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Crucial BX500 4TB 2.5 inch SSD Review
SSD |The BX500 4TB drive behaves as expected for a QLC drive and presents the same shortcomings as the P310 drive, meaning that we have a considerably lower TBW versus TLC NAND and a very low write speed when writing directly to QLC, between 10MB/s and 20MB/s, basically lower than regular HDDs.
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Silicon Power QS58 20000 mAh Power Bank Review
The QS58 power bank from Silicon Power comes in handy when you need to recharge multiple devices from a single source, while being packed with a lot of safety technologies. The remaining charge is displayed via a simple 4-LED display and can be easily taken with you on flights, complying with IATA regulations.
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Patriot Viper Venom 32GB (2X16GB) 7000MT/s Memory Kit Review
Memory |The non-RGB version of the Viper Venom DDR5-7000 memory kit runs great on Intel platforms and compatibility is assured with many motherboards thanks to the inclusion of no less than 3 XMP 3.0 profiles. 32GB of installed RAM is becoming mainstream to be able to handle lots of game launchers in the background, browser tabs and games…
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Shuttle XPC nano NA10H7 Barebone Review
The AMD-based NA10H7 barebone from Shuttle has impressed us quite a bit thanks to the Ryzen 7 8845HS APU which can pack quite a punch with the 8-thread APU, for a total of 16 threads with HT and the integrated AMD Radeon 780 GPU, which is around the dedicated Radeon RX 470 dedicated GPU in terms of…
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Razer Huntsman V3 Pro Gaming Keyboard Review
As the SteelSeries Apex PRO Gen 3, Huntsman V3 Pro is the ultimate keyboard for competitive gamers, integrating the latest technologies such as adjustable actuation, Razer Snap Tap, Rapid Trigger Mode and direct integration with controller buttons. The actuation force is lighter than with the well-known CHERRY MX Reds for a faster reaction speed, while the PBT…
Latest News from around the web
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GloFo touts 22FDX success with $2 billion of design win revenue
While our enthusiasm for process technology tends to be laser-focused on leading-edge nodes like Intel and GlobalFoundries’ 14-nm FinFET technologies, not every chip demands the highest-performance digital logic possible. Pure-play fabs like GlobalFoundries offer a range of process tech to best accommodate customer designs, and the firm announced today that its 22FDX technology, or 22-nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator process, has cleared $2 billion of “client design win revenue” across more than 50 products.
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Uber will let users rent Lime scooters through its app
Lime is teaming up with Uber to let you rent electric scooters through the ridesharing giant’s app. Uber is also investing in Lime as part of a $335 million funding round led by Google parent company Alphabet’s venture capital arm GV that takes Lime…
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Dell’s New Line of Gaming Laptops Are Cheaper and More Powerful
Dell has announced the availability of the Dell G3 15 and Dell G7 15, 15-inch Windows 10 gaming laptops. Revealed in conjunction with its support of Marvel Studio’s Ant-Man and The Wasp film in a screening in Singapore, it was launched under Dell’s new Dell G Series which has been rebranded from its Inspiron Gaming…
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Instax Share SP-3 Printer Review
I personally love the idea of a compact mobile printer. We all use our phones to take pictures every time something special comes up, and physical photos are always extra meaningful. But to do that you have to go through a computer, get the photo paper, cut it out. Ugh, right? Good news is there…
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Tencent is bringing its music division to the US
Tencent’s push onto American entertainment is going beyond gaming and movies. Now the Chinese conglomerate will bring its Tencent Music Entertainment division to domestic shores, as spotted by TechCrunch. Over the weekend, the company announced (PDF)…
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Nissan Titan Surfcamp is a beach house on wheels
Remember the Nissan Smokin’ Titan unveiled this spring? That concept combined a Nissan Titan XD with some proper BBQ capabilities. While barbecue is certainly a summer staple, Nissan has also rolled out another summertime special:…
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Jaden Smith’s latest album is only available on Instagram
Whatever you think of Jaden Smith’s music, you have to give him credit for finding new ways to capture listeners’ attention. The budding rapper has debuted SYRE: The Electric Album, a reinterpretation of his album from last year, solely through Insta…
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Marvell Completes Acquisition of Cavium
Marvell on Friday announced that it had completed its takeover of Cavium. The combined company will have a broad portfolio of IP and patents that promise to enable the combined company to grow as new types of compute workloads emerge in the coming years. In particular, Marvell gains processing capabilities along with a number of other assets. However the company yet has to make it as far as developing a comprehensive roadmap that takes advantage of all assets.
As reported in November, Marvell had to offer approximately $5.5 billion for outstanding shares of Cavium and absorb Cavium’s debt of approximately $637.6 million, which brought the value of the transaction to over $6.1 billion. For a rather hefty sum of money, Marvell obtained a developer of ARM and MIPS-based SoCs for network, video, security, storage connectivity, server, and other applications. Essentially, the company transformed itself from a developer of storage controllers (HDD, SSD, RAID, etc.), networking and connectivity solutions into a corporation with a much greater potential.
Marvell now pins a lot of hopes on such applications as AI, 5G, and Cloud & Edge computing. It is particularly noteworthy that in its letter to customers, the company even put processing ahead of storage when describing its new portfolio of products.
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Building the perfect machine in ‘Opus Magnum’
I’m not sure how Opus Magnum passed me by when it came to Steam Early Access last year. All I know is that I saw a split-second of it in a YouTube video a few weeks ago and have been obsessed since.
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Timehop admits attacker stole 21 million users’ data
Timehop, a popular app that reminds you of your social media posts from the same day in past years, is the latest service to suffer a data breach. The attacker struck on July 4th, and grabbed a database which included names and/or usernames along wit…
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The largest-ever solid rocket engine is ready for its first static fire
This week, the European Space Agency (ESA) will perform a hot fire test on the P120C rocket engine. It is the largest-ever solid rocket motor ever built in one piece. The ESA plans to use it on the Vega rocket, replacing the current first stage boost…
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Japan is spending years making one train line a minute faster
The efficiency of Japan’s bullet trains are a modern marvel, and now JR East, the East Japan Railway Company, wants to increase it even further. The company began a two-year construction project that will get passengers from Ueno to Omiya an entire o…
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Google Assistant brings voice control to Dish Hoppers
Dish launched Alexa support for its Hopper and Wally set-top boxes last year, so the devices can already do your bidding with just a spoken command. Now, the satellite TV provider is giving you another voice control option: one that should make you h…
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The HP EX920 M.2 SSD Review: Finding the Mainstream Sweet Spot
Historically, HP has not been a big player in the consumer storage market. Recently however, the HP brand has been used for several SSDs based on reference designs for Silicon Motion’s SSD controllers. The HP EX920 SSD puts Silicon Motion’s high-end NVMe SSD controller into a drive that is far cheaper than other flagship NVMe SSDs. The EX920 can’t always match the performance of the fastest drives on the market, but it comes close enough for a much lower price. As a result, the drive has a very solid foothold as the mainstream NVMe SSD to beat.
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Samsung opens the world’s biggest smartphone facility in India
As the world’s biggest consumer electronics maker, Samsung is constantly expanding its manufacturing operations across the world. Today, it formally opened the doors on its latest development in the Indian city of Noida, a facility the company claims…
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Waze will provide its traffic data to US cities
Waze’s real-time, crowdsourced info will soon do a lot more than help you avoid traffic jams. The Google-owned company is widening a partnership with Esri to provide its live alerts for free to American cities and municipalities that are part of its…
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Google’s summer sale cuts Home Max and Pixel 2 XL prices
Google is trimming the prices of some of its most desirable products under the guise of a summer blowout sale. The company’s official store is discounting its flagship smartphone, the Pixel 2 XL, knocking $100 off the price of both the 64GB and 128GB…
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HBO must ‘change direction’ to flourish, says its new boss
With 42 million US subscribers, almost six billion dollars in profit over the past three years, and 29 Primetime Emmy Awards in 2017 alone, it goes without saying HBO is doing something right. But according to AT&T executive and newly enthroned W…
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LibreOffice for Haiku, a not-so-short story
And so Amiga/BeOS/Atari day continues! We’ve already reported that LibreOffice now runs on Haiku, so here’s a recap on the long road it has taken Haiku developers to get it working.
As many of you are already aware, LibreOffice is now available on Haiku. This has been a long journey that has started for me around 2014, when I was looking for things I could do for the project. LibreOffice port was one of those things. It seemed to need so much effort, most people didn’t even want to start. That’s understandable given people were busy developing the OS. However, it’s not the first time someone tried to do it.
I’m a bit of a spoil-sport here in that I’m not a particular fan of ports, and as an old BeOS user I greatly prefer software that’s been developed exclusively for BeOS/Haiku. At the same time, I obviously realise that’s simply not realistic for complex software packages such as office suits, and as such, relying on LibreOffice is by far the most optimal tradeoff in making sure Haiku can be used for office tasks. -
Microsoft’s $400 surface tablet might be here soon
Cleared FCC approval
Microsoft’s $400 Surface tablet, codenamed Libra, has cleared FCC approval and could be with us soon.
The Surface device is expected to arrive with different processor variants and a high end version with a Pentium 4415Y. The tablet showed up on a leaked OpenCL benchmark, possibly confirming some of the already rumored specs.
An official document leaked by a Reddit user indicates that the device might possibly be launched this week, along with a new Type Cover. It cites the date “7/13” for the unveiling of the upcoming products on the Store. This means that the Surface tablet will possibly be available for purchase by this Friday.
With reports of the tech giant working on a less powerful device, and an apparent delay in the launching of Microsoft’s highly popular – albeit unconfirmed – Surface Andromeda device, it seems quite likely that the tablet is officially announced soon. The supposed date of release does coincide with previous reports that the relatively cheaper Surface device is targeting the student market; it makes sense to launch the tablet before the back-to-school season begins in September.