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Lime Prime is the scooter company’s new monthly subscription service

Lime is rolling out a new monthly subscription service for its electric scooters that’s called — no joke — Lime Prime. Lime typically charges a fixed rate to unlock a vehicle and then a per-minute fee to ride. For $5.99 a month, the company will waive that initial fee for Lime Prime subscribers. And in… Read more

Uber will let you book a vaccine appointment through its app

You can now book a vaccine appointment — and a ride to that appointment — in the Uber app. The new feature is part of a host of product news that Uber announced today under the rubric “go anywhere, get anything.” With more people getting vaccinated, the company is banking on a big comeback to… Read more

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 foldable phone with virtual buttons

The Samsung Z Flip 3 foldable smartphone will be greatly improved. With larger cover display, a 120Hz flexible screen, a triple camera and stereo speakers. After the introduction of the Galaxy S21 series in mid-January this year, we now have to wait for the successor to the Galaxy Z Flip. This clamshell smartphone was announced… Read more

You can now subscribe to a Porsche Taycan for as little as $2,500 a month

Porsche is adding its all-electric Taycan sports car to its subscription service. For as little as $2,500 a month, you can burn rubber in a 522-horsepower, 390-kW Taycan 4S with rear-wheel drive. The 4S normally retails for around $103,800. The German automaker’s subscription service, Porsche Drive, first launched in October 2017 as a pilot program… Read more

Low Cost Raspberry Pi Pico SDR Won’t Hertz Your Wallet

Home News (Image credit: Luigi Cruz) The Raspberry Pi Pico is becoming the Swiss Army Knife of microcontrollers, and this is largely down to the flexibility provided by the programmable IO (PIO) and the $4 price tag. In the latest project to grab our attention, we see Luigi Cruz, a computer student and amateur radio… Read more

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE (Fan Edition)

The Samsung S21 FE (Fan Edition) will be the cheapest model of the 2021 S-series. How will this phone look like and what are the expected specs? Last September, Samsung launched the Galaxy S20 Fan Edition, as an entry-level model within the high-end S20 series. The device was equipped with a relatively large display, a… Read more

Ruark R3

Our Verdict While we thought its radio sources need a little tonal attention, the highlights here are playback from CD, from streaming music services and Bluetooth. For Compact music system Endless paths to music CD and streaming Against Edgy sound on radio sources Variable results for ‘3D audio’ Sound+Image mag review (Image credit: Future) This… Read more

iPhone 12s Pro with under-display Touch ID sensor

The iPhone 12s Pro gets a renewed screen with a smaller notch and an under-display Touch ID sensor. Renders show the new Apple smartphone in detail. New Apple smartphones are being released every year around September. The iPhone 12 series was introduced last year. Relatively minor changes are expected in 2021, therefore Apple may decide… Read more

Samsung is bringing 90 Hz OLED panels to laptops

According to Samsung, the motion of its 90 Hertz OLED display matches or even outperforms that of the 120 Hertz LCD panel. In recent years, OLED panels have also begun to penetrate the world of laptops. Samsung Display has now announced the launch of a new generation of OLED panels 14 in. Samsung’s next-generation OLED… Read more

AMD released new Radeon Software 20.1.1 drivers for its graphics cards and APUs

AMD’s new drivers bring official support for the Quake II RTX and Hitman 3, the latter of which promises to improve performance at its best 10%. AMD has released new drivers for its graphics cards and APUs. Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 21 1.1 drivers are available for Windows 7 and 10 operating systems and… Read more

TechStage | Guide: tablets for homeschooling and learning portals

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: Top smartphone for 500 € Motorola Moto G 5G Plus test: A lot of battery for little money Huawei P Smart 2021: Budget model with room for improvement Asus Zenfone 7 Pro: Turbo smartphone with flip camera Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro in the test:… Read more

Perspective: Folding screens and 5G flop, or slowly maturing?

What does the year 2021 look like in terms of the most significant smartphone technologies of recent times? The smartphone market has become quite saturated in recent years, and the past year, helped by the corona, has indicated that the rise in the price level of high-end phones in particular is beginning to reach its… Read more

Gaming monitors: Nvidia's G-Sync Ultimate is becoming less ultimate

Nvidia has apparently relaxed the requirements for monitors with the G-Sync Ultimate certificate. At the beginning of the presentation 2019 all models appeared with Ultra HD resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels), dynamic refresh rates up to 144 Hertz and an elaborate background lighting, which has a peak brightness of 1000 cd / m² achieved the… Read more

NVIDIA discovered the requirements for G-Sync Ultimate certification

In the past, the G-Sync Ultimate display required, among other things, a minimum DisplayHDR 1000 certificate, but now it can accommodate DisplayHDR 600 displays and even one DisplayHDR 400 screen. NVIDIA introduced variable refresh rate support with G-Sync modules initially as early as the year 2013. Since then, the G-Sync brand has been divided into… Read more

TechStage | Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: top smartphone for 500 €

Testing Tests overview Smartphone Oppo Reno 4 Pro in the test: Top smartphone for 500 € Motorola Moto G 5G Plus test: A lot of battery for little money Huawei P Smart 2020: Budget model with room for improvement Asus Zenfone 7 Pro: Turbo smartphone with flip camera Samsung Galaxy Xcover Pro in the test:… Read more