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Samsung 2021 TV lineup: everything you need to know

Home Advice (Image credit: Samsung) This is looking like a big year for Samsung TVs. Having somewhat trodden water in 2020, the company appears to be striding forward in 2021, with highlights that include consumer MicroLED models, ‘Neo QLEDs’ with astonishingly small Mini LEDs, and a new version of the One Connect box that can… Read more

Economy: Industry has deliberately slowed down climate protection

The Nuremberg economics professor and “economics” Veronika Grimm has accused German industry of deliberately slowing down the structural change towards more climate protection for too long. “One must not hide the fact that the industry has tried in part to stop this structural change. This can now take revenge if the crucial components for a… Read more

EVGA 650W N1 Power Supply Review

Our Verdict The EVGA 650W N1 is a low-performance PSU with incorrect OCP and OPP and weak efficiency. For Full power at 36 degrees Celsius Satisfactory transient response at 12V Low inrush and leakage currents Long hold-up time Efficient 5VSB rail Enough connectors Rifle bearing fan Against 12V OCP and OPP are not configured correctly… Read more

Samsung 870 EVO Incoming? New SATA Drive Likely Landing Soon

Home News Samsung 870 Evo (Image credit: WinFuture) German publication has WinFuture reported that Samsung is revamping and reviving the company’s EVO series of SSDs. The South Korean giant is on the verge of announcing the new Samsung 870 EVO lineup. The Samsung 870 EVO, which is reportedly listed at several European and North American… Read more

PS5 DualSense controller: Problems with adaptive triggers

Several users report a new problem with the PlayStation 5. This time the adaptive triggers of the DualSense controller seem to suddenly breakdown. The PlayStation 5 (PS5) has been available for over a month now. Due to the limited stock, it is still very difficult to buy a copy. Much has been written about Sony’s… Read more

2020 Winners and Losers: Huawei and Honor

2019 was particularly bad for Huawei due to obvious reasons and at least some of us thought that 2020 would. Still, against all odds, Huawei managed to stay afloat and was even able to launch some great products ranging from headphones and smartwatches to smartphones and notebooks. Huawei had a big shift in its strategy… Read more

My top 5 phones of 2020 – Ro

My outlook on this year’s smartphone market is in stark contrast to the year as a whole. I actually feel like 2020 was a better year for smartphones than 2019, seeing technologies introduced last year rapidly evolve and mature. Just take a look at how fast we jumped from 90Hz displays to having 120Hz and… Read more

Consumer advocates call for progress in the supply chain law

Consumer advocates call for progress in the supply chain law against exploitation, child labor and starvation wages for foreign suppliers. At Christmas, many people thought more than usual about how the gifts on the table would actually be produced, said the head of the Federal Consumer Association, Klaus Müller, of the German Press Agency. Consumer… Read more

Star Wars Squadrons review: In a galaxy far, far away

(Pocket-lint) – Given the level of hype that invariably trails anything Star Wars-related, EA’s Star Wars: Squadrons somehow managed to slip out surprisingly quietly. As it focuses on the space-combat element of the venerable franchise, it follows in the tradition of much-loved Star Wars games like Rogue Squadron and X-Wing vs Tie Fighter. Lore-wise, Star… Read more

10 great games from 2020 for your new gaming PC

Whether you’ve just gotten a new Windows-based gaming laptop or desktop, or you just want some new game ideas, we have ten suggestions to make your gaming experience fun. Not all of them are new or the most graphically demanding, but they should provide you with hours of enjoyment. Unlike gaming on a console, there… Read more

vivo V20 2021 goes on sale in India without an official announcement

vivo’s V20 2021 has been leaking quite a lot lately, so we were expecting it to become official pretty soon. Amazon India, however, took us by surprise by listing the phone – and it’s in stock and ready to order – without even a hint of an official announcement from vivo. Still, we’ll take it…. Read more

The automotive annual review 2020: What moved us

Experienced prophets wait for events, Horace Walpole noted, not without subtle irony. How correct this wise advice is has been shown by the end of the year 2020 downright frighteningly. Because hardly anything has turned out as expected. The corona pandemic has left deep scars on society and overwhelmed almost everything. The consequences are dubious… Read more

Patriot Revamps Viper Steel RAM With Some Bling

Home News Viper Steel RGB (Image credit: Patriot) Patriot recently expanded the brand’s existing Viper Steel DDR4 lineup. The new Viper Steel RGB not only arrives with a redesigned heat spreader, but also features a RGB diffuser with five multi-zone lighting. Patriot fabricates the Viper Steel RGB memory on a 10-layer PCB and offers it… Read more

Panasonic TX-65HX940B

Our Verdict The HX940B is difficult to work with but there’s a pleasing and natural performance in there for those who persevere For Bright, natural picture Excellent motion processing Vivid colours Against Tricky to calibrate Weak blacks and viewing angles Uninspiring sound The Panasonic TX-65HX940 is part of the leading line of Panasonic’s LCD TVs… Read more

New 11th Gen Tiger Lake ‘H’ SKUs Incoming

Home News (Image credit: Intel) It looks like Intel is ready to bring higher watt Tiger Lake SKUs to market next year: Courtesy of @APISAK on Twitter, two new Tiger Lake CPUs were spotted on Geekbench and are known as the Core i7-11370H and Core i5-11300H. Both the Core i5 and Core i7 are quad-core… Read more