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Apple Mac mini (M1) review: Next-gen speed in an old case

(Pocket-lint) – The Apple Mac mini has been around in one form or another for the best part of 15 years. It may not be a top seller, or a model you see millions upon millions of people using, but it clearly has strong appeal that’s seen it last as long as any of Apple’s… Read more

The best SSDs and hard drives 2021 Top portable external drives for your Mac or PC

(Pocket-lint) – With more and more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in. And, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more than one machine, it’s more important than… Read more

Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 4 Review

Introduction Recently, I reviewed the Mad Catz F.R.E.Q. 2 (reviewed here), a $40 analogue gaming headset with excellent value for the money. The F.R.E.Q. 4 is only slightly more expensive, coming in at $53 if you’re buying it in the US. For European customers, the price gap is currently wider as the F.R.E.Q. 2 goes… Read more

Samsung Galaxy SmartTag review: Getting lost in Samsung’s walled garden

(Pocket-lint) – Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag is a Bluetooth tracker, looking to extend the reach of SmartThings Find beyond those devices with their own connection, like a phone or a tablet. It follows very much in the mould of Tile, the company that basically created and has dominated the Bluetooth tracker market up to this point…. Read more

7 tips to improve your computer sound quality

Home Advice (Image credit: Ruark) Be it at work or at home, a lot of us spend a whole lot of time at our desks. For many, a 9-to-5 job is likely to have you sitting in front of your computer for upwards of 1,500 hours every year. But look at it another way: that’s… Read more

Tweetbot 6 brings essential updates and a monthly subscription to the iPhone’s best Twitter app

Tweetbot has long been one of the best third-party Twitter applications around for the iPhone and Mac, and today sees the launch of the latest version for iOS: Tweetbot 6, which converts the app into a paid subscription service instead of the single-time purchase that was previously offered. The new app makes the change to… Read more

Testing sidelined as health departments focus on vaccination

Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles was the biggest COVID-19 testing site in the United States, with the ability to test over 10,000 people each day. But two weeks into January, amid a chaotic and slow-moving COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the city shut down the site in order to convert it into a vaccination site. The city… Read more

MSI’s GS66 Stealth proves the RTX 3080 can handle QHD just fine

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. I had hoped that MSI’s GS66 Stealth for 2021 would look and feel a little different than last year’s model — not that the 2020 version was particularly busted in any major way. In fact, the previous… Read more

Best mouse for PCs and Macs 2021: Perfect pointers for work and play

(Pocket-lint) – There’s nothing wrong with a trackpad, per se, but let’s be honest – even if they’re getting better every year, there’s still nothing quite like using an actual mouse for your computer, in terms of precision and control, especially if you work from home. Best keyboards: Our pick of the top PC and Mac… Read more

How to Connect an Analog Joystick to Raspberry Pi Pico

There are many reasons you might want to use an analog joystick in your Raspberry Pi Pico project. Perhaps you’re creating a game or maybe you need an input device for navigating. Whatever the case, connecting an analog stick to your Raspberry Pi Pico is really easy and coding for it in MicroPython is also… Read more

Adafruit Planning Tiny Raspberry Pi Pico Board With USB-C

Home News (Image credit: Future) Adafruit are not resting on their laurels and they are pressing on with their range of RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ based boards which use the same chip as the recently released Raspberry Pi Pico. In a recent tweet Adafruit have announced their latest prototype, the QT Py RP2040 a version of… Read more

Best Cheap CPUs of 2021, Tested and Ranked

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) AMD’s Ryzen 3000 and Athlon processors (including the unlocked $49 Athlon 3000G) have shaken up the low-cost landscape and made a splash on our CPU Benchmark Hierarchy, but crushing shortages of chips has gripped the industry, which impacts the low end of the market in a particularly painful way. So… Read more

How to Use a Motion Sensor with Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico has a number of GPIO pins which we can use as inputs or outputs by simply configuring the pins in our code. In this guide, we shall learn how to work with inputs, in this case a sensor, and outputs in the form of an… Read more

Microsoft backtracks on Xbox Live Gold price hike

Microsoft has reversed its controversial Xbox Live price increase. The company announced a price hike on Friday that would have doubled the cost of a yearly subscription to the service, which is required to play games online on Xbox consoles, to $120 for many users. Now, though, Microsoft says the price will stay the same…. Read more

IBM: Loss of profit causes share price to fall

IBM suffered a surprisingly significant loss of business at the end of the year. In the final quarter, sales fell year-on-year by a good six percent to 20, 4 billion US dollars, about 16, 8 billion euros, as IBM announced on Thursday after the US market closed. Net income fell 42 percent to $ 1.3… Read more