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The latest Galaxy S22 handsets will be the main product on show, of course. Now that the Note series seems pretty much dead and buried, we’ve heard rumors that the S22 Ultra variant will include an integrated S-Pen stylus holder, though it is thought to lack expandable SD card storage. We can expect the usual array of upgraded components, too. The S22 and S22 Plus variants, meanwhile, are likely to offer only minor upgrades compared to the previous year’s models....

That exchange kept coming back to me later in the day. “What else would I use?” I wondered. My interest in music developed decades ago but didn’t really solidify until I got my first computer just before the turn of the century. This was right around the time that CD burners and MP3 sharing exploded in popularity, so it should come as little surprise that one of the first programs I downloaded was Winamp....

The new in-app shopping experience is the result of a collaboration between Meta and Indian e-commerce platform JioMart. WhatsApp users in India will now be able to access JioMart through a WhatsApp chat. Founder and CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg revealed the JioMart partnership and integration in a Facebook post earlier today: “Excited to launch our partnership with JioMart in India. This is our first-ever end-to-end shopping experience on WhatsApp....

From AMD we were expecting their 2nd-gen Ryzen CPUs, which didn’t necessarily translate into big improvements but they drove down pricing of 1st gen parts. Then for entry-level gaming, we were a month away from ‘Raven Ridge’, AMD’s Zen based APUs. At a point when getting your hands on a discrete GPU was costly and difficult, the promise of decent integrated graphics couldn’t have come at a better time....

The Windows 8 desktop experience has been polished over Windows 7. Visually, the system appears more responsive than before. I say visually because in our formal testing we discovered that both operating systems tend to perform very closely for the most part. However, Windows 8’s combination of sleeker transitions and no lag between actions make the system appear more responsive, and it does boot up and shut down faster. It’s also better optimized to wake up from sleep than its predecessor, and is meant to make your battery life last longer, though we didn’t test this last part....

The would-be smuggler was a young woman crossing the border between Macau, an independent territory, and Zhuhai, a city in the Guangdong Province near Hong Kong (via mydrivers). She was passing through customs at the Gongbei Port when an official observed her acting strangely. The woman was walking through customs wearing a simple brown maternity dress when an official noticed that her posture was unusual for a pregnant woman (seemingly) in her third trimester....

Developed in partnership with German camera giant Leica, the Xiaomi 12S Ultra Concept looks pretty much identical to the Xiaomi 12S Ultra—it was created alongside that flagship—but this version has a second, one-inch 50.3-megapixel sensor in the middle of the camera island. The extra sensor, which is another Sony IMX989, is placed beneath a circular piece of sapphire glass that the attachable lenses cover. Installing one of the M-series Lecia lens modules, which range from f/1....

Podnews claims to have received a presentation sent by YouTube to podcasters, which lays out upcoming features to support podcasts. They appear designed to facilitate searching for and monetizing podcasts. YouTube currently has dedicated sections for movies, music, and game streaming, but not one for podcasts despite their prevalence there. The presentation slides mention a page dedicated to podcasts at “youtube.com/podcasts,” though that URL doesn’t lead anywhere yet. From there, YouTube may be planning a way to incorporate podcast RSS feeds directly....

Given that the Intel P67 chipset has a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of just 6.1 watts it can get away without any kind of active cooling. Asus has probably included the largest heatsink of any manufacturer over the P67 chip so we expect it to do the job well. The Asus P8P67 Deluxe features even heftier heatsinks on its power circuitry. The larger of the two heatsinks is connected via a heatpipe to another heatsink which is positioned above the primary PCI Express x16 slot where the north bridge chip from a traditional chipset would be located....

The P9X79 Deluxe has extensive multi-GPU support, including 3-way SLI and 4-way CrossfireX. There are four PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, though only three of them are really usable. The second and third slots are placed adjacent to each other, making the third slot too cramped for dual-slot cards. With three cards, the board provides full x16 bandwidth to the primary and secondary GPUs, while the third is limited to x8....

In this article we’ll answer those questions and more, so let’s go over the test system specs, jump into the results, and then break it all down. For this one we’ve got a 24 game benchmark covering the 1080p and 1440p resolutions using both the Radeon RX 6950 XT and 6600 XT, with SAM enabled. The motherboard used for testing is the old MSI B350 Tomahawk using the latest BIOS revision based on the AGESA 1....

If you recall, the GTX 480 and 470 (GF100) launched just eight months before the GTX 580 in March 2010, giving gamers an opportunity to buy a $500 graphics card that could double as a George Foreman grill. With a TDP of 250 watts, the GTX 480 didn’t raise too many eyebrows and around then AMD’s much smaller Radeon HD 5870 was rated at 228 watts while its dual-GPU 5970 smoked most power supplies with its 294 watt rating....

In my testing, it’s pretty much a slam dunk victory to the Acer Predator X27. Both panels have equivalent HDR performance, but it’s the Acer model that comes with better factory calibration and a more uniform panel, delivering a professional grade experience that the Asus variant doesn’t quite reach. When you’re spending $2,000, you should be getting professional-level accuracy, and of the two variants, only the Acer model is truly providing that out of the box....

Predator monitors (CG48, X32 and X32 FP) The Predator CG48 gaming monitor comes with a sizeable 48-inch OLED panel that offers 4K resolution with a 138Hz refresh rate. Acer is targeting PC and console owners with this monitor, who can take advantage of its 1 x HDMI 2.1, 3 x HDMI 2.0, 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 ports, as well as 4 x USB 3.2 and 1 x USB-C. Acer claims a 0....

Nintendo Origins While local rivals Sony and Sega can trace their origins back to the 1940s, Nintendo was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi way back on September 23, 1889, in Kyoto, Japan. Nintendo started as a manufacturer of a card game called Hanafuda, which means ‘flower cards’. The company was originally called Nintendo Koppai, the second part meaning ‘cards’ or ‘playing cards’ when read as Karuta. Nintendo’s first office. Kyoto, 1889 Nintendo’s Hanafuda became very popular, and their eventual use in gambling attracted the attention of the Yakuza crime organization....

Alienware has also succeeded, mostly, in getting the performance of the Alpha up to scratch. The combination of a Core i3 processor, dedicated mid-range graphics, and 4 GB of RAM is quite good for the entry level system. Unfortunately the 5,400 RPM hard drive is a major performance bottleneck, essentially requiring a manual SSD upgrade to improve load times and stutter in some games. Despite the issues with hard drive performance, generally speaking you’ll see overall system performance better than that of the current generation consoles....

Last week brought news that Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, had been accused of laundering Bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex exchange six years ago. The 119,756 Bitcoin stolen in 2016 was worth about $61 million at the time but would be closer to $4.5 billion today. Last week, the DoJ seized about 94,000 of the stolen BTC valued at roughly $3.6 billion. Federal agents were able to access the wallet containing the stolen Bitcoin in January after decrypting a file saved to Lichtenstein’s cloud storage account that contained 2,000 wallet addresses and their private keys....

OMNIBUS PETITION TO QUASH OR LIMIT CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMANDS by C. S. Jeffrey on Scribd The broad scope and complexity of the inquiries led the legal team to conclude that no witnesses could be reasonably prepared to help in the discovery process in individual hearings. Thus, the FTC’s CIDs only amount to the harassment of staff. Whether the motion to quash will be granted remains to be seen. These challenges are routine in situations like this and often only buy the defendant more time to prepare....

There was a very minimal difference between the three A75 boards in x264 HD Benchmark 4.0, especially when comparing the data from the second pass test. Nonetheless, the F1A75-V did win both tests closely followed by the A75-UD4H and then the A75 Extreme6. The F1A75-V and A75-UD4H took roughly the same amount of time in the TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress conversion test, while Asrock’s board was noticeably slower taking around 10 seconds longer to complete the task....

The most expensive models cost just $120 and $123: the A75-UD4H, which we have here today, and the A75-D3H. The A75-UD4H appears to offer the best value. That $3 nets you a superior PCI Express x16 configuration (x16 and x8 bandwidth on the full size slots versus x16 and x4), as well as a DisplayPort output and two additional USB 3.0 ports. Considering Gigabyte’s A75-UD4H is $10 cheaper than the Asrock and Asus A75 motherboards, it’s expected that some features will be missing....