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T-Mobile expands its mid-band 5G coverage, totaling 410 cities and towns in the US

With T-Mobile’s recent acquisition of Spring, the carrier has been working all year to strengthen its mid-band 5G reach. The 2.5GHz spectrum is what T-Mobile calls its “goldilocks” band – which strikes a balance between reach and speeds (low-band 5G doesn’t have the best speeds and mmWave has pretty bad reach). T-Mobile’s mid-band 5G spectrum… Read more

COVID tests: Google sister Verily ignores the reality of the poor

COVID – 19 – Tests only with Gmail account and smartphone, and only if you divulge health data and approve their disclosure to unknown third parties – that’s how the Alphabet subsidiary Verily launched government-funded coronavirus testing in California. The 55 million US dollar project was supposed to help poor and otherwise underserved people to… Read more

Best Buy US Lists Five RTX 3070 Models and Their Associated Prices

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Tomorrow’s RTX 3070 launch is fast approaching, and in preparation, Best Buy has begun to reveal RTX 3070 listings in its online store. So far they have released pricing and product information on the Nvidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition, Gigabyte RTX 3070 Eagle, Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming, and two PNY… Read more

Market overview: four B460 mainboards from MSI

Advertorial / Advertisement: Vier B 460 – We provide you with mainboards from MSI in one small B 460 – Market overview via video. The four mainboards are of particular interest to price-conscious gamers – starting with the MAG B 460 M BAZOOKA and the MAG B 460 M MORTAR WIFI in compact Micro-ATX format,… Read more

SpaceX is replacing two engines on its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of next crewed mission

SpaceX is replacing two engines on its Falcon 9 rocket that will soon carry four astronauts to the International Space Station. The change is being made after SpaceX found a substance in the engines that could have caused them to start earlier than planned. SpaceX found the substance after one of the company’s launches halted… Read more

3Doodler Pro Plus is a refined version of the 3D-printing pen

3Doodler’s 3D-printing pens cover a wide range of potential uses, from preschool art projects to high-end professional model making. With the Pro Plus, 3Doodler is attempting to refine that professional offering, changing up how you adjust settings while drawing in 3D and offering more materials in more shapes and sizes to work with. The Pro… Read more

T-Mobile expands its faster midband 5G network, nearly doubling its coverage

T-Mobile has announced another expansion of its 2.5GHz midband 5G network, which is now available in dozens of new cities, nearly doubling the coverage of its last major midband rollout from the end of September. With today’s expansion announcement, T-Mobile says that it now has midband 5G support in nearly 410 cities and towns in… Read more

Apple iPhone 12 review

Introduction Blast Past Fast. It’s an apt tagline with Apple skipping the S models and going straight to the iPhone 12 from the already fast iPhone 11. But it’s not just the improved speed that you’d be getting. The iPhone 12 also comes with a slew of other upgrades, including a new design with improved… Read more

Sony Xperia shipments stabilize, but image sensor division slipped

Sony has published its financial reports for the three months ending on September 30 and there’s some good news from the mobile division – it shipped 600,000 smartphones, level with the same period last year. It may not sound like great news, but Xperia shipments were on a decline and they hit their lowest point… Read more

Samsung certifies entry-level Galaxy A02s, phone pops on Geekbench

The next Samsung smartphone in the entry-level world was expected to be called Galaxy A02, but a device with the model number SM-A025F/DS was just certified in Thailand as Galaxy A02s, revealing the actual marketing name of the device. This is the third time we see this moniker appear online – first it was certified… Read more

Huawei Mate 40 Pro disassembled, have a peek inside

The same Chinese tech blog that gave us a look inside the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro now brings the teardown of the Huawei Mate 40 Pro. The disassembly is the usual process of heating up the phone so that the adhesive holding its glass plate to the frame can loosen and then be pried… Read more

AMD Radeon RX 6900XT – full NAVI 21 core specification

Recently, AMD finally introduced the first graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture. The presentation turned out to be extremely interesting, as in the manufacturer’s opinion, the new Radeon RX cards 6800, Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6900 XT will compete with current NVIDIA GeForce RTX cards 3070, GeForce RTX 3080, and… Read more

AMD Introduces Smart Access Memory Technology and Other Radeon RX 6000 Series Optimizations (RDNA2)

Smart Access Memory gives Ryze 5000 series processors access to the memory of the entire Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card, which improves gaming performance. AMD today unveiled its new Radeon RX 6000 series graphics based on RDNA2 architecture. The graphics cards also introduced a number of new technologies and features, some of which are… Read more

AMD unveiled the RDNA2 architecture and Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards

At least according to its own tests, AMD has fulfilled its promise and is now fighting equally for the title of the most efficient graphics card on the graphics card market. AMD today unveiled the long-awaited RDNA2 architecture and the Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards based on it. Like NVIDIA, AMD initially introduced three… Read more

heise + | The IBM PC: a success for the “dirty dozen” – and the IBM boss

The IBM PC: a success of the “dirty dozen” – and the IBM boss The revolution The great-great-father system / 23 Datamaster morning air for DOS Next Big Thing Article in c’t 27 / 2020 read It was clear to the IBM management at the end of the 1970s that something should be done to… Read more