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Without any date for the arrival of the Android 12-based MIUI 13 update for their handsets to talk about yet, Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro owners are now receiving a new piece of code based on Android 11. Sadly, MIUI 12.5.12 Enhanced Edition only includes the January 2022 security patch and nothing else.

The BMW Mini Cooper SE has been earning good reviews owing to its affordable price and decent feature set. The main criticisms, however, include the limited range of the car, small battery size, and no Android Auto support. BMW is all-set to launch the Mini Cooper SE in India on February 24, though all of the first 30 units have already been booked.

Reverse Summon, an upgrade to the Tesla Autopilot's Smart Summon option, is reportedly getting closer to release and the Tesla engineers in charge are working on three smart parking options owners can pick from. One of the Reverse Summon auto-parking choices could be to drop you off close to your building entrance before your Tesla drives off to park itself.

CPU and GPU performance projections for the Apple M2 and M2 Max seem to indicate that Apple's upcoming silicon can offer potentially offer decent gains compared to current M1 and M1 Max SoCs. The M2 Max's multi-core performance can beat that of the Alder Lake Core i9-12900HK while its purported 40-core GPU can theoretically come close to the performance of the RTX 3070 Laptop GPU all while consuming just a fraction of the power.

The Motorola Moto G200 5G offers a lot of performance. The mid-range smartphone doesn't fail to impress with its 144-Hz panel, a Snapdragon 888+, UFS 3.1 storage and LPDDR5 RAM. In other areas, however, the Moto G flagship is lacking...

Android 13 DP1 has divulged information about the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, over six months before the pair are expected to arrive. Reportedly, a Pixel 6 Pro development device with a second-generation Google Tensor chip has been spotted, too.

After reports claiming so surfaced a while ago, BlackBerry license holders OnwardMobility have now announced a complete shutdown. That, of course, means that the promised 5G BlackBerry phone will no longer see the light of day.

PCIe4 drives are finally falling to more affordable price levels even for the higher-end models. The 1 TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade offers read rates of over 7000 MB/s to be faster than a 1 TB Samsung PM9A1.

The ExpertBook offers a 5G modem, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and a 14-inch touchscreen display (1920x1200 pixels) with a 16:10 aspect ratio. You can operate the screen through touch input as well as with the included Asus Pen.

The Xiaomi 12 Ultra is coming. It appears there can be no doubt about that anymore, as the flagship phone has now been spotted on an IMEI database, with two different sources also providing information on possible launch timeframes.

The Galaxy S22 Ultra and its array of incredible camera hardware is widely considered as being able to match the iPhone 13 Pro Max in most shooting conditions. DxOMark disagrees, though, and its review of the Exynos Galaxy S22 Ultra sees it scored well below the Apple flagship, and outside of the top ten.

The Wemax Go will soon be available at a discounted price, bringing it below its Indiegogo launch price. The Wemax Go combines a 540p resolution with a 500:1 contrast ratio and 300 ANSI Lumens of peak brightness.

Bang & Olufsen has unveiled a new version of the Beoplay Portal, its flagship headphones for gamers. Not only does the new model feature PC, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch compatibility, it also contains better battery life, among other changes.

Apple has launched an NBA75 Ivory edition of the PowerBeats Pro. As its name suggests, the special edition model commemorates the competition's 75th anniversary.

Intel Alder Lake chips now occupy all top 10 positions in the current PassMark CPU Mark single-thread performance chart for high-end desktop processors. The highest-ranked AMD chip is the Ryzen 9 5950X in a lowly 26th place. Hopes are high for Ryzen 7000 “Raphael”, but there is a steep mountain to climb to topple the Intel Core i9-12900 family.

Xiaomi has released V13.0.1.0.SKDMIXM to the Xiaomi 11T Pro, the device's first MIUI 13 build globally. Also packing Android 12, V13.0.1.0.SKDMIXM is available to Mi Pilot testers, a program that remains open to join.

Xiaomi may be busy updating smartphones to Android 12, but Xiaomiui is already thinking about Android 13. Purportedly, dozens of Xiaomi, POCO and Redmi smartphones will receive Android 13, including the Redmi Note 10 and Redmi Note 11 series.

The incredibly valuable haul of retro games for example includes a rare factory-sealed copy of Chrono Trigger for the legendary Super Nintendo console, which alone could be worth more than US$2,400.

University of Utrecht researchers have managed to hone their 3D-bioprinting method enough to achieve the creation of functional liver-mimicking units that can detoxify impurities like the human organ. By using volumetric bioprinting via light sources, the scientists kept the liver organoids alive and intend to use the method for studying new drugs or regenerative medicine of damaged livers.

The e-commerce behemoth from Seattle offers the Core i7-12700K, one of Intel's quickest Alder Lake desktop processors, at its lowest price to date with a considerable discount compared to its regular list price of US$409.

Samsung has debuted Gorilla Glass Victus Plus in its flagship Galaxy S22 line, asserting that this latest form of Corning protection for smartphones offers extra durability over its predecessor. However, a new YouTube post might cast some doubt on those claims, and may establish that a case and screen protector are advisable purchases for those who have pre-ordered the series' top-end Ultra variant.

AMD has released the Adrenaline 22.22.2 driver update, promising up to a 24% performance increase in select games on some of the company's mobile CPUs and GPUs. The company achieved the gains by optimizing its Smart Access Memory (SAM) feature.

Nubia has announced a date on which its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1-powered flagship Android phone, the Z40 Pro, will make its debut. Ahead of this event, however, the OEM has seen fit to reveal this device's design and colorways in advance. Therefore, it is now clear the premium handset will stand out with a new kind of camera hump that puts its apparently groundbreaking main lens front and center.

A new leak asserts that Motorola will update the Moto G series of smartphones with an affordable new variant soon. Should this rumor prove accurate, it may indicate what the OEM will offer for just over US$200 in 2022. This price might get you a 90Hz display, a 5,000mAh battery, a new 4G/LTE MediaTek processor - and even a microSD card slot.

Intel has published its first CPU roadmap in years, having recently presented Alder Lake-P processors. Apparently, we can expect Intel to deliver four new architectures between now and 2025, starting with Raptor Lake, which has 24 cores and 32 threads.

It appears that Xiaomi has impressed its fans with the Redmi K50 Gaming Edition, its latest gaming smartphone. Purportedly, Xiaomi sold anywhere from 70,000 to 85,000 units within one minute of trading. The Redmi K50 Gaming Edition is expected to launch globally as the POCO F4 GT.

Yesterday, Ukraine legislators voted in favor of legalizing cryptocurrencies. The goal of this move is to reduce corruption risks and to prevent fraud. This is the second attempt in five months, as the early October bill that had a similar goal was vetoed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Intel is among the U.S. companies that believes Israel could be the next major semiconductor hub and is now growing its presence in the region with the acquisition of Tower Semiconductor. The move also helps Intel increase the production capacity as related to the IFS initiative.

Microsoft has announced several new gaming features for Windows 11, such as improved HDR options. Additionally, the company has introduced VRR for games running in windowed mode, among other changes.

We are still are over a week away from MWC 2022, but Samsung has teased what it plans to showcase at this year's event. As leaks have already shown, Samsung is preparing to release Intel Alder Lake-P powered Galaxy Book laptops, such as the Core i7-1260P.

Evan Blass has leaked new renders of the Motorola Frontier, the company's first smartphone with a 200 MP camera. The Frontier may not launch until the summer, but Blass has shown what to expect from Motorola's chunky flagship smartphone.

Mobile workstations are primarily supposed to be reliable companions for professional users and offer a lot of performance at the same time. The ZBook Fury 17 G8 basically meets these criteria, but we think HP wastes a lot of potential in terms of GPU performance.

Steam has now removed suspicious mods of the popular game Cities: Skylines after users complained of performance regressions upon installing a redesigned Harmony mod. Turns out that the redesigned mod was created by a notorious developer named Chaos, who put users' computers at serious risk of getting infected by trojans, keyloggers, and Bitcoin miners.

The soon-to-launch Nintendo Switch Sports game will likely feature AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) image upscaling when the Switch is connected to a 1080p display. Evidence for this was found in the EULA of the Switch Sports game that is slated to launch in the coming weeks.

Microsoft confirmed that upcoming Windows 11 Pro releases will require signing-in with a Microsoft account if the device is being setup for personal use — a requirement that only applied to Windows 11 Home editions so far. Mandating Microsoft account logins for even accessing basic OS functionality can be frustrating for those who perform frequent maintenance and installations without an internet connection.

Xiaomi could be equipping its upcoming Mi Mix 5 flagship with a 150 W fast charging solution that can potentially charge the device from 0 to 100% in just about 15 minutes. It is also being speculated that Xiaomi could partner with Leica to offer improved imaging experiences on the 50 MP IMX707 triple-camera setup.

Razer is now accepting orders for its refreshed Blade 14 equipped with AMD's latest Zen 3+ Ryzen 6900HX CPU, DDR5 RAM, and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti or 3080 Ti graphics. Prices range from $2000 up to $3500 USD with shipments expected to begin on March 17.

Some fans argue that buying a luxury electric car does not align with the anti-capitalist and socialist views of the popular political commentator HasanAbi, while some even call the successful Twitch streamer a hypocrite. However, the Porsche Taycan is not his first extravagant purchase that has caused some controversy.

OPPO's latest Find X5 poster contains a launch date for the upcoming flagship series, and that's not all. It shows one of the smartphones in an arrangement of a number of other devices. One might be the OEM's first-gen tablet, whereas the others are wearables that could be of the OPPO Watch and Enco X lines.

The latest, cloud-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) are based on AMD's server-grade silicon and is rated to run even the high-performance computing (HPC) necessary for scientific research on a cloud. The company asserts that its latest and Milan-enhanced instances, or virtual servers, can deliver improved cost-effectiveness, high bandwidth and the use of up to 192 virtual processors, to its customers.

The GraphWear company has introduced two new key players into its project for creating a “no-needle, no-blood” platform that will be used for a non-invasive continuous glucose monitor (CGM). The latest personnel additions bring experience from both Dexcom and Fitbit, offering a boost to the GraphWear wearable project.

The diminutive and deceptively powerful Apple Mac mini has been given a lick of paint in a new artistic concept rendering. The device design in the image is based on leaks concerning the 2022 Mac mini, which is expected to sport a slimmer profile. A Mac mini Pro model may be released featuring Apple M1 Pro or M1 Max chips.

Since regular list prices for Razer's flagship wireless gaming mouse are usually pretty high, gaming enthusiasts may be excited to hear that Amazon currently sells the Razer DeathAdder V2 for just US$69 after a steep 46% discount.

The Steam Deck console has appeared on Geekbench with the CPU part of the custom AMD APU producing a similar result to desktop Ryzen 3000 APUs. The Steam Deck’s chipset has a CPU component based on Zen 2 architecture and the console also has an RDNA 2 GPU advantage.

A new leak has now claimed that Apple will upgrade standard RAM on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max from the 6 GB on their predecessors, to match what is widely available on current Android flagship phones.

Reportedly, Honor could be bringing up to seven cameras to the Magic 4 Pro, one of four Magic4 series smartphones that may launch at MWC 2022. Purportedly, Honor has settled on the names Magic4, Magic 4T and Magic Future for the rest of the Magic4 series.

UserBenchmark has confirmed that the EliteBook 835 G9 will ship with AMD Ryzen PRO 6000U processors, potentially up to the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U. The EliteBook 835 G9 should be available in April alongside other EliteBook refreshes.

Motorola has all but confirmed that the Edge 30 Pro will debut globally on February 24. Reportedly, pricing for the handset has surfaced at a European retailer that would see Motorola undercut the likes of Samsung and Xiaomi.

The fastest Alder Lake-S processor is expected to launch in early March with a considerable price bump over the existing i9-12900K. For an additional US$200, one would get 5.5 GHz boost clocks by default with 260 W PL2.

While the i7-12700H + RTX 3050 Ti combo may seem questionable, the US$1,099 price point is undoubtedly enticing. Colorful's latest X15 XS models also come equipped with 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM and a 512 GB NVMe SSD, plus there is an i5-12500H model for US$999, as well.