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Xiaomi has refreshed the CIVI 3, its latest mid-range smartphone that it offers with a 120 Hz AMOLED display and a modern MediaTek Dimensity SoC. While the new model retains the standard edition's hardware, Xiaomi has given the Disney 100th Anniversary Edition a Mickey Mouse makeover with accompanying accessories.

Huawei has now provided full details about the Watch 4 and Watch 4 Pro, its latest flagship smartwatches. Orderable from next week in Europe, the Watch 4 and Watch 4 Pro combine premium designs with modern hardware.

The GMK K4 is now orderable with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU. Also configurable with up to 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, the GMK K4 has various expansion options and plenty of ports, including USB4 with 40 Gbps bandwidth.

The long-anticipated Apple Vision Pro headset is finally here. While some are lavishing praise on it, not everyone is. Notably, legendary former Apple hardware engineer Tony Fadell says that Apple has "Jumped the Shark" with it.

The Galaxy F54 5G is Samsung's latest mid-range smartphone, which it bases on an in-house chipset. Samsung equips the handset with a 120 Hz Super AMOLED display, a 108 MP camera and a 6,000 mAh battery, among other hardware.

Android 14 has now reached platform stability, courtesy of its third beta, ahead of its full release later this year. Beta 3 brings several new features to Android 14, as well as support for the Pixel 7a.

The improved memory chips can deliver up to 50% increased transfer speeds over the previous 176-layer models. With speeds reaching 2.4 Gbps per chip, a PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD would be able to hit 14 GB/s read and write speeds.

The Epson PowerLite 810E, an extreme short throw projector, has been announced alongside the PowerLite L series and Pro series models. The PowerLite EB-810E gadget can throw large images when placed just 1-in (~3 cm) away from the wall. Other features include 4K Enhancement technology and built-in speakers.

The HP Spectre x360 series of notebooks are some of the best convertible laptops on the market. The 2023 version with a Core i7-1355U CPU is enjoying a steep US$761 off for an open-box unit in excellent condition at Best Buy. For the price, the laptop appears to be a worthy buy as it has a high consumer rating of 4.8 stars out of 5 at the retailer.

Just, as previously rumored, Tesla's Gigafactory in Mexico may start production of its cheapest Model 2 in July or August of 2024. That's the timeframe Tesla is pushing its Chinese component suppliers for while they expand to Mexico, in order to qualify the EVs made there for federal subsidies.

Asus has now confirmed a launch date for its next-gen premium smartphone, the Zenfone 10. The Asus Zenfone 10 is set to debut globally on June 29, although it remains unknown if it'll be a compact device like its predecessors or not.

The RX 7800M XT performs identically to the desktop RTX 4070 if the latest leaked 3DMark TimeSpy Graphics score of the GPU is any indication. Based on the score, the mobile RDNA 3 GPU matches the RTX 3080 desktop card while leaving the mobile RTX 3080 in the dust.

Zero Motorcycles has announced that it will extend its Go Electric Incentive until July 15. As part of the promotion, which aims to fill the gap left by the lack of federal tax incentives to promote electric motorcycle adoption, Zero Motorcycle customers get up to US$4,500 cash back or a significantly more affordable financing deal.

This particularly wallet-friendly AMD configuration of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 2 only sports 8GB of non-upgradable memory, but due to its very affordable sale price of just US$599, the 14-inch business laptop might be compatible with the use case of some budget-conscious buyers.

After months of teasing, Volvo has finally taken the wraps off its EX30, revealing an affordable electric compact crossover SUV that's barely larger than a VW Golf and packs a wallop off the line. An attractive starting price and startling 0–60 times are sure to make Volvo's smallest SUV to date a particularly attractive buy for a fair few prospective EV buyers.

Huawei is preparing to release the Watch 4 and Watch 4 Pro in Europe, following last month's global launch. In the meantime, Huawei has rolled out a significant day-one patch that adds plenty of features, including Health Glance functionality.

MSI has unveiled the MAG 275CQRF-QD, a 27-inch Fast VA monitor with a 170 Hz refresh rate. The MAG 275CQRF-QD also combines a 1440p resolution with 1 ms response times and a 4,000:1 contrast ratio, among other features.

Shenzhen Xunlong Software has unveiled a new version of the Orange Pi 800, which now comes in a 128 GB flavour. The new Orange Pi 800 is available for US$108, a less than US$10 increase from last year's model.

Adobe Stock is one of the biggest repository of non-royalty images online. It is also the only one accepting output from generative AI as such at the time of writing. A new analysis of the sale of and revenue from images available on the platform suggests that the latter has outdone 'real' media from photographers in some respects since 2022.

The Garmin Beta Version 12.53 for the Forerunner 245, Forerunner 745 and Forerunner 945 smartwatches is rolling out. The update brings two bug fixes to the smartwatches alongside minor GPS improvements. Garmin notes that the software is a Release Candidate and will be delivered to eligible wearables OTA.

Several new map features are expected to arrive on the Fenix 7 and Epix 2 smartwatches. The Split Screen, Perimeter Map Screen and Weather Map Overlays are already available on the new Fenix 7 Pro and Epix Pro models, allowing you to view multiple pieces of data on the same screen.

Someone has got their hands on the Redmi 12 before its official release. Sporting a different design to most Xiaomi smartphones, the Redmi 12 is expected to be available later this month for under €200.

Sony is rumoured to be lining up a WF-1000XM5 release soon, possibly as early as later this week. In the meantime, a renowned leaker has shared high-resolution official images of the forthcoming earbuds in its two launch colours.

Fnatic has secured a long-term development partnership with Sony to provide input on next-gen INZONE products. The new collaboration is slated to result in new content from the brand as well as follow-ups to PlayStation-themed monitors such as the M9. Sony asserts that the e-sports team members' experience and feedback will lead to a revolution in its own-brand gaming gear in the near future.

MacOS Sonoma beta appears to be running DX12 games with relative ease on the M1 and M2 processors via the Wine emulator included with the Game Porting Toolkit. Cyberpunk 2077 struggles on the M1 with Ultra settings, but the M2 processors can run Diablo IV, Hogwarts Legacy and Spider-Man at more than 30 fps.

ESR's HaloLock Geo Wallet Stand has proven a hit on Kickstarter, finishing its campaign with over 36x its original goal in terms of backing. Now, it is available for general sale online. The accessory is hailed as the first of its kind with full support for Apple Find My, thereby potentially boosting the chances of recovering a lost wallet, the iPhone it was mounted on via MagSafe, or both.

The new DLAA performance Quality mode would make it easier for game devs to integrate the AI-powered anti-aliasing algorithm as a selectable mode along with the various DLSS performance and quality modes.

Leica is now selling the Cine 1, almost a year after it started teasing the ultra-short throw projector series. The Leica Cine 1 series comes in three variants, all with Summicron lenses. The new projectors should receive a global release later this year but are now orderable in Europe.

Samsung has now shared the first beta for One UI 5 Watch and Wear OS 4. Rolling out now as a 1.5 GB download for the Galaxy Watch4, Galaxy Watch4 Classic, Galaxy Watch5 and Galaxy Watch5 Pro, the update is the first change to test Wear OS 4 outside of an emulator.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 is slated to right the wrong of its predecessor with big performance upgrades. More details on the chipset's CPU have now surfaced in the wild, along with early GPU benchmark numbers that indicate Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 parity.

Leaker All_The_Watts has revealed specifications of five upcoming RDNA 3 mobile GPUs. The RX 7800M XT occupies the top of the leaked lineup with bring 60 Compute Units, 16 GB of RAM, and a 165 W TDP, while the bottom is served by the RX 7800S with 48 CU, 12 GB of memory, and a 120 W TDP.

Amazfit is preparing to release two new smartwatches. Purportedly to be sold under the Cheetah series, the Cheetah and Cheetah Pro have sporty designs and could be the A2292 and A2294 that were previously thought of as the Amazfit GTR 5 series.

The redesigned 'Highland' Model 3 will not only come with larger body and new, more aggressive looking headlights, but the turn signals and the tail lights have been reworked, too. Moreover, the new FSD Hardware 4.0 camera kit has also been confirmed in spy shots of the sides.

Best Buy has now slashed the list price of the Lenovo Slim Pro 7 (Gen 8) by a massive 25%. The discounted rate makes the laptop a pretty good buy since the notebook is an excellent everyday laptop that is portable while being powerful enough for content production and light gaming.

Samsung has teased initial details about its next Galaxy Unpacked event. So far, the company has confirmed that it will showcase a new generation of foldable devices, rumoured to be the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5. Samsung has also hinted at the date of next month's hardware announcement, confirming earlier rumours.

One-netbook has revealed the ONEXPLAYER 2 Pro, the third version of the ONEXPLAYER 2, after it released AMD Ryzen 7 6800U and Intel Core i7-1370P versions. Now, the company has brought the Ryzen 7 7840U to the ONEXPLAYER 2 platform, which brings Zen 4 cores and the RDNA 3 architecture via the Radeon 780M.

The Xiaomi 14 series will debut later in the year. In addition to design and SoC upgrades, the next-gen flagship phones are expected to bring two new features that were sadly missing from the Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro—if a new leak is anything to go by.

A member of the Rivian subreddit posted an image on Reddit of the burnt-out husk of an R1T after it seemingly mysteriously caught fire at an Electrify America charging station in Mill Valley, California. Rivian has responded to the incident, stating that the company is looking into what may have caused the fire, but it denies that the source of the fire was the high-voltage battery pack.

The price of Samsung's flagship PCIe 4.0 SSD with 2TB of storage capacity is almost cut in half as multiple retailers are currently selling the 990 Pro with a 45 percent discount in relation to the original MSRP, which already seems like a distant past as the ailing storage segment fights an imbalance caused by oversupply and rather low demand.

A Norwegian automotive outlet has put 32 electric vehicles through a real-world range test in good weather, covering a range of driving scenarios, from coastal to mountain driving to highlands highways. While Tesla's Model S Long Range AWD had the longest legs, the test becomes far more interesting when you compare WLTP range to the real-world results.

Tesla has issued a recall for its Model Y steering wheel to address potentially loose steering wheel assembly bolts. This isn't the first time Tesla has had issues with the steering assembly. An instance of the steering wheel detaching almost immediately after delivery went viral on Twitter a few months prior, launching an NHTSA investigation. This latest recall is, however, unrelated to the viral posts that sparked the NHTSA investigation — this time, the retention hardware is there, it's just not torqued to spec.

The Acer Nitro 5 with a Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and an RTX 3070 Ti board is now going for US$300 less than the US$1,299.99 list price. The notebook packs plenty of performance, a good display, and has two SO-DIMM slots for RAM upgradability as well as three slots to increase storage down the line.

Fujitsu has announced that it has upgraded its Lifebook-series laptop and convertible tablet to 13th-gen Intel processors. The OEM also asserts that they are ideal for remote or hybrid work, especially with the option of a "palm vein sensor" as a biometric authentication feature. They are also equipped with 16:10 FHD displays that can be touch-responsive in either model.

E for Electric on YouTube has released a two-year experience owning a Volkswagen ID.4, explaining that, although there are a number of truly beneficial aspects of the electric SUV, some of the drawbacks are untenable. After having owned the ID.4 for two years, these persistent issues ultimately led him to sell the car, and the industry move towards the software-defined vehicle means that these types of glitches are only going to become more common.

Garmin is finalising its latest round of alpha and beta updates for the Fenix 6 series and its counterparts. While newer models have already started receiving new stable updates, the Fenix 6, Enduro, Marq, Quatix 6 and Tactix Delta series have received their first Release Candidate update. Rolling out as Beta Version 26.00, the update should reach all eligible smartwatches soon.

Blizzard wants to celebrate Diablo IV's launch by giving away two GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards with a custom backplate. Gamers can try their luck via the social media platform of choice. Entries are valid till June 20, and Nvidia will announce the winner on June 31.

Tesla has managed to hit the 40% minimum of critical battery minerals threshold so that even the cheapest Model 3 now qualifies for the full $7,500 amount of Biden's new EV tax credits. While Elon Musk claimed so over the weekend, the US government just made the RWD Model 3 eligibility official.

Garmin has started rolling out new stable updates to various smartwatches, including the Fenix ​​7 and Instinct 2 series. This month's round of patches introduces a number of new features, such as an obstacle course activity and wrist-based running dynamics tracking.

The U.S. FTC has fined Amazon and Microsoft for violating privacy laws. Amazon is being fined over US$30 million over breach of user privacy and COPPA non-compliance with its Ring and Alexa systems. The trade commission also required Microsoft to pay US$20 million for violating COPPA by not being transparent to parents about children's personal information on Xbox being shared with third parties and retaining account creation data for more time than necessary.

Apple has now revealed which devices are eligible for iPadOS 17, iOS 17, watchOS 10 and macOS Sonoma, OS upgrades that it announced as part of yesterday's WWDC 2023 keynote. Unfortunately, Apple has dropped some devices that it currently supports.