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Google announced that Play Store apps would begin displaying “Data Safety” information starting this week. The privacy sheets looks much like the App Privacy sections for Apple apps. Google Play app pages must start including this information by July 20. The tech giant is trying to make its safety information pages more informative than Apple’s. Since late 2020, pages for apps on Apple’s platforms have included what the company calls “privacy nutrition labels....

As usual we’ll be looking at how sales of those cards are going, how they have affected the broader GPU market, and a few things to think about if you are interested in buying a new graphics card right now. Nvidia RTX 40 Series Sales Update What we talked about in last month’s update regarding Nvidia’s new GPUs is still true in December. The GeForce RTX 4090 remains in strong demand and depending on your region can be a little difficult to purchase right now....

A hacktivist group calling itself Obfuscated Dreams of Scheherazade has created a bot that sets up a conference call between multiple government entities, causing each to think the other one made the call. The stated purpose is to waste the government’s time and tie up the phone lines. The automated spam calls go on non-stop during Russian operating hours. On Wednesday, the hacking group set up a website where anybody can initiate and listen in on one of these calls....

If you don’t want to go through all that hassle then DNS redirectors pose an interesting alternative. Basically you’ll be able watch locked content on multiple devices – even simultaneously – simply by changing the DNS server settings on your computer, console, router, or a number of supported devices. It’s not entirely clear to me how it works (the explanations I’ve read from these services include the words “magic” and “secret sauce”) but in a nutshell they create a network tunnel from your location to a remote server usually in the US or UK, so it appears that requests actually originate from those countries....

Today we’ll looking more closely at the first Snapdragon 835 device running Windows: the HP Envy x2. Having now used this tablet for a few weeks, there’s a lot of things HP did well to make this a hardware experience to rival the Microsoft Surface. And then on the other hand, they were probably a bit let down by the performance of x86 emulation on ARM processors. The key piece of hardware in the Envy x2 is the Snapdragon SoC, however HP has packed in several other decent components....

Two dozen mice later, today I’ll be looking at something completely different than anything else I’ve used to date. HP’s new Wi-Fi Mobile Mouse cuts the cord and eliminates the need for a USB dongle or Bluetooth radio. This small pointer connects to your notebook’s wireless connection with a proclaimed 9-month battery life. The ambidextrous HP Wi-Fi mouse comes with everything you need to get started: the mouse itself, two AA batteries, a quick start guide and a driver installation disc....

HTC has made full use of the Snapdragon 835’s integrated Snapdragon X16 modem for downstream communications through supporting Category 16 LTE down, aka. Gigabit LTE with up to 4xCA. We’re not seeing 300 Mbps Category 13 upstream, with HTC instead opting for a 75 Mbps implementation. There are several different U11 variants out there, so make sure you get one that gives you full access to your network’s capabilities. As for other connectivity, the U11 supports Wi-Fi 802....

HTML is a markup language for structuring and presenting content on the web. Its latest and still-in-development incarnation adds a variety of elements and attributes that make it easier to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the web without having to resort to proprietary plugins. Three elements and related APIs for media introduced by HTML5 are the audio element, which allows developers to add in-browser audio to a document or application, the video element for in-browser video without the messy embed and object tags, and the canvas element and API that provides a 2D drawing surface which can be used for everything from a simple animation to a complicated game....

Ikea’s Vappeby works simultaneously as a portable Bluetooth speaker and LED lamp. With 360-degree sound and a built-in rechargeable (via USB-C) battery that lasts up to 12 hours, it would make a good companion for overnight camping trips. Available in matte gray or blue with a mushroom-like shape, the Vappeby comes with a handle on the top for use as a lantern. Designed for outdoor use, the Vappeby is IP65-rated, meaning it’s fully resistant to dust while also being able to handle low-power water jets from any direction....

Just as importantly, the idea of streaming media is now embedded in the public conscious: We’ve got Netflix, we’ve got Spotify, so why not games, too? Steam Remote Play lets you run The Medium in any plane of reality Remote game streaming still has a ways to go though: not everyone has gigabit internet, and some amount of latency is unavoidable unless you’re physically close to the servers. But what about in-home streaming?...

A couple years ago In Win amazed us with the D-Frame, an open air chassis that seemed impractical not least because of its $400 price tag, and more recently we found ourselves in awe of the company’s $800 Tòu, a chassis dressed from head to toe in tempered glass. Mid-way through 2014 In Win returned with its S-Frame, another beautiful enclosure that was neither practical nor affordable, which isn’t to say the company lacks a presence in the budget space because it has an extensive range of sub-$100 cases that are caked in plastic....

The camera also features an interchangeable lens design, making it upgradeable down the road. Insta360’s latest additionally affords AI-powered HDR and is IPX3 water resistant. A future software development kit (SDK) release will enable compatibility with platforms like OpenSpace and Matterport, we’re told. Battery life wasn’t mentioned, but we do know it ships with a 1350mAh battery pack. The camera was co-engineered with Leica, one of the most respected brands in imaging....

This left AMD to battle the existing Core 2 series and to their credit they soldiered on with the Phenom II. But trouble is ahead for AMD with the release of the Core i5 750. As things stand today, the Phenom II X4 945 costs around $170, the 955 sells for $199, and the 965 $245. The Core i5 750 is set to launch at $199 and as we anticipated in our review of the Phenom II X4 965, a price cut is in order for AMD to remain competitive....

The reason is simple: the 2nd generation Ryzen processors will become available very soon and builders are well aware of this. So in an effort to drive sales of 1st-gen parts, the discount campaign began. At this point though we recommend you wait a few weeks before making any CPU purchases and then re-evaluate your options. So why bother with this comparison at all? Well, for a few reasons. Before the incoming 2nd-gen Ryzen parts arrive this will let us establish how AMD and Intel currently stack up with all the latest Windows updates, BIOS updates, driver updates and new motherboards we have on hand, giving us an up to date reference point for the new CPUs....

Testing BioShock at 1440x900 using the low quality setting saw the Core i7-5775C average 64.2fps, making it 7% faster than the A10-7870K and 113% faster than the i7-4790K. This time when testing with Dragon Age: Inquisition the Core i7-5775C was 27% faster than the A10-7870K and 95% faster than the Core i7-4790K. The Core i7-5775C lead the A10-7870K by a 10% margin at 1440x900, while it was 42% faster than the Core i7-4790K....

As expected the memory bandwidth performance of the Core i7-5775C is comparable to the higher clocked Core i7-4790K at 29.5GB/s. The L2 and L3 cache performance of the Core i7-5775C is considerably slower than the i7-4790K for the simple fact that it is clocked a lot lower. Here we see a 17% reduction in L2 bandwidth and a 23% reduction in L3 bandwidth. Keep in mind the maximum operating frequency of the i7-5775C is 16% lower than the i7-4790K....

Despite being heavily GPU bound the Core i7-5960X was able to offer an extra frame here and there over other high-end CPUs such as the 4960X and 4790K.

Unfortunately, Intel didn’t give us a proper heads up that Broadwell-E was coming, so we weren’t able to arrange the necessary hardware in time. This is also why our review is a few days late. However as things stand, the 6950X isn’t a particularly great overclocker based on others’ findings. Quite a bit of extra voltage is required to hit a stable 4.3GHz. That’s still a 43% boost over the base clock and will no doubt result in a good amount of extra performance....

The Core i9-10900K is a 10-core, 20-thread processor sporting a base frequency of 3.7 GHz and a single core turbo of 5.3 GHz using Intel’s new Thermal Velocity Boost. When compared to its predecessor, the 9900K, the L3 cache size has increased from 16 MB to 20 MB and the TDP has increased from 95w up to 125w. Also like the 9900K, the 10900K has the same $488 MSRP, though there are a few issues with this and we’ll address those towards the end of the review, for now we’re sure you’d rather we got to the benchmarks as quickly as possible....

As the launch of Intel’s new 13th-generation Raptor Lake processor approaches, more and more benchmarks and leaks are finding their way online. Recently Extreme Player, a popular content creator on the Chinese social media site Bilibili, got his hands on a Qualification Sample of Intel’s flagship processor, the Core i9-13900KF. Extreme Player tested the new processor against Intel’s powerhouse Alder Lake i9-12900KF processors. He wanted to observe how the processor handled liquid-cooled overclocking....