Intel is planning on launching a number of new CPUs based on its Skylake microarchitecture for the enthusiast PC market by the third quarter of the year. The leaked roadmap was recently posted on the Chinese version of our website. The leaked roadmap shows that Intel’s earlier claim of not launching high-performance Skylake based CPUs...
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You might be aware of the fact OnePlus and Cyanogen relationship took a turn for the worse last year after Micromax took OnePlus to court in India over the use of Cyanogen branding on its OnePlus One smartphone. Now it looks like OnePlus may have decided to call it quits with Cyanogen for its future...
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The cheaper Lumia 830 replacement that has been hot in the rumor mills since the past few weeks has been spotted on the Indian import tracking portal Zauba. It is the dual-SIM variant of the device that has been listed on the website, with the model number RM-1077. The RM-1077 is listed to include a...
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Taiwanese computer case and PSU maker Super Flower set yet another new record with the launch of its Leadex Platinum 2000W PSU. The Leadex Platinum is the first 2000W PSU to have been launched for the consumer market. The Leadex Platinum 200W PSU has been developed in association with Ian “8Pack” Parry. Parry is widely...
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Ever since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business last year, we have all been curiously waiting for the first Lumia flagship smartphone to come with a Microsoft branding. We may not have to wait much longer, if a new report published by WPDang is to be believed. According to the Chinese Windows Phone...
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Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro tablet is certainly shaping up to be the most highly anticipated tablet this year. Over the last few weeks, rumors about the 12-inch tablet have been surfacing every now and then, increasing out hopes for an announcement in the first of the year. Today, NoWhereElse.Fr posted an image of a case...
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AMD has decided that it needs to make good use of the embarrassing GTX 970 woes that NVIDIA is facing currently. The company has announced a significant price cut for its high-performance Radeon R9 290X graphics card. The AMD R9 290X graphics card can now be bought for around $300 while the less powerful R9...
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Last year, LG took the flagship smartphone by storm with its Quad-HD display toting G3. The successor to the G3 is expected to arrive by summer this year and so far we weren’t expecting it to have a resolution advantage over its rivals like its predecessor. However, a leaked user agent profile suggests that the...
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The LTE model is unsurprisingly priced a little higher than the non-LTE version. There have been rumors of Motorola launching an LTE-enabled variant of the Moto G (2014), the company’s newest value-for-money smartphone. Today, the LTE model has gone official over in Brazil, with the device available from the manufacturer’s official website with a price...
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More than two years after the XCover 2, but it’s never too late to target the devoted outdoorsy audiences. Sony brought water and dustproofing features to the mainstream top-tier mobile scene, Samsung took the cue, and it looked like the end was near for low-cost ultra-rugged gear. After all, if you could have the basics...
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We only have the name for the time being, but it’s enough to paint the Tab S Pro a pretty flattering picture. It’s no secret Samsung plans to wow Mobile World Congress attendees in early March by outing the “next big thing”, i.e. the Galaxy S6. But the Koreans have made it a habit of...
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Currently available for sale only in Brazil, it should expand worldwide before long. Old habits die hard, and new management can’t convince Motorola to look away from the budget smartphone niche, where Moto Gs and Es aim for world domination. Not that Lenovo ever tried to switch this surprisingly profitable strategy, green-lighting E2 and G2...
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Yesterday we reported on how NVIDIA has finally admitted that it did goof up with the GTX 970 specifications with regards to the available memory. An NVIDIA rep has now confirmed on the GeForce forums that the company will be rolling out a driver update for the GTX 970 soon to improve performance. NVIDIA support...
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An alleged official render of Motorola’s upcoming Moto E smartphone has been published by Android Police. Rumors about the second generation Moto E had started doing the rounds late last year, but this is the first time that we have gotten our first look at an alleged picture of the smartphone. The leaked image seems...
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American PC manufacturer Dell has updated its M3800 mobile workstation that it launched in November 2013. The updated model doesn’t just come with newer internals, but includes a few design changes and a number of new features. The Precision M3800 is aimed at users who want a powerful mobile workstation with a high-resolution display but...
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MediaTek, the world’s second largest mobile chip maker, seems to be quite serious with its expansion plans this year. The chip maker has announced its latest MT6753 chipset today, based on the 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 architecture. The MT6753 chip succeeds the MT6752 chip that was released early last year. The new chip comes with eight...
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The real “next big thing”? Samsung might take issue with that. They say it’s easier to reach the top of the ladder than stay there once you’ve peaked, and LG is about to learn that particular lesson the hard way. It’s no secret the Koreans rocked the mobile boat with the G3, essentially their first...
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Sony is launching a new Spotify-powered music service, which will debut this spring. Sony has decided to drop their music streaming service Sony Music Unlimited, in favor of a Spotify powered service, and it’ll be hitting the Playstation 3, 4 and Xperia phones this spring. According to Sony, it’ll be available in 41 markets when...
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Revenues are expected to drop accordingly. Ah, the Snapdragon 810 overheating saga. The never-ending, doubt-riddled, succulent-if-not-tired controversy. Swept under the rug initially by Qualcomm, still unacknowledged and tabu, but as much a reality as the blue hue of the sky after more “inside” reports than we can count. And today, for the first time, sanctioned...
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At least three intriguing new Huawei smartphones, two tablets and two wearable devices are coming in a matter of months. Time to stop looking at Huawei as just another producer of second-rate Chinese garbage. Their gear is legit, recent global sales numbers prove they’re a menace for Samsung and Apple in the mobile décor, and...
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The statistics are in for last year’s smartphone sales, and while Android dominates, Apple is making good strides forward. The last quarterly reports are in from smartphone giants Samsung and Apple, and now, analysts at Strategy Analytics have completed their review of the last quarter and the last year as a whole, in the smartphone...
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A new proposed particle may, if found, finally give us real evidence of Dark Matter. Dark matter is one of the universe’s biggest mysteries. Its existence is evidenced by its gravitational effect on stars and galaxies, by the bending of light rays (called gravitational lensing) and on its imprint on the cosmic background radiation. Particle...
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A new flexible generator has been invented, which allows a wearer to generate power for their electronics simply by moving. Every portable device has to deal with limited battery life. What if there was a way to power our portable gadgets endlessly while we’re on the move? A new flexible generator can use body movements...
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ZTE today announced its latest smartphone aimed at the budget-conscious buyers out there. The new Blade S6 also happens to be one of the first mid-range smartphones to be announced with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box. The ZTE Blade S6 comes with a 5.0” laminated ‘HD’ display, which we assume means 1280 x...
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New details on AMD’s next-generation desktop CPU architecture have arrived courtesy of new rumors from Sweoverclockers. The upcoming Zen architecture will succeed the Bulldozer architecture that AMD has been using from 2011. According to the report published on the website, the AMD Zen based processors will be arriving by the third quarter of 2016 and...
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Owners of the new NVIDIA GTX 970 graphics card have been complaining that it doesn’t seem to be using any more than 3.5GB of available memory when playing games at Quad-HD or 4K resolutions, which is lower than the 4GB of VRAM that NVIDIA claimed the card comes with. NVIDIA mentions in the official spec-sheet...
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The latest images show a design radically different than what we’ve seen before. Another day, another leak regarding HTC’s upcoming flagship. Notorious smartphone leakster evleaks has come out of retirement to treat us to images of what are reportedly the HTC One M9 and its larger sibling, the One M9 Plus, and what we’re seeing...
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The update is rolling out to Galaxy Note 3 owners in Russia starting today. Pushing out software updates to its devices quickly isn’t one of Samsung’s strong suits, but the company did manage to update the Galaxy S5, its current Galaxy S flagship, to Lollipop pretty soon after the latest version of the OS went...
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One of the main criticisms that we have with almost every smartwatch that has been launched yet is the poor battery life. While it is okay to charge your smartphone almost every day, it isn’t quite acceptable if we are required charge our wearable products every day as well. Thankfully, at least ASUS is working...
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When Samsung first announced the Exynos 7 64-bit chipset late last year, we didn’t have any idea that the chip will be a beast of a performer. A mysterious Samsung device with the Exynos 7420 chipset went through the popular Geekbench benchmark recently and managed to score higher than any other Android device currently in...
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If you were excited to see the Sony Xperia Z4 get announced at the Mobile World Congress in March, you may have to wait a little longer. According to a new report published on XperiaBlog, Sony isn’t going to announce its new flagship smartphone at the Mobile World Congress this year. XperiaBlog claims to have...
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The upgraded version will offer double the RAM and storage of the original model. The Redmi 2 is already a device poised for success, thanks to its low price and relatively feature-packed hardware, but Xiaomi is apparently not ready to sit idle and just watch units fly off its online shelves. An upgraded version of...
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The launch has reportedly been pushed back to Q3 2015. The Snapdragon 810 is set to be the most powerful mobile SoC that Qualcomm has ever made, but word out there is that overheating issues on the chip are causing manufacturers to push back the launch of their devices or, in Samsung’s case, forego its...
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The new model is expected to feature an 8.7-megapixel PureView camera. Microsoft’s low-end Lumia lineup has seen a couple of new entries in the past few weeks, and it looks like the Redmond giant is now looking at expanding the mid-range Windows Phone segment with a cheaper alternative to the Lumia 830. Spotted in AdDuplex,...
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Mozilla has added virtual reality support for their nightly and developer releases of Firefox. Last year, an experimental build of Mozilla’s Firefox browser included support for web-based virtual reality apps using the Oculus Rift VR headset. Now, support has been included in the nightly and developer editions of the browser as well. Mozilla’s Josh Carpented...
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Nearly three years ago, Google sent the FBI emails, internet activity and more from WikiLeaks staff members. Google has revealed, after nearly three years, that it was responsible for sending emails and other digital information from three staff members at the free information group WikiLeaks to the US Government under a warrant secretly issued by...
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Today, the New Horizons space probe is close enough to Pluto, to begin taking the first photographs of the mysterious dwarf planet. In 2006, an Atlas V rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, carrying a 500kg space probe called New Horizons. Its mission would be to fly to Pluto, the...
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More and more car manufacturers are secretly enhancing engine noise on their cars using pipes or speakers. A few years ago, car manufacturers came up with the fun feature of adding artificial engine noise to small cars to make them sound like a sports car to the driver. Then, Toyota added an artificial engine noise...
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Apple has a new patent which will allow you to distribute music between friends and family, but also may restrict which devices you can play the files on. Apple has just obtained a new patent which may come to change how iTunes distributes it’s content. Currently, when you buy a song from iTunes, you are...
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Scientists at Stanford University have found a way to extend telomeres, the protective caps at the end of our chromosomes which are linked to both disease and aging itself. Telomeres are protective caps which sit at the end of our chromosomes and are directly linked to aging. They were discovered in the 70’s and could...
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The Apple Watch is certainly one of the most eagerly awaited smartwatch launches of the year. Announced at Apple’s Keynote in September last year, the Apple Watch is expected to go on sale in a few weeks’ time. A new report published by 9To5Mac recently gives us some new information on the first Apple smartwatch,...
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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 960 graphics card is finally official. The mid-range card is quite an impressive beast and offer fantastic value for money to gamers looking for a capable GPU in a budget that allows them to play games in 1080p resolution at 60fps. The GeForce GTX 960 is based on the latest Maxwell architecture...
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The leaked specs might just be what will be featured on Samsung’s next big thing. Samsung’s flagship smartphones are the least prone to being fully leaked weeks (or even months) ahead of their official announcement, but it seems that when it comes to the Galaxy S6, the Korean manufacturer might just have failed to maintain...
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Its notifying users a couple of months beforehand. There are still a lot of users out there running older builds of Mac. One of the biggest reason for this is hardware incompatibility. Some older Mac machines are not compatible with the more recent builds of the desktop software so that’s as far as users can...
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Think of it as a slightly improved Desire 620. It’s only been a couple of weeks since HTC brought out the upper mid-tier Desire 826 at CES in Las Vegas, and roughly a month and a half since the decidedly mid-end Desire 620 was announced. Yet the Taiwanese are at it again, prepping another mediocre...
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It’s still unlikely all Samsung Galaxy S6 variants will be Snapdragon-powered, but most should do without Exynos. The love story between Samsung and Qualcomm is on the verge of turning into a genuine soap opera, with financial analysts now suggesting the two may have patched up their recent discords. Pre-production troubles for the latter’s next-gen...
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For once, Microsoft is smart to take a page from Apple’s playbook. Change was the word du jour yesterday in the command post of a certain Redmond-based tech giant, as Microsoft held its most exciting press event in ages. Details, small and large, regarding Windows 10, the biggest leap in the platform’s history, flew from...
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Here’s what games look like on the Apple Watch. It has been a few months since Apple opened up the WatchKit API to developers so that they can start building their apps and games. However not much has been seen up till now and one of the major reasons behind that is the fact that...
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NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce GTX Titan X GPU is reportedly going to be priced at a hefty $1,349. This was revealed Chinese website Expreview. It should be noted that the first images of the GM-200 based graphics card were first revealed in a leak recently on China’s Baidu forum. The GM200 is believed to be the...
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Mediatek has been one of the few chip makers that has been able to take on Qualcomm in the mobile chipset market and enjoys a respectable market share in the mid-range segment. For 2015, the company seems to have some big plans to continue its strong growth. According to a leaked roadmap posted on Weibo,...
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