Xiaomi Air Charge claims it's capable of 5W wireless charging over several meters, but is it? TechSpot

Counterpoint: While it’s great to see innovation and the advancement of technology, this Xiaomi announcement is purely marketing hype and it will almost certainly never hit the market. From an engineering perspective, the efficiencies of these transmitters are so low that this device would likely require 1000W+ of input power...





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Redditors rally as Dogecoin halves in value following a sevenfold surge last week TechSpot

Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency featuring the famed “doge” shiba-inu meme, famously started as a bit of a meme itself. Never terribly successful, but consistently in the crypto zeitgeist, the coin has made headlines this week as the ever-growing community of day-traders on Reddit and Twitter decided to focus their efforts on...





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Nvidia brings GeForce Now to Chrome and Apple M1 devices TechSpot

Nvidia's inclusion of Apple M1 support is practical, and the snubbing of Apple, who continues to disallow game streaming services on the App Store, is merely a bonus. But the addition of Chrome support is (or at least appears to be) almost entirely an act of spite against Google, who...





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Hyundai executives 'divided' over Apple Car partnership TechSpot

Earlier this month, Hyundai confirmed that it was in talks with Apple concerning the future production of an autonomous electric car. The news—which claimed that a deal could be inked as early as March—sent Hyundai stock skyward.





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Leaked benchmarks show Samsung's unreleased SoC with Radeon graphics trounce Apple's A14 Bionic TechSpot

When Samsung announced the Exynos 2100 mobile platform, it outlined a number of improvements that make it competitive with the new and popular SoC in town -- the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888. However, that's because with the new Exynos chip and the Snapdragon 888 bear some similarities in terms of the...





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AutoX has launched its robotaxi service in Shenzhen TechSpot

If you live in Shenzhen, you can take one of AutoX's vehicles out for a spin right now. You'll need to be approved for the company's pilot program first, but once you are, hailing a robocab should be as easy as pulling up the AutoX app.





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Nostalgic MMO Old School RuneScape is coming to Steam in February TechSpot

This is a massive milestone for the game's development studio, Jagex. Though OSRS did reach an astounding 170,000 players in 2020 during the game's second major "League" event, it averaged a much lower (but still significant, for what the game is) 60-80,000 concurrent players in the months following.





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Nintendo's upgraded handheld might be called the Super Switch TechSpot

The new handheld, previously referred to in rumors as the Nintendo Switch Pro, might actually hit the market as the Super Switch. Why the Super Switch, you ask?





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Opinion: Hardware is Hard TechSpot

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The uncensored version of Left 4 Dead 2 is finally available in Germany TechSpot

Left 4 Dead 2 is the 2009 sequel to Valve’s original Left 4 Dead, which arrived one year earlier. Both feature a variety of campaigns that afford a movie-like experience with a heavy emphasis on multiplayer / cooperative gameplay.





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Someone modified an iPod Classic to run Spotify TechSpot

YouTuber Guy Dupont detailed the work performed on this 2004 iPod Classic to spruce it up. The main goal was to make it compatible with Spotify, which meant it needed Wi-Fi to talk to the service. The modder also added Bluetooth audio so the device can stream to a wireless...





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Alleged RTX 3080 Ti benchmarks put performance almost on par with the RTX 3090 TechSpot

Alleged details of the RTX 3080 Ti (or it could be called the RTX 3080 20GB or RTX 3080 Super) appeared on Chinese video-sharing service Bilibili and were spotted by Twitter user HXL. It include CPU-Z stills that confirm the 20GB of GDDR6X memory.





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Apple led the way as tablet shipments reached new heights in 2020 TechSpot

Data from market research firm IDC released earlier this week showed the smartphone market rebounded in the fourth quarter of 2020, helped by Apple shipping more handsets than any other vendor has ever managed in a single quarter—90.1 million.





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Xiaomi announces Mi Air Charge tech capable of 5W wireless charging over several meters TechSpot

The Qi wireless charging standard that most electronics employ these days still requires the host and receiver to be in very close proximity, accepting no more than 4cm (1.6-inches) of distance for charging. And while power output has been gradually improving over the years, companies like Xiaomi have been coming...





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Gambling apps are coming to the Google Play Store in the US TechSpot

Right now, only Android users in the UK, Brazil, Ireland, and France can access real-money gambling apps on the Play Store. According to 9to5Google, this will change on March 1 when they’ll be permitted in 15 new locations: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway,...





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Facebook could take Apple to court over iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency feature TechSpot

By now, it's no longer a secret that Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature in iOS 14 has prompted Facebook to essentially declare war on the Cupertino giant. To that end, the social network has been using everything from executive statements to newspaper ads and even shoving policy changes in users'...





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You can grab Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator and the Immortals Fenyx Rising demo free right now TechSpot

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator (UEBS) lets you live out your “who would win between...” fantasies. There are quite a few unit types to experiment with, including T-Rex, mech walkers, chickens, zombies, knights, giant ogres, and more.





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