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JPEG XL is said to inherit JPEG, PNG, GIF and Webp

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) has fixed the format of its new standard JPEG XL. In addition to the description of the code stream, the Freeze Release format also contains an open source library for reading and writing the new format as well as an encoder and a decoder as reference implementations. JPEG XL… Read more

CES: Logitech introduces new video conferencing systems

Logitech is expanding its video conferencing system portfolio with three additional devices: Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini and Logitech RoomMate. After laptops, headsets and video cameras in particular boomed in the first wave of mobile working, manufacturers of video conferencing are now seeing a growing market. This is due to the fact that when you… Read more

#heiseshow: Inadequate learning platforms – what's the problem?

The second wave of the corona pandemic in Germany is never ending, and in order to contain the spread of the virus, schoolchildren are now back in distance learning or homeschooling. However, after almost a year of pandemic, expectations of this form of teaching are much greater than in the spring 2020 than all those… Read more

Pocket-lint Best of CES 2021 Awards: The 15 top gadgets, TVs, laptops and more

(Pocket-lint) – The last 12 months or so have been unlike any other and that has had a profound affect on this year’s CES. Being virtual-only for the first time, it meant we couldn’t tread the halls of the world’s largest trade show as we usually do, and therefore didn’t get to see as many… Read more

Phison’s PS5021-E21T Controller to Enable 5000 MBps Entry-Level SSDs

Home News (Image credit: Phison) Phison has announced its new controller for entry-level SSDs featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. The new PS5021-E21T controller supports the latest types of 3D NAND memory with a 1600 MT/s interface and promises to offer a sequential read speed of up to 5000 MBps. Meanwhile, the chip is made using an… Read more

CD Projekt Reveals Its Cyberpunk 2077 Roadmap For 2021

Home News (Image credit: CD Projekt Red) It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything on CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077, much less from the company. Today that changed as the co-founder of the CD Projekt Red, Marcin Iwiński, has released a short video on what has transpired since its release and what the company… Read more

Qualcomm to Acquire CPU Designer Nuvia: Focuses on High-Performance Processors

Home News (Image credit: Nuvia) Qualcomm on Wednesday said that it had agreed to acquire Nuvia, a small yet ambitious microprocessor startup. The takeover of Nuvia will get Qualcomm a high-performance CPU design along with a proven CPU and system architecture design team, something that could give a strong boost to the company’s mobile and… Read more

AMD says RDNA 2 GPU-powered laptops will arrive in the first half of 2021

AMD says customers eager for a new gaming laptop should be able to buy the first RDNA 2 GPU-powered notebooks some time before July, the company revealed today during its CES 2021 press conference. RDNA 2 is AMD’s new graphics chip architecture and the foundation of the custom chipsets in Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s… Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and Yoga have 11th gen Intel CPUs, Dolby Voice

Lenovo finished off its CES 2021 announcements with a pair of ThinkPad laptops and a 12.3-inch tablet PC hybrid. Starting things off with the new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 – it brings a redesigned body and a 14-inch 16:10 display with thin bezels, larger trackpad and up to i7 xPro 11th Gen Intel… Read more

Indiana Jones, Bethesda drops the bomb: the next-gen game is now in development

The most famous adventurer of the great screen will return to thrill gamers: Bethesda announces the new title dedicated to Indiana Jones, made by MachineGames in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Todd Howard, executive producer of the project, was also involved. by Pasquale Fusco published 12 January 2021 , at 18: 53 in the Videogames channel… Read more

67% of all games sold in 2020 were digital

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 hours ago Featured Tech News, Online, Software & Gaming, Tech News Though just a few years ago the idea of a digital-only console could have been considered a laughable prospect, both Sony and Microsoft now offer such a device. It would appear to be for good reason too, as in 2020 across… Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga: 3: 2 display with titanium lid

Lenovo has long been on the even with the business-oriented ThinkPads : 9 display held. The new ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and X1 Yoga Gen 6 models now receive at least 16: 10 displays – but some users might still want more vertical space. At CES, the ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga, the first ThinkPad… Read more

Fixed lsass crash bug in Windows 10 20H2

Microsoft provides a remedy for a problem that has existed since October: Some users have been using 10 since the upgrade to Windows H2 plagued by crashes, blue screens and reboots. With certain actions such as listing groups in the computer management, the mmc.exe generates a blue screen with the stop code 0xc 0000374. In… Read more

PC market shows strongest growth in 10 years

Due to the corona pandemic, it was not only the video game industry that saw an increase in popularity last year. The PC market has also grown significantly again. Overall, the growth was 2020 at 13,1 %. In the fourth quarter, Lenovo managed to secure the top position with a total of 24, 1% market… Read more

GeForce driver causes problems for Microsoft Teams

With the ongoing corona pandemic 2021 many people still work in the home office. As a result, last year already saw a massive rush for webcams. With programs such as Microsoft Teams, video conferences can be carried out in addition to managing projects. However, users have been struggling with various problems for some time. However,… Read more