To test the USB 3.0 performance we have the Patriot Supersonic Magnum, the fastest USB 3.0 thumb drive that we know of. In the future, we will replace it with a 2.5’ USB 3.0 SSD, but for now the Supersonic Magnum what we have. As you can see, the Z97 boards all provided similar results. Using the RightMark Audio Analyzer, we tested the dynamic range using 24-bit/192Hz. The three Z97 boards all produced similar results....
Streamers such as Netflix saw their profits and user numbers explode in 2020 as people were forced to stay indoors during the global lockdowns. At one point, Netflix’s market cap was higher than Disney’s, though the latter is now worth more than double its streaming competitor ($88 billion vs. $210 billion). But barring China, lockdowns are over and many people have returned to normal working life—which most aren’t happy about....
Making use of standard commands that can otherwise be performed with regular touch input may seem like an inconvenience for some, but there are some hidden tricks buried within Siri for you to discover that are not accessible from any other apps. The list above presents you with most practical applications for Siri. Here’s a more thorough list of things Siri manages to do well most of the time:...
Of course, there are some tradeoffs that also help bring the price down. Although the One mini includes an Ultrapixel camera, it doesn’t have optical image stabilization; and despite the body mostly being formed from aluminum, some plastic has crept into the design. For the more technically minded, HTC has also dropped down the SoC from a Snapdragon 600 to a Snapdragon 400, which naturally will affect its performance. But will HTC’s tradeoffs have too much of an effect on the overall product, keeping it from being a great 4....
It all starts with the camera. The HTC U11 contains an outstanding rear camera, in my opinion the second best on the market after only the Google Pixel. Yep, that’s right: HTC, a company who couldn’t produce a half decent camera for years, has smashed competition from Samsung, LG and even Apple with the U11. Whether you’re indoors or outdoors, in good lighting or at night, the U11 takes fantastic photographs assisted by OIS and an excellent automatic HDR mode....
As reported by Entracker, the new national directive from India’s Computer Emergency Response Team, known as CERT-in, is an attempt “to coordinate response activities as well as emergency measures with respect to cyber security incidents.” Companies, including the VPN providers, must record customers’ names, usage patterns, contact information, validated IP and physical addresses, and the purpose for which they are hiring the services. Another part of the directive states that companies must keep customer information even after they cancel their accounts or subscriptions....
The new titles, teased by a Call of Duty blog community update, will use a brand new game engine developed by Infinity Ward (IW). The new engine’s design provides better integration between the primary CoD and Warzone titles, which has been a continuous struggling point for developers. The new game engine will enable IW to create content across a common platform and establish a solid foundation for what the company describes as “a new Warzone experience....
An alternative of sorts were the Gigabyte B660M DS3H and B660M D3H, both of which suffered from weak performing VRMs that heavily limit CPU performance beyond the Core i5-12400, and therefore don’t offer much of an upgrade path. The Gigabyte boards do offer solid feature sets though, so if all you require is up to Core i5-12400 performance, and for whatever reason never plan to upgrade, then they are viable options, but not worth saving a mere $20 in our opinion....
The Core i5-11600K is priced at $270, while a decent Z590 motherboard can be had for around $200, resulting in a total cost of $470. The Ryzen 5 5600X is overpriced at $300, but you can pair it with a decent B550 board for a total cost of $440, making it not only faster, but also cheaper. As we discussed in our review not so long ago, even cheaper is the previous-gen Core i5-10600K for $220, which can be paired with a decent Z490 board for $180, resulting in a total cost of $400, though I’d argue for $40 more the Ryzen option remains a better deal....
The 13500 is an interesting processor. When compared to the 13600K you get the same 6 P-Cores with Hyper-Threading support for 12 threads, but where the 13600K cores clock as high as 5.1 GHz, the 13500 is capped to 4.8 GHz. The big change is to the P-cores, where the L2 cache has been downgraded from 2 MB to 1.25 MB, which is the same capacity as Alder Lake CPUs, while the K-SKU Raptor Lake parts all received a 2 MB upgrade which does help boost performance....
As we’ve discussed at length in our desktop Alder Lake reviews, this hybrid approach has been reasonably effective on desktop machines, but the dual architecture approach should really come alive in constrained form factors like laptops, where power consumption and efficiency are key. The Alder Lake H-series targets high performance laptops, while also bringing a range of new platform advantages, including DDR5 support, a beefier Xe integrated GPU and other connectivity improvements....
Like all Sandy Bridge-E processors it supports quad-channel DDR3-1600 memory. However unlike some Extreme Edition models, the new Core i7 3960X receives a massive 15MB L3 cache which is shared across all six cores. The 3960X sticks to the conventional Extreme Edition pricing with a MSRP of $990. Under the Core i7-3960X we have the more reasonably priced Core i7-3930K at $555. With a base clock of 3.2GHz across six cores it can scale up to 3....
Intel VP Lisa Pearce recently said that the company would announce/release the first Arc Alchemist GPUs on Wednesday, March 30. One of team blue’s senior engineers, Bob Duffy, took to YouTube to showcase the new hardware’s abilities inside of Blender. Most of the video isn’t explicitly about the GPU, but it implies some cool things. First up, Blender is being updated with a new hardware acceleration setting designed explicitly for Arc GPUs....
The refresh will be the first for the iPad Pro line in roughly one and a half years. All variants of the current generation iPad Pro utilize the M1 chip, which is comprised of an eight-core CPU (four performance cores and four efficiency cores) alongside an eight-core GPU and a 16-core Neural Engine. The slate can be configured with either 8GB or 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of onboard storage....
According to Apple’s fine print, iPadOS 16 is compatible with “iPad (5th generation and later), iPad mini (5th generation and later), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), and all iPad Pro models.” That’s a pretty decent range for the cutting-edge OS. However, it’s also slightly misleading because a few of its most exciting new features are only compatible with tablets equipped with the M1 chip, which eliminates any iPad made before 2021....
While many would welcome the opportunity to experience the reduced gravitational effects of an environment like the Moon or Mars, research has shown that it can have a negative impact on things like bone strength. We also don’t know what sort of impact gravity would play on giving birth in space, or how a child raised in a low gravity environment would handle coming to Earth. The Moon’s gravitational force is about 16....
A new report from security company Kaspersky reveals that eight of the most active ransomware gangs operate with very similar patterns. Analysis, digital forensics specialists, and other security workers could use these similarities to identify and fight these attackers more efficiently. The report analyzes the tactics, techniques, and procedures of (TTP) of the ransomware groups Conti/Ryuk, Pysa, Clop (TA505), Hive, Lockbit 2.0, RagnarLocker, BlackByte, and BlackCat. VentureBeat notes that these eight gangs have attacked over 500 organizations in various industries in the US, the UK, and Germany in the last year....
The company jumped on the gaming peripheral bandwagon in 2014, launching the well regarded HyperX Cloud headset with others following since. Kingston is now ready to take their next step into gaming peripherals with the HyperX Alloy FPS mechanical keyboard. At this point, I’ve lost count of the different brands peddling mechanical gaming keyboards. Late last year we looked at over a dozen of the best affordable options and since then dozens more have appeared on the market....
As usual, the new Ada Lovelace rumor comes from the Twitter account of prolific and accurate (when it came to Ampere) leaker Kopite7kimi (via VideoCardz). They posted what are claimed to be updated specs for the RTX 4080, with the significant changes relating to the memory speed and the card’s TDP. It had been expected that the RTX 4070, 4080, and 4090 would use 21 Gbps GDDR6X modules—they were mentioned in this month’s update on Micron’s website—but the RTX 4080 is now thought to feature 23 Gbps speeds....
On Thursday, Epic Games and Lego announced a long-term partnership to make a metaverse for children. The companies plan to create a safer and more fun virtual environment for families and kids of all ages. Specific details are still under wraps. The press release only mentions that the digital experience will provide tools for kids, allowing them to create and develop worlds in a safe environment. The Epic-Lego experience will follow three core principles to ensure it’s safe and engaging for children:...
