Samsung's tradition of launching ultra-premium versions of its latest foldable smartphones as Chinese-market exclusives is now thought to continue in 2023 with the new "W24" series. They are slated to debut as even higher-end versions of the rumored Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 - however, should that be the case, it seems they will fail to upgrade in one potentially significant respect.

New ambient lighting, ventilated seats, and a sound system upgrade may be in store for the Tesla Model 3 Highland refresh that will be released later this year. The car already leaked out with new headlights and taillights, and it will have slightly longer body equipped with HW4 camera set.

Starfield is Bethesda Game Studio’s first new IP in 25 years. The game is releasing on September 6 on both the Xbox Series S|X and PC. According to the title's Steam listing, Starfield requires, at a minimum, an RX 5700/GTX 1070 Ti GPU and a Ryzen 5 2600X/Intel Core i7-6800K CPU.

After BYD took apart Corollas in days past to see how they are made, it's now Japan's turn to learn about making electric vehicles from China. The largest Japanese publishing house will issue a rather pricey BYD Seal disassembly and surface manual with preface saying that is how the 'future EV leader' does cars.

NVIDIA confirmed last month that the RTX 4060, the cheapest RTX 40 board, will be available to buy in July. However, according to a new report from Paul of RedGamingTech which was later supported by MEGAsizeGPU on Twitter, the RTX 4060 will release later this month. Additionally, Paul has confirmed that the RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs will follow the release pattern of previous GeForce launches.

CheckList A bit of fact-checking never hurts. We went fishing for false claims in an official Apple launch video for the new MacBook Air 15, expecting to leave empty-handed. But the 145-second video for this latest MacBook laptop proved to be a well of questionable statements.

The versatile wireless keyboard from Logitech has returned to one of its lowest all-time prices after Chinese PC maker Lenovo is once again selling the MX Keys Mini at a significant discount of 40 percent in relation to the official MSRP.

CrossCheck In this article, we'll be comparing two great Razer Blade gaming laptops to explore how small gen-to-gen leaps band together to become unbelievable gains in a matter of just a few years. While this is predictably a numbers game, some of the changes improve user experience much more than one could possibly expect.

Cheap sodium-ion batteries without expensive lithium are making industry inroads despite the falling prices of lithium carbonate. The electric vehicle battery spinoff of the world's second largest EV maker BYD will build its first factory for mass production of the novel sodium-ion chemistry.

The very first generation of one of the latest additions to the prestigious ThinkPad lineup has now received one of its steepest discounts to date as Lenovo is selling the AMD-powered ThinkPad Z16 for less than half of its official list price.

Google has boasted of many refinements and improvements as Wear OS proceeds to its next major upgrade. Then again, the smartwatch UI has been observed to retain various little niggles and annoyances from its bad old days, the obligation to put a watch through a full factory reset in order to switch it between multiple smartphones included. However, according to a new leak, that bug has finally been squashed.

Samsung has reportedly confirmed that it will push the annual Galaxy Unpacked event for premium devices such as the Galaxy Z Fold5 and Flip5 forward to July in 2023, as opposed to its traditional early-August window. Now, according to some new leaks, this may be due to the launch specifically for the US and Canadian markets that will be occupying that time-slot this year.

Baseus' Blade may be among the most popular of the 20,000mAh power bank category due to its ability to pack 100W charging via USB type-C into a form-factor just ~0.7 inches in height. Its new HD Series version has the same specs, yet is rated to cram them into a new chassis of just two-thirds the size of the original model. Nevertheless, it still boasts an LED status display and the same number of ports as its ultra-portable predecessor.

Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Technologies was a notable absentee from the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, along with the new Mac Pro and upgraded Mac Studio. Srouji has been a stalwart in Apple's recent launch videos, but he was strangely not anywhere to be seen this time.

A new leak has spotted AMD's new Zen 3-based 3D V-cache processor, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D. It has 6-cores, 12-threads and a base/boost clock of 4.4/33 GHz.

The RX 7800 XT is rumored to feature the fully-enabled Navi 32 RDNA 3 GPU. Reportedly equipped with 60 Compute Units, 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, and 64 MB of Infinity Cache, the card could be a direct competitor to the RTX 4070 if the latest report from RedGamingTech about the price and performance of the board is accurate.

iQOO India has announced that its Neo line of Android smartphones is going Pro for the first time later in 2023. The brand has yet to tease the new 7-series flagship in terms of specs, although it is thought to launch with an ex-flagship Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC. It also stands a good chance of rocking fast 120W charging and a 120Hz display.

Intel Meteor Lake processors for notebooks are on the horizon. After MSI revealed the Prestige 16 rocking an Intel MTL-P chip, a reference to the existence of a 16-core Core Ultra 7 1002H has been found in a boot log. The processor is listed with a CPUID A06A4.

OnePlus' Nord 3 launch event is now thought to be on the horizon, thanks to the arrival of a device with its specs as rumored on the Geekbench database. The leak purports to confirm the smartphone's premium mid-range Android nature, with specs such as 16GB of RAM and Android 13 out of the box.

The inaugural Vision Pro's launch has prompted a Twitter thread from a researcher who contributed to "neurotechnology" development at Apple outlining details on the headset (or its possible successors) that might be interpreted as meaning that the hardware (or its AI, rather) is capable of reading the user's mind. That may or may not be the case; nevertheless, the thread has helped fuel reservations on visionOS-powered devices and their potential effects on users and humanity as a whole.

Tesla electric vehicles proved to be some of the most efficient in terms of power draw again, regardless of the weather outside. The Model S managed to notch just a 20% range drop from freezing temps in the winter to the EV-perfect weather test.

Sharge touts its latest product as the best way to turn up to 2TB of M.2 NVMe SSD storage into a "tiny, lightweight" everyday-carry accessory. It consists of an aluminum enclosure for such a card with a volume touted as equivalent to that of a couple of bottlecaps, designed to fit into a custom silicone bumper with a lanyard that also doubles as a data cable. The Disk also features a male USB type-C to plug into a compatible laptop, smartphone, camera or console by itself for transfer speeds of up to 1GB per second (Gb/s).

Despite scoring both Ford and GM as adopters of its open-source North American Charging Standard, Tesla will still have to ensure CCS support at its Supercharger stations if it wants federal money. The nationwide EV charging network that the government is building has a US$7.5 billion budget.

The Apple M2 Ultra scored 1,956 and 27,945 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests. It was tested alongside a Mac Pro with 192 GB of RAM running macOS 14 Sonoma.

Perhaps Alfa Romeo wasn't on the internet for the Boaty McBoatface incident of the mid-2010s, or maybe it was, and it's looking for some extra-spicy free publicity. The Italian car-maker posted a teaser for its upcoming compact electric vehicle online and asked the audience to suggest a name for its new vehicle. Speculation points to the Jeep Avenger as a platform partner for the as-yet-unnamed Alfa Romeo EV.

A prolific leaker has revealed how much Starfield could cost at launch. The base game will retail at US$69.99 and the maxed-out Constellation Edition at US$299. Microsoft and Bethesda will reveal more about the latter's contents at Starfield Direct on June 11.

The beta versions of platforms such as macOS are normally exclusive to those able or willing to pay US$99 (or the per-region equivalent) per year for an official Developer Program membership. However, the Cupertino giant has just unveiled a new, free version of this subscription that allows a user access to, say, the latest iOS 17 beta with their existing Apple ID.

A modder has released an unofficial patch for the popular Ubisoft game, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. The game suffered from nagging bugs, mouse deadzones, and all sorts of haphazard camera movements that Ubisoft hasn't fixed at all. The new patch fixes most of these issues and also enables DirectX 11, 4x MSAA, and support for 4K monitors.

iQOO has inadvertently helped start the 2023 Android flagship refresh fire with talk of an "11S" that will supplant the current 11 and 11 Pro soon. These rumors have raised yet more steam with hints that the device will in fact combine the best advantages of both its predecessors soon, with, for example, a flat, high-quality AMOLED display driven by an even faster version of their processor.

An RTX 3080 Ti-powered configuration of the unique but usually quite pricy Alienware m15 R7 has received an intriguing discount as Dell has almost slashed the original list price of its high-end 15-inch gaming laptop in half.

Minisforum's first ever mini PC model with a laptop-grade Intel Arc dGPU is now available for pre-orders starting at $649 for US customers (late July shipping) or €759 for EU customers (late June shipping).

This model has not seen these low prices since last November. With the RTX 4060 models not impressing too much, heavily discounted RTX 3060 laptops like the Zephyrus G14 from 2 years ago seem to be a better deal right now.

The UP Squared i12 is a new single-board computer powered by a choice of four Intel Alder Lake processors. Available with the Celeron 7305E through Core i7-1270PE, the UP Squared i12 also has a 40-pin GPIO header, LPDDR5 RAM and an M.2 2280 Key-M slot, among other features.

LG has started selling the UltraGear 25GR75FG, an IPS monitor that combines a 1080p resolution with a 360 Hz refresh rate. The monitor also has three video inputs and a USB 3.0 hub, among other features.

Khadas is now selling a beefed-up version of the VIM4, a single-board computer with an Amlogic A311D2 chipset and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. The new model brings an NPU into the equation, which is capable of 3.2 TOPS of performance.

Evidence of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 engineering device has surfaced online. Benchmarked in AnTuTu v10, the 'qti Pineapple for arm64' development device appears to offer a healthy performance uplift from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, even as an engineering device.

All automakers only have a 3-5 years window to figure out electric vehicles and make it on the other side unscathed during the transition, according to Tesla's biggest competitor. For BYD, the hard part is over and it only sees growth on the horizon, while its CEO says full self-driving will never happen.

AMD has announced that the Ryzen 8000 desktop CPU roster will contain Strix Point APUs. The Strix Point APUs are expected to combine Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3+/3.5 iGPU for discreet board-level graphics performance. According to the latest Moore’s Law Is Dead video, the desktop Strix Point chips may only pack Zen 5 cores skipping on small Zen 5c cores.

The Mercury EM680 is one of MINISFORUM's latest mini-PCs, with the company having also recently showcased the Mercury UM780. The Mercury EM680 not only packs an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U and up to 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, but it is also the company's smallest mini-PC to date.

Motorola touts the new vanilla variant of its Razr Android smartphone series as the one most likely to finally democratize foldable technology, thanks to its mid-range specs. Then again, its predecessor the Razr 22 may have something to say about that, with the same 144Hz main display powered by the same processor as the higher-end Razr Plus/40 Ultra. It is still last-gen, though, with potentially attractive discounts in its future starting with one from its very own brand.

There is a new electric vehicle sales runner-up after the leader China, and it is the United States which surpassed Germany to become the world's second biggest EV market. China still holds the lion's share of sales with 56% of the total, but the US is growing at a much faster pace.

The Epson BrightLink 770Fi Ultra Short Throw Lamp-Free Laser Display will be on show at the upcoming InfoComm event. The digital whiteboard has a 1080p display with up to 4,100 lumens brightness. Other features include wireless connectivity, dual pen and finger touch support.

Just a few days after Ford announced that it would be adopting Tesla's North American Charger Standard (NACS), General Motors has joined the blue oval, revealing that it will soon start replacing CCS ports with NACS hardware. Ford's adoption of the standard drew some scrutiny from industry players, but this move by GM is likely to put pressure on other EV makers to do the same.

A supposed line drawing of what is expected to be the Sony Xperia PRO-I II smartphone has been shared on social media. While there is little to be gleaned from the drawing itself in terms of specs, there is a huge and obvious visual difference between the Sony Xperia PRO-I and its potentially upcoming successor, presuming this is not a case of a snake eating its own tail.