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A look at the five leading vendors reveals Samsung held its position atop the heap with a 22 percent market share which Canalys credited to heavy promotions to reduce channel inventory. Apple finished second with an 18 percent slice of the pie followed by Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo with 14 percent, 10 percent and nine percent shares, respectively. Canalys analyst Amber Liu noted the market is highly reactive to consumer demand and vendors are quickly adjusting to account for the harsh business environment....

The latest version of Google Chrome introduces new modes to save memory and energy. The update will roll out globally over the next several weeks for Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS users. Those with a lot of open tabs can activate Memory Saver mode to free up RAM from tabs they aren’t using. Inactive tabs will reload when needed again. The setting should create a smoother experience in active tabs and save memory for applications outside of Chrome....

Last week, we learned Nvidia decided to increase the price of its Founders Edition GPUs in Europe. One possible reason for the change is the recent strengthening of the American dollar against the Euro, but since MSRPs have been rendered meaningless by insatiable demand it’s easy to dismiss it when looking at the big picture. However, 2022 started with some really good news for gamers and enthusiasts, as industry watchers hadn’t noticed any significant retail price change in over two months....

A study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) proposes that decommissioned mines could be repurposed to operate gravity batteries. Converting old mines could provide enough energy to match the entire planet’s current daily electricity consumption. Gravity batteries try to solve one of the central problems regarding renewable energy sources like wind and solar – storing excess energy. Wind and solar often generate more energy than a grid can immediately use, so power companies have to store what’s left over, usually in batteries....

Once again we find that MLAA is far more hardware-friendly and even at 2560x1600 graphics cards such as the Radeon HD 6870 averaged 46fps, while the GeForce GTX 570 managed 47fps. The higher end cards such as the GeForce GTX 580 managed 62fps, while the Radeon HD 6970 trailed with an average of 58fps. The GeForce GTX 580 SLI configuration delivered an incredible 88fps.

Adobe held its annual MAX conference this week and, as usual, closed the event with its Sneaks presentation. Sneaks is a showcase of experimental features that Adobe developers have been working on for Creative Cloud throughout the year. This year’s Sneaks theme was the Multiverse referring to the ongoing enthusiasm over metaverse technologies. Most of the Project Sneaks this year have some application for use in the metaverse, whether it’s creating 3D environments from a 2D image or compositing images to use in a metaverse presentation....

Support for the M1 was added to the Linux kernel in June 2021, seven months after Apple announced it. By then, the Asahi Linux Project had already formed and was documenting the M1’s processes with the community’s help. Asahi is now friendly and stable enough for average Linux users to install. Its developers say the alpha is only “intended for developers and power users,” but “welcome everyone to give it a try—just expect things to be a bit rough....

The adapter is more or less a modified Raspberry Pi Pico. It sits in-line between the Game Boy and the game cartridge, kind of like a Game Genie. Unlike a Game Genie, the Interceptor does not influence gameplay at all. Your game still behaves as if the adapter was not there at all. It’s a truly plug-and-play solution that requires no modification to the Game Boy. Staacks even baked in a mode button to switch between grayscale and retro greenscale, and to enable or disable frame blending....

To help keep track of what’s actually shipping over the year’s final weeks, we’ve prepared a list of this season’s hottest PC games ordered by their North American Windows release date. As always, you’re welcome to pitch in with comments about PC releases we may have overlooked or otherwise excluded. The Wolf Among Us 84 25 Reviews Shifting from Robert Kirkman's post-apocalyptic world to one of murder, mystery and mythology, Telltale is ready to yank you along another emotional rollercoaster....

Many aspects of the One X9 fall short of the mark. The design, while partially metal, is confused and lacks the sleekness of HTC’s typically excellent smartphone bodies. The dual front-facing speakers are outstanding, but are not enough to save the rest of the design. The display also falls short of my expectations. It’s a 5.5-inch 1080p panel, yet its quality falls behind the Moto G4, a key competitor to the One X9....

Often Mini-ITX builds are difficult as there is limited room to work and there is usually a particular order in which hardware needs to be installed. This can make it a pain to change parts as you often have to remove multiple components before getting to what you’re after. With the open air D-Frame Mini, this isn’t an issue. Installing hardware is easy – even more so than working with some mid-towers....

Despite the 500MHz clock speed advantage the Core i7-4790K produced the same 27GB/s bandwidth of other Core i7 and Core i5 processors, with the exception of the quad-channel LGA2011 Core i7’s. The 14% increase in clock speed gave the Core i7-4790K 6% more L1 bandwidth and 7% more L2 bandwidth than the 4770K, making it the fastest processor we tested.

The Ryzen 7 1800X was 11% slower than the new Core processors while the R5 1600X was 20% slower. Moving to 1080p the margins are again similar though the 7600K does take a much larger dive for the minimum frame rate, and again these figures are based on a three run average. At 1440p the R7 1800X catches up, at least for the minimum frame rate and is now just 7% slower when comparing the average frame rate....

Intel showed off the latest version of its Thunderbolt connection technology on Tuesday. It managed an 80Gbps connection, doubling the bandwidth of the company’s current standard – Thunderbolt 4 – reaching the same output as the recently-announced USB4 Version 2.0. Covering Intel’s Technology Tour 2022, Tom’s Hardware witnessed the demo at the Intel Development Center in Haifa, Israel. There, Intel presented a live video of the 80Gbps connection running dual 40Gbps lanes over a USB-C cable....

According to a new leak, the next-gen successor to Intel’s Phantom Canyon NUC is right around the corner. The Intel NUC 12, codenamed Serpent Canyon, will be significantly smaller than the company’s NUC 12 Extreme kit launched earlier this year. Serpent Canyon will come equipped with a Core i7-12700H CPU featuring six P-cores and eight E-cores, and an Arc A770M GPU, Intel’s flagship mobile card. At least in the CPU department, that’s a massive upgrade compared to its predecessor, which uses a four-core i7-1165G7 and an Nvidia RTX 2060....

The buds feature 10mm dynamic drivers and connect wirelessly via Bluetooth 5.3. They further boast adaptive noise canceling, six microphones for voice calls and come with multiple ear tip sizes to optimize fit. Battery life is rated at up to 10 hours, and the touchscreen case can supply an additional 30 hours of listening time for a combined 40 hours. That’s respectable but nowhere near what Adidas’ recently announced solar-power headphones are capable of....

The HyperX 3K achieved 514.5MB/s in CrystalDiskMark’s sequential read test, more than twice as fast as the SSDNow V+200’s 221.7MB/s. Interestingly, the SSDNow V+200 was slightly slower than the SSDNow V+100 in this test. Kingston’s HyperX 3K continued its solid showing when testing sequential writes. With a throughput of 340MB/s, it was faster than the 520 Series and the original HyperX. Meanwhile, the SSDNow V+200 picked up its slack and managed to outpace the SSDNow V+100....

Kingston has since expanded their SSD range by adding the SSDNow V100 and SSDNow V+100 Series to the mix. They also released a portable 1.8" line called SSDNow V+180 designed for ultra-mobile devices, such as ultra-thin notebooks, netbooks and tablet PCs. While the Kingston SSDNow V+180 Series was just recently released, solid state drives supporting the 1.8" form factor are nothing new. In fact, many products we’ve tested have 1....

Consumer rights champion Alex Neill launched the suit against Sony. As per Sky News, the Japanese giant is accused of breaching competition law by abusing its market power and imposing unfair terms and conditions on game developers and publishers, thereby pushing up the selling price of titles for consumers. The “ripping people off” part of the argument stems from the 30% commission Sony takes from PlayStation Store sales. The cut that companies take from developers who sell titles on their respective stores has long been an area of contention, especially when it comes to Apple, which also charges 30%....

It also unsurprisingly tops the Intel Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK. The NUC also features a 6th gen Intel core processor, i7-6770HQ, however the Core i7-6700 in our Y910 greatly benefits from an improved thermal design which allows for higher boost clock speeds. WinRAR compression is another CPU heavy task. The Y910 is just edged out by the NUC in both single and multi-threaded applications, it’s still much faster than nearly everything else we’ve tested....