As soon as you remove the stylus from its slot (or by tapping the S-Pen button at any time while the pen is hovering above the display), a circular Air Command pop-up appears. By hovering the stylus above the pop-up you can view five different options, which I’ll go through one-by-one below. Action Memo is the first option: a floating memo window with greater functionality than was seen in the S Note floating window in the Galaxy Note II....
This year the Eco Remote has another trick up its sleeve. Along with unveiling its newest top-of-the-line TVs, Samsung announced that its Eco Remote now includes radio frequency harvesting. A “rectenna” receives radio signals from your WiFi router and converts them to energy. Charging via RF harvesting can be very slow because the amount of captured energy is not that much. However, TV remotes are a perfect application since they are low-power devices....
The Samsung SM951 matched the Intel SSD 750 Series 1.2TB in the PCMark 7 importing pictures test with an impressive 412MB/s. The video editing result is truly shocking as the SM951 delivers a throughput of 568MB/s or 98% faster than the SSD 750 Series. The SM951 bested the SSD 750 Series in PCMark 7’s starting applications test by providing 28% more performance. The SM951 crushed the SSD 750 Series again with 38% more bandwidth in PCMark 7’s gaming test....
In spite of its affordable nature, the 840 Evo was a great performer and wasn’t far off pace when compared to the upper echelon of SSDs, including Samsung’s own highly regarded 840 Pro. Helping to improve performance were two caching mechanisms, including one called ‘RAPID’ designed to can tap into RAM. The only question mark surrounding the 840 Evo was reliability as it used rather unproven TLC flash which was specified to provide less writes than more traditional MLC memory....
It’s been just over a month since Samsung revealed the all-new Galaxy S22 at its Unpacked event, and this Thursday is the turn of its mid-range line. The Awesome Galaxy A Event will be livestreamed on YouTube and Samsung.com at 10am ET / 7am PT on March 17. The Galaxy A series doesn’t get the sort of coverage that Samsung’s expensive S line and foldables (no more Notes) enjoy, yet the A12 was the world’s best-selling Android phone last year....
As you likely know, while manufacturers claim impressive peak I/O performance out of the box, this performance can diminish over time. Unlike a conventional hard drive, any write operation made to an SSD is a two-step process: a data block must be erased and then written to. Obviously if the drive is new and unused there will be nothing to erase and therefore the first step can be bypassed, but this only happens once unless the drive is trimmed....
The motherboard tray is easily removed allowing us to install the motherboard along with CPU and cooler. It’s also possible to install the CPU cooler at any point thanks to the oversized motherboard tray cut-out which provides access to the underside of the motherboard. Still, with the FT04 being such a cramped case we would much prefer to install the CPU cooler with the tray removed from the case. For demonstration purposes we installed the large Thermalright Macho Rev....
Truth be told, the situation with the RVX01 is very much the same. This case was better in some respects while worse in others. The only good news here is that most people buying a ‘budget’ gaming case such as the RVX01 will probably install all their hardware and forget about it for a year or more. Installation started by squeezing the motherboard in and while I would normally install the memory and CPU heatsink prior to inserting the motherboard, I don’t recommend doing this with the RVX01....
Sadly we cannot say the same for SLI. Clearly the technology is not working in Splinter Cell Conviction using the current patch/drivers. With just 33fps on average, even the (single) Radeon HD 5870 struggled to provide perfectly playable performance here. Using the medium preset we still see that Crossfire is working, though this time the Radeon HD 5870 duo only provided a 21% performance boost. The single Radeon HD 5870 configuration is again just a single frame slower than the GeForce GTX 480, with both graphics cards rendering well over 40fps....
Young wrote an open letter to his manager Frank Gironda, and Tom Corson, co-chairman and chief operating officer of Warner Records, on Tuesday. Part of the letter, which mentioned Rogan specifically, read: “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule....
SpaceX’s Starlink has launched a version of its internet service called Starlink Maritime, which, as the name suggests, is designed for the extreme conditions faced by boats, ships, yachts, and oil rigs. Starlink Maritime doesn’t come cheap. First, customers must buy a pair of rugged Starlink dishes for a one-time cost of $10,000. They must then pay $5,000 per month to access the service. For comparison, Starlink’s residential and RV services have a $599 hardware fee and cost $110 (home) or $135 (RV) per month, though using the latter while the vehicle is in motion voids the warranty....
The enclosure itself is constructed of black plastic and brushed aluminum and is strikingly similar to Western Digital’s My Book external hard drive. A vertical transparent strip runs the length of the enclosure on the front and is illuminated with a solid blue LED when on that flickers when the drive inside is being accessed. The left side of the enclosure features a small cooling fan that draws air in and expels it via slotted vents on top of the enclosure....
Steamdb’s charts show that Steam hit 29,201,174 users on January 23rd at around 9am EST. Steam’s own stats put the peak number at 29,198,370. Either way, Steam has climbed over the last milestone before hitting 30 million. The number of users actually playing a game at the same time also hit a record on the 23rd, reaching 8.5 million. That beats the previous record of 8.1 million set in March 2020, just as Covid-19 lockdowns had begun....
Only one path leads to salvation, the game’s description reads. The real kicker is right in the game’s name. Its creator challenges players to complete the game before asking for a refund on Steam. As you may know, Valve allows gamers to request a refund for nearly any reason so long as the request is made within two weeks of purchase and you’ve logged less than two hours of playtime....
As the dust settles with Apple’s new Mac Studio and Studio Display, reviewers so far love the former’s power, compact design, and connectivity while praising the latter’s webcam, speakers, and elegant design. However, they’re both quite expensive, and the Mac Studio lacks upgradeability, while the Studio Display doesn’t support HDR and high refresh rates. The folks over at iFixit disassembled the two devices and learned a great deal about them, including how easily one can repair them if things go wrong....
Motherboard, Processor, Memory The dual-core Core i3-6100 is perfect for our Entry-Level Rig, providing users with four threads via HT. Time and time again we’ve found that the Core i3 is able to deliver performance similar to the more expensive Core i5 and Core i7 processors when playing most PC games. Furthermore, the Core i3 is snappy when it comes to general computing tasks. Given Skylake’s solid performance and that its platform is very current, it’s hard to recommend anything else – including AMD’s Bulldozer chips....
Security researchers show off the RTX 4090’s password cracking power The new GPU significantly reduces the time required to obtain or recover user passwords Security researcher and password cracker Sam Croley posted benchmarks highlighting the RTX 4090’s password-cracking muscle. Nvidia’s newest flagship GPU shattered the RTX 3090’s previous benchmark records and doubled performance across almost every algorithm tested. The cracked passwords adhered to security best practices and included random letter cases, symbols, and numbers....
In March, Musk criticized Twitter’s stance on free speech. In a poll, he asked followers if Twitter “rigorously adheres” to the principles outlined in the First Amendment. Seventy percent responded, “No.” He followed up by asking what should be done about it. Following Monday’s 13G filing with the SEC, Musk polled followers again, asking if Twitter should have an edit button, purposefully misspelling “yes” as “yse” and “no” as “on....
BMW is no stranger to EVs. In 1972, the automaker stuck a bunch of 12-volt batteries into a gutted 1602 for the Munich Olympic games. The vehicle could go just 37 miles and took a lifetime to get to any usable speeds. Fifty years ago was also the birthdate of the German automaker’s motorsports arm, which has transformed into the M performance brand that touches so much of the BMW lineup of vehicles....
