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Coronavirus: 'Government must publish contact-tracing app data'
A leading health charity is demanding details about how England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests. The app is due to launch on Thursday. It has been trialled in the London Borough of Newham as well as the Isle of Wight, but data from from the pilots has not been made public. The Health Foundation said it was particularly concerned the tech could exacerbate existing inequalitie ... Read more
2020-09-22 20:49:51
Dell Quietly Slashes Price of the 4K 120Hz OLED Alienware 55 Monitor by $1000
Dell was the first company to unveil a large-format gaming display — the Alienware 55 — based on an OLED panel back at CES 2019. It just so happens that Dell appears to be the first maker to slash pricing of such a product, too. The Alienware 55 uses a 55-inch OLED panel featuring a 4K resolution, 400 nits peak brightness, a 130,000:1 contrast ratio, a 0.5 ms gray-to-gray response time, as well ... Read more
2020-09-22 03:34:11
Mobvoi TicWatch 3 Pro is coming in three days with Wear OS
Mobvoi launched a new TicWatch GTX last week that may have left some drooling over the price but dissatisfied over its features. For those still wishing for a formidable Wear OS smartwatch won’t have to wait long. The company has already confirmed that the TicWatch 3 Pro is landing this week and, if the leaks are correct, it could yet again be one of the more notable if not the most notable ... Read more
2020-09-22 03:34:11
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT specs: Navi 21 GPU with 16GB could cost $499
I’m knee deep in reviewing NVIDIA’s new GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards, and now the RTX 3090 to have a day one review, but the world hasn’t stopped. We now have some new rumored specs on the AMD’s next-gen Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card, where Rogame tweets it will be powered by the Navi 21 GPU and have 16GB of GDDR6 memory. The 16GB of GDDR6 memory is coming from Samsun ... Read more
2020-09-22 03:30:54
Samsung launches Odyssey G7 T1 Faker Edition gaming monitor in South Korea
Samsung had unveiled its Odyssey series of gaming monitors earlier this year at CES 2020. The lineup consisted of the Odyssey G7 and the Odyssey G9, featuring curved QLED VA displays, a 240Hz refresh rate, HDR, 1ms GTG response time, and G-Sync. The company has announced today that it has launched a special edition version of the Odyssey G7, which is inspired by T1’s star League of Legends player ... Read more
2020-09-22 03:30:54
Microsoft buys Fallout creator Bethesda for $7.5bn
Xbox-owner Microsoft has acquired the games company behind blockbuster titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim and Wolfenstein. It is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda's parent ZeniMax Media. Xbox has said that the publisher's franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs. This could help make the forthcoming Xbox Series X more attractive than the PlaySt ... Read more
2020-09-21 21:20:46
WeChat: Judge blocks US attempts to ban downloads of Chinese app
A judge has blocked a US government attempt to ban the Chinese messaging and payments app, WeChat. US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the ban raised serious questions related to the constitution's first amendment, guaranteeing free speech. The Department of Commerce had announced a bar on WeChat appearing in US app stores from Sunday, effectively shutting it down. The Trump administration h ... Read more
2020-09-20 20:47:57
TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours
TikTok and WeChat will be banned from US app stores from Sunday, unless President Donald Trump agrees to a last-minute deal. The Department of Commerce said it would bar people in the US from downloading the messaging and video-sharing apps through any app store on any platform. The Trump administration says the companies threaten national security and could pass user data to China. But C ... Read more
2020-09-18 21:17:01
HP EliteBook 840 G7 First Impressions
The new HP EliteBook 840 could be the perfect business-class laptop for the pandemic, with better performance and efficiency. It can even withstand being sanitized with normal household wipes. As some of you may know, I’ve long been a fan of HP’s EliteBook series, but I haven’t actually reviewed one since last year: That was the EliteBook x360 1040 G5, a convertible laptop that is among the very ... Read more
2020-09-18 03:11:58
TicWatch Pro 3 listing confirms specs, dual-display, new health features for the Wear OS watch
Last month an early retail listing confirmed the presence of Mobvoi’s upcoming TicWatch Pro 3. Now, another retail listing for the TicWatch Pro 3 has confirmed nearly all of the specs and features of the upcoming Wear OS smartwatch. Here’s what we know. A listing on Malaysian retail Shopee (since removed, pictured below) gives us perhaps our best look at the TicWatch Pro 3 with several images of ... Read more
2020-09-18 03:08:40