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HyperX Pulsefire Haste gaming mouse review: Lightweight but not lacking

(Pocket-lint) – The Pulsefire Haste is HyperX’s answer to the trend of superlight honeycomb gaming mice out there. It ticks a number of boxes too – unless you love RGB lighting by the bucket load. We’ve been happily working, surfing, and gaming away with the Pulsefire Haste to bring you our thoughts on how this… Read more

Report: Intel Pushing ATX12VO Power Connector for 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs

Home News Corsair ATX12VO Adapter Cable (Image credit: Corsair) VideoCardz today shared a snippet of a document claiming to show Intel’s strong desire for motherboard vendors to adopt the ATX12VO power connector on future Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake LGA1700 motherboards. The ATX12VO is a 10-pin power connector that Intel has been pushing since a… Read more

Mass Effect Legendary Edition review: Revisiting the best RPG series ever made

(Pocket-lint) – We couldn’t have been more excited when we heard that the original Mass Effect trilogy was to be remastered for a new collection. But must admit to feeling slightly deflated when we realised the games weren’t to be remade completely. That means, while the graphics and gameplay have undergone extensive tweaking, they haven’t… Read more

Best DVD players 2021: Watch your favourite movies at home

(Pocket-lint) – We might live in the age of streaming media, but there are still countless reasons to find value in a good DVD player. Many of us have massive collections of TV and movies on that format, after all. Best Blu-ray players: Feel the power of your Full HD or 4K discs with a… Read more

How To Change Linux Terminal Colors on the Fly

As wonderful as the Linux command-line is, it can sometimes need a little customization to make it truly our own. While most terminal emulators ship with a few different theme options such as Solorized, Orchid, etc. out of the box, you might on occasion feel the need for different color schemes. While you could manually… Read more

Flexxon Launches X-Phy SSD with Embedded AI-Based Security Features

Home News (Image credit: Flexxon) Flexxon, a Singapore-based security firm, has introduced an SSD with embedded AI-based security capabilities that the company says promises protection against traditional threats like malware and viruses, or physical tampering with the drive. Modern SSD controllers rely on several Arm Cortex R cores and are basically rather high-performance system-on-chips with fairly sophisticated… Read more

Big HDDs Set New Sales Record: 288 Exabytes in Q1

Home News (Image credit: Toshiba) Unit shipments of hard drives in the first quarter of 2021 were down both sequentially and year-over-year as consumer devices continued their migration to SSDs. Still, HDD capacity sold during the quarter set a new record of 288 exabytes as hyperscalers and enterprises upgraded their storage capabilities. Seagate remained the… Read more

Sonos Move review: Should you buy it over Roam?

(Pocket-lint) – Sonos offers multiple speakers within its portfolio, but as great as they are, none had been portable, none had been water-resistant, and none had offered Bluetooth audio support. The Sonos Move, however, changed all of that. While Sonos previously focused on offering speakers designed for the home that require mains power and use a… Read more

How to hide apps from your iPhone’s home screen using iOS 14

If you get annoyed with the number of apps that crowd your iPhone’s home screen, you probably welcomed a feature that came with iOS 14: the App Library, which gathers all of your apps into various categories and displays them on a separate page to the right of your home pages. The App Library doesn’t… Read more

Voxx and Sharp in talks to buy struggling Onkyo

Home News (Image credit: Onkyo) Sharp and Voxx are in talks to take over Onkyo. The struggling Japanese audio brand is reported to be on the verge of financial collapse, so this could be the Osaka-based firm’s last roll of the dice. “VOXX International Corporation today announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent… Read more

Facebook and Instagram notices in iOS apps tell users tracking helps keep them ‘free of charge’

Facebook is continuing its campaign against Apple’s iOS 14 privacy updates, adding a notice within its iOS app telling users the information it collects from other apps and websites can “help keep Facebook free of charge.” A similar message was seen on Instagram’s iOS app (Facebook is Instagram’s parent company). Technology researcher Ashkan Soltani first… Read more

How to Turn a Rotary Phone into Google Assistant with Raspberry Pi

I have some old telephones lying around – few of them fully functional anymore. I was going to throw out one of them when I realized I could replace the inner wiring with a Raspberry Pi, and have the Google Assistant running on it. While it’s certainly easier to call “hey google” across the room,… Read more

TSMC Uses AMD’s EPYC Chips to Make Chips

Home News (Image credit: AMD) TSMC produces chips for AMD, but it also now uses AMD’s processors to control the equipment that it uses to make chips for AMD (and other clients too). Sounds like a weird circulation of silicon, but that’s exactly what happens behind the scenes at the world’s largest third-party foundry. There… Read more

The colorful M1 iMac, Mini LED iPad Pro, and refreshed Apple TV 4K are available to preorder now

Apple’s colorful new M1-powered iMacs, refreshed iPad Pros, and updated Apple TV 4K (with a not-terrible-looking remote) are now all available to preorder today from Apple’s website. The company says that the new products will be delivered starting on May 21st —at least for the first wave of orders, although that timing will certainly slip… Read more

Leo Says Ep. 61 – Nvidia wants to rule the world

Nvidia made a big splash when they announced their planned CPU named Grace at their recent virtual GTC event. We all know about Nvidia’s GPUs and we are sort-of aware of Bluefield which is described as a DPU. Now Nvidia also has plans for a CPU, so that means they have a Three Chip Strategy… Read more