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Unizyx CEO Reportedly Says Networking Chip Supply Is at a 30-Year Low

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) It might be time to add another supply issue to the list. Unizyx CEO Gordon Yang said the company is suffering the worst networking chip shortage in 30 years, DigiTimes today reported, and that it will likely have to raise its prices as a result. Unizyx offers a wide array… Read more

Nvidia Preps GeForce RTX 3050 & RTX 3050 Ti for Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Having launched high-end and performance-mainstream GeForce RTX 30-series graphics solutions for laptops, Nvidia now needs to complete the lineup with mainstream GPUs featuring the Ampere architecture. To serve this segment of the laptop market, Nvidia is preparing to launch its GeForce RTX 3050-series products, according to unofficial information reports Notebookcheck. As… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 APU Specifications Revealed

Home News AMD Ryzen 5000 Processor (Image credit: AMD) HP México has inadvertently revealed the specifications for AMD’s forthcoming Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) desktop APUs. Hardware detective momomo_us spotted the details in a document for the HP Pavilion gaming desktop TG01-2003ns. AMD has been diligently transitioning its entire processor portfolio over to the latest Zen 3… Read more

Amazon’s new Battery Bases make your Echo speakers portable

Home News (Image credit: Amazon) Amazon has launched battery bases for the latest generation of Echo and Echo Dot devices, designed to let you use your smart speaker wirelessly. Made by Mission Accessories, whose slogan is ‘we want to make your favourite devices better’, the battery base has a lithium-ion battery which Amazon claims will… Read more

Herring vs Frampton live stream: start time, full fight, how to watch the boxing for free in UK, US and more

Jamel Herring will mix it up with Carl Frampton this Saturday in Dubai as two of the fighters at 130lbs battle it out for the WBO super-featherweight title. Incumbent Herring has already made two successful defences of the belt but can 34-year-old Belfast-native Frampton stop a third? UK fans can watch the blockbuster bout free… Read more

9 brilliant albums recorded in self-isolation

Home Features (Image credit: The Streets) Novelty of working from home wearing a little thin? Children climbing the walls? Missing those carefree double-kisses and bear hugs from relatives and acquaintances? Or are you feeling something else? Whisper it lest she disappear, but might that something actually be the muse descending? “An artist is always alone… Read more

Sony RA5000 speaker review: extravagant sound at an unreasonable price

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Sony’s new SRS-RA5000 is a $700 single-unit speaker that is filled to the brim with drivers, has convenient features like Spotify Connect and Chromecast built in, and is capable of producing immersive 360-degree audio. Though it’s only… Read more

Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android

Microsoft has shut down its Cortana app for iOS and Android. It’s the latest in a series of moves to end support for Cortana across multiple devices, including Microsoft’s own Surface Headphones. The Cortana app for iOS and Android is no longer supported, and Microsoft has removed it from both the App Store and Google’s… Read more

Google ditches Mobile World Congress 2021, the world’s biggest phone show

Last year, the world’s largest phone show, Mobile World Congress, hung on to the idea of hosting an in-person event during the COVID-19 pandemic as long as it could, even as major exhibitors kept pulling out — and the dominoes may be falling on this year’s show as well. Google just announced that it will… Read more

Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now

Discord is the latest company to introduce a Clubhouse-like feature that lets people easily broadcast live audio conversations to a room of virtual listeners. Discord says its take, called Stage Channels, is available now on all platforms where Discord is available, including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and the web. If you’ve used Discord before,… Read more

Original Xbox and Xbox 360 games arrive on Microsoft’s xCloud streaming service

Microsoft is bringing 16 original Xbox and Xbox 360 games to the company’s Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) service today. Titles like Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, the original Banjo-Kazooie, and Fallout: New Vegas are all now available to stream to Android devices. Microsoft is also enabling touch controls for Jetpac Refuelled, Viva Pinata, and Viva Pinata… Read more

Arm Unveils Armv9 Instruction Set Architecture

Home News (Image credit: Qualcomm) Arm this week announced Armv9, its latest instruction set architecture that will power a broad range of processors and system-on-chips that will be launched in the coming years. The new ISA promises to enable designers to build SoCs with multiple special-purpose accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI), machine leading, digital signal processing (DSP),… Read more

A first look at Xbox running Discord and Google Stadia in its new Edge browser

Microsoft has started testing a new version of its Edge browser on Xbox consoles. The software giant provided access to the Chromium version of Edge to Xbox Insiders earlier this month, offering an early look at the improved browsing capabilities coming to the Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S. I’ve had a chance… Read more

Verizon says it will shut down its 3G network — for real this time — on December 31st, 2022

After years of delays, Verizon says it will finally shut down its 3G CDMA network at the end of 2022 — and the company means it this time. Verizon initially targeted 2021 for the shutdown and later revised with a more ambitious goal of 2019. That didn’t happen, and as recently as January 2021, the… Read more

XMG Announces Rocket Lake, RTX 3080-Equipped ‘Ultra 17’ Gaming Laptop

Home News (Image credit: XMG – Highend Gaming Laptops & Desktops) XMG today announced its first laptop equipped with Intel’s new Rocket Lake processors, interchangeable RTX 30 Series graphics, and a bevy of other features that are supposed to ease the pain enthusiasts have suffered because of the ongoing chip shortage. It’s called the Ultra… Read more