ifa 2016
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Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need To Know
Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist. Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock”,…
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The Next TV You Buy Will Be More High-Tech Than Ever, But Not How You Might Think
Ever since LCD TVs hit the scene about 10 years ago, we’ve seen small and incremental changes — better backlighting, higher quality panels. The last couple of years has been tumultuous, though, and 4K is now a thing (you’d be silly to buy a TV without it). With that done, TV makers are back to…
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It’s Official: Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Worldwide
At a press conference in Seoul, Samsung has confirmed that it will recall around a million Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones that have been sold to consumers and shipped to retailers around the world. 50,000 Galaxy Note7 owners in Australia — will join a massive recall conducted over potential battery fire risks.
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Just When You Thought Sony’s Quest To Revive The Walkman Couldn’t Get More Ridiculous
High-resolution audio purportedly provides a vastly superior listening experience to the highly compressed MP3s we’ve all been downloading for years. Convincing people to ditch their massive music collections and carry around a separate high-res player hasn’t been easy for Sony, but surely high-res audio adoption will now skyrocket thanks to this new $US3680 ($4869) gold-plated…