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Qualcomm last year introduced a reference design for a smart wireless headset (Qualcomm Smart Headset Platform) based on the previously announced energy-efficient QCC5100 single-chip audio system with Bluetooth support. The headset initially supported integration with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. Now the company has announced a partnership with Google that will add support for Google Assistant and [β¦]
Wacom has introduced the updated Intuos Pro Small, a compact wireless drawing tablet designed for convenience and portability. The Intuos Pro Small is the latest in the Intuos Pro series to receive a design update; The Medium and Large versions, respectively, were re-released a few years ago with thinner bezels and an updated Pro Pen 2 with 8192 [β¦]
Nintendo has announced that digital-only content will be a core part of its business going forward. She came to this decision after Tetris 99 greatly increased sales of the Nintendo Switch Online service. Nintendo Switch Online is at the center of Nintendo's digital strategy. For a regular subscription fee, the service offers Nintendo Switch owners access to online features [β¦]
The latest report from IPlytics shows that Chinese companies have taken the lead in the 5G patent race. Huawei holds first place in terms of the number of issued patents. Developers from the Middle Kingdom are leading the list of the largest patent applications Standards Essential Patents (SEP) in the 5G field as of April 2019. The share of patent applications by Chinese [β¦]
This year, the famous manufacturer of computer components, ASUS, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Such a date, naturally, could not do without various kinds of festive events. In particular, a prize draw is dedicated to it, held on the website asus.com, but, having seen enough of the example of AMD, ASUS decided not to limit itself to this and has prepared limited anniversary series of motherboards, video cards [β¦]
Akasa has introduced an adapter called AK-PCCM2P-04, which allows you to connect up to two M.2 solid-state drives to the PCI Express connectors of the motherboard. The new product is made in the form of a compact expansion card with two PCI Express x4 connectors, one for each M.2 connector. One of them is located on the board itself, while the other is routed through a flexible cable [β¦]
Details of the future electric car of the British company Dyson have become known. Information has emerged that the developer has registered several new patents. The drawings attached to the patent documentation suggest that the future electric car looks very much like a Range Rover. Despite this, company CEO James Dyson said that the latest patents do not reveal the true [β¦]
The social network VKontakte is preparing to launch a service for selling audiobooks, which is expected to resolve legal disputes with the Eksmo publishing house. According to two sources in the book market, the service will be called Biblio, its test version has already been launched. It is reported that the service will work on the VK Apps platform, and partners will receive a percentage of the revenue, but the percentage [β¦]
Volkswagen has announced that pre-orders for the ID.3 electric hatchback have exceeded 10 units in just 000 hours. The German automaker opened pre-orders for the ID.24 on Wednesday, requiring customers to pay a β¬3 deposit. Volkswagen announced that the entry-level electric car will cost less than 1000 thousand euros and its deliveries [β¦]
On May 14, the first game independently developed by the Asobo studio will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC - the adventure stealth action game A Plague Tale: Innocence. The authors and publisher Focus Home Interactive presented a launch trailer that allows you to plunge into the atmosphere of a dark journey through medieval France, torn apart by war and plague. The video shows many cinematic [β¦]
The release of the DXVK 1.2 layer has been published, providing an implementation of DXGI (DirectX Graphics Infrastructure), Direct3D 10 and Direct3D 11, working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan API. DXVK requires drivers that support the Vulkan API, such as AMD RADV 18.3, AMDGPU PRO 18.50, NVIDIA 415.22, Intel ANV 19.0, and AMDVLK. DXVK can be used to run 3D applications and [β¦]
Continuing the series of notes on lesser-known bash features, here are seven variables you might not know about. 1) PROMPT_COMMAND You may already know how to manipulate the prompt to show various useful information, but not everyone knows that you can run a shell command every time the prompt is shown. In fact, many complex prompt manipulators [β¦]
