Say cheese for the Xiaomi 12 Pro smartphone’s monstrous camera
Enlarge / Xiaomi 12 Pro. (credit: Xiaomi ) Xiaomi's looking to put a big smile on shutterbugs' faces with a new, monstrous smartphone camera. On Wednesday…
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Showing posts from December, 2021
Upcoming LG TVs will address one of OLED’s biggest flaws
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: LG ) Ever wish display tech had longer acronyms? LG Display's here to help. Today, it introduced LG OLED EX, a proprietary OLED technology tha…
Read moreWorker protests, mass illness lead Apple to put iPhone plant on probation
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images ) Apple has put a Foxconn manufacturing plant that makes iPhone 12s and is running trial production of the iPhone 13…
Read moreAmazon Echo Show 15 review: More screen, more possibilities
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Amazon's Echo Show 15 is about the largest smart display you can find. (credit: Scharon Harding) When getting a display of any type, the first thing…
Read moreAlexa suggests 10-year-old put a penny on partially exposed plug
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: WichienTep | Getty Images) A 10-year-old girl and her mother got a lesson about the utility of voice assistants after Amazon's Alexa suggested…
Read moreLG concept places a shelf on top of a pair of 55-inch transparent OLEDs
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / LG Display's OLED Shelf. (credit: LG Display) LG Display wants to make OLED panels a more compelling to consumers and is showing off some concepts i…
Read moreIntel apologizes for banning use of components from Xinjiang
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Photo taken on Aug. 2, 2019 shows the booth of CPU chip manufacturer Intel at China Digital Entertainment Expo and Game Expo in Shanghai, China. (credit: F…
Read moreFrom 360 Hz monitors to 8,000 Hz keyboards, 2021 was the year of the hertz
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | MSI) When tech gets stale, one thing the industry does to try to get shoppers excited about new products is offer b…
Read moreT-Mobile, Amazon, and others are backing out of CES 2022 amid COVID resurgence
Harsh Dhankhar
(credit: Andrew Cunningham) After an all-virtual Consumer Electronics Show in 2021 , it was looking like January 2022's CES would go back to being an in-person …
Read moreLG’s 16:18 ultra-tall monitor means less scrolling
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / LG DualUp Monitor (28MQ780). (credit: LG) If you haven't noticed, screens have been getting taller. Laptops are the most obvious example, with more …
Read moreSEC rejects Apple’s bid to block three shareholder proposals
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / An Apple Store in Cambridge, UK. (credit: Martin Pope | Getty Images) The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected Apple’s petition to block thre…
Read moreOnHub router support to end in 2022; Google points users to Nest Wifi instead
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The Google OnHub. (credit: Ron Amadeo) If you're still using a Google OnHub router, Google wants you to know that you're nearing the end of the …
Read moreSteve Ballmer’s “parting gift” as Microsoft CEO: Trying to name Cortana “Bingo”
Harsh Dhankhar
Cortana on an iPhone. (credit: Microsoft ) Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant is clearly winding down—the feature is still available in the desktop versions of…
Read moreGoogle pushes developers to adapt Android apps for Chromebooks
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Google is putting more emphasis on Android apps on Chromebooks. (credit: Google ) The number of people using Android Apps on Chromebooks grew 50 percent…
Read moreWith Intel 12th-gen CPUs looming, LG’s debut gaming laptop opts for 11th-gen
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / LG UltraGear 17G90Q. (credit: LG ) LG has carved out a small space for itself among mainstream users seeking an attractive, slim design. But now LG want…
Read moreWhat to expect from Apple in 2022: ARM desktops, portless iPhones, and more
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The 2021 MacBook Pro with MagSafe isn't the last Apple Silicon transition we'll see. The Mac Pro and 27-inch iMac will probably be updated in 2022.…
Read moreReview: Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 is a powerful laptop with heat problems
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 4. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The term “desktop replacement” is a bit out of fashion as a descriptor for laptops t…
Read moreAfter months-long battle, Apple takes the due date off its return-to-office plans
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Apple's global headquarters in Cupertino, California. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images ) It's been a rocky road for Apple's retu…
Read moreDell’s magnetic wireless webcam concept may help you forget about that infamous nose cam
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The prototype can stick onto a screen so you can place it at eye level, or wherever else you'd want. (credit: Scharon Harding) If you asked me to gu…
Read moreThe Ars Technica 2021 holiday gift guide: Procrastinator’s edition
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / A handful of picks from our last-minute gift guide. (credit: Jeff Dunn) The holiday season is ticking away, and procrastinators are sweating. Do you sti…
Read moreGoogle is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Google Glass for Enterprise. Google's job listings suggest that the new device and platform would be more mass-market than the one picture here. (credi…
Read moreTurns out that “HDMI 2.1” ports don’t need to actually support HDMI 2.1 features
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Newer game consoles like the Xbox Series X and S support additional features on HDMI 2.1 displays, but HDMI 2.1 can mean different things depending on the …
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