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The Hisense PX3-Pro ultra-short-throw projector will launch in the US later this year. The new triple laser model is brighter than its predecessor and has an upgraded enhanced sound system. Other features of the projector include a new 3D content tool and support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.

The Surface Laptop 6 appears to be almost here in its consumer guise, with Microsoft having presented 'for Business' models last month. Based on recent Geekbench listings, Microsoft will pair the Surface Laptop 6 with a Snapdragon X Elite (X1E-80-100) chipset and 16 GB of RAM as a more powerful alternative to the Surface Pro 10.

Qualcomm has just officially announced three variants of the Snapdragon X Elite. Neither Qualcomm nor its OEMs have shared many performance metrics yet. However, new Geekbench listings have offered insights into the potential performance of the Snapdragon X Elite's X1E-80-100 mid-tier variant, which has lower CPU clock speeds than its flagship X1E-84-100 sibling.

The Coros April 2024 update for all smartwatches has been announced. A beta version of the software will start to roll out on April 24th, with further releases planned for the future. The update brings a wide range of new features to the wearables, including screen mirroring and improved GPS in some situations.

Garmin has rolled out another update for one of its cheaper modern smartwatches. Arriving hot on the heels of Software Version 9.27, Beta 10.12 adds Garmin's latest Messenger app while building on the older Beta 10.08 build that arrived almost a month ago.

The Miyoo A30 is a new retro gaming handheld with an Allwinner A33 chipset and a 2.8-inch display. Arriving before devices like the Anbernic RG28XX and the MagicX XU Mini M, the Miyoo A30 is available in four colours and two memory configurations.

The TCL X11H Max was presented to the public for the first time at the Global Partners Conference in China. Video footage from the event gives an impression of the enormous brightness.

Garmin has announced a new beta update for one of its smartwatch series. The latest software is version 10.12, returning to the 10.xx beta cycle after the surprise release of version 9.27. The release notes include a messaging tool, a GPS feature, and a heart rate-related improvement.

Best Buy has detailed the Odyssey G65D, an apparent successor to the Odyssey G65B. While the Samsung Odyssey G65D shares many specifications with its predecessor, it should arrive with a lower launch price.

Garmin has shipped a new update for the Fenix 7 series and its peers, the third so far on its 17.xx public beta cycle. Available to download now, Beta Version 17.14 features over a dozen improvements from the build that Garmin distributed earlier this month.

A new leak suggests that Samsung may have a complicated release strategy planned for this year's Galaxy Z Flip. Potentially, Samsung could be preparing to offer the Galaxy Z Flip6 with two different Snapdragon chipsets rather than the usual Snapdragon and Exynos twin-track policy it employs for the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus.

iQOO has officially launched the Z9 Turbo in China. As previously announced, the Android phone packs the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, which is the same SoC as the Redmi Turbo 3. It even has the same starting price, which is CNY 1,999 (around $276).

The Garmin Connect app for iOS and Android is being updated to version 5.0. The new software brings a refreshed design for the home screen, with a range of customizable sections like “Today’s Activity” and “In Focus”. However, the reception from smartwatch users has been mixed.

Qualcomm has officially announced the Snapdragon X Plus for laptops. The Arm-based chip is essentially a Snapdragon X Elite with fewer CPU cores and a lower boost clock. Other specs, such as its Adreno GPU, LPDDR5x RAM support, Hexagon NPU, and Spectra ISP, are identical across both chips.

Qualcomm has officially unveiled its Snapdragon X Elite SoC for laptops. It has three variants (X1E-84-100, X1E-80-100, and X1E-78-100), which come with slightly different GPU power and boost clocks.

The upcoming AMD Strix Point APUs are shaping up to be nice upgrades over the current crop of Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs with their Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3.5 iGPU. The top-end 12-core part has just made a pit stop at Geekbench, resulting in rather high single-core and multi-core scores for an engineering sample.

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are getting updated with the new multimodal Meta AI assistant in the US and Canada, which can answer questions based on what the wearer is looking at, among other things. Other new/upcoming features include video calling (still in development) and control of Apple Music. On the design front, two new frame styles – Skyler and a low bridge option of the Headliner – have been released.

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Tesla made the 2024 Model 3 Performance qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit amount by pricing it from $52,990. The first Model 3 Performance review and tests are out.

Noble ROM 4.1, developed by AlexisXDA, will be released for the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy S9 series next month. The custom ROM was shown off with some working Galaxy AI features, including Google Circle to Search, Live Translate, and Generative Edit.

Following the recent rollout of a redesigned sleep section in the Fitbit app, users have expressed their frustrations with the new layout. Many wearable owners feel the update has made it harder to review their sleep. While the Fitbit team has responded to customers, the messages are conflicting.

The Fedora 2 Slimbook is available in 14-inch and 16-inch models with Intel Core i7-13700H processors and up to 64GB of DDR5 memory. The 16-inch model also comes with an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 notebook GPU.

Baseus launches new wireless headphones. The Baseus M2s Pro offer a particularly strong reduction of disturbing ambient noise and a relatively long battery life. The price is comparatively low.

Fedora 40 and the various spins of this Linux distribution are officially available and can be downloaded from the Fedora Project website. The main new feature is an update to the GNOME 46 desktop; the KDE spin also switches to KDE Plasma 6.

Tesla will launch more affordable cars in the first half of 2025, but it didn't become clear if those will be brand-new models, or iterations of existing cars. Besides the Robotaxi, Tesla owners will also be able to use its FSD AI to rent their fully autonomous vehicles out.

MSI has slashed the price of the Cubi N ADL barebone to $99. The mini PC generally goes for $189, which means you're getting nearly a 50% discount with this sale. It features an Intel N100, has a handsome number of ports, and sports a compact footprint.

TikTok is now a dead-man walking after the U.S. Senate passed a ban included in a $95 billion aid package to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. After President Biden signs it into law, ByteDance will have 270 days to leave the American market, face heavy fines, or sell TikTok to an American-friendly company. TikTok will file a lawsuit as soon as the package becomes law.

Black Shark has a new robust smartwatch in the pipeline, the GS3, which looks more or less like a typical outdoor smartwatch and is thus likely to be robust.

The Unifi Dream Machine Pro is being supplemented with a significantly more powerful device, the new UDM Pro Max, which doubles the number of clients and Unifi devices and offers a High-Availability option called 'Shadow Mode'.

According to the latest rumors, the Google Chromecast 4K is finally getting a successor after around four years, which is expected to deliver better performance thanks to a more modern ARM chip and a brand new remote control.

A Japanese store for used PC components has found a new way to sell its inventory of older Intel processors that could hardly be more Japanese: The CPUs are summarily packed into a gacha machine.

Nearly a year has passed since Google announced the Pixel Tablet. However, it seems that the company will not introduce a Pixel Tablet 2 at I/O 2024. Instead, a reliable leaker asserts that a refreshed Pixel Tablet without a bundled charging dock may arrive in its place.

Fisker looks to be in deeper trouble than it previously let on. A new Fisker filing reveals that it will face bankruptcy within 30 days if it cannot drum up some investment before then.

The Hisense A7N LED 4K Google TV has arrived in the US in a range of sizes from 43” to 75”. The cheaper model has features including Game Mode Plus and support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Plus, Google TV OS brings a voice assistant and Chromecast wireless screen-casting.

AYANEO has outlined that the 'official launch event' for its AYANEO Pocket S gaming handheld will occur later this week. However, one of its regional social media channels has revealed that the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2-powered device may not actually receive a full release for a while yet.

The Samsung S90C has an extremely bright Quantum-Dot OLED panel with a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits. Thanks to a significant price cut on Amazon, the 77-inch version of the popular OLED TV has now dropped below $2,000.

The POCO Pad has appeared again online, this time at the FCC and Camera FV-5. While Xiaomi has not presented the POCO Pad yet, both databases reveal that the POCO Pad is nothing more than a Redmi Pad Pro by another name.

According to a new leak, Xiaomi is set to retain its first-launch rights to Qualcomm's next-gen flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, with the company's 15 and 15 Pro phones to be the first smartphones with the 3 nm SoC.

The new Range Rover EV has gone for a spin on the icy lakes of Sweden. Land Rover has also teased some details of its impressive-sounding in-house motor design and revealed a very familiar design for the upcoming luxury electric SUV.

The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 has landed with a new design, Intel Core Ultra series CPUs, and up to an RTX 3000 Ada Generation GPU. Interestingly, the machine comes with Micron's LPCAMM2 memory, making it the world's first consumer device to feature the solution. Additionally, the high-end configuration of the laptop rocks an UHD+ OLED panel with a 5 MP IR webcam up top.

The Razer Viper V3 Pro features a Focus Pro Gen 2 sensor with 35,000 DPI, 3rd-gen optical mouse switches, and a HyperPolling dongle that allows for a wireless polling rate of up to 8,000 Hz.

After the runaway success of its first electric car, one of the world's largest phone makers is preparing to launch more EVs.

A modding group called Superstar South Studios was able to get GTA 5 running on the Nintendo Switch. While the handheld gaming console could play through the prologue chapter, it eventually crashes after a few minutes. Also, even with heavy modding done to the game, it’s still a very choppy experience.

Yesterday, a new game in Middle-earth was announced in a trailer. This time, however, it doesn't seem to be about fights with orcs, but about the peaceful everyday life of a hobbit. The developer does not have much experience in the gaming sector, but fans of the film trilogies will be familiar with it nonetheless.

The Go version of the OnePlus Pad has finally reached another market. It brings an "industry-leading" 2.4K Eye Care display and quad Dolby Atmos-enhanced speakers to Europe, along with a 4G/LTE-capable SoC and 8GB of RAM. It has debuted with an introductory discount and a free gift.

Lenovo has refreshed the ThinkPad P16v with the latest Intel Core Ultra processors, up to an 8 GB RTX 3000 Ada Generation workstation GPU, and a new 400-nit display option. However, aside from these notable internal updates, the rest of the laptop is pretty much identical to last year’s machine.

Hisense has started selling two new gaming monitors with 2.5K resolutions and 240 Hz refresh rates. Arriving hot on the heels of the 27G7K-PRO, the 27G6K and 27G6K-PRO also offer 1 ms GtG response times, among other features.

The latest version of OnePlus' new Wear OS flagship the Watch 2 has just been unleashed as its Nordic Blue Edition. The wearable has launched with features that distinguish it from the pre-existing standard variants, although none of them relate to its specs.

Polestar, a Tesla competitor company best known for its design-focused electric cars, has launched its very first smartphone in China. Simply called the Polestar Phone, the device is a rebrand of the Meizu 21 Pro, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a triple camera setup on the back, and a 5050 mAh battery. It’s priced at CNY 7,388 (around $1,020).

Apple has revealed the date and time of its next 'special' event, during which it will 'let loose'. Seemingly aimed at iPads, the event is rumoured to showcase new iPad Air and iPad Pro hardware, as well as Pencil 3 and Magic Keyboard accessories.