Samsung Thailand tipped off early reservations for the Galaxy S21 series and there’s a neat way to secure one of the upcoming S-series flagships. The first 100 entrants can legally purchase an S21 for just THB 21 ($0.70) so long as they register for a limited time raffle on Samsung Thailand’s website and trade in an old digital camera.
Once registered, the first 100 entrants will receive a…
Xiaomi announced the vanilla Mi 11 just last week and we expect a Pro version to follow sometime in February. But what about the Lite model? Well, thanks to a huge leak we now that’s on the way too and we even got the majority of its specs. The scoop comes from an…
Dell unveil world's first 40" curved wide-screen 5K monitor, other UltraSharp monitors too
January 7, 2021
As other competitors launch ultra sharp monitors, Dell has also decided to get into it. At a recent event, besides new Latitude laptops, Dell also unveiled several new monitors, including some designed for video conferencing one some for interactive presentations.
Let’s…
Samsung will be the exclusive supplier of LTPO OLED displays for the upcoming iPhone 13 generation, reports . Those panels will be used on the two Pro models and will run at 120 Hz.
LTPO panels are more power efficient than their LTPS counterparts. A key advantage is that they can have an adaptive refresh rate without additional hardware. The vanilla iPhone 13 duo will continue using the older…
Images of the official Samsung cases for the Galaxy S21 phones leaked a week ago. We even saw a case designed with the S Pen in mind. Now let’s have a look at what third-party case makers have in mind.
Samsung Galaxy S21 cases
Galaxy S21 Ultra cases
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TikTok announced today a new augmented reality effect that is the first to use the LiDAR scanner of iPhone 12 Pro models. The effect celebrates the New Year with AR golden balloons and confetti that interact with the environment thanks to the new iPhone sensor. The…
Defense department reform office shuts down
January 7, 2021
WASHINGTON — With Congress overriding President Donald Trump’s veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon’s chief management officer job has officially been eliminated.
While the NDAA language calls for the roles and responsibilities of the office to be divested to other parts of the defense department over the next year, the CMO role itself was eliminated…
The general layout of YouTube Music has remained largely the same since its 2018 relaunch, but a small change online and on Android sees Google tweak the background theme.
Unlike other Google apps, YouTube Music started off with a dark theme and doesn’t have a light…
Quick Charge Podcast: January 6, 2021
January 7, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark
January 7, 2021
In late 2019, researchers affiliated with Facebook, New York University (NYU), the University of Washington, and DeepMind proposed SuperGLUE, a new benchmark for AI designed to summarize research progress on a diverse set of language tasks. Building on the GLUE benchmark, which had been introduced one year prior, SuperGLUE includes a set of more difficult language understanding challenges…
