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With the SHARK Force II, Sharkoon presents a 10 euro gaming mouse

The manufacturer Sharkoon has now presented the SHARK Force II gaming mouse to the public. According to the company, this is a more powerful upgrade from its predecessor. Inside the mouse, an optical PixArt PAW 3519 sensor does its job. This has six preset modes with up to 4. 200 DPI (400, 800, 1. 600,… Read more

Amazon generates millions of pounds of plastic waste

Amazon’s plastic pollution is under scrutiny today with the publication of a new report by the nonprofit ocean advocacy organization Oceana. That report estimates that Amazon was responsible for 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste last year. Amazon says that figure is overblown — by over 350 percent. Amazon claims that it uses about… Read more

Sharkoon launches Shark Force II, a 4,200 DPI gaming mouse for less than 10 euros

New from Sharkoon , the well-known manufacturer of cases, peripherals and other items related to the PC world, is the Shark Force II, a gaming mouse based on the PixArt PAW sensor 3519 of optical type and with a price lower than 10 euros, of only 9, 99 €. 6 programmable buttons and 4. 200… Read more

The UODO punished Virgin Mobile Polska with a high fine. All because of leakage of sensitive customer data

Virgin Mobile Polska was fined by the Office for Personal Data Protection for insufficient security of the IT system, the purpose of which was to manage the personal data of customers. While the amount may seem high to the average bread eater, it is actually very small. We are talking about PLN 1.9 million, which… Read more

Corona fuels online auctions

The corona pandemic has also shaken up the art auction market worldwide. The big New York auction houses had to postpone their normally record-breaking face-to-face auctions in May and November and finally relocated them largely to the Internet. Auction records in the three-digit million range such as 2008, as a Monet painting for 110 million… Read more

Air taxi: Lufthansa is to train Lilium pilots

They are not yet whizzing through the air, the electric high-flyers from the Munich startup Lilium, but the pilot training has already been taken care of. Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) is to take over the task of finding suitable candidates and making them fit to be able to control the air tax. First, LAT and… Read more

India’s Wistron plant protests resulted in looting of thousands of iPhones

In India, Apple contracts Wistron, a Taiwanese manufacturer with a plant located in Kolar, India, to assemble iPhones to sell in the region and surrounding areas. Protests broke out over the weekend because salaries being held from factory workers. It’s alleged that the protests broke into riots and resulted in thousands of iPhones being looted… Read more

Best 4K Gaming Monitors for PC 2020: 144Hz, Curved and More

Home Best-picks Breaking down the best 4K gaming monitors we’ve tested. (Image credit: Shutterstock / Krivosheev Vitaly) With great pixels comes great image quality. So it’s not surprising when PC gamers drool over monitors with 4K resolution. A panel packing 8.3 million pixels (3840 x 2160) makes your favorite games look incredibly sharp and realistic. In… Read more

Uber and Lyft roll out new benefits for California drivers under Prop 22

Following their victory last month in California on the Prop 22 ballot measure, Uber and Lyft have unveiled the new “benefits” for California drivers on their platforms, including guaranteed minimum earnings and stipends for health care. “Even though we’ve won the vote, we’re still not done,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a blog post… Read more

Health care workers in US start receiving COVID-19 vaccines

Just after 9AM on Monday, Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, New York, was vaccinated against COVID-19. Lindsay was one of the first people in the United States to get a dose of the newly authorized Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine and was the first to get the shot in New York, an early… Read more

Does Avatar have a place in Disney’s ambitious future?

Disney announced a virtual avalanche of updates and news for almost every one of its properties. But one of the company’s biggest franchises was strangely absent: in all the hullabaloo, where was Avatar? There was no Avatar segment of the investor call, showing off preview images of the sequels and a logo or subtitle for… Read more

Deutsche Bahn: Video surveillance is to be expanded significantly

The number of video cameras on station premises should be from around 8000 to 800 Stations to about 11. 000 increase. That is an increase of around 30 percent. The federal government and Deutsche Bahn agreed on this. You want to spend around 180 million euros for this. After homicides 2019 in Frankfurt am Main… Read more

Steam sets a new concurrent user record

Mustafa Mahmoud 54 mins ago Featured Tech News, Online, PC, Software & Gaming Though 2020 has undoubtedly been a tough year for both businesses and the general public, one knock-on effect of the global pandemic and nationwide lockdowns has been that people are playing games more than ever before. Though Steam recently set a new… Read more

LG 27GN950-B 4K 144Hz Monitor Review: One Fast Pixel Mover

Our Verdict One of the fastest 4K monitors at 144 Hz, the LG 27GN950-B delivers accurate color and excellent HDR for cheaper than a top-of-the-line FALD display. For Local dimming produces VA-like contrast Excellent HDR Wide and accurate color gamut Fast and responsive FreeSync & G-Sync Compatible Against Oversaturated sRGB mode Go to page: Features… Read more

Snapchat is releasing Bitmoji Paint, a massively multiplayer online painting game

Today, Snapchat is getting a new original game called Bitmoji Paint. As the name suggests, the game involves Bitmoji — those cutely grotesque customizable avatars — and painting. It’s Snap Inc.’s second title from its internal games studio, which began putting out games last year. “Our goal with Bitmoji has always been to be the… Read more