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Oppo unveils 150W SuperVOOC charger and battery healing technology, demos 240W charging

March 1, 2022
Just a few days ago Oppo unveiled the Find X5 flagship duo, which supports the new 80W SuperVOOC. Today at its MWC presentation the company announced what comes next – an upgraded system that will nearly double the power. In a laboratory test, the upcoming 150W SuperVOOC system charged a prototype phone with a 4,500 mAh battery from 1% to 50% in just 5 minutes and got all the way to 100% in a…
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Xiaomi 12 series will reportedly go global on March 15

March 1, 2022
Xiaomi is mostly staying out of the MWC proceedings, letting its Poco brand take the spotlight for a change. The company won’t stay quiet for long as sources claim that there is a big Xiaomi announcement coming soon – the 12-series flagships are going global. An online event on March 15 will announce the arrival of the Xiaomi 12 series in Europe and perhaps other regions (India, one imagines)…
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Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro and Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 hands-on

March 1, 2022
Samsung already announced its Galaxy S22 smartphones, so the Galaxy Book2 Pro laptops were next in line. Right before the first day of MWC 2022 in Barcelona, we saw the announcement of the Galaxy Book2 Pro and Galaxy Book2 Pro 360 – two laptops, each of them coming in two sizes. The first one is a straightforward notebook with an AMOLED panel and S Pen support, while the 360 has a hinge that…
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Sony Xperia 1 IV renders leak

March 1, 2022
Sony’s 2022 flagship Android smartphone has been portrayed in leaked renders today, showing it from all angles in all its boxy, flat-sided glory. The phone is obviously expected to be the successor to the Xperia 1 III from 2021, and it’s very easily recognizable…
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Breaking down the AI wizardry of 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'

March 1, 2022
There are some wild stats about Microsoft Flight Simulator. In the sim, all 117 million lakes in the world are rendered in their appropriate places. Each plane has more than 1,000 points that respond to a variety of conditions at any given time, including wind, atmosphere and player input. Developers pushed 2.5 petabytes of Bing Maps satellite photo data through Azure’s machine learning systems…
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