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The S1 from Flsun is a new 3D printer that is advertised as being particularly fast. It has an unusual shape and, thanks to its closed design, is intended to be less harmful to the user's health, even when set up in a room not specifically designed for this purpose.

IBM recently presented two new quantum processors (QPUs) at the Quantum Summit 2023: the Condor QPU with 1121 qubits and the smaller Heron QPU with 133 qubits. IBM also unveiled the modular System Two quantum supercomputer.

It appears that Linux support could soon improve for cheap retro gaming handhelds. While the Powkiddy X55 ships with a customised Linux distribution by default, mainline Linux kernel support is actively being developed, which is already available across numerous Anbernic equivalents.

Elon Musk just sat for an interview about the Cybertruck with Sandy Munro, the Teardown Titan, and dropped some nuggets of info about Tesla's $25,000 car. The Model 2 will apparently be made on the world's most advanced car production line.

On top of the speedy OCulink port that can almost triple the bandwidth over Thunderbolt 4 in some situations, this model also features dual USB4 connectors and dual 2.5 GbE jacks.

A new leak has provided early details about the Redmi K70 Ultra, likely the flagship option in the Redmi K70 series. Based on recent years, the Redmi K70 Ultra will eventually be available globally as the Xiaomi 14T Pro with MediaTek's flagship Dimensity 9300 chipset.

Anker has launched the Nebula Capsule 3 projector in the EU and the UK following its November release in the US. The new portable model is around the size of a can, with a 1080p resolution and up to 200 ANSI lumens brightness. Other features include a built-in speaker and Google TV with Chromecast and Google Assistant voice commands.

Details about Garmin's next set of smartwatches have turned up online courtesy of various official support listings. The first retailer has revealed UK launch pricing for the same smartwatches, too.

AOOSTAR has presented the GOD57, a mini-PC available from US$299. Shipping later this month, the AOOSTAR GOD57 comes in two colour options, both with what the company describes as a cyberpunk-inspired design.

Geekom A7 will be joining the brand's mini PC lineup, featuring the Ryzen 7 7840HS and Ryzen 9 7940HS APUs. The launch timeline is set for January next year, with Geekom planning to showcase the tiny desktop at CES 2024.

OtterBox touts its new Lumen series as the most novel and innovative cases on the market, with a "trusted" protective design finished with aerial shots of "iconic destination" cities such as New York. Accordingly, the brand hints that they may be the perfect unique holiday gift for iPhone 15-series users who also love travel (or the idea of travel, at least). The Lumen Series Passport cases are also MagSafe-compatible and have optional matching AirTag covers.

IKEA has confirmed its plans to bring Matter compatibility to its smart home range. On a customer service page, the brand says it intends to bring the standard to its DIRIGERA smart home hub. Plus, the company, a member of the CSA, says it will launch out-of-the-box Matter products in the future.

Industry sources close to The Elec claim that Samsung is acquiring packaging equipment from Japanese company Shinkawa in order to produce HBM3 RAM and interposers for the upcoming Blackwell AI accelerators. TSMC is still producing the GPU chips, however.

Xiaomi released the Redmi Buds 5 Pro late last month. And during the official debut, Xiaomi teased a fancier-looking edition that would soon be coming out for gamers. Well, the Redmi Buds 5 Pro eSports edition is here, and it’s currently on sale in China for CNY499 (around US$70).

The ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition with an all-AMD CPU and GPU combo is currently going for a whopping 34% discount. The price cut brings the Ryzen 7 7735HS and RX 7600S-powered laptop to less than US$750. At the final rate, the ASUS TUF A16 is a pretty great value thanks to its strong build, good performance, and great endurance.

The Acer Predator Orion X is a comparatively compact gaming PC at 336 x 257.5 x 179 mm (15.41 litres). Nonetheless, it should handle all triple-A titles with ease thanks to its combination of Intel Raptor Lake processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs.

Google has released a new camera update for its recent Pixel devices. Rolling out as Pixel Camera 9.2, the update brings Ultra HDR support to older Pixel smartphones like the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 series, as well as an improved UI for the Pixel 8 Pro.

Honor has presented the Magic6 Lite, a new mid-range option and what is likely to become the cheapest member of the Magic6 Lite series. Based around a Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset, the Honor Magic6 Lite also has a fast AMOLED display, a 108 MP primary camera and a 5,300 mAh battery, among other features.

FOSSIBOT has introduced its DT1 Lite as a device with a 1200x2000 display that starts at just over US$135. The IP68/IP69K/MIL-STD-810H-rated tablet runs Android 13 and has a 10,000mAh+ batter with a handy power bank function; then again, its RAM, internal storage and rear camera specs help to explain its bargain price.

Tesla's Cybertruck features its first front bumper camera and ships with a brand new Full Self-Driving Beta Hardware 4.0 kit with more cameras all around that now offer much larger sensors. Unfortunately, the prominent front camera is not for autonomous driving duties.

French startup Biomemory has introduced a new kind of memory card designed to securely store data for at least 150 years. According to the company, the Biomemory card encodes this data as DNA that it replicates thousands of times to prevent information from being irretrievable.

The Huawei Enjoy 70 features a 6.75-inch HD+ LCD, a Kirin 710A chipset, 8 GB of RAM, up to 256 GB of expandable storage, along with a 6,000 mAh battery. It comes in at an affordable price point, with the only major tradeoffs being the lack of support for 5G and NFC.

A new update for Chiaki4Deck has introduced the possibility of streaming PS5 games on a Steam Deck OLED with HDR enabled. The feature is already available to try, albeit with a bit of end-user tweaking.

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group reported that hackers backed by a regime have acquired an estimated US$3 billion by targeting the cryptocurrency and finance industry, with South Korea being their primary target, as well as the rest of the West.

While some competitors come with bundled services that make them more attractive (Disney+ sports Hulu and ESPN+ for US$12.99 a month), Apple TV+ goes for US$5.99 and Paramount+ Essential is US$5.99, both supported by ads. A recent report reveals that the two companies might deliver consumers a competitive bundled offering.

When it comes to low-cost laptops, customers naturally want to know what compromises and savings the manufacturer has made in order to reach the low price. During our test, we performed the same thing. We'll summarize the results for you.

The Fairphone 5 is not only fair but also sustainable, offering an appealing overall concept on the data sheet, which includes many modern technologies. However, the test shows that all that glitters is not gold. Here's a summary for you once again.

The Acer Swift Edge 16 can now be purchased at Best Buy for less than US$1,000. It features a 16-inch 16:10 OLED screen clocked at 120 Hz, an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U, 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD.

The OnePlus 12 has been launched in China. It features a 6.8-inch 120 Hz LTPO OLED panel, three rear cameras (50 MP + 48 MP + 64 MP), and up to 24 GB of RAM. Its global launch is expected to happen sometime in January 2024.

The main goal of the AI Alliance, launched by Meta, IBM, Intel, Sony, Dell, and other companies, is the responsible development of AI technology with an emphasis on safety and security measures. The group also intends to promote the proliferation of open-source AI models.

Multiple players have found their PSN accounts banned out of the blue. Sony support says that it is due to a back-end issue, but the company has yet to make an official statement confirming it.

Naughty Dog has shown off a new game mode that will ship with The Last of Us II Remastered. It is called No Return, and it has players replay in-game areas with different characters and gameplay modifiers.

Rockstar has confirmed that it plans to launch GTA 6 on current-gen consoles only in 2025. If GTA 5 is anything to go by, a PC launch could follow suit next year.

WhatsApp has been allowing users to send photos in 4K resolution for a few months now, and soon it will be possible to send complete images and videos in full resolution without first having to compress these files into a zip archive.

Recent testing revealed that Arch Linux, Pop!_OS, and even Nobara Linux, which is maintained by a single developer, all outstripped Windows for the performance crown on Windows-native games. The testing was run at the high-end of quality settings, and Valve's Proton was used to run Windows games on Linux.

Valve has rolled out a new version of SteamOS, which is intended to fix numerous bugs and thus significantly improve user experience. Performance in certain games should also improve.

The GTA 6 trailer has gone live early due to some of its content having already been leaked online. Rockstar Games has taken the decision to make the trailer available for all ahead of the previously scheduled date of December 5. While the trailer itself is as exciting and impressive as expected, plenty will bemoan the GTA 6 release date window shown at the end.

Cloud computing programs Nextcloud and ownCloud were recently affected by several security gaps that allowed third parties to access stored server files. The vulnerabilities have already been fixed in the current versions.

In Spotify's newsroom, CEO Daniel Ek has announced that the music streaming service is laying off 17% of its workforce. This comes as result of the economic circumstances and the recent slowdown in growth, despite a positive balance sheet.

Nvidia has announced that the availability of RTX technology has reached a total of 500 games and applications. To mark this milestone, Nvidia is planning on some special giveaways, which include a $500 gift card and other freebies.

As per some recent reports from a well known industry insider, Apple has apparently been actively working towards developing its own 6G modems. And simultaneously, the company is also working on 5G cellular modems.

Huawei has dropped strong hints at imminent international availability for one or more of its latest tablets, each equipped with a generous battery for its thin-bezel high-refresh-rate OLED display. Then again, the OEM's other "groundbreaking innovation" set to launch during this December 2023 event might prove the more intriguing prospect.

The Realme GT5 Pro, an exciting flagship with a 4,500 nits bright AMOLED display and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, will be launching in a few days. Realme has just confirmed the most important details about the smartphone's features in advance with new teaser images, sample photos and a promo video.

The Apple Watch was once again by far the most popular advanced smartwatch in the third quarter of 2023. The market as a whole grew by 8%, but the Samsung Galaxy Watch suffered a massive loss of market share while Huawei recorded considerable growth.

Popular consumer tech brand Xiaomi is on track to launch its first ever automobile in 2024. Furthermore, the OEM is now believed to be hard at work at a follow-up to the so-called SU7, said to come in the form of two even newer cars. One is though to be the same kind of electric vehicle (EV) as its predecessor, whereas the other is not.

According to new analysis, Apple may have based its Apple S9 SiP powering the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 on its A16 Bionic chipset. Manufactured using TSMC's N4P process, the Apple S9 contains about 60% more transistors than its predecessors.

Lenovo has presented the Chromebox Micro, a 162 x 79 x 20 mm mini-PC. Roughly the size of an iPhone 15 Pro Max or Galaxy S23 Ultra, the Chromebox Micro contains a modern Intel processor, various ports and can output to a pair of 4K monitors simultaneously.

EarFun touts its new Free Pro 3s as "dual certified" TWS earbuds, in that they officially support both Hi-Res Audio and Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon Sound suite of audio features, aptX Adaptive included. They are also rated for a decent level of ANC, even though their noise-cancelling tech is of the hybrid variety. The Pro 3s' case is also backed to deliver "generous" battery life and also supports wireless charging.

The autonomous EV charging race is on with NIO at the forefront of the battery swap station concept with thousands already built. It just demonstrated how one of its electric cars can go to a swap station and change the battery all by itself.

The Garmin fenix 6s Pro Solar, a premium multisport GPS watch, is now available at a discounted price of $439.99. This versatile smartwatch combines advanced training features, comprehensive health monitoring, and long-lasting battery life.