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Sony Unveils New A-Mount to E-Mount Adapter with Built-In AF Motor

September 1, 2020

In a surprise announcement this morning, Sony unveiled the new LA-EA5 lens adapter: a Sony A-mount to E-mount adapter that promises E-Mount autofocus and burst shooting performance when using Sony’s older A-mount glass, including lenses without a built-in AF motor. The LA-EA5 is a surprisingly compact adapter, given everything it’s promising. The adapter allegedly delivers “full support”…

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Nvidia Broadcast brings RTX-powered AI to livestreaming video

September 1, 2020

Nvidia is improving the suite of features it offers to livestreamers with its GeForce RTX graphics cards. The company introduced a revamped Nvidia Broadcast tool today as part of the rollout of its next-generation RTX 3000-series GPUs. This software uses RTX-accelerated…

Nvidia’s RTX 3080 is more exciting than PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X

September 1, 2020

Even in 2013, everyone knew that the new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles weren’t really a match for PC gaming. Those consoles came with an underpowered and outdated AMD CPU that would go on to limit what was possible throughout the entire generation. But in 2020…

Samsung Galaxy M51 goes official w/ 7,000mAh battery, $430 price

September 1, 2020

Samsung has very quietly unveiled the Galaxy M51, yet another affordable Android smartphone from the South Korean firm. Having leaked a few times in the month prior, those looking for an affordable smartphone might be in luck with this latest addition to a packed middle market for late 2020. The device appeared on with little to no fanfare. As for specifications, the Galaxy M51 comes with…

Pokemon Go ending support for Android Lollipop devices from October

September 1, 2020

Pokemon Go is set to end support for older Android device from October, meaning that if you’re hanging on to an older handset, now is the time to upgrade. Considering that devices running Android Lollipop will likely have shipped from 2014 to 2015, it’s more impressive…

OxygenOS 10.5.6 for OnePlus Nord brings yet more camera tweaks, more

September 1, 2020

OxygenOS 10.5.6 is now rolling out for the affordable OnePlus Nord, with the patch bringing some further camera improvements plus some power consumption boosts. Dropping just a week after a substantial OxygenOS 10.5.5 update, this patch was confirmed as rolling out over on…

Android 11 DP4 rolling out now for OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro

September 1, 2020

While we have already spent some time with what was supposed to be the final Android 11 Developer Preview for the OnePlus 8 series, an extra DP4 has now dropped with some notable tweaks and performance boosts. Ahead of the final release of OxygenOS 11 in the coming weeks, OnePlus offered users the chance to give it’s latest OS overhaul a trial run ahead of time. While the look and feel…

Ten years ago, Epic helped to legitimize iOS as a gaming platform with a small demo

September 1, 2020

On September 1st, 2010, Epic Games released its Citadel tech demo in the Apple App Store. It was a boring thing to actually play — you simply walked around a medieval town in first-person perspective, taking in the sights with no objectives — but this calm debut marked a…

Motorola Moto One 5G goes official w/ Snapdragon 765G, sub $500 price

September 1, 2020

The Motorola Moto One 5G has now been quietly unveiled in the United States, with the smartphone essentially being a rebrand of the Motorola G 5G Plus that was released in European markets earlier this month. We don’t know the explicit US dollar pricing, but we do know…

Kuo: We’ll be getting fewer super-fast 5G iPhones than expected

September 1, 2020

This is the year of 5G iPhones, but one of the biggest unknowns around the iPhone 12 is which of 5G we’ll get. All models in all countries are likely to support sub-6GHz 5G. This is effectively the next step up from 4G/LTE, with similar range but offering only a relatively modest bump in speed. But when people talk about super-fast 5G, they are talking about a very different beast: mmWave 5G.