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Xiaomi has confirmed that it will be bringing 120 W fast charging to the Xiaomi 12 Pro, due on December 28. A new in-house chip, Surge P1, will allow the Xiaomi 12 Pro to recharge at over 100 W, but the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12X could miss out.

The alleged free games coming to PlayStation Plus (PS+) subscribers in January 2022 have been leaked. The shortlist of three titles is headed by Persona 5 Strikers, which was first released in Japan by publisher Sega in 2020. A racing game and a first-person shooter join Persona 5 Strikers as free games coming to PS4 and PS5 owners.

The Xiaomi 12 will arrive on December 28, but Evan Blass has already leaked several official promotional pictures. The leak confirms that the Xiaomi 12 has a 50 MP primary camera, a textured back panel and at least four colour options.
Update: Four colourways revealed in promotional videos.

Lenovo's contenders in the Android gaming flagships have been known as the Legion Phones or Legion Phone Duel devices, depending on their market. Now, however, the company has hinted that it is arranging a new name for the next installment in this series. It may continue to uphold its series' reputation for innovative cooling solutions and speed-focused display tech.

The Steam Deck handheld console has turned up in an unboxing, setup, and gameplay video posted on YouTube. In addition, more game-makers have been sharing clips and images of their Steam Deck dev kits, which includes a size comparison photo with a MacBook Air. Valve’s handheld gaming computer should be released in February 2022.

Huawei has unveiled the Watch D, the company's latest smartwatch and its first that can measure blood pressure levels. The Watch D can take an ECG too, and has built-in GPS and NFC support. Huawei has equipped the Watch D with a large display, but the smartwatch will currently only be available in China.

Rivian's stock price traded below its IPO level for the first time after the electric truck maker announced it will miss the 2021 production goals due to battery supply chain issues. As if to counter the bad impressions, Rivian announced the delivery of its first R1S electric SUV vehicles this week, to the company's Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officers.

Lenovo has announced that it has a new Legion Y9000P in the works for 2022. It is now touted to have a QHD display with a 165Hz refresh rate and HDR400. The OEM has yet to mention further specs for this upcoing gaming machine, although it is possible that a 16-inch form factor and Ryzen 5000 silicon is in the offing here.

NIO, one of the most innovative Chinese electric car makers, may be preparing to bring its cars to this side of the pond, after managing to launch several of them in Europe. Its 2022 expansion plans include bringing the 600-mile ET7 sedan to Norway and five other EU countries, but a few LinkedIn job listings suggest that it could very well be eyeing the American market, too, despite the formidable presence of Tesla.

Vivo has now made its Watch 2 official in China. This new smartwatch has a round AMOLED display and a simplified design compared to its predecessor. It is also 4G/LTE-capable by default, which raises its price to some degree. On the other hand, the OEM claims that the user can get up to 7 days' worth of battery life and lots of smart life-admin features for that price.

DuckDuckGo has revealed that it is building a desktop app similar to its mobile app. The desktop app aims to provide increased privacy for users, with features such as the Fire Button, to clear all tabs, browsing history and data at the click of a button.

Tesla has added a new Megaphone mode in the audio options of the mandated external speakers that are used to raise awareness among pedestrians about a Tesla approaching at low speed. The Megaphone option is in addition to the Boombox mode that was received with the big holiday update last year, and could play pre-recorded audio via that same speaker alert system.

The Alder Lake Intel Core i7-12800H has surfaced on Geekbench once again, this time inside a 2022 Razer Blade 15 laptop. The powerful hybrid chip, which can count on 14 cores and 20 threads, produced results that blow past its predecessors and AMD rivals, with the i7-12800H able to square off directly against the all-powerful Apple M1 Max.

The Zigma app can log daily air quality levels and allow users to set different PM2.5 boundaries for the purifier to respond accordingly. The software is much more developed than the simpler ones from other manufacturers.

Huawei has rounded its bumper product event of today (December 23, 2021) out with the introduction of new smart glasses. These accessories are, like their predecessors, equipped with speakers and mics for hands-free use and entertainment. Then again, this new generation also has something of a health-tracking component.

Instead of paying a lot of money for the battery replacement of his Tesla Model S, a man from Finland opted for a rather spectacular kind of disposal of his electric car, which of course was filmed and now put on YouTube.

Huawei has unveiled the P50 Pocket globally, a clamshell smartphone with a 6.9-inch display when unfolded. The P50 Pocket also has a 4,000 mAh battery, four cameras and a Snapdragon 888 4G SoC. The P50 Pocket does not come cheap though, with the device starting at CNY 8,998 (~US$1,410) in China.

Huawei's latest MateBook X Pro has debuted with the OEM's new Free Touch feature, which consists of a trackpad capable of responding to a variety of gestures, as some phones' screens might. It also offers the company's "finest display yet": a 14-inch 3K touch panel driven by Tiger Lake silicon.

The world's biggest electric car battery maker - CATL - may have become complacent when it comes to innovation, reports local media. It now has to fight to bring back NIO's business when it comes to the unique 600+ mile battery pack for its ET5 and ET7 sedans. NIO developed the 150 kWh "semi-solid state" battery with a nimbler competitor instead of with CATL, forcing it to go back to the negotiation table with a new "ultrahigh nickel" technology and a new EV battery chemistry offer.

The cryptocurrency regulation requirements will only grow with time, and there are now services like the Astra Protocol that are offering automated compliance layer over digital asset trades. To continue its development, Astra has raised US$9 million in a private token sale from notable investors like Republic, DAOMaker, Fundamental Labs, Faculty, Richard Dai, and Wave GP Cardano. The Astra regulatory layer has built-in Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) compliance abilities.

Details of the Xiaomi 12 series are mostly unconfirmed with the exception of Xiaomi's marketed display specifications. A new leak from China purports to lay the vanilla Xiaomi 12 bare, though, by revealing its specs and pricing ahead of launch.

Motorola has confirmed that it plans to update at least 30 smartphones to Android 12. Some older smartphones have missed the cut, including those released in 2019. Motorola's foldable smartphones will receive Android 12, though.

Reportedly, Samsung has delayed the Galaxy Unpacked and launch dates for the Galaxy S22 series. A separate leak has revealed a Galaxy S22 series marketing poster that seemingly debunked the idea that Samsung will release its premier smartphone as the Galaxy S22 Note.

You can now start and join Zoom meetings on the Amazon Fire TV Omni Series. The Zoom app is currently available to users in the US and Canada, and it aims to make calls to loved ones over the festive season and beyond more straightforward.

The Pixel Watch may still be a few months away from launching, but 9to5Google has found more details about it within Google apps. Google's first smartwatch will showcase Wear OS 3, with support for a next-generation Google Assistant. The Pixel Watch could be powered by an Exynos-manufactured SoC, too.

The Xiaomi 12 Pro is set to make its grand debut alongside the Xiaomi 12 next week and Xiaomi has now also revealed some information on the flagship phone's display. While the regular Xiaomi 12 uses a small FHD+ display made by Huaxing, the Xiaomi 12 Pro will sport more premium hardware.

A patent filed by Fitbit has led to the suggestion that the company could be working on a smartwatch device or similar wearable that is capable of tracking the user’s mental health or mood. The Fitbit wearable would use non-invasive methods to help diagnose mental state; however, some parts of the patent do set off privacy alarm bells.

A retailer has seemingly leaked price tags for many upcoming entry-level and mainstream Alder Lake processors. The 16-core, 24-thread Intel Core i9-12900 is listed with a price of US$529.99, while the competitive i5-12400 and i5-12400F are apparently going to cost US$209.99 and US$179.99, respectively. Stock coolers are believed to be included in the price.

First official details of the upcoming Lenovo Legion Y700 gaming tablet have been shared on Chinese social media. The 8.8-inch tablet could be an ideal Android alternative to the iPad Mini in a form factor that makes it easy to wield during intense gaming sessions. The Legion Y700 tablet may sport a Snapdragon 8 series SoC.

RadioShack has been repurposed as a cryptocurrency platform by its owners. The company is joining forces with Atlas USV to create a system to swap cryptocurrencies into DeFi by leveraging Atlas USV's resources. RadioShack's new mission is to bring DeFi to the mainstream.

Apple will reportedly target an 18-month product refresh cycle with its M2 processor. Allegedly, Apple's M2 silicon will be built using TSMC's 4 nm process. Furthermore, there will only be an M2 next year with more powerful Pro and Max chips falling to 2023.

The Xiaomi 12 will make its debut on December 28 and Xiaomi is now marketing the phone ahead of launch. The company appears to believe that the Xiaomi 12's screen is its biggest selling point, and is strongly pushing the phone's compactness as well as its overall display qualities.

Tesla has announced that its customers can charge their EVs free of cost at 70 Superchargers located around the U.S. Users can take advantage of free charging from December 23 to 26, during off-peak hours. Most of the chargers are clustered around California.

With overall US$7.7 billion of stolen crypto, this year may not set a new record in terms of crypto crimes, but it definitely represents an uptick regarding one certain type of scam which unfortunately has become increasingly prevalent in 2021.

Honor has just announced that its long-awaited first-gen foldable smartphone will be here soon. This "flagship" has been rumored to be called either the Magic Fold or Magic X - however, the company has now confirmed that its name is...neither of these.

OnePlus' CEO, Pete Lau, has just confirmed that the brand's upcoming 10 Pro flagship will be unveiled in early 2022. Now, the exec has taken to Weibo again to tease the smartphone's display in terms of what may be one of its most advanced features direct from its supplier Samsung, dubbed "LTPO 2.0".

It has been discovered that you can hack some at-home COVID-19 lateral flow tests via Bluetooth. This flaw would allow you to modify your test result. However, the problem has now been resolved, ensuring that you cannot alter the outcome of your test.

The Intel Core i5-12400F has been spotted on another synthetic benchmark, and once again it appears to be punching higher than its weight. The Alder Lake chip managed a higher single-thread score than rivals such as the Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 9 5900X, and it also pipped the CPU-Z Validator chart single-thread score for the Intel Core i9-11900K.

Twitch has strict community guidelines, and they seem to work better than the legislation of many countries in the world. The official Spanish-language Amazon Prime Video channel was suspended from Twitch (which is owned by Amazon) on Sunday, shortly after a presenter accidentally revealed her breast during a live show.

Amazfit launched its third-gen GT-series flagship wearables earlier in 2021, complete with an inaugural Pro variant. This GTR 3 Pro is the only one that has reportedly received a new GoPro app via its latest update. The other 2 have mostly been graced with stability and system upgrades.

Foxconn's plant located in Chennai, India is reportedly preparing to manufacture the vanilla iPhone 13 from early 2022. This new production run for the flagship device is projected to fuel exports as well as national sales, thus potentially helping to ease its prevailing supply issues worldwide.

Realme has finally set a date for a formal GT2 flagship smartphone series launch. Meanwhile, its latest official teaser comes in the form of an entire piece commissioned in Vogue Italy, for the devices' "world-first" finish, now revealed as part of a 'green' industrial design that looks nothing like earlier renders.

Mobvoi has presented the TicWatch GTK, an affordable smartwatch with a 1.3-inch display. Supposedly, the TicWatch GTK should last up to 10 days between charges too and supports over 100 pre-loaded watch faces.

Rumour has it that Samsung is preparing to release a Galaxy A83, seemingly the successor to the Quantum 2. The device is tipped to feature a 120 Hz display, along with an ISOCELL GN5 as its primary camera.

Using Discord's webhooks interface, hackers gained access to the official channel of the new Fractal marketplace for in-game NFT trading, established by Twitch's co-founder Justin Kan. Instead of a link to a promised NFT Airdrop giveaway, Fractal's Discord channel subscribers got a malicious one that was used to grant access to their Solana crypto wallets. Ultimately, 373 Discord subs clicked on it and connected their wallets to the anonymous scam account only to see their SOL holdings emptied in record time. Fractal promised to compensate their losses and thanked the hackers for the free publicity.

The annual Tesla holiday update has begun rolling out, with features including auto-activation of your car's blind spot camera. The software update also has improvements to the infotainment system, such as a streamlined appearance and new games added to the arcade.

The Galaxy A52 series offers some of Samsung's best-selling devices, so it's no surprise that the company is also prioritizing software development for the lineup. According to a new report, the Galaxy A52, A52 5G, A52s 5G, and A72 look set to receive the Android 12 update in the near future.

Sick of deals with just 8 GB of RAM? Lenovo has got you covered with a ThinkPad sporting 32 GB of RAM for under $1000 USD. The configuration also comes with the latest AMD processor and a bright 500-nit 1080p matte IPS display.

Asus has issued its invitations to its upcoming CES showcase, to start from January 4, 2022. It starts with the "Rise of Gamers" livestream direct from Las Vegas to introduce the new ROG line-up, and goes on with the productivity-focused presentation the following day.

MINISFORUM's Christmas Sale discounts campaign has begun yesterday and is scheduled to last until January 10, 2022. The list of discounts includes generous price cuts for existing models such as the U820 and UM700, pre-sale discounts for the EliteMini HM90 and HX90, as well as flash sales.