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Toyota Highlander Hybrid review: ‘There can be only one!’

(Pocket-lint) – We’re probably showing our age here, but when someone says “Highlander” it’s hard to not visualise Christopher Lambert’s 1986 movie of the same name. That said, the Toyota Highlander – the marque’s biggest SUV – is hardly new, as it’s been around for over 20 years, since the turn of the millennium. From… Read more

Forget GPUs! Mine Bitcoin With Game Boy + Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News Game Boy mining Bitcoin (Image credit: stacksmashing/YouTube) Nothing is safe from cryptocurrency mining — not even 32-year old tech. YouTuber stacksmashing (via TweakTown) has successfully repurposed his old Game Boy to mine Bitcoin. The mod won’t turn you into a millionaire overnight, but it does prove that you can teach an old dog… Read more

Comic-Con will hold an in-person event in San Diego over Thanksgiving weekend

Comic-Con won’t be hosting its regular in-person annual gathering this summer, as the organization behind the cosplay and fan gathering cancel the event for the second year in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is now an in-person event on the books for the fall to compliment the limited online versions the… Read more

Volkswagen wraps multiyear investigation into Dieselgate

The Volkswagen Group has wrapped a multiyear internal investigation into Dieselgate, and it says it will try to pry compensation from former CEO Martin Winterkorn and former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler to make up for some of the massive financial damages that resulted from the emissions cheating scandal. The law firm Volkswagen hired to perform… Read more

New black hole image shows off vortex of magnetic chaos

A new, detailed shot of a black hole reveals spiraling lines of mysterious magnetic forces that give astronomers an unprecedented look at how these cosmic monsters behave. It’s an intimate portrait of the black hole at the center of the gigantic M87 galaxy, which lies some 55 million light-years away from Earth. Black holes are… Read more

OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro: everything we know about the new phones coming on March 23rd

The one place for OnePlus Contributors: Verge Staff After a week of previews on Twitter and in the press, OnePlus’ new flagship phones are set to be officially announced at an event on March 23rd at 10AM ET. Alongside them, we expect to hear about a budget option as well as a new smartwatch. OnePlus’… Read more

Intel Announces Ice Lake Server Launch Event for April 6

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel today announced that it plans to reveal more information about its upcoming Ice Lake server chips at the “How Wonderful Gets Done 2021” event on April 6. The company said it plans to launch the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors as well as “the latest additions to Intel’s hardware… Read more

Raspberry Pi Detects Unseen Cosmic Rays from Space

Home News (Image credit: Cosmic Pi) The Raspberry Pi is a super flexible tool for the casual aerospace engineer. Don’t believe me? Check out this free and open-source cosmic ray detection project known as CosmicPi. It’s designed to run on our favorite SBC and, with the right hardware, it can reveal unseen particles as they’re… Read more

Intel teases Xe HPG GPU reveal coming next week

Matthew Wilson 1 day ago Featured Announcement, Graphics Ever since Intel hired Raja Koduri and announced plans to create new discrete graphics cards, we’ve been waiting to see what Intel can do in the gaming segment. So far, we’ve seen the Xe graphics architecture introduced in low-power DG1 discrete graphics cards, which are primarily sold… Read more

Project Athia receives official title and release year

Mustafa Mahmoud 2 days ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming Back during the PlayStation 5 reveal event, Sony showed off a game by the name of Project Athia. Published by Square Enix, this PS5 console exclusive showed off very little, but what was shown was intriguing. Now, Square Enix has given fans a… Read more

Intel Alder Lake Materials Allegedly Expose PCIe 5.0, DDR5-4800 Support

Home News Intel Alder Lake Specifications (Image credit: VideoCardz) Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake processors might make it to the market by the end of this year. In the meantime, VideoCardz has shared a truckload of information on what we can expect from Intel’s first hybrid desktop processors. Some of the specifications fall in line… Read more

The OnePlus Watch gets an early reveal ahead of March 23rd announcement

OnePlus’ long-awaited first smartwatch has made its first appearance ahead of the company’s upcoming March 23rd launch event, which is feeling increasingly irrelevant as almost every piece of news about its new product lineup trickles online in bits and pieces. Revealed fully for the first time by Unbox Therapy, the creatively named OnePlus Watch doesn’t… Read more

Intel Demos Eight-Core Tiger Lake-H CPU Running at 5.0 GHz

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel has demonstrated a laptop based on its upcoming eight-core Tiger Lake-H processor running at up to 5.0 GHz, essentially revealing some of the main selling points of its flagship CPU for notebooks. Mobile PCs based on the chip will hit the market in the second quarter, Intel said. As… Read more

Intel teaser hints long-awaited Xe HPG gaming GPUs may be revealed on March 26th

Intel’s upcoming Xe HPG “DG2” discrete gaming GPUs might be close to a reveal. The company has teased a “Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt” for March 26th at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. The website was hidden in a binary sequence segment Intel stuck in its GDC 2021 presentation that briefly teased the upcoming graphics card…. Read more

Barnes & Noble will reveal a Lenovo-made Nook tablet next week

Barnes & Noble’s line of Nook e-readers isn’t dead yet. The company has confirmed to The Verge that despite running out of stock, it still plans to sell its Kindle competitors once new units arrive in stores later this spring. In fact, there’s a previously unannounced tablet that the company will imminently reveal. Susan McCulloch,… Read more