Month: April 2021
Should I buy a 65-inch TV? LG CX OLED
Should you buy a 65-inch TV? The short answer is: if you can afford it, a bigger TV is often a better TV. In the UK, the average screen size grew from around the size of a 32-inch TV at the turn of the century up to that of a…
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Google’s AI reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 states
More than two years after it initially began trials, Google’s AI-powered reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 US states. This looks like it’ll be the limit of Duplex’s coverage in the US for the time being, as Google tells The Verge it has no timeline to launch the…
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Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M, led by Creandum and a ‘Skyscanner Mafia’
Launched in only November last year, the Craft Docs app — which was built from the ground up as an iOS app for collaborative documents — has secured an $8 million Series A round led by Creandum. Also participating was InReach Ventures, Gareth Williams, former CEO and co-founder of Skyscanner,…
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Nvidia RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti laptop GPUs look promising in leaked benchmarks Nvidia powered Razer laptop
Nvidia’s purportedly incoming laptop GPUs, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050, have appeared in some leaked benchmarks, looking reasonably promising for next-gen entry-level models. The fresh leakage comes from Notebookcheck.net, which details the various configurations of these graphics solutions, as well as providing an interesting selection of benchmarks…
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Intel Core i9-11900K hits a huge 7.3GHz overclock – but past CPUs have done better Intel i9-11900K CPU
How fast can Intel’s new Core i9-11900K processor go? We saw it hit 7GHz already in some early attempts, but now, a professional overclocker has pushed the Rocket Lake flagship to 7.31GHz, a new record for the chip. This was achieved by veteran Taiwanese overclocker Hicookie (who is backed by…
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Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android
Microsoft has shut down its Cortana app for iOS and Android. It’s the latest in a series of moves to end support for Cortana across multiple devices, including Microsoft’s own Surface Headphones. The Cortana app for iOS and Android is no longer supported, and Microsoft has removed it from both…
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