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Royal Albert Hall celebrates 150th birthday with film narrated by Mick Jagger

Home News (Image credit: Royal Albert Hall) Hot on the heels of the announcement that public indoor events are set to return to the UK this May, the Royal Albert Hall has released a 90-second clip, entitled Your Room Will Be Ready, to commemorate its 150th anniversary year. Indeed, the timing couldn’t be more apt… Read more

The Verge’s 18 favorite kitchen gadgets

When you’re stuck at home because of pandemics, bad weather, or just because you don’t feel like going out, there’s nothing more satisfying than cooking something really fantastic. Even if you’re not an experienced or enthusiastic cook, sometimes it’s really satisfying to create a new and tasty dish for you, your friends, and / or… Read more

Clearview’s facial recognition tech is illegal mass surveillance, Canada privacy commissioners say

Clearview AI’s facial recognition amounts to mass surveillance and the company should delete the faces of Canadians from its database, Canada’s privacy commissioners said Wednesday. Commissioner Daniel Therrien said what Clearview does — scraping photos from social media and other public sites for use by law enforcement — is “illegal” and creates a system that… Read more

Asus TUF Dash F15 Review: RTX 3070 Meets Intel H35

Our Verdict The Asus TUF Dash F15 is an attractively thin gaming clamshell with an eSports-ready screen. But you can squeeze more frames out of other RTX 30-series laptops. For Decent battery life Fast screen Successful software-based noise cancelling Easy upgrades Against Frame rates could be better No webcam Flat keyboard Gaming laptops are trying… Read more

G.SKILL Trident Z Royal DDR4-4000 MHz CL17 2×16 GB Review

Introduction With memory prices falling, now is a great time to be looking for memory upgrades. Fall hardware releases are in full swing, there is competition from both Intel and AMD, and the Red brand has thoroughly fixed the memory issues of generations past. No longer do users have to worry about memory compatibility or… Read more

Numbers, please: Jean-Philippe Baratier – the short life of a “child prodigy”

Exactly to the day before 50 years ago the Huguenot son Jean-Philippe Baratier was born in Schwabach. He was the first “child prodigy” of the Enlightenment. He was able to read at the age of three, and at the age of six he argued in German, French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Chaldean, Syriac and Arabic… Read more

Review: Goldmund Telos 590 NextGen II Integrated Amplifier / DAC

Thanks to the recent introduction of the high performing and a lot less expensive Goldmund Telos 7 integrated amplifier and the further developments of the Swiss, it is now even possible to use the Telos 590 NextGen even further. In this review we will go into that in more detail, because the ‘590 MkII ‘is… Read more

Netflix: Film and TV series premieres on January 11-17, 2021: New products include Disappointed: Part 3 and the Lake of Dreams series

Although on Netflix you should not always count only on relatively fresh cinematic titles, the platform often brings a lot of proven hits and its own interesting productions (often, unfortunately, not always). Admittedly, Netflix is still gaining attention, as is this weekly list. So, as every week, we check what will appear on the website… Read more

Epic Games acquires Rad Game Tools

After the game manufacturer Epic Games announced the plans for a new company headquarters yesterday, the company’s expansion seems to be in full swing. For this reason, Epic announced the takeover of the development studio Rad Game Tools. The studio is primarily famous for its Blink middleware or the Miles Sound System. Epic would like… Read more

Pay please! The first search engine helped fight check fraud 90 years ago

In the twenties, banks and companies in Germany began taking pictures of incoming and rejected checks on microfilm in order to curb the rampant check fraud. At Zeiss Ikon, the chemist Emanuel Goldberg devised a search device using image points that act as an index to each image on the microfilm (35 mm film) were… Read more

The top Finnish overclocker Luumi brought new video card records to Finland

Lumi managed to grab the records in both the GPUPI and 3DMark Port Royal tests, but unfortunately the latter’s record has already been displaced. It is always nice to start digesting Christmas hams with positive news. This time they will be served by Juhani Luumi, a top superclocker who is also known to us from… Read more

For tomorrow's technology: from quantum dots to quantum technologies

The properties of electronically zero-dimensional quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures differ fundamentally from those in higher-dimensional structures such as quantum wells. In quantum dots, the energy of charge carriers is not a function of the momentum. Their properties are similar to those of atoms embedded in a dielectric matrix. Based on gas phase or molecular… Read more

Video: Finland's fastest gaming machine is being updated

We upgraded AMD’s new 16 core Ryzen 9 5950 X processor to the gaming machine we piled up earlier this fall and ran 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme Finland record Commercial cooperation with Asus Earlier in the autumn, we assembled Finland’s best gaming machine with an Intel Core i9 – 10900 K processor and an Asus ROG… Read more

Review: Bowers and Wilkins 603 S2 Anniversary Edition

Ask any hi-fi enthusiast which speaker brand appeals to the imagination and chances are that the name Bowers & Wilkins will be mentioned. Until 2015, the reproducers of this manufacturer were notable for the use of a yellow Kevlar woven mid-toner. The latter has since made way for the less prominent gray-colored Continuum display. But… Read more

Queen Elizabeth will deliver her Christmas Day message via Alexa this year, if you ask

“Alexa, play the Queen’s Christmas Day message” will soon be a thing — even if you don’t live in the UK. Starting December 25th at 3PM GMT (or 10AM ET, 7AM PT), that phrase will deliver the Queen’s traditional Christmas Day broadcast, according to The Guardian. If you’re curious what the Queen’s message might contain,… Read more