Month: May 2020
Core i9-10900K hits new highs for Intel with amazing 7.7GHz overclock – and world record RAM speeds
Intel’s Core i9-10900K processor is now on sale, and the new Comet Lake 10-core flagship has already been overclocked to 7.7GHz, outdoing the 9900K’s record overclock. That’s a mind-boggling speed, naturally, but not one that the average punter will even be able to think about achieving with simple air or…
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Doom Eternal on PC sends Denuvo Anti-Cheat to hell with next update
Doom Eternal will kill off the recently added Denuvo Anti-Cheat software in the game’s next update on PC. After fans reported they were unable to play Doom Eternal’s campaign without installing the divisive anti-cheat software, developer id Software announced that it would be removed in update 1.1. In a candid…
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This UX specialist opened 12 UK bank accounts and ‘logged everything’
“I’ve got a really high attention to detail, which might sound great, but it’s possibly a curse because I can’t help but spot problems with everything around me,” says Peter Ramsey. He’s the founder of Built for Mars, a U.K.-based UX advisory, and he has spent the last three months…
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Half of Xiaomi revenue now comes from outside China
Smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi overcame the challenge of the coronavirus crisis to increase revenues by 13.6 per cent in Q1. While lockdown measures in China had affected both demand and supply during the quarter, the easing of restrictions aided a recovery and production levels have now returned to pre-pandemic levels. Income…
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Why don’t more VCs care about good tech (yet)?
Johannes Lenhard Contributor One of the VC partners in a well-established London firm told me straight out: Venture capital is money [laughs], it is a risky asset class, perhaps the wildest asset class […] and it has the biggest possible returns. I have detailed elsewhere how I think caring more…
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Apple and Google’s COVID-19 notification system won’t work in a vaccum
Last month, before Google and Apple announced their joint effort to enable COVID-19 exposure notifications, I wrote about the trouble with using Bluetooth-based solutions for contact tracing. Chief among the issues is getting a meaningful number of people to download any app in the first place, public health officials told…
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