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Best gym timers 2021: Clock your interval sessions the easy way

(Pocket-lint) – Performing intervals during workouts are grueling enough without worrying about counting yourself up or down, which is why dedicated gym timers are an essential item for home gyms. Having a clock on your wall provide time alerts can really help you focus on blasting out those final few reps, with most modern wall… Read more

Intel Snipes at Apple in New ‘Go PC’ Ads

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Do you remember the Mac vs PC commercials from the mid-2000s? While Microsoft and Apple may have become increasingly buddy-buddy since then, with Windows working on Mac and Mac ceding basic productivity app dominance to Microsoft Office, that doesn’t mean the war between Mac and PC isn’t still raging. The… Read more

Microsoft Surface Duo gets a price cut ahead of UK launch

Home News (Image credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s Surface Duo is coming to the UK next week. On 18th February, the dual-screened smartphone will land in Britain as well as France, Germany and Canada. UK buyers can pick one up from Currys PC World and direct from Microsoft for the princely sum of £1349. In France and… Read more

Discord iOS update makes it easier to steal memes from Twitter

Meme thieves rejoice! Discord’s latest update on iOS adds a new option to make it easier to save images from Twitter embeds, handy if you want to save memes from tweets dropped in the server. Or, as the changelog for version 60.0 of the iOS app puts it, “Meme-stealing powers are about to go super… Read more

Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Motorola Droid-like Handheld PC

Home News (Image credit: Rahmanshaber) Do you miss phones with slide-out keyboards? Can you pretend you miss them long enough to hear about a cool Raspberry Pi project? Ok, great, because there’s a new open-source handheld computer project that basically turns your Raspberry Pi (or similar board like the Pine H64 Model B or the… Read more

Satechi’s new tiny double-sided wireless charger can top up your Apple Watch or AirPods

Satechi has launched a double-sided charger that can wirelessly charge an Apple Watch or AirPods — but not both at once — while hopefully saving you from the added clutter of extra cables. The Satechi USB-C Watch AirPods Charger features a Qi charging pad shaped like an AirPods Pro charging case on one side, and… Read more

Amazon is working on a wall-mounted Echo device to control your smart home

Home News (Image credit: Amazon) Amazon is making another Echo device, but this one is a little different from its usual smart speakers. It’s a wall-mounted device, designed to act as a command centre for your smart home, according to Bloomberg. According to the outlet’s sources, it will have a touchscreen interface, so will likely… Read more

HP Spectre x360 13-inch (2021) Review: Slim Machine, Squat Screen

Our Verdict The HP Spectre x360 has an attractive design and long battery life, though the 16:9 display feels dated. Its only performance downside is in bursty workloads, which we saw some issues with. For Sliim, attractive chassis Solid speakers for a laptop Long battery life Still squeezes in a USB Type-A port Against 16:9… Read more

Super Bowl 2021: how to watch the NFL championship online

Super Bowl 2021 — the 55th Super Bowl — is happening today. The championship game pits the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending Super Bowl champs, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan will sing the national anthem, while The Weeknd will perform in the halftime show. If you are planning to watch… Read more

How to Build a Motion-Triggered Raspberry Pi Security Camera

Home security camera systems have exploded in popularity while decreasing in price over the past few years. For example, you could purchase a Ring Indoor Security Camera for around $60, but there are some drawbacks: first, vendors like Ring often charge a monthly fee to store your data and second, you might not want video… Read more

The M1-powered MacBook Pro is down to its lowest price yet

Apple’s MacBook Pro with the new M1 processor is one of the best-performing laptops on the market in its price range. If you are interested in picking up the latest Apple laptop for a discount, Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy are selling the base model, which includes 256GB of SSD storage, for $1,199, knocking… Read more

A List of Apple’s Upcoming SoCs Leaks: Four Chips in Development

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Longhorm (@never_released) a well-known leaker with a fairly good track record has published what is claimed to be a list of Apple’s upcoming system-on-chips. If the information is correct, then the company is working on at least four SoCs for various upcoming devices. Since the information comes from one unofficial source… Read more

HP’s Spectre x360 14 review: the best 2-in-1 you can buy

HP’s Spectre x360 14 is a luxury worth paying for. I have used a heck of a lot of laptops in the past year, and some of them are quite nice. MacBooks have nailed the “premium” look and feel for years, and I’ll never waste an opportunity to gush about the build quality of Dell’s… Read more

Apex Legends is finally coming to the Nintendo Switch on March 9th

Apex Legends is coming to the Nintendo Switch very soon. Today, EA announced that the portable version of its sci-fi battle royale will debut on Nintendo’s tablet on March 9th. Chad Grenier, Apex’s game director, says the new version will include “cross-platform play, our latest seasonal content, and full feature parity with the other versions… Read more

Best Raspberry Pi Projects

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) January was a huge month for Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry Pi Pico, a brand new board that serves as a microcontroller and uses the organization’s first custom silicon, the RP2040 CPU. There’s now an entire ecosystem of Pico products to go along with all the traditional… Read more