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TCL brings Mini-LED TVs to UK for 2021

Home News (Image credit: TCL) TCL is continuing its charge for the top spots in global TV sales. Currently ranked third, according to its statistics, TCL is expanding this year by bringing its Mini-LED TVs to the UK for the first time. It has also promised to produce its own OLED panels by 2023. TCL… Read more

A.I. For Raspberry Pi Pico: Uctronics TinyML Learning Kit Review

Our Verdict Featuring a 2MP camera, a Pico and all the trimmings, this kit adds workable person and object detection to your Raspberry Pi Pico. For + Simple instructions + Quick results + Compatible with many boards Against – Needs C/C++ knowledge – Lens is unprotected When we think of machine learning and artificial intelligence… Read more

LG G1 OLED Evo 4K TV review: OLED has evolved

(Pocket-lint) – With some LCD TV makers – including LG! – making a big song and dance about the introduction of Mini LED backlight technology for 2021, the pressure on mainstream OLED TVs to deliver their own substantial hardware leap that’s been rumbling along for years now has become particularly intense. Just as well, then,… Read more

Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Master Review: Remastered for Z590

Our Verdict Gigabyte’s Aorus Z590 Master is a well-rounded upper mid-range motherboard with a VRM rivaled by boards that cost twice as much. Between the Wi-Fi 6E and 10 GbE, three M.2 sockets and six SATA ports for storage, plus its premium appearance, the Z590 Master is an excellent option to get into the Z590… Read more

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to Deliver GTC Keynote From His Kitchen

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Next week Nvidia will kick off its annual GTC conference, a virtual-only event for the second time. GTC will traditionally start with a keynote by Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, delivered from his kitchen. The main intrigue is: what will he talk about? Last year he announced the Ampere architecture… Read more

Huawei’s Vision V-Series 4K TVs boast audio by Devialet

Home News (Image credit: Huawei) Huawei has once again teamed up with French audio specialists Devialet, this time to provide the sound for a range of flatscreen 4K TVs. The two companies previously collaborated on a smart speaker, while Devialet also lent its expertise to the Sky Soundbox soundbar back in 2017. The Vision V-Series… Read more

Amazon Fire TV Stick (3rd Generation)

Our Verdict The 3rd Generation Fire TV Stick is a capable video streamer, but it drops at an awkward price point For Strong app offering Improved UI Excellent HDR performance Against SDR picture could be more subtle 4K model only costs a little more What’s grey and sticky? The Amazon Fire TV Stick (3rd Generation),… Read more

Ring’s new floodlight camera borrows features from its best doorbell

Ring has announced a new floodlight with an integrated camera called the Floodlight Cam Wired Pro. As its name suggests, the Floodlight Cam Wired Pro borrows several features from the recently released Video Doorbell Pro 2, including 3D Motion Detection with radar and a top-down view of someone’s movements in front of the camera, which… Read more

Dell’s new gaming monitors support variable refresh rate for consoles, not just PC

Dell has announced four gaming monitors, three of which are curved, that are releasing in the US between late May and late June. It unfortunately isn’t sharing prices for them yet, but the company says that all of them support AMD FreeSync Premium or Premium Pro, as well as variable refresh rate (VRR). VRR should… Read more

Wisk Aero accuses rival flying taxi firm Archer Aviation of ‘brazen theft’ in a new lawsuit

Wisk Aero, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, is suing rival air taxi firm Archer Aviation for allegedly stealing its trade secrets and infringing on its patents. Wisk is seeking unspecified monetary damages and an injunction against Archer to prevent it from using the allegedly stolen technology. In response, Archer says it has… Read more

Sony X90J pricing revealed: successor to 2020’s Award-winning XH90 starts at £1149/$1300

Home News (Image credit: Sony) Sony has announced the UK and US pricing of its X90J range of TVs. Pricing is as follows: 50-inch Sony KD-50X90J: £1149, $1300 55-inch Sony KD-55X90J: £1249, $1500 65-inch Sony KD-60X90J: £1499, $1800 75-inch Sony KD-75X90J: £2299, $TBC The three smaller models will go on sale this month, with the… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico POV Display Spins Out a Dazzling LED Show

Home News (Image credit: Home Made Garbadge) We’ve seen makers develop some pretty cool Raspberry Pi Pico displays, but this is the first POV Pico display we’ve seen! POV stands for persistence of vision and refers to a technology that works by flashing LEDs on a rotating string. Through careful timings, the lights can flash… 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

Google’s new experimental app is a powerful AI document scanner for Android

Google is releasing a new experimental app today called Stack that borrows the technology underlying its powerful DocAI enterprise tool for document analysis. The end result is a consumer document scanner app for Android that Google says vastly improves over your average mobile scanner by auto-categorizing documents into the titular stacks and enabling full text… Read more

Entercom rebrands to Audacy, plans to launch exclusive podcasts on its own app

Entercom, a company mostly associated with its hundreds of US radio stations, is losing its old name in an effort to signify its broader interest and investments in audio — specifically, podcasts. Today, Entercom becomes Audacy. The company, which owns podcast networks Cadence13 and Pineapple Street Studios, as well as ad network Podcorn, is looking… Read more