WhatsApp Communities will Start Rolling Out Soon to All Users with More Features Coming in the Following Months Previously, WhatsApp would only allow you to audio-call 32 people but now you can connect with all of them via video calls as well. With this feature, WhatsApp is looking to take on the likes of Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, and a lot of other services that offer something similar. The Communities feature is built with small and large organizations as well as businesses, both small and large in mind....

GaN-based charger by Wii Power at Computex 2022 reported offering the world’s first 340 W charger for consumer gaming laptops The 340 W GaN-based laptop charger from Wii Power is possibly the most substantial wattage power seen in the current marketplace. Readers will note that the GaN charger is only a conceptual design and not the final product. Still, it does allow Computex attendees to glimpse into the future of charging, especially for gaming laptops....

The demo program will reportedly roll out to Xbox Game Pass subscribers sometime this year. In contrast to Sony, which is specifically focusing on offering demos of full-price games, Microsoft’s program will likely emphasize indie developers. Those who opt to participate in the program will be given tools to create demos and may even be compensated for doing so. Again, this contrasts with Sony, as reports have indicated they’re requiring devs to provide demos and there’s been no talk of compensation for doing so....

DIY Project Involves Re-Purposing a Significantly Older 5K iMac Into a Studio Display Luke Miani purchased a 2014 5K iMac, which he intended to use for his DIY Studio Display. Already eight years old, the 5K iMac’s specifications are decent, but nothing noteworthy in the face of the current competition, featuring a fourth-generation quad-core Core i7 CPU, 24GB DDR3 RAM, and a 4GB AMD Radeon R9 M295X GPU. Those scouring the internet specifically for this model will be pleased to know that it can run Apple’s latest macOS Catalina update....

Own a Cellular iPad Air 4 with 256GB of Storage and Take Your Digital Life Everywhere with You Right now, in that pool of gems, is the 2020 iPad Air with 256GB of internal storage and cellular connectivity, and it is available for a low price of just $549.95. Quantity is extremely limited and these things tend to sell out fast. Buy 2020 Apple iPad Air 4th Gen (10.9 inch, Wi-Fi + Cellular, 256GB) Silver (Renewed) - $549....

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Bitcoin has managed to return from a precipice, as crucial support levels seem to have halted the relentless onslaught of liquidation waves, aided by a broad-based rally in the wider risk asset universe. As the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization rescaled the $30,000 price level over the weekend, a veritable cacophony of headlines pronounced gleefully that Bitcoin’s price just established a new nadir and that the most painful period for crypto investors and Bitcoin enthusiasts has now been relegated to the past, at least for the foreseeable future....

Elon Musk has suffered a number of setbacks recently in his attempt to legally extricate himself from the Twitter takeover agreement. However, a new whistleblower might just cast enough aspersions on Twitter’s bot-related claims to provide the CEO of Tesla with a graceful exit. As per the reporting by NY Post, a second whistleblower is currently mulling over the implications of testifying at the upcoming legal showdown between Elon Musk and Twitter, scheduled to commence on the 17th of October at the Delaware Court of Chancery....

Here’s a bit more detail about what to expect from Age of Empires IV Seasons 1 and 2: Age of Empires IV is available now on PC. Season 1 should kick off sometime in April. The Age of Empires IV Content Editor (Beta) and mods. We’re excited to kick off this new journey and allow creators to make and share their own content with the wider community! The Content Editor is a robust tool, and we’ve seen from you all in the past that the sky’s the limit with modding....

Simon Cohen from Digital Trends reviewed Apple’s latest wireless earbuds, calling them the best addition to your other Apple devices due to the seamless pairing, a feature that is not present when using Android phones. TechRadar’s Gareth Beavis says that the new H2 chip from Apple brings notable improvements to the table, such as improved audio quality, noise cancellation, and battery life. However, he is not pleased to see that the AirPods Pro 2 are available in just a single color and cost $249, which was the same price that the first-generation AirPods Pro came stamped with when they first materialized....

Alpha Z PRO Ultra HD Dual Camera Drone comes in sleek black body that gives off a sophisticated look. You can view real-time images with the compatible Wi-Fi app. It comes with headless mode so you do not need to adjust the position of aircraft before flying. One-key automatic return enables it to find its way back automatically. The Flying Fox 4K Wide Angle Dual Camera Drone allows you to connect the distance between the aircraft and the current location of the controller and link them....

AMD AMF encoder catches up to Nvidia NVENC in recent testing thanks to B-Frames From the report, Griffith was capable of pushing the AMD AMF encoder to extremely comparable levels compared to NVIDIA and their new NVENC encoder seen in the RTX 20 and 30 series graphics cards. AMD Radeon graphics cards will now be as accessible as NVIDIA’s wares for streaming games using lower bitrates. The struggle for AMD encoding technology has plagued the company for many years, dating back to the Polaris GPUs (AMD 400 series) if not further back....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs With Next-Gen Zen 4 Cores And The AM5 Platform To Release As Early As September 2022 The AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs and the AM5 platform are hotly anticipated by many as it’s a completely new ecosystem designed for the next generation of gamers and content creators. The AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs will bring the company’s brand new Zen 4 core technology based on the 5nm process node to gamers first and will also deploy the new AM5 platform that offers a slew of new features such as DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5....

AMD RDNA 3 ‘Radeon RX 7000’ GPUs To Deliver Massive >50% Performance Per Watt Uplift With New 5nm Chiplet & Infinity Cache Architecture AMD confirmed that its RDNA 3 GPUs will be coming later this year with a huge performance uplift. The company’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, said that the next-gen GPUs for Radeon RX 7000 series will offer over 50% performance per watt uplift vs the existing RDNA 2 GPUs....

AMD Radeon & NVIDIA GeForce GPU Prices Now Nearing The MSRP-Level, Only 25% More Expensive 25% more expensive still isn’t ideal for graphics cards that launched back in 2020 but it’s better than where we saw the prices hovering around a year back. From their peak 3x over MSRP now falling to 1.25x over MSRP, this is a huge improvement. Besides the continued improvement in prices, the graphics cards are almost readily available in stocks across the globe....

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Overclocked Up To 3.5 GHz Effective Clock Speeds, RDNA 3 ‘Navi 31’ GPU Might Just End Up At 4 GHz With LN2 While the cards offer similar raster performance as the NVIDIA RTX 4080 at a lower price point, they do not have the ray tracing crunch power and despite AMD using the chiplet architecture, the GPUs just can’t rival the insane efficiency of Ada “AD103” GPU featured on the RTX 4080....

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6850 XT, RX 6750 XT To Feature 7nm RDNA 2 Refresh GPUs With 18 Gbps Memory The AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards are rumored to see a new RDNA 2 refresh around mid of 2022 (June-July). So far, the rumors only stated that they will be getting a graphics & memory clock bump but Moore’s Law is Dead says that his sources have confirmed that these chips will retain a 7nm process node and won’t utilize the newer 6nm RDNA 2 design as featured on the Navi 24 and its several mobile GPU outings....

AMD ROCm 5.3.3 updates today, with ten Linux operating systems showing full support of the newest implementation The recent change for ROCm fixes a problem with the rocPRIM and rocTHRUST libraries. The two libraries did not recognize the iteration types and other commands inside ROCm 5.3.x. The changes are now active within the latest 5.3.3 version, which went out yesterday. No other information or code was updated from AMD open-source engineers for ROCm 5....

AMD Ryzen AM4 Desktop CPU Refresh Specs & Prices Leak: Based on Zen 3D, Cezanne ‘Zen 3’, Renoir ‘Zen 2’ Dies The information comes from Videocardz and from our sources who have confirmed to us what the AMD Ryzen 5000 & Ryzen 4000 AM4 Desktop CPU refresh lineup would look like. It looks like AMD is going to offer at least nine new SKUs that will be using a mix of different Zen dies ranging from Zen 3D, Zen 3 ‘Cezanne’, Zen 3 ‘Vermeer’, and Zen 2 ‘Renoir’....

Better Late Than Never! AMD Brings Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 CPUs To The DIY Segment At one point, the Threadripper 5000 PRO CPUs from AMD were only available to Lenovo systems starting this March, leaving consumers with no access to the chipset. Lenovo exclusivity was standard practice for AMD, as the Threadripper line has seen multiple systems with exclusive access only given to Lenovo. Four months after Lenovo launched its products, system builders and OEMs were granted access to use their systems for sale....