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KitGuru Advent Calendar 2020 Day 25: Win a Palit RTX 3070 Jetstream OC! (closed)

Home / Tech News / Competitions / KitGuru Advent Calendar 2020 Day 25: Win a Palit RTX 3070 Jetstream OC! (closed) Matthew Wilson 3 days ago Competitions, Featured Announcement Update (26/12/20): This competition is now CLOSED. Thanks to all who entered, our winner today is George Passmore. If you missed out this time around, then… Read more

Programming language: Ruby 3.0 promises significant performance gains

Years ago 25 the first major version of Ruby came out shortly before Christmas, and since then there has been a Christmas release tradition among the editors of the programming language established: Ruby 3.0 also joins this choir and has now been released on schedule, almost exactly one year after the last release of the… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077 One-Click Tool Promises Up To 30 FPS Uplift

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Cyberpunk 2077, which has proven to cripple the fastest graphics cards and even punish the fastest CPUs on the market, can give low-end gaming systems a tough time. For exactly this reason, programmer CodeZ1LLa, via his Youtube channel, has released EZ Optimizer for Cyberpunk 2077 that the coder claims can… Read more

HP Omen Spacer Review: The Mature Wireless TKL

Our Verdict The HP Omen Spacer is a reliable gaming keyboard for grown-ups. Backlighting is limited to red and white with very few customization options, and the key caps could be more premium. But the keyboard offers comfortable typing and good battery life. For Comfy, magnetic wrist rest Mature look Long battery life Against No… Read more

Panasonic TX-65HX940B

Our Verdict The HX940B is difficult to work with but there’s a pleasing and natural performance in there for those who persevere For Bright, natural picture Excellent motion processing Vivid colours Against Tricky to calibrate Weak blacks and viewing angles Uninspiring sound The Panasonic TX-65HX940 is part of the leading line of Panasonic’s LCD TVs… Read more

Super Meat Boy Forever: Successor to the cult jump-n-run for Switch and PC

More than two years late, the successor to the popular hardcore jump-n-run Super Meat Boy has now appeared. Super Meat Boy Forever is initially available for the PC in the Epic Games store and for the Nintendo Switch. Next year the game will be released for Xbox, Playstation and Steam. The game continues the story… Read more

ASUS ZenBook S UX393 Review

ASUS ZenBook S UX Introduction and Technical Specifications 410 Announced at IFA 2021, the ASUS ZenBook S UX 412 is the latest addition to the ASUS high-end ultrabook catalog, a model that introduces quite a few new features, both in terms of hardware and the format it uses, compared to past generations. Contrary to most… Read more

Exynos 2100 new benchmarks show multi-core lead over SD888

According to the early reports, Samsung might finally be bringing some serious competition to the flagship SoC market potentially outperforming Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, which is also still unreleased. The new batch of Geekbench results are in line with this theory. We will see the Exynos 2100 powering up the still unannounced Galaxy S21-series in most… Read more

Freedom of information: EU authorities must give out SMS and direct messages

The European requirements on freedom of information do not only include files that are available on paper or digitally, or e-mails. Interpersonal communication, for example via SMS, Twitter direct messages and chats via messengers such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Threema and Signal are also subject to the EU regulation of 2001 “on access the public on… Read more

Flashback: the social networking phones built for Facebook and other such oddities

Phones are tools for communication. The early ones only supported one-to-one calls (and were wired to the wall), but the Internet bred a number of social networks, which popularized the idea of sharing everything with large groups of people. Friends, family, coworkers, even strangers, you could post messages and photos for all of them to… Read more

Creating visual metaphors: Alex Castro’s illustration tools

While The Verge is a place where stories are told, they wouldn’t be nearly as interesting if it weren’t for the artwork that accompanies them. Alex Castro is the illustrator for The Verge, and he is the best person to describe how his work complements our reporting. What follows are Alex’s thoughts about the tools… Read more

The 2020 Game Awards nearly doubles viewership to 83 million livestreams

Mustafa Mahmoud 35 mins ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming Each year, following the conclusion of The Game Awards, the show’s creator shares details on the success of the show. The 2020 Game Award once again saw major growth, achieving over 8.3 million concurrent viewers and 83 million livestreams in total. Taking to… Read more

macOS 11 Big Sur: macOS updates no longer as single downloads

Standalone update installers for macOS seem to have had their day at Apple: So far, neither the so-called combo nor delta updates are available for download for macOS Big Sur, although the manufacturer is using macOS 11. 0.1 and macOS 10. 1 has already shipped two updates for the latest version of the operating system… Read more

Superman (Henry Cavill) switches from the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to the RTX 3090

Herny Cavill, the Superman of Man of Steel, is a well-known PC gamer and for the Christmas holidays has announced the latest upgrade of his system: the actor will switch from RTX 2080 Ti to RTX 3090. A good jump, useful for playing Cyberpunk 2077 of the “friends” of CD Projekt RED. by Manolo De… Read more

Epic Games Store now offers Spotify, signaling app store ambitions beyond just games

Spotify is now available on the Epic Games Store, signaling developer Epic’s ambitions to turn what has so far been strictly a games store into a more general app distribution platform. The Spotify app is free to download on the Epic Games Store, just like it is on the App Store, Google Play, or as… Read more