In our standard video playback test that we’ve been performing for a number of years, the Agora 4G records a very respectable score of 10 hours. This places it in the company of the HTC One M8 and LG G3 flagships, with battery life 32% better than the 2013 Moto G, and just a few minutes behind the HTC Desire 816, which is also powered by a Snapdragon 400 SoC...
GoTo, the company formerly know as LogMeIn that acquired LastPass in 2021, released a new statement regarding the security breach it experienced back in August 2022. According to GoTo CEO Paddy Srinivasan, after breaching LasPass servers, the unknown cyber-criminals were able to further compromise GoTo’s entire portfolio of services and products. The ongoing investigation into the LastPass breach determined “a threat actor exfiltrated encrypted backups from a third-party cloud storage service,” Srinivasan wrote....
Lenovo’s ThinkVantage Toolbox is included with the X100e which acts as a hub for items like system health, security, performance, networking and diagnostics. The software is resourceful and easy to navigate but may not be for everyone. The X100e also has a neat hard drive protection system. Dubbed Active Protection System, the software monitors for physical shock and disables the drive when excessive force is detected to prevent damage to the spinning internals....
For example, about two years ago we reviewed the powerful Synology Disk Station DS-409+ which cost a cool $600 without any hard drives installed. Later on, the QNAP TS-809 Pro surfaced on our radar with a starting price of $1,700, which is considerably more than most spend on their primary PC. More recently we checked out the Synology Disk Station DS410j, which is a value oriented 4-bay NAS device, but it was still $370 and we estimated at the time that adding four 1TB hard drives could balloon the total cost to $700....
The random read and write SiSoftware Sandra results were also quite good as the LG N2A2 trailed the Promise Technology SmartStor NS4600 by a small margin. With a random write throughput of 25MB/s, the N2A2 won’t blow your socks off (this isn’t much faster than a USB 2.0 hard drive), but given its price we are still happy with its performance. The network throughput test reported a bandwidth of 55MB/s....
The good news is that, for the most part, the V30’s graphics capabilities are not affected by the weaker CPU performance. It’s only in CPU limited situations that I observed lower-than-expected graphics performance, and that’s in benchmarks like 3DMark Ice Storm and GFXBench T-Rex. In more intensive workloads where the GPU is the limiting factor, we get the expected performance of the Adreno 540. In real world gaming scenarios, most games that would be CPU limited are already running at 60 FPS, which is the refresh rate limit of the display....
Sound project Cities and Memory established a website on Monday where visitors can listen to recordings of things not commonly heard these days. These include old technology like tape recorders, phones, computers, video games, and more. The project aims to pique users’ nostalgia and preserve sounds that are in danger of disappearing because they come from devices no longer in use. The site organizes the sounds into categories such as cameras, video games, typewriters, and appliances, among others....
Inside, the cabin is sectioned off into first- and second-row areas. It’s all premium, of course, with wraparound seating, 3D-printed metal latticework on the A- and D-pillars and full-on recliners in the rear complete with compartments to store your in-vehicle slippers. There’s even an integrated glass beverage chiller tucked between the rear seats. Up front, drivers will have access to an advanced digital assistant called Lincoln Intelligent System that can understand and act on commands such as “Help Me See” and Park for Me....
As reported by MyDrivers (via VideoCardz), a man named Zeng entered China on March 9 through customs’ Nothing To Declare channel at the travel inspection site of Gongbei Port. Officials noticed he was walking with an unusual posture and stopped him for inspection. It turned out that the man had taped 160 CPUs and 16 folding phones to the inner side of his calf, his waist, and his abdomen, which would give anyone an unusual gait....
Using the very high quality settings at 1680x1050 shows just how demanding this game can be on the GPU as it took the GeForce GTX 570 to average over 60fps at this relatively low resolution. Those hoping to exceed 60fps will require a GeForce GTX 570 or Radeon HD 7870. Again the Radeon HD 7970 was found to be just slightly faster than the old GeForce GTX 580 while the new GeForce GTX 600 series cards were unstoppable....
Reports claim that Meta plans to introduce various virtual “coins, tokens, and lending services” to its apps moving forward – just in time for the nebulous VR-based “Metaverse” concept that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and co are attempting to popularize. One virtual currency, in particular, has been nicknamed “Zuck Bucks” within Meta, according to a report from Ars Technica. The outlet’s sources say the currency won’t be Libra 2.0 but will instead be a non-blockchain token that would be fully controlled by Meta....
If you want a faster processor, Microsoft will sell you one with an Intel Core i7-6600U, which features two cores, four threads clocked at 2.6 GHz with a Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz (single core) or 3.2 GHz (dual core). There’s 4 MB of L3 cache in this model, and a HD 520 GPU at 1050 MHz. Both the Core i7 and Core i5 CPUs have a rated TDP of 15W, are built on a 14nm FinFET process....
The front camera is a 5-megapixel sensor with an f/2.2 lens. Both cameras support 1080p video recording at 30 FPS, and the rear camera is paired with an LED flash. As this is an entry-level device, there are no fancy features like optical image stabilization or laser-assisted autofocus. Despite the decrease in resolution and a move from Sony to OmniVision as a sensor vendor, the Moto G4 Play still provides a great camera at the price point....
Buttons include left and right click buttons, clickable scroll wheel, three buttons beneath the scroll wheel used to adjust the DPI on-the-fly, and two recessed silver buttons on either side of the mouse. The DPI speeds are preset at 400, 800 and 2,000 from bottom to top. The currently selected DPI button is illuminated with a subtle red status LED. The scroll wheel has a decent grip, a nice tactical feel and is easy to depress....
Among the new laptops that several manufacturers unveiled at CES 2023 this week are a few from MSI that introduce PCIe 5.0 SSDs to notebooks. The company has several models, but only the top-end variants support the cutting-edge storage standard. These include the new flagship Titan GT77 HX and two new Raider models. The Titan features two slots for PCIe 4 SSDs and a third for PCIe 5. The new Vector, Stealth, Katana, Pulse, Sword, and Cyborg laptops support PCIe 4 only....
Overall build quality could be better. The frame of the system is all plastic, and then there is the mushy keyboard, which certainly could use some work. The magnets used to keep the lid down when it is closed were a nice touch, though, and the sound on this system works very well despite the odd speaker placement. Battery life on the X-Slim X340 was impressive at 8 hours and 14 minutes, sitting idle at the desktop with 50% brightness....
Once in the Cell Menu the user is ambushed with loads of tweakable settings, lots of readouts and statistical information. The first sub-menu states virtually every specification regarding the processor, which can come handy. The ability to adjust the base clock and clock multiplier is there, while you can also easily make changes to the QPI configuration. The X58 Pro-E also offers an impressive amount of information and adjustable memory options....
Elon Musk’s bid to take Twitter private has unanimous support from Twitter’s board. Now everyone is busy debating the future of the social platform under the new leadership, his motivations behind the move, and even his sincerity in protecting free speech. Beyond the ground-level realization that one of Twitter’s most avid (and controversial) users is the sole owner of the platform, there are several regulatory hurdles the company will need to overcome in the coming months and years....
Two things make this article different from all those others. First, I’ve been without my device for over a month now, not a week. And second, I didn’t choose to go this long without my phone, it was taken from me – in a way. Note: This feature was originally published on 05/09/2016. We have bumped it as part of our #ThrowbackThursday initiative because reading about someone else’s pain of going without a smartphone for a month is way cooler than going through it yourself....
Tudum, named after the first global fan event in September, arrived in early December as a Netflix companion site. It features exclusive content related to the streaming service, such as if a series has been renewed (it probably hasn’t), when it is coming out, trivia about shows, and a lot more. But Deadline reports that as part of a restructuring of Netflix’s marketing department, 25 positions at the company have been eliminated, most of which came from Tudum—ten members of staff were reportedly laid off from the site....
