in the Audio Video channel Sony 8K 4K No revolution at… Read more

Arlo, here is the Arlo Essential Video Dorbell wireless doorbell

The new Arlo Essential Video Dorbell doorbell allows you to monitor the front door of your home 24 hours on 24, 7 days a week. Here are all the features and the selling price. by Manolo De Agostini published 07 January 2021 , at 18: 41 in the Home channel Arlo Arlo presented the wireless… Read more

Patchday: Android secured against remote code execution, among other things

For the first patch day in the new year, Google has numerous security holes in Android versions 8.0, 8.1, 9, 10 and 11 eliminated. Four of them are considered critical and could have been misused by attackers, among other things, to carry out denial-of-service attacks or to remotely execute code on vulnerable devices (remote code… Read more