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BMW's long-term commitment to the solid-state battery technology research of the US company Solid Power seems to finally be bearing fruit. The two companies will establish a partnership over a pilot solid-state battery cell production in Germany.

Sporting both active noise cancelation and an audio transparency mode like most competing products, the OnePlus Buds Z2 wireless earbuds come with a superior battery life of up to 38 hours (24 hours with ANC turned on). With a list price of US$99.99, the OnePlus Buds Z2 can be acquired now from Amazon for half the price.

Alleged clock and TGP specifications of Nvidia's upcoming Ada RTX 40 Laptop GPU lineup have now surfaced. The purported specs seem to indicate up to 200 W TGP including Dynamic Boost for the RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 Laptop GPUs with boost clocks well above the 2 GHz mark. GPUs from the RTX 4070 onwards can be configured between 115 W and 140 W (+25 W) TGP with the RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 also slated to be available in 85+10 W options.

Tesla apparently expects its cars to qualify for the whole of the new EV federal subsidy on January 1, so it is now doubling the credit it was giving to customers who buy its EVs for December delivery. The Treasury postponed its subsidy requirement guidelines for March, and now all made-in-US EVs will reportedly get the full subsidy amount in Q1.

Sold as the "Ultimate Entertainment Bundle," the combo that brings together the Fire HD 10 tablet and Fire TV Stick 4K is only available with the 32 GB lockscreen ad-supported tablet in black. However, the 50% discount pushes the price down to a wallet-friendly value of just US$99.39.

The keyboard of the Zenbook Pro 16X is positioned at a 7° angle, which is intended to provide the device with better cooling. In our review, we examine which advantages and disadvantages result from the laptop's unusual design. In any case, the Zenbook extracts a lot of performance from powerful hardware.

Can the MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ keep up with the fastest Snapdragon on the market? We answer this question and more in our review of the Asus ROG Phone 6D and 6D Ultimate. Here's a quick summary of what we found.

According to new reports, Samsung has settled on a date for its next Galaxy Unpacked event, where it is expected to reveal the Galaxy S23 series. Purportedly, the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Ultra will all arrive as February rolls around, leaving just six weeks until the arrival of Samsung's next-generation flagships.

Atari is ceasing production of the Atari VCS, just 18 months into the console's lifespan. With revenues drying up and losses mounting, Atari is looking to third parties for licensing deals to plug the gap.

With sequential read speeds of up to 5,000MB/s, the Crucial P3 Plus makes a perfect primary SSD in modern laptops and desktop PCs, especially since the large 2TB version of this quick NVMe PCIe 4.0 drive can now be ordered for just US$124.99 on Amazon.

It will cost US$300,000-US$400,000 per dealership to retrofit the lots for electric vehicle sales from their current state, reports Buick. Those dealers who don't accept the GM buyout and prefer to remain independent will have to prepare for the EV era of cars like the Electra E5 that Buick will be bringing to the US in 2024.

Available from 32 GB to 1 TB, the SanDisk Extreme family of microSD memory cards is now down by up to 47% on Amazon. This generous discount is applied to the 1 TB version, which can be acquired for US$159.99, down from a list price of US$299.99. The 256 GB and 512 GB capacities also come with discounts over 40%.

Sony's expensive answer to the Xbox Elite controller - the upcoming DualSense Edge - costs US$200 and features a rich set of customization options for dedicated gamers, including easy to replace modular joysticks. It will, however, also come with shorter battery life than the regular DualSense that ships with the PlayStation 5.

The Zero Ultra has launched compatible with Infinix' fastest power brick to date, not to mention a 200MP main rear camera. Now, the OEM has announced that the new Android smartphone is bringing its ThunderCharge technology with it to India. It will be made available at a "special launch price" via Flipkart later in December 2022.

Raspberry Pi's CEO has commented on when the company will release a next-generation Raspberry Pi product. According to Eben Upton, no new Raspberry Pi products will be released next year, with the Raspberry Pi 5 Model B shelved until 2024 at the earliest.

Unveiled earlier today and set to enter the mass production stage next year, the industry's first 12 nm-class DDR5 DRAM by Samsung aims to push forward computing, data center, and AI applications. Although not the fastest ones, these chips come with the industry's highest die density, which allows a 20% higher wafer productivity.

Oukitel's latest rugged tablet has launched just in time for end-of-year celebrations. It has emerged as an even more portable version of its RT1 predecessor, although it debuts with more up-to-date software out of the box. It is now available with a sizeable discount off its listed retail price for a limited time.

Evan Blass has leaked more renders for the ThinkPhone, a ThinkPad-inspired smartphone that Lenovo will sell through Motorola. The ThinkPhone is expected to be available with up to 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage too, among other features.

According to new reports, Xiaomi is planning to equip the Xiaomi 13 Ultra with a showstopping periscope camera. Possibly even outperforming the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and Galaxy S23 Ultra in this regard, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra is also rumoured to contain up masses of LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 flash storage.

AnTuTu Benchmark now claims to have tested a device with a model number previously linked to the OnePlus 11, and to have found that it excels in terms of performance thanks to high-end internals such as the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Meanwhile, the OEM is ramping up hype for its updated design through fresh teasers for its upcoming flagship Android smartphone.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s G3 Intel not only sports a new design with a 16:10 display, but also surprised us with a powerful and efficient Intel Core i5-1235U as well as a fairly quiet fan. The compact Lenovo ThinkPad has become more like the ThinkPad X1 Carbon G10.

Packing an IPS panel with an extreme refresh rate of 360 Hz and NVIDIA Reflex Latency Analyzer, 1 ms GtG response time, as well as sRGB 99% color gamut, the 24.5-inch Alienware AW2521H gaming monitor has an MSRP tag that reads US$649.99. Amazon's current list price of US$627.89 is now down to US$457.

According to a new report, Apple has put a next-generation iPhone SE on ice. Potentially postponed until 2024 or cancelled entirely, the iPhone SE 4 or iPhone SE 2023 was thought to mimic the iPhone XR, but with an A15 Bionic chipset instead of the A12 Bionic.

Samsung has discounted The Premiere, an ultra-short throw 4K projector, offering over US$1,000 off the device. The deal is available in various countries, including the US, the UK, Canada and France. The gadget can throw images up to 120-in (~305 cm) wide at up to 2,200 ANSI lumens brightness.

Garmin has announced that software Alpha version 11.15 is now available to download for various smartwatches such as the Fenix 7 and Epix (Gen 2). The update brings new features like Jet Lag Adviser, which can help you reduce the impact of travel on your body. Plus, the software brings support for Connect IQ System 6.

Fresh rumors indicate Nvidia wants to retain its leads in consumer graphics with the upcoming Blackwell RTX 50 series. Blackwell is likely to make the transition to a chiplet architecture along with a new denoising accelerator directly built into the RT pipeline. Nvidia apparently also had plans of releasing a consumer version of Hopper just in case AMD beat them to the finish line with RDNA 3.

Moore's Law is Dead posted what he claims is the cancelled Nvidia Titan graphics card based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. It features a quad-slot cooler design and had two 18-pin power connectors. Currently, Nvidia has no plans to launch the model anytime soon.

Samsung has started selling the Dragon Knight G7 in China, where the device is available for CNY 4,999 (~US$717). Sharing design cues with Samsung's Odyssey gaming monitor series, the Dragon Knight G7 contains a 32-inch IPS panel that outputs at 4K, 144 Hz, 400 nits and supports modern image tearing reduction standards, among other features.

LILYGO has introduced the T-Camera S3, a developer board with a built-in camera. Based on the ESP32-S3FN16R8 microcontroller, the LILYGO T-Camera S3 has a small OLED display and is available with a small plastic housing, among other features.

Banana Pi is now selling the BPI-M2S, a single-board computer that it teased over a year ago. The Banana Pi BPI-M2S is available with a choice of two Amlogic SoCs, both with 4 GB of RAM and an HDMI 2.1 port, plus expansion options.

The Robo & Kala is a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3-based 2-in-1 with an AMOLED display. Running Windows 11, the Robo & Kala also contains a magnetic keyboard that you can use via Bluetooth or a physical connection. The Robo & Kala starts at US$799 with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.

The first details about a new Nothing product having surfaced online. To be sold under the sub-brand XO, Particles by XO will be another adventurous pair of TWS earbuds with ANC and high-fidelity audio options.

(Update: Better deal at Walmart) An extremely compelling coupon code brings the price of the popular LG B2 OLED down to a sale price of just US$1,139, which is a huge discount of US$861 in relation to the 65-inch version's original list price of almost US$2,000.

The Intel Core i9-13900HX mobile processor has been spotted taking another turn on Geekbench and has yet again produced huge results. The upcoming Raptor Lake-HX chip is a 24-core behemoth that can hit boost speeds of 5.4 GHz. The i9-13900HX defeated a desktop i9-12900K in single-core testing and overtook an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X in multi-core testing.

'All financial issues' around Starlink satellite Internet connectivity in Ukraine have been resolved and more than 10,000 new terminals are heading there soon, announced the deputy prime minister. Meanwhile SpaceX bragged with its millionth Starlink subscriber, 2.5x higher than the number in May.

RedMagic smartphones have often gone to extremes in presenting themselves as prime rivals to devices such as the Asus ROG Phone series from first glance. Nevertheless, the flagship Android line is set to move beyond that in its eighth generation, with a Pro model that clearly takes inspiration from flagship iPhones and possibly the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 flagships as part of a matching brand-identity update.

Bose has revealed that it is now an audio partner for Volvo in-car systems, starting with the new EX90. The new all-electric vehicle thus comes with a branded multi-speaker array optimized for its sports utility vehicle (SUV) design. It is rated to create a surround-sound effect that serves each seat with "accurate" bass and noise-dampening technology.

Most new ultrabooks may have sacrificed some ports in order to get to CES 2023 as thin and light as possible. The new 500 USB Type-C Universal Dock can augment those PCs to USB ports aplenty, dual 10 gigabit per second (Gb/s) type-Cs included. Lenovo thus touts the new accessory as a perfect companion to one of its new IdeaPad laptops.

Lenovo has launched two new high-end mini-LED monitors, the ThinkVision P32pz-30 and P27pz-30. Both support 10-bit colours and cover 98% of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. They can be purchased in August 2023 starting at US$1,699.

Lenovo's newest wireless keyboard/mouse combo can last up to three months on a singe charge. Both components are made from ocean-bound and post-consumer recycled plastics. The combo can be purcahsed for EUR 79 (US$83)

Lenovo has unveiled a new webcam called the Lenovo Go 4K Pro Webcam. It has a physical privacy shutter, AI-assisted autofocus, and can record videos in HDR. It will be purchasable in July2023 for EUR 119 (US$126).

Lenovo has refreshed its IdeaPad Pro offerings with the IdeaPad Pro 5i 14 and IdeaPad Pro 5i 16. These models now feature Intel Raptor Lake-H CPUs and discrete graphics options up to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (16-inch variant). The new IdeaPad Pro 5i series comes with larger touchpads, FHD IR webcams with ToF sensors, and high-resolution 120 Hz display options.

Lenovo is introducing new IdeaPad Pro 5 laptops in 14-inch and 16-inch sizes powered by the latest AMD Ryzen 7000HS APUs. The other specifications are largely similar to their Raptor Lake-H-powered counterparts, but here only the IdeaPad Pro 5 16 gets dGPU options up to the Nvidia RTX 4050 Laptop GPU.

With its first new ThinkPad announcement for the year 2023, Lenovo is bringing incremental updates of the flagship X1 series to the market. X1 Nano Gen 3, X1 Yoga Gen 8 and X1 Carbon Gen 11 continue to use the design of last year's models.

The Lenovo Tab M9 is now official with a 9-inch screen, 5,100 mAh battery, MediaTek Helio G80, and an 8 MP rear camera. It goes on sale in February 2023 for 159 EUR (US$169).

The processor options include five Raptor Lake-H models topping out with the i7-13700H, two P-series CPUs and three more ultra-low voltage U-series versions. All these can be coupled with LPDDR5 memory, and the 14-inch variants even get LPDDR5X support plus an OLED display option.

Highlights for the AMD-powered 2023 IdeaPad Slim 5 laptops include three Barcelo-R processor options with Zen 3 cores and RX Vega graphics, up to 16 GB of DDR4 RAM, up to 1 TB PCIe NVMe SSD storage, extended security features, miniSD card reader and an OLED screen option for the 14-inch variants.

Lenovo's latest consumer-grade IdeaCentre is a PC of no more than one liter (L) in capacity, yet packs specs also found in larger up-to-date desktops, Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI 2.1 included. It has also come to CES 2023 with 13th-gen Intel processors. With its partially-recycled chassis and upgradeable RAM/SSD storage, it also checks sustainability boxes.

Lenovo has introduced a new and smaller version of its IdeaPad Flex 3i Chromebook as part of its CES 2023 showcase. Its 16:10 FHD IPS display is rated to stay on for up to 12 hours, thanks to its low-power OS and new Intel N-series platforms. The 2-in-1 is thus touted for easy transitions between the home office and working on the go.

The US$3,750 EV credit that Tesla started giving to December buyers to make them pull the trigger instead of wait for the federal subsidy may have been too little. The Treasury Department delayed the issuing of its subsidy requirement guidelines until March, so Teslas may now qualify for the full US$7,500 tax credit amount.