Apple used to make one iPhone per year, and then it upped that to two. In 2020, there are a plethora of iPhone models, (or four, depending on how you count) new models today. They all have a tweaked design reminiscent of older iPhones, and they’re also the first to have 5G connectivity. That will no doubt please carriers, but not really anyone else. Let’s go over the new models in descending order of size. iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max Apple’s top-of-the-line smartphones are the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max. The smaller of the two has a 6.1-inch 1170 x 2532 OLED display that goes almost edge-to-edge with the trademark notch at the top.
Everyone knows you can save a lot of money on Black Friday and Prime Day. But have you heard about the ? It’s a new shopping day in the U.S., mirroring that happens every year on 11.11, which aims to celebrate the consumer while supporting the retail industry. More importantly, it means you have another opportunity to save big on the goods and services that can enhance your life. To help you make the most of the 10.10 Shopping Festival, we’ve rounded up 20 deals on top VPNs, password managers, cloud backup solutions, and more that will help you maximize and secure your online activities.
Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide high-quality internet video at higher compression rates than those achieved by standards like H.264 and VP9. Typical quoted figures are a 50 percent compression improvement over H.264 and 20 percent over VP9. There’s a caveat to this , as our sister site PCMag : Very limited hardware support. Up until now, it hasn’t mattered that Windows 10 only implemented AV1 in software, because there were no AV1-supporting GPUs to handle decode in the first place.
Amazon’s long-awaited Prime Day sales event is now officially in full swing, with deals available on just about everything imaginable. Of particular note are some exceptional discounts on laptops and 4K TVs. Apple’s popular MacBook Air is currently sitting at an all-time low price of just $849, and you can also snag a 43-inch 4K Toshiba TV for a mere $209. Both of these are exceptional deals, but they are far from alone. Below we’ve listed the best deals we were able to find currently available. And with so many deals, there’s bound to be something that will pique your interest.
In the last few years, OnePlus has gone from being a plucky upstart with questionable advertising to a 5G powerhouse that regularly partners with US carriers to launch new flagship smartphones. All through that meteoric rise, co-founder Carl Pei has been a director at the company. Until now. Pei OnePlus this week to start a new, as-yet-unnamed, company. Pei, along with co-founder and current CEO Pete Lau, started OnePlus in 2013. They immediately embarked on a “flagship killer” advertising and social media blitz, and this was long before the phone was ever announced. They ran the company like a scrappy startup, but it was actually backed by Chinese tech giant Oppo.
The idea of using a fridge as some kind of combined viewing/food storage apparatus isn’t a new one. The first display-equipped fridge was the LG Digital DIOS, which shipped in June 2000. Twenty years later, we can do a hell of a lot more than slap weather reports on a large slab of metal. Thanks to xCloud, you can now play games like Doom Eternal on your fridge. Via the power of xCloud, Doom Eternal runs on a Samsung fridge: — Andy Robinson (@AndyPlaytonic) As a purely technical demonstration of sideloading skill, I applaud the hack.
As you probably already know, the eSports industry has seen over the past few years, both in terms of viewership and revenue. Whether it’s Fortnite, League of Legends, DOTA 2, CS: GO, Overwatch, or any other popular eSports title, there’s a lot of fun and money wrapped up in today’s most popular eSports games. Yet, to deliver your best effort when playing these eSports games, whether you’re just having fun with friends, streaming for an audience, or hoping to make it pro, you’ll need a computer that gives you an optimal performance every match. And that’s where this deal makes a big difference — all without leaving a big hole in your wallet.
Amazon’s Prime Day sales event officially begins tomorrow, but there’s already deals aplenty that you can take advantage of right now. Walmart kicked off its own sales event on Sunday, and early deals From Amazon, Best Buy and Dell have been leaking out all weekend. The following are some of the most notable deals that we’ve seen so far. Intel Core i7-9700K Gaming Desktop w/ Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD and 1TB HDD for $1,299.99 from Dell (List price $1,799.99) Intel Core i3 13.3-Inch Laptop w/ 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD for $849.99 from Amazon (List price $999.00) for $199.00 from Amazon (List price $249.00) Robot Vacuum and Mop for $439.99 from Amazon (List price $549.00) M.2 NVMe SSD for $62.99 from Amazon (Regularly $129.99) AMD Ryzen 5 4500U 14-Inch 1080p Laptop w/ Nvidia GeForce MX350 GPU, 8GB DDR4 RAM and 256GB SSD for $549.99 from Best Buy (List price $699.99) – Set of 2 for $49.98 from Amazon (List price $64.99)
Amazon has been an integral part of the gaming universe ever since it acquired Twitch in 2014. That’s also when Amazon Game Studios started working with Relentless Studios on a multiplayer shooter called Crucible. The game launched earlier this year, but Amazon a few weeks later. Now, Amazon is admitting defeat and . Crucible was just the latest in a long line of multiplayer first-person shooters such as Overwatch, Apex Legends, Destiny, and many more. Then you have the similar but distinct “battle royale” shooters like PUBG and Fortnite. This is a crowded space, to put it mildly, but Amazon forged ahead with Crucible anyway.
