The Mi A3 may be on its way out but Xiaomi continues to grace owners of the phone with monthly updates. After the November update came rather late, the Mi A3 is now receiving the December patch. It’s a rather unusual OTA as well, weighing in at a mass…
MediaTek launches the Dimensity 9000, debuting on the Redmi K50, OPPO Find X, and a Vivo premium phone
MediaTek has now officially launched its first flagship chipset in—the Dimensity 9000. The new SoC is built on TSMC’s vaunted 4 nm manufacturing process and will rival the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 when it debuts on the Redmi K50 Gaming and premium phone…
Zero stars: One of Europe’s best-selling electric cars gets a miserable safety rating
While many other electric cars garner good safety ratings for their combination of modern driving assists and traditional safety features, the top-selling Renault Zoe unfortunately received the worst possible rating in the latest NCAP crash test.
Microsoft patches spoofing vulnerability that was exploited to spread malware
Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability that affected the AppX installer in Windows. The vulnerability allowed hackers to create packages to infect systems with malware. The patch was included in the December Patch Tuesday update.
Anonymous financial market sources claim that the Russian central bank is preparing to ban all cryptocurrency investments
Financial market sources familiar with the Russian central bank have told Reuters that the bank is preparing to outlaw all investments in cryptocurrencies. Reportedly, the central bank is considering this due to cryptocurrencies posing a risk to finan…
Intel leaks “Elasti” codename for 2023 DG3 ARC Battlemage dGPUs in latest NUC graphics driver
Apart from two “Elasti” dGPU models that may be released in 2023, the NUC driver also mentions iGPU models for quite a few Alder Lake successors, including Raptor Lake-S, Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake. Rumor has it that the “Elasti” family wi…
Realme GT2 Pro: new camera specs leak out for the flagship smartphone
The Realme GT2 Pro is set for launch with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 top-end processor later in December 2021. It has been teased as doing so with a photography-related feature completely new to the market, which the OEM has now teased via official channe…
TSMC announces N4X production nodes specifically designed for HPC
TSMC sees great potential in the HPC sector and will soon offer specialized production nodes like the N4X, which is expected to deliver 15% improved performance over the current N5 nodes. N4X risk production is scheduled for the first half of 2023.
Huawei teases its first ever smart glasses with HarmonyOS
Huawei has just released some details on another new product for its increasingly large-scale event later in December 2021. It is the OEM’s latest generation of smart glasses. They are speaker-enabled wearables like their predecessors, although they w…
Melania Trump to release her first NFT this holiday season
The first non-fungible token of the former first lady of the United States will go on sale this holiday season. Named Melania’s Vision, it uses watercolor art by Marc-Antoine Coulon. Its goal is to embody the “cobalt blue eyes” of Mrs. Trump and to de…