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LG gram: Notebook flyweights are being updated

LG has new gram notebooks in its luggage for the virtual CES. As before, they should be relatively light for their respective format. LG also relies on new designs: 16: 10 – Displays and Intel Core processors of the 11. Generation. There are five new models in total. The two “2-in-1” models with 16 –… Read more

GDPR violations cost notebooksbilliger.de over 10 million euros

US companies are actually notorious for deliberately spying on their own employees. However, these practices seem to have now also been adopted by German companies. Because of this, the State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) in Lower Saxony, Barbara Thiel, now has a fine of 10, 4 million euros imposed on notebooksbilliger.de AG. The reason… Read more

GDPR violations cost notebookbillger.de over 10 million euros

US companies are actually notorious for deliberately spying on their own employees. However, these practices seem to have now also been adopted by German companies. Because of this, the State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) in Lower Saxony, Barbara Thiel, now has a fine of 10, 4 million euros imposed on notebooksbilliger.de AG. The reason… Read more

Epic Games acquires Rad Game Tools

After the game manufacturer Epic Games announced the plans for a new company headquarters yesterday, the company’s expansion seems to be in full swing. For this reason, Epic announced the takeover of the development studio Rad Game Tools. The studio is primarily famous for its Blink middleware or the Miles Sound System. Epic would like… Read more

MSI and EVGA show water-cooled GeForce RTX 30 cards

Despite the persistently poor availability of graphics cards, the manufacturers occasionally introduce new models of the GeForce RTX – 30 – series before. Some of these have already been mentioned in advance, but the go-ahead should be given when availability is given. At least in homeopathic doses, this should now be the case – in… Read more

Apple Car: Hyundai confirms talks with Apple

In the past there have been repeated reports that Apple would continue to stick to its own electric car. Even in the year 2021 one does not seem to have said goodbye to this idea in Cupertino, California. According to the car manufacturer Hyundai, the iPhone group is currently holding various discussions with various companies…. Read more

Thermaltake Toughliquid Ultra and Toughliquid ARGB Sync: AiO cooling with display or lighting

Thermaltake is refreshing its range of AiO cooling with two new series. The new Toughfan 12 fans are used for both Toughliquid Ultra and Toughliquid ARGB Sync. In addition, the AiO cooling is noticeable either through a display or through A-RGB lighting on the pump cover. The Toughliquid Ultra is provided with a 2.1-inch display…. Read more

Federal government: More than 60,000 Windows 7 PCs in use

As Hardwareluxx reported on Monday, Windows 7 itself is enjoying great popularity over a year after the end of support. However, this does not only apply to private users. The federal government and the federal ministries also currently have a total of 63. 922 Computers are used on which the operating system, which is now… Read more

Acer presents its first Chromebook with AMD Ryzen

Before the start of the CES 2021, which is not taking place live in Las Vegas, but purely digitally in the wake of the corona pandemic Acer has announced a new convertible with Chrome OS. The new Acer Chromebook Spin 514 is also the first Chromebook from Acer based on the AMD Ryzen platform. As… Read more

Nintendo removes 379 fan games

It shouldn’t be a secret that Nintendo is known for taking legal action against unlicensed games. In the past, hobby game developers were repeatedly warned by lawyers. It does not matter whether there is a commercial interest in the developed game or not. Now the game publishing community Game Jolt has been hit. Overall 379… Read more

Noctua is moving passive coolers and other products to the Q2

Noctua has updated its product roadmap – there are some shifts in it. The plan is to continue to bring a Redux product line for CPU coolers onto the market in the first quarter, the planned black version of the NF-A 12 x 25 fan and the NH-U 12 A CPU cooler and the covers… Read more

Cyberpunk 2077: Player numbers drop sharply

Although the futuristic RPG Cyberpunk 2077 had to struggle with major technical problems at the launch and as before, the high number of players promised a ray of hope for the studio to be behind the title. On Steam alone, the game had over a million players in just 3 hours, breaking the previous record… Read more

WhatsApp changes terms of use: data is now shared with Facebook

The popular messenger service WhatsApp is changing its terms of use for the new year. Some changes affect the privacy policy. The app has been sending users various in-app notifications since Wednesday to inform them of the changes. There was always the choice of approving the new regulations immediately or postponing them until later. The… Read more

Despite the shortage: Buyer secures 78 RTX 3080 for gigantic mining rig

Crypto currencies are all the rage. Only recently the rate for the currency Bitcoin reached a value of 30. 000 US dollars per bitcoin one new record. In the last two weeks alone, the value moved over 10. 000 US dollars. No wonder then that there are more and more people who want to participate… Read more

Samsung CES 2021: New 8K Neo QLED, MicroLED and Lifestyle TVs with up to 110 inches

Samsung recently published details of the new televisions that they would like to present in a few days at CES 2021. Among other things, there are models based on mini and micro LED as well as screen diagonals of up to 110 inches. This is how the QLED- Next-generation televisions will no longer use conventional… Read more