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Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 Review: Gaming Router Opulence

Our Verdict The high-end Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 router brings oodles of highly configurable features to your network. But in our testing, the performance wasn’t quite in line with the high price. For Tri-band router Trend Micro security included High-end hardware specs WTFast Against Manual firmware upgrade bug Only five Ethernet ports Expensive For those… Read more

What’s on your desk, Sam Byford?

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. While many of us moved to home offices when companies sought to avoid COVID-19 infection, for some people, working at home is the norm. One of those people is Sam Byford, Asia editor for The Verge, who… Read more

Joe Biden made climate change a national security priority — what’s next?

President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order today that makes climate change a top US national security priority. He commissioned a “National Intelligence Estimate on the security implications of climate change.” He also directed the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to develop plans to adapt to a warming world. The environmental and… Read more

SpaceX launches record batch of satellites in first in-house rideshare mission

SpaceX launched a batch of 143 spacecraft to space from Florida on Sunday morning under the company’s new cost-cutting SmallSat Rideshare Program, breaking the record for the most satellites lofted into space on a single launch. The Transporter-1 mission kicks off a potentially lucrative business line for SpaceX, which unveiled in 2019 its SmallSat Rideshare… Read more

Seven warmest years: NASA sees continued dramatic warming trend

“The past seven years have been the warmest seven in history,” says Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). This characterizes the global sustained and dramatic warming trend. The GISS has determined that the global average surface temperature in the past year together with 2016 was highest. The World Weather Organization… Read more

heise + | Photography in winter: mastering the times of day and white balance

Winter creates amazing plays of color. The camera often cannot capture these automatically. Photographers therefore have to take action themselves. In the polar night above the 64 ° latitude reached the direct light of the sun in December even at noon only higher cloud formations, such as this disintegrated storm system off the coast of… Read more

Microplastics from laundry are flooding into the Arctic

Polyester fibers are making their way from laundry machines in North America and Europe all the way up to the Arctic, according to a new study. Synthetic fibers made up a whopping 92 percent of microplastic pollution found in Arctic seawater, of which polyester was the most common. That means that textiles, laundry, and wastewater… Read more

“Through the night”: the winning photos of the competition

The new year starts with good news for the winners of our c’t photography competition “Through the night”. There are three excellent works from our photo gallery on the podium. For the second time in a row, Rolf Fries wins our competition, this time with the picture “Wasserraben”, which shows the full moon over a… Read more

heise + | Nine fitness trackers between 30 and 300 euros in the test

Simply counting steps is a thing of the past: The current generation of fitness trackers measures sleep, stress and oxygen saturation. Nine fitness trackers between 29 and 300 Euro in the test From 30 Euro Inaccurate pulse One-to-one meetings Conclusion and test table Article in c’t 26 / 2020 read If you hid the first… Read more

Best fitness trackers 2021: Top activity bands to buy today

(Pocket-lint) – The fitness tracker market is as crowded as it’s ever been, and only getting busier with time. The benefit of that competition is that more and more devices are releasing that do a great job of tracking your wellbeing and fitness without costing a bomb. Filtering through to the best devices can be… Read more

Nokia 5.4 coming to 229 euros in Italy: here are the specifications

A new low-end device from Nokia, arriving in January also on the Italian market. Here is all the useful information about Nokia 5.4 by Nino Grasso published 11 December 2020 , at 19: 21 in the Telephony channel Nokia HMD Global announced Nokia 5.4 , the latest addition to the 5 series smartphones. The new… Read more

“Nature's 10”: Two Germans also shaped the Science Year 2020

Two experts from Germany are among the ten people who 2020 played a decisive role in science for the British specialist magazine “Nature”: Kathrin, who was born in Erfurt Jansen, head of vaccine research at the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, and Verena Mohaupt, employee of the Bremerhaven Alfred Wegener Institute (Awi) and head of logistics… Read more

HMD Global unveiled the Nokia 5.4 smartphone

HMD Global’s novelty will be on sale in the price range of approximately 200 HMD Global has today released its new Nokia 5.4 smartphone as the successor to the 5.3 model released last March. Somewhat especially, some of the features of the device have even deteriorated compared to the predecessor model. Equipped with a polycarbonate… Read more

The Apple Watch expands its range of cardio fitness measurements

Apple is expanding the range of cardiorespiratory fitness that can be measured on the Apple Watch. Starting today, the Health app will classify users as having “high,” “above average,” “below average,” or “low” cardio fitness. Low levels will trigger a notification. The Watch tracks fitness through a metric called VO2 max, which is the amount… Read more

Nokia 8.3 5G arrives in Italy: technical specifications and prices of the two versions

Nokia’s first 5G smartphone intends combine the capabilities of the Snapdragon 765 G 5G with Android One and a “Nordic” design by Nino Grasso published 23 November 2020 , at 12: 21 in the Telephony channel Nokia HMD Global announced the arrival in Italy of Nokia 8.3 5G , the company’s first 5G smartphone. Price:… Read more