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Asus TUF Dash F15 review: Pro gaming in a slimline chassis

(Pocket-lint) – The Asus TUF Dash F15 is another of the company’s ultra-thin gaming laptops, which sports some serious specs in a compact, lightweight and portable frame. Available in two colours with a small mix of specs options and some nifty design accents, the TUF Dash F15 is interesting enough on paper, but is it… Read more

Panasonic 2021 TV lineup: everything you need to know

Home Advice (Image credit: Panasonic) Having announced its new flagship OLED, the JZ2000, at CES back in January, Panasonic has now released the details of the rest of its 2021 TV line-up. It comprises four OLED models and three LCD TVs and includes the brand’s first-ever 48-inch OLEDs – in fact, there are three of… Read more

Doom 3 for PSVR is a solid showcase for Sony’s Aim Controller

Doom 3 has a long history with VR, so it’s a little surprising that this week’s PlayStation VR release is the first version ever to go on sale. Almost nine years ago, we visited Id Software luminary John Carmack to see his duct-taped prototype “Oculus Rift” headset for the first time, and Doom 3 was… Read more

Amazon’s Alexa lets you control a Lamborghini’s air conditioning with just your voice

Amazon is taking a bigger step into cars today by integrating Alexa into Lamborghini’s Huracán EVO, and not just to ask questions or remotely control your home — it’s giving the assistant the ability to control settings inside the car, hands-free. The partnership was originally announced last year as part of Amazon’s push into cars,… Read more

The DualSense’s adaptive triggers show how to make a button feel next-gen

The PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller is an incredible input device, perhaps the most tangible example of “next-gen” gaming the new wave of consoles has offered to date. But you won’t necessarily see the upgrades just from looking at Sony’s controller. At first glance, there are few differences between the PS4’s DualShock 4 and the PS5’s… Read more

LG Gram 16 review: Large-yet-lightweight laptop delivers big

(Pocket-lint) – The LG Gram 16 is never going to make sense to some people. For many, a large-screen laptop has to be a super-powered desktop-replacer. And if it’s not, why does it exist? LG’s Gram series has quietly challenged that view for the last few years. And the LG Gram 16 should make this… Read more

Pixio PXC327 Review: Affordable 165Hz Curves

Our Verdict It’s hard to fault a 32-inch VA 1440p monitor with 165 Hz that sells for so little. There are a few flaws, but taken purely as a gaming display, the Pixio PXC327 delivers excellent performance where it counts. With excellent SDR picture quality and smooth video processing, it’s a great way to put… Read more

A Jony Ive and Marc Newson-designed Leica prototype is headed to auction

A rare prototype of a Leica camera crafted by former Apple luminary Jony Ive and famed designer Marc Newson is being sold at auction in June. The device, which is described as being in “B+” condition, has a starting price of €100.000 (around $118,000), and the Leitz Photographica Auction house estimates that it’ll sell for… Read more

10 of the best Arcam products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Future) There must be something in the water in Cambridge, England. Not only did Cambridge Audio emerge from the university city, but so too did another bastion of British hi-fi. Amplification Recording and Cambridge (as it was known originally) was founded back in 1976, the brainchild of John Dawson and Chris… Read more

Vaccines are changing how we interpret COVID-19 numbers

It’s never been possible to know for sure how many people in the United States are sick with COVID-19 at a particular time. Instead, we combine all of the metrics — the percentage of tests run that come back positive, the number of new cases reported each day, people coming to the emergency room sick… Read more

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X / S is available at Best Buy

If you are looking to buy Microsoft’s most powerful console to date, the Xbox Series X, you can try your luck again right now at Best Buy. The retailer also has the more affordable, all-digital Series S available for $299.99. Due to the high demand, we expect the supply to run out very quickly, so… Read more

OnePlus 9 Pro vs Oppo Find X3 Pro: Battle of the super flagships

(Pocket-lint) – The line between Oppo and OnePlus may be blurring at the management level, and when it comes to launching smartphones in their homeland in China, but when it comes to delivering flagships in western markets, they still take different approaches to things. For the start of 2021, Oppo delivered the Find X3 Pro… Read more

KEF Mu3

Our Verdict KEF’s first noise-cancelling wireless earbuds make a positive impression, even if they fall short of being best-in-class For Refined, mature balance Weighty bass Good battery life Against Beaten for dynamics and expression Call quality could be better KEF has dabbled in the headphone market since 2013, experimenting with both over-ear and in-ear models… Read more

How to type special characters on a Windows PC

Here’s the situation: you’re typing a report for work, and you suddenly have to write the phrase “Jones née Berkowitz.” Or you are adding a phrase in Spanish and need to use the word “años.” How do you add the special characters to the letters? Special characters (also known as diacritical marks) may be more… Read more

Competitively priced Motorola G100 and G50 offer 90Hz screens and 5,000mAh batteries

Motorola has unveiled the G100 and G50, two midrange phones headed first for European and Latin American markets. Both offer displays with fast 90Hz refresh rates for smooth scrolling and animations, 5G connectivity, and they embrace Motorola’s ethos of “more battery, more better” with huge 5,000mAh cells. The higher-end G100 is poised to compete with… Read more