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Best Freeview Play and Freeview HD box 2021: Record and watch free TV

(Pocket-lint) – Freeview is easy to take for granted here in the UK, but it’s absolutely fantastic. The free-to-air system ensures that you can watch TV for free, through most compatible TVs. Best 43-inch smart TVs: Our pick of the top 43-inch 4K TVs to buy today However, it really comes to life if you… Read more

rC3: Cory Doctorow warns of “digital equivalents of the atomic bomb”

Science fiction author Cory Doctorow called for stricter antitrust regulations, especially for interoperable online services, at the remote Chaos Communication Congress (rC3) on Sunday in order to maintain competition in the digital age. With the five greats of US surveillance capitalism – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft (GAFAM) – “the worst nightmares” of the… Read more

A semester in solitude

Photo by Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images After spending the fall in their bedrooms, students say their mental health has suffered Georgina DiNardo’s first virtual class is at 9:45. It’s Introduction To Communications — she’s a TA, so she’s responsible for sharing her computer screen with the class to display articles and… Read more

Qualcomm shares official Snapdragon 888 benchmark results

After announcing its Snapdragon 888 on December 1 and fully detailing its specs a day later, Qualcomm has now revealed official benchmarking results for its latest flagship chipset. The tests were performed on a special Qualcomm reference device powered by the Snapdragon 888 alongside 12GB LPDDR5 RAM, 512GB UFS 3.0 storage and a 6.65-inch FHD… Read more

Qualcomm, released the first Snapdragon 888 5G benchmarks: performance at the top of the category

With 5-nm and Snapdragon 800 5G, Qualcomm can compete in arms equal with its direct competitors, unleashing very high results with the main test suites for Android. Here are the results of the first benchmarks by Nino Grasso published 18 December 2020 , at 15: 31 in the Telephony channel Qualcomm Snapdragon Qualcomm usually invites… Read more

Farewell to one of the DirectX dads: Eric Engstrom passed away at 55

Turned off at 55 years Eric Engstrom, one of the developers of the DirectX API, the multimedia heart that allows the Windows operating system and the Xbox to more directly interfacing hardware with software, especially video games. by Manolo De Agostini published 14 December 2020 , at 08: 01 in the Videogames channel Microsoft Windows… Read more

Apple M1 Chip: Specs, Performance, Everything We Know

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Apple’s new in-house M1 chip is officially on the market. The first reviews and benchmarks are starting to pop up, so we’re gathering everything we know about it into one handy place, which we’ll update as we learn more. Apple M1 Cheat Sheet: Key details at a glance Release… Read more

Apple’s M1 SoC Shreds GeForce GTX 1050 Ti in New Graphics Benchmark

Home News Apple M1 (Image credit: Apple) If the Apple M1’s processing power didn’t leave you impressed, maybe the 5nm chip’s graphical prowess will. A new GFXBench 5.0 submission for the M1 exhibits its dominance over oldies, such as the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 560. The Apple M1 marks an important phase… Read more

OnePlus N10 5G: it seems not to be a real OnePlus! Sin. The review

Let’s talk about OnePlus again this time but with the Nord series, the cheapest one. We tried the new OnePlus N 10 5G, the smartphone from 349 ?? that wants to attack the medium-low end of the market. Unfortunately we stay a while? disappointed because it is not the usual OnePlus that we would have… Read more

PlayStation 5 vs Xbox Series X: Console Face-Off

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) For consoles, it’s officially next gen. We have reviewed both the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5. Both have made similar upgrades, jumping to Zen 2 CPUs, RDNA 2-based GPUs and SSD storage. Both support ray tracing and 4K 120 Hz gaming (though not necessarily simultaneously), but there… Read more

Spider-Man: Miles Morales in the test: electrically warmed up

Superhero licensed games used to have to be cucumbers by law – at the latest since the great Batman Asylum games, this no longer applies, but 2018 there was still another surprise: The PS4-exclusive Spider-Man was so good that many rated it as the best game of the year. The story stomped in classically trashy… Read more

Netzschwinger in a double pack: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales alluded to

With Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales released Insomniac Games on 12. November 2020 the sequel to the action adventure Marvel’s Spider-Man. So the friendly spider from the neighborhood returns after about two years and is now trying to build on the success of the prequel in the form of Miles Morales. In addition, the latest Spider-Man… Read more

Realme Narzo 20A hands-on review

Introduction It’s admittedly easy to sometimes get lost in the ever-growing sea of Realme phones, but great bargains can be obtained by those that manage it. Despite getting its first members in May, the new Narzo lineup is already in its second generation. The Narzo 20 trio was unveiled on September 21 and consists of… Read more

Google Pixel 5’s chipset is actually even slower than we initially thought

Google’s flagships have usually had a tad less performance than their direct rivals, with the first gen using a down-clocked Snapdragon 821, while the Pixel 4 generation missed on the plus version of the Snapdragon 855 and used the original version. This year the Pixel 5 took things further by going for the mid-range Snapdragon… Read more

AMD Radeon Pro V7350X2 Emerges As The Unsung Monster From The Past

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The AMD Radeon Pro V7350X2 might not have made it to the market, and even if it had it wouldn’t have been one of the best graphics cards. However, someone clearly has a working sample and is playing with it. Hardware detective @Komachi_Ensaka recently uncovered GFXBench 5.0 benchmarks for the… Read more