Exactly one year from the launch of the Mi 11, Xiaomi is set to launch the successor on December 28th, the company has announced via its official Weibo account. The new lineup will be called the Xiaomi 12 series, following the company’s decision to phase out its Mi branding earlier this year. A teaser poster […]
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This SSD for audiophiles sounds suspicious
WTF?! If there’s a sure-fire way that a company can justify selling everyday hardware for a high price, it’s by marketing it at audiophiles. The latest product to fall into such a category is an NVMe SSD created specifically for music lovers, though it’s highly debatable if it can perform any better at audio tasks […]
Google Maps tests ‘Dock to bottom’ feature on desktop for better quick location access
Google Maps is testing a new “Dock to bottom” feature on desktop that appears to work like a favorites bar for your most visited locations. Spotted by Search Engine Roundtable (via XDA), it seems that Google is testing a new “Dock to bottom” toggle that will appear alongside a location card and adds a small […]
Google is killing off its OnHub routers, easing the pain with Nest Wifi discounts
In 2015, Google launched OnHub, a $200 router-smart home hub hybrid with an easy-to-use app to manage it. Just about a year later, it launched Google Wifi, a less expensive router that dropped some smart home features to focus on mesh networking. (Google was at least nice enough to let us use the two together.) It’s been a […]
Metaverse Race Continues: Chinese Internet Giant Baidu Registers Trademark
Despite the government’s restriction on bitcoin and an imminent ban on the metaverse, Chinese internet company Baidu announced on Monday that it has filed its metaverse trademark. Baidu And The Metaverse Of Xi’rang According to the most recent trade registration statistics, Chinese enterprises are hurrying to register trademarks related to the metaverse, or Yuanyuzhou in […]
This app lets you run Android Auto on a Tesla over the browser
There are a myriad of standards when it comes to pairing your smartphone with an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system. Android users are most familiar with Android Auto, a Google-made app that runs off of your phone and projects a driving-optimized UI onto the car’s built-in dashboard. Tesla, however, doesn’t support any such projection mechanism on […]
Leaked images show upcoming Garmin Fenix 7 and Venu 2 Plus smartwatches
A trove of leaked images shows what Garmin’s upcoming 2022 smartwatch lineup may look like. A report by German technology site Winfuture shows the supposed images of the Garmin Fenix 7 series, Venu 2 Plus, Epix Gen2, and Instinct 2 series smartwatches. The post shows that the Fenix 7 series may consist of three models: […]
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 & MX500 GPUs Benchmarks Leak Out: MX550 May Lose Out To AMD’s Rembrandt RDNA 2 iGPU
NVIDIA’s recently announced GeForce RTX 2050 & MX500 series laptop GPUs have been tested in 3DMark Time Spy & benchmarks aren’t looking that great. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2050 & MX500 GPUs Are Entry-Level Chips For Laptops & Their Performance So Far Looks Really Underwhelming Now we get that these are entry-level GPUs designed to replace or offer […]
Xiaomi quietly launches a 4K streaming stick with AV1 decoding and one big downside
Xiaomi is primarily known for its smartphones and wearables, but it also sells streaming boxes and sticks running Android TV. Last year, the company launched the Mi TV Stick in Europe and India, which packed a respectable set of features for its low price tag. This year, the company is back with a more powerful […]
Nvidia’s new RTX 2050 laptop GPU could potentially power more affordable laptops
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 2050 laptop GPUs don’t sound “new” at all, considering that the company already released the RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti GPUs for laptops earlier this year (via VideoCardz). But it’s clear that Nvidia isn’t ready to retire its 20 series GPUs just yet — Nvidia says that the RTX 2050 will be […]
iOS 15.3 beta 1 now rolling out to developers
Just a few days after the release of iOS 15.2 to the public, Apple is once again restarting the beta testing process. The company is now rolling out the first betas of iOS 15.3 and iPadOS 15.3 to developers, but we don’t expect any major changes with iOS 15.3. Today’s new release of iOS 15.3 […]
Joker malware identified in Google Play Store app downloaded 500,000 times
What just happened? Joker has been one of the most prevalent forms of malware to appear on the Android store, and it’s just been found hiding in another app, one that was downloaded 500,000 times. As with other Fleeceware, it signed users up to premium services without their knowledge. Cybersecurity researchers at Pradeo regularly update […]