Author: Duncan Pike

Today at Mobile World Congress 2022, Oppo unveiled three new charging technologies it’s bringing to market. Future Oppo and OnePlus smartphones could feature 150W Supervooc flash charge, 240W Supervooc flash charge and something it calls ‘Battery Health Engine’ (BHE). Your first thought might be the same as ours, “Well, there goes that battery health”. But that’s where the BHE comes in. According to a press release, Oppo claims its 150W Supervooc flash charge with BHE can maintain 80% battery health after 1,600 charge cycles. That’s double the current industry standard of 80% after 800 charge cycles. We’ll need to get…

Google disables live traffic data on Maps in Ukraine temporarily On Sunday, Google confirmed that it temporarily disabled some Google Maps tools for users in Ukraine. Those tools showed info like live traffic conditions and where the busiest places are. The reasons for this should be obvious but just in case you haven’t been watching the news for the past week, Ukraine is dealing with some unwanted occupants.A professor of California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies tweeted at 3:26am on Thursday morning 24 February 2022 that Google Maps data showed there was a traffic jam in the wee hours of…

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, which is why you should always be suspicious of any strip club with a buffet. By the same logic, when someone on the internet offers you a free way to bypass the hashrate limiter on Nvidia’s Low Hash Rate (LHR) GPUs – something Nvidia called “unhackable” –  you should probably be a little sus. It’s almost certainly malware. A tool released on GitHub, called ‘Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker’, claimed to completely bypass the limiter on Nvidia’s LHR cards. Well, that’s been found to contain multiple malicious viruses. Tom’s Hardware and PC…

When Samsung launched its latest Galaxy S22 devices, it made a fuss about the upgraded charge speed of the Galaxy S22+ and S22 Ultra. Those two come support 45W fast-charging, up from the 25W of the S22 base model and the whole of the S21 range. Turns out, the 45W charging claim was mostly just a marketing ploy. By which we mean, Samsung’s 45W fast-charging block isn’t actually fast-charging at 45W at all. Tests show that it’s performing a little more effectively than the 25W charge block, but it’s not getting the full 45W. It’s more like 30W, or a…

Tesla wasn’t content with just making electric cars. It had to make self-driving electric cars. Those self-driving electric cars need pretty powerful computers to drive themselves and everything else that they do. Know what else you can do with a pretty powerful computer? Elon Musk seems to. Well, he would. We’re talking about playing video games, of course. Video games in Teslas aren’t all that new. Back in 2018, the company launched what it called ‘Teslatari’, an Atari emulator that could play games from the 70s and 80s. The following year came Cuphead and Beach Buggy Racing 2. In 2020…

Stuff says –  2.5/5 Should you buy the Logitech Pebble M350 wireless mouse? The short answer is maybe. The long answer is maaaaayybee. If you’re looking for a mouse for your travel bag or just to have a spare stashed away somewhere for emergencies, the Logitech Pebble M350 will do. Slim construction means it won’t take up much space in said bag. You’ll also need R500 you weren’t planning to use for anything else.Beyond that, we find it difficult to recommend this mouse for long-term use in an office. We especially don’t recommend this one for gaming. That’s thanks to…

Roku, the streaming hardware maker, is reportedly looking to branch out beyond the streaming boxes and dongles that currently make up its product stack. That’s according to an Insider report. Apparently, Roku wants to make its own TVs. The claim is backed up by a person who participated in a Roku focus group and another person said to be an executive familiar with Roku’s strategy. That being said, this is still just a rumour so have your grain of salt at the ready. Roku’s TVs might be worth watching out for Roku’s claim to fame previously came from the stellar…

If you’ve ever had to install Windows, you’d know that sometimes it asks you to sign in with your Microsoft account. With Windows 10, that was if you had a Home licence and already connected your device to the internet. You could still avoid that by skipping the network connection step and creating a local account. Pro licence holders have always been able to create local accounts. That’s about to change. Windows 11 will soon force all users, even Pro licence holders, to connect to the internet and sign in with a Microsoft account. The announcement blog post for the…

Get a last look at Elden Ring before it launches A new trailer for Elden Ring dropped on Saturday, 19 February 2022, finally shedding some light on what is actually going on in the game. Titled ‘Overview Trailer’, it shows off many of the systems in FromSoftware’s new action RPG. And you’ll learn how your character fits into the seemingly deep lore in Elden Ring. This new six-minute clip is your best chance to check out what you’re getting yourself into before the game launches this Friday, without spoiling anything.Apart from the open-world environment, you’ll also see glimpses of some…

The iPhone 13 isn’t even six months old yet and we’re already hearing whispers about the next device. Those whispers are saying the iPhone 14 Pro will feature up to 8GB of RAM, the most memory yet in an iPhone. That’s assuming Apple sticks to its current naming scheme and we haven’t completely run out of semiconductors by then. According to DigitalTrends, this rumour comes from a Korean blogger that goes by the handle yeux1122 on Korean blogging site Naver. This one’s unverified but the blogger previously correctly predicted the release of the iPad Mini last year so they might…