The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti video card was sold for $1.63 — but was uncompetitive due to shipping
The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti video card was sold for $1.63. A visitor to the American online store Newegg shared a photo of the found offer (now the product has been removed). Unfortunately, the refurbished NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti cost $400 to ship, making it uncompetitive with other similar graphics cards on Newegg. The payment for the video card was made in…
Telegram founder's Galaxy A52 delaminated due to heat in Dubai
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said that he has been using a Samsung Galaxy A52 smartphone for the past two years.
Google Pixel Watch 3 renders show smaller bezels and increased thickness compared to its predecessor
A new rumor claims that the next model of the Pixel Watch 3 smartwatch could be released alongside the Pixel 9 series and bring significant changes. The Pixel 9 series of smartphones is due in October.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 laptop review: why is it so expensive?
The compact flagship Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 is almost impossible to perceive without emotions, and not just positive ones. We have tested the carbon handsome man in benchmarks, collected user experience, and are ready to share our impressions, which are very mixed. This laptop will share the opinions of the fans of the […]
Apple announces Vision Pro sales outside the US and introduces VisionOS 2
Apple has announced that the Vision Pro virtual reality headset priced at $3499 will be sold worldwide starting June 28. The first countries outside the US to receive Vision Pro will be China, Japan, and Singapore (pre-orders from June 13). They will be followed by Germany, France, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, where sales will begin…
When will laptops with NVIDIA RTX 50xx and new Intel and AMD processors be released — leaked plans for two years
The hackers got access to the materials of laptop manufacturer Clevo and learned about the time and details of the release of NVIDIA RTX 50xx mobile graphics cards, new generation Intel and AMD processors, and laptops with them.
Microsoft unveils $450 digital Xbox X and two more console variants — new model is already in development
The long rumored fully digital Xbox Series X is now a reality and will be released this fall. The console will be white, cheaper, and will have a 1TB SSD drive. Microsoft also announced that it will update existing consoles with alternative colors and memory configurations.
Popular Anker power bank and Soundcore speaker recalled due to fire risk
Some Anker and Soundcore devices are being recalled due to a manufacturing defect that could cause fires. For example, Anker announced a recall of its Power Bank 321 battery (PowerCore 5K, A1112). At the same time, its Soundcore audio brand announced a recall of the A3102 Speaker in Black portable speaker.
46 years of the x86 architecture — Intel 8086 processor introduced on June 8, 1978
The impact of the Intel 8086 processor on the computer industry is hard to overestimate. It pioneered the x86 architecture, which is still used in most computers today. Intel 8086, introduced on June 8, 1978, 46 years ago.
From software to hard: the Winamp player plays music and is controlled from the touch screen
Rodmg enthusiast has created a physical implementation of the retro Winamp music player based on Raspberry Pi 4 called Linamp. It can play mp3, m4a, FLAC, and other digital formats from a file system, including SMB networks. There is a playlist management, real-time display of the spectrum analyzer, track information, bitrate and sample rate,…
No USB-A and 10 Type-C: ASRock Taichi Aqua motherboard with unannounced Intel Z890 chipset
ASRock is demonstrating a wide portfolio of Intel Z890 and AMD X870 motherboards at Computex 2024. It is interesting that Intel has forbidden its partners to advertise the new boards as Z890, although they are actually already available. One of the new boards is Taichi Aqua — ASRock has announced the merger of the Aqua line with Taichi.
Lenovo Tab M11 review: a budget tablet with a metal case and a stylus
We continue to talk about affordable tablets that are officially sold on the Ukrainian market. We have already published material about Acer Iconia Tab 10and now it’s time for the latest Lenovo Tab M11. This tablet has a version with and without LTE, can come with a case, but always has a convenient stylus for […]
Apple's standard warranty no longer covers iPhone and Apple Watch display cracks
This month, Apple made a notable change to its iPhone and Apple Watch repair and standard warranty policies. Apple no longer covers «single cracks» under the standard warranty for iPhone and Apple Watch. Instead, these repairs are now treated as «accidental damage» claims and users are required to pay for them.
New Samsung MicroLED TVs cost up to $150К for a 114-inch model
In 2018, Samsung started selling massive and extremely expensive MicroLED TVs with The Wall modular designand now it offers three such options: 89, 101 and 114 inches.The most affordable offer in the MicroLED TV lineup is the 89-inch model with a price of $109,999. The 101-inch model will cost $129,999. And the largest 114-inch version will cost…
OPPO Enco X3i headphones offer adaptive ANC, customized sound profiles, up to 44 hours of battery life, and a price of UAH 4999
OOPPO AED Ukraine has presented the third generation of wireless headphones — OPPO Enco X3i in Ukraine. They feature active noise cancellation and are positioned as a Hi-Res Audio wireless device.
Full immersion: Cooler Master reveals 57" VA Mini-LED curved gaming monitor
For the Cooler Master GP57ZS monitor shown at Computex 2024, you’ll need a really big desktop. The curved widescreen monitor has a diagonal of 57 inches.
Asus has made Thor's hammer Mjolnir — it's not a weapon, but a UPS with a charging station function
Marvel made Thor’s hammer very popular, and Asus showed a working model at Computex 2024. It’s not a good idea to attack someone with Mjolnir, but it also has electricity — it’s an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).
Google no longer plans to retain Pixel devices that have been received for repair with «unauthorized parts»
Google’s Pixel device repair policy was criticized when it was noticed that the company would not return the device to the owner if it used «unauthorized parts». The company is now removing this restriction from its policy.
Acer Aspire Go 15 AG15-31P laptop review: office champion for $450
It’s the feature-to-price ratio that makes the Acer Aspire Go 15 AG15-31P such an interesting device, because it doesn’t really offer anything interesting. It’s a boring office machine for basic tasks that has every chance of becoming a bestseller. It’s also almost perfect as a first laptop for a school or college student on…
Motorola Edge (2024) received a 144 Hz pOLED display, Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 SoC, an updated camera, and a price of $550
Motorola has released an updated version of its Edge smartphone. The 2024 version differs from its predecessor, released in October 2023, with an improved processor and an updated main camera.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang signs PNY RTX 4070 SUPER graphics card at Computex 2024 — it's green and SFF-Ready
While visiting the PNY booth at Computex 2024, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang noticed an unusual-looking graphics card. He was attracted by the relatively thin, eco-friendly RTX 4070 SUPER turbine model. Typically, these graphics cards are not so colorful — they are more likely to be black or gray, because they are not intended for public display.
Laptops, portable gaming consoles, robots and other MSI innovations at COMPUTEX 2024
At COMPUTEX 2024, MSI presented several new devices, including those based on artificial intelligence.
Acer in 2024: «Macbook killers» Swift 14 AI, TravelMate P4 laptops-transformers, and new Chromebooks with Google AI
This week and last week, the Taiwanese brand Acer presented updated laptops from the popular TravelMate series, new Chromebooks, and, without exaggeration, revolutionary Windows devices with Snapdragon processors based on ARM architecture. Here is a brief overview of the new products. Windows laptops on ARM: long-awaited Macbook killers or…
In five years, 50% of PCs will have ARM processors — say CEOs of ARM and Qualcomm
ARM Holdings CEO Rene Haas expects more than 50% of Windows PCs to use ARM-based processors instead of x86 chips by 2029, according to Reuters. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon shares the same assessment.
Intel introduces Lunar Lake — architecture with +18% performance, +50x faster Xe2 graphics and no Hyperthreading in P-core
Intel has revealed details of the Lunar Lake processor architecture during the Intel Tech Tour 2024 presentation ahead of the company’s Computex 2024 keynote. The new processors will feature significant improvements in every aspect of the design. Lunar Lake processors are primarily designed for laptops, although many of the fundamental…
PC of the month (June 2024)
Nvidia RTX 5000 graphics cards are coming soon, and «old» components are getting cheaper in anticipation of the new series, so it’s time to build a bargain PC of the month. In this issue, we have collected five successful configurations for different tastes and budgets, taking into account current discounts in stores. Budget PC of…
Apple falsely advertised the new iPad Air with the M2 chip, claiming 10 GPU cores. Now it says it has 9.
Recently Apple announces new iPad Air tablet with M2 chip. On the company’s website, the specifications section stated that this model has a chip with 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores. However, 9to5mac has now discovered that the company has reduced the number of GPU cores from 10 to 9.
Snapdragon computers were advertised by an actor who starred in an Apple Mac commercial and then — PCs for Intel
In the mid-2000s, Apple launched a long series of popular commercials in which actor John Hodgman played «PC» and Justin Long — «Mac». The videos claimed that Windows-based PCs were bad and Apple Macs — were good. However in 2021, Long appeared in a series of Intel videosto demonstrate the superiority of the company’s laptops over…
Qualcomm: Snapdragon is productive and efficient, coming to «PCs of all form factors», including desktops
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon spoke at Computex Taipei and detailed the company’s achievements in artificial intelligence with Snapdragon X Elite and CoPilot+. Another important announcement was that Qualcomm chips will appear on desktop computers.
NVIDIA at Computex 2024: SFF-Ready compact PCs, G-Assist AI game assistant, automatic overclocking without losing warranty
NVIDIA did not present any new graphics cards at Computex 2024, but it showed a lot of technologies that can help gamers. The company unveiled a new standard for compact PCs supported by manufacturers, created an AI assistant for complex games, enabled automatic video card overclocking in its program, and allowed the use of the AV1 codec at 120…
Fraudsters exchanged 16,000 fake iPhones and iPads for genuine ones in the Apple Store — losses exceeded $12.3 million
Apple was the victim of a fraud with its mobile devices that lasted almost a decade. The scheme caused the Cupertino-based company losses of more than $12.3 million.
ASUS showed laptops based on AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU and NVIDIA RTX GPU. And a few more models with Intel Core Ultra 200V and Qualcomm chips
ASUS has brought several new laptops to Computex 2024. Some of them were presented ahead of schedule by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. He focused on models equipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards and hybrid AMD Strix Point APU processors, which had not yet been officially announced. In addition, ASUS has prepared several new models with Intel…
AMD processors at Computex 2024: Ryzen 9000, Ryzen AI 300, new Ryzen 5000XT for AM4 and X870 boards
At Computex 2024, AMD presented two Zen 5 processor families: the desktop Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 Granite Ridge along with X870 and X870E boards for them and other AM5 chips, the laptop Ryzen AI 300 and two new Ryzen 5000XT for AM4. The company also showed processors for servers and artificial intelligence, as well as a new professional graphics card.
NVIDIA unveils Vera Rubin — next-generation GPU architecture
At Computex 2024, NVIDIA announced its new Vera Rubin GPU architecture. What started out as a talk on artificial intelligence changed when NVIDIA talked about updating its data center chip architecture.
Palit showed NVIDIA RTX 4090 with 7" screen — it is unknown whether the concept will go into production
Palit has introduced an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with a 7″ screen and Lynk+ AIO modular cooling system. This seems to be the first graphics card with its own screen, at least this big. The 7-inch diagonal is like a small tablet or a large smartphone.
AMD Ryzen 9000 processors data became known ahead of release — models, specifications, prices
Introduction of AMD Ryzen 9000 processors with Zen 5 architecture are expected at Computex 2024, and they may appear as early as July. A slide from AMD’s press conference at the exhibition has been leaked, which names four Ryzen 9000 processors with their main characteristics.
Acer SpatialLabs Eyes Stereo Camera — new for creating 3D content and 3D video calls
Acer has introduced the new SpatialLabs Eyes Stereo Camera for those who want to take 3D photos and videos. The camera can be used not only to record 3D content, but also for live 3D broadcasts on YouTube and other platforms, as well as for 3D video calls in Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet. The company calls the camera a pocket-sized camera with…
Sales of Realme 12 5G (starting at UAH 11 thousand) and 12+ 5G (starting at UAH 14 thousand) smartphones have started in Ukraine
realme has introduced the realme 12 5G series of mid-range smartphones, consisting of the realme 12+ 5G and realme 12 5G models. The new products combine flagship photo capabilities with recognizable design and performance.
Engineer creates a case that turns iPhone into a portable Nintendo console
A worthy addition to the wave emulators of retro games in the App Store.
New Acer Predator X27U F3, X34 X5 and X32 X3 monitors — OLED, G-SYNC and FreeSync, up to 480 Hz
Acer has added three new gaming monitors to its Predator lineup, all featuring OLED displays and fast refresh rates. The Predator X27U F3, Predator X34 X5, and Predator X32 X3 — models are powered by NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro technologies. They also feature true 10-bit color in 99% DCI-P3 space, which means greater color depth,…
Lenovo ThinkBook 13x G4 IMH laptop review: style, grace and performance of Intel Core Ultra 9
The Lenovo ThinkBook 13x G4 IMH can be considered a distant analog of the Apple MacBook without exaggeration: a compact metal case, excellent battery life, high-quality sound, and a luxurious screen. Of course, there were some compromises, and the hero of the review has plenty of them. So what is an ultra-thin laptop powered by […]
NVIDIA GeForce G-Assist: the company's April Fool's joke of 2017 may become a real technology
Today, on May 30, NVIDIA published a cryptic tweet in which it recalled an old joke. The phrase «The future is never far away…» seems to announce some kind of technology «from the future». More specifically, the seven-year-old video in the post hints at this.
Panasonic advertised Lumix S9 camera with Nikon photo — now apologizes
Last week, Panasonic announced a lightweight and compact camera, the Lumix S9. However, it turned out that it used photos taken by Nikon in its advertising. This caused a negative reaction to the company’s actions, and now it apologizes for its mistake.
8BitDo has released a mechanical keyboard M Edition — in the style of the classic IBM Model M of 1985
Retro mechanical keyboards by 8BitDo have different looks, each paying tribute to classic technologies. The design hints are subtle enough to avoid copyright issues. Similar to the company’s NES and Commodore 64-style keyboards, the 8BitDo M Edition follows the color scheme and button shape of the classic IBM Model M keyboard from 1985.…
Speed up to 25 km/h, range up to 60-110 km, price from 25.6 thousand UAH: Acer introduces electric scooters and an electric bike
Acer has announced the launch of three new urban electric vehicles on the Ukrainian market. Users are offered electric scooters ES Series 3 Advance and ES Series 5 Advance, as well as an eUrban eBike R.
The Galaxy Ring will be available in 8 sizes, will work up to 9 days and will have a Lost Mode for searching
It seems that the Samsung Galaxy Ring smart ring will be launched soon. This is evidenced by the certification of the device by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The documentation also revealed some characteristics and information about the ring.
ARM introduces Cortex-X925, A725, A520 (new) cores and Immortalis-G925, Mali-G725 and G625 graphics — +36% average performance, +30% efficiency
ARM has announced new and updated ARMv9 processor cores, as well as new embedded GPUs. The company told about the Cortex-X925, Cortex-A725, and updated Cortex-A520 cores. As for the video chips, Immortalis-G925, Mali-G725, and Mali-G625 were introduced.
Nubia REDMAGIC 9 Pro review: the new king of mobile gaming
Recently, we wrote about a new gaming flagship ASUS ROG Phone 8 Pro. And now ITC.ua has tested another interesting variant for mobile gaming called Nubia REDMAGIC 9 Pro, which is already officially sold in Ukraine. Nubia is a subsidiary brand of ZTE that specializes in smartphones for mobile gamers. The device stands out with a […]
The D-17b computer from the Minuteman 1 ballistic missile in 1962 was the first desktop PC
What kind of computer can be considered a desktop? Apparently, one that is compact enough to be placed on a table. YouTuber Alexander the ok considers this to be the D-17b, which was responsible for guiding the Minuteman 1 ballistic missiles and was later transferred to US universities.
GPD announces GPD Duo laptop with two OLED displays that can be transformed into a tablet
GPD, known as a manufacturer of miniature gaming computers and laptops, is now interested in full-size laptops. The company has published images and some specifications of its upcoming GPD Duo device with two displays.
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