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ASRock Unveil X399 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming Motherboard
ASRock X399 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming Motherboard X399 Threadripper boards are coming out of the woodwork thick and fast. Of course, ASRock has joined this again with their latest offering. The X399 Fatal1ty Professional Gaming Motherboard. The Fatal1ty Professional Gaming board also has a party piece in the form of a…
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Next Generation Bluetooth is Great News for Smart Home Tech
Next Generation Bluetooth For the last few years, Bluetooth technology has taken a bit of a back burner as the go to choice for wireless connectivity. With the likes of Wi-Fi on the market, Bluetooth struggled to compete with its limited range and compatibility. However, Bluetooth SIG, the company that…
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Tenda Introduces New USB 3.0 U12 AC1300 Wireless Network Adapter
Shenzen based Tenda is introducing the new USB 3.0 based U12 AC1300 Wireless network adapter that lets users connect to a network easily by simple plug and play while taking advantage of the fast connection speed offered by the interface. It is fully compatible with Windows XP, 7, 8, 8.1,…
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Nintendo Blames “Manufacturing Variation” for Joy-Con Connectivity Issues
Since the release of the Nintendo Switch earlier this month, many users have reported connectivity issues with the console’s Joy-Con controllers, particularly the left-sided one. After promising to investigate the issue, Nintendo has now given a potential reason for the problems. In a statement to Kotaku, Nintendo admitted that a…
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Bluetooth 5 – The Upgrade We’ve Been Waiting For
Bluetooth is everywhere these days, whether we’re playing music wirelessly or tethering our cars to smartphones for additional features. Of course, the current standard has limits, most notably the range it can be used at and the speed it offers, the latter of which being most apparent when transferring large…
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ViaSat Plans Terabit Cabable Internet Satellites
High-speed internet is becoming more and more accessible to the world, from brand new fibre networks to expanding coverage of mobile data network. Some places on the planet are still denied these high-speed connections. Many companies are planning to eliminate these internet blackspots by making use of internet satellites, but…
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Li-Fi Networks 100 Times Faster Than WiFi in Real World Tests
Thanks to Estonian startup Velmenni, Li-Fi is making the leap out of the labs and into the real world. Velmenni have announced that they have been going ahead with trials of the technology in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, in some of the city’s offices and industrial areas. Velmenni reports…
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Bolt Electric Motorbikes Arrives With Connectivity
In theory, the notion of an electric motorbike is a good idea and brings benefits which include easy charging, being cheap to run and eco-friendly. The problem lies with both choice and also the life and charge time of the battery; this is where a start-up by the name of…
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Sony Announced That PSN Europe Is Going to Get Its Service Status Indicator Soon
Up until now, Sony had no feature that would allow users to check if the PSN network is up and running in Europe. Whether you had trouble connecting to the store or accessing online functions, you wouldn’t have known if your Internet connection was at fault or Sony’s PSN was…
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Add Wi-Fi to Anything for $19
A company that goes by the name of Spark has announced it’s Photon board, a $19 device that makes adding Wi-Fi connectivity to electronics easier. The board is being marketed to people making their own gadgets who want a much more efficient and less technically demaning way to get them…
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Maps Shows Every Single Device Connected to the Internet
This wonderful map was created by John Matherly, the founder of Shodan, a search engine that searches for connections between devices. It took just five hours to ping every IP address on the internet and store every positive response, then another 12 hours to plot the responses on a heat…
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US Government Wants To Create Experimental Wireless-Tech City
The US Government are looking to push forward with their experimental city / town ideas. While building something isn’t completely out of the questions, they’re really looking for a couple of towns or cities to volunteer some of their land to test theories on “spectrum sharing.” With much of the airwaves held…
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First Intel Core i3 Powered Chromebook Launched by Acer
Acer has just announced its release of the first 4th Generation Intel Core i3 CPU-powered chromebook, having it be the first company to release a chromebook device with similar performance ratios. The company has stated that the Acer C720, powered by the latter processor, is available in two models in…
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New Chip To Promise Internet 400 Times Faster Than Fiber?
For those people who have bad internet connections or suffer from bad download speeds and lag never fear because IBM researchers in Switzerland have unveiled their prototype for an energy-efficient analogue-to-digital converter that will be able to support connections as fast as 400 gigabits per second. For those thinking wow…
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‘Movie in a split second’ Downloads Expected In Upcoming 5G Network Connection
South Korea is reportedly working on delivering 5G network connection by 2020. This comes as a $1.5 billion dollar project from the South Korean science ministry, which is said that users will be able to download a movie in a split second through the 5G connection. “We helped fuel national…
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