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Instagram Brings Another Controversial Feature in the Form of Ultra-Tall Photos “You can have tall videos, but you cannot have tall photos on Instagram,” Mosseri said. “So we thought maybe we should make sure that we treat both equally.” Currently, Instagram photos do not go above 4:5 when displaying vertical images that have been cropped properly. However, bringing in the support for slimmer and taller 9:16 photos will help them fill the entire screen as the user scrolls through the app’s feed....

Linux 6.2 kernel adds further Intel support for Alder Lake-N and Raptor Lake-P CPUs, and additional power management improvements The change required engineers to change the value of the EPB to “7” (it initially defaulted to “6”), which will help with the reduction of power consumed by the processor, but not directly from the core. Engineers at Intel needed to test on the Alder Lake-N CPUs and discovered light workloads or power idling moments while running tasks like Google Meet or similar video playback and found promising results from the test....

Intel Raptor Lake Core i7-13700K 16 Core CPU Overclocked To 6 GHz Across All Raptor Cove Cores The upcoming Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake lineup is going to be an optimization of 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs, featuring Raptor Cove cores with enhanced cache structuring, faster clocks, & also an increase to the number of Gracemont E-Cores. The CPUs have also been highlighted to offer some great overclocking capabilities and it looks like we have the first overclocking figures coming to us from Videocardz and Twitter users, @QXE87 & @esperonslaie....

Intel Launches NUC 12 Enthusiast “Serpent Canyon” SFF Mini PC with Intel Core i7-12700H CPU & Arc A770M GPU This new small form factor system is covered inside a 2.5 L (230×180×60 mm) chassis. You get an Intel Core i7-12700H CPU with 14 cores, 20 threads (45W TDP), and either an integrated Iris Xe Graphics or the A770 dGPU. The Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast Serpent Canyon SFF Mini PC can produce up to five streams in 4K resolution....

Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K Makes History By Achieving 8.81 GHz CPU Frequency World Record In an overclocking spree by renowned overclocker Elmor who was accompanied by Shamino, the ASUS in-house overclocking team set some huge world records on the latest ROG Maximus Z790 APEX motherboard. The records ranged from the highest frequency to the highest SUPERPI scores but one record that stands out from the rest is the CPU frequency....

Intel’s 10nm Cannon Lake-Y “Special Samples” CPU Was Designed With Three Chiplets Pictures revealed by YuuKi_AnS show that the said SKU is part of a “Special Samples” lineup that is intended for internal use only. Since this specific chip never made it to retail, we can assume that these special chips are not intended for mass marketing but more so for testing and internal test purposes. The 10nm Cannon Lake lineup was the start of Intel’s never-ending delay....

Intel AV1 Encoder outperforms rival NVIDIA’s NVENC H.264 video codec Many videos on YouTube that are watched daily have adopted the new AV1 encoding, especially over the last few years of development. Intel’s AV1 video encoding was initially developed by the Alliance for Open Media as a royalty-free open-source video coding format in 2015. The format is revolutionary in theory and free, allowing it to be more accessible for users to utilize via the Internet....

Chipmaker Intel Corporation is the only alternative to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) when it comes to manufacturing high-end semiconductors believes the research firm Northland Capital Markets. After years of struggling with manufacturing the latest chips, Intel is on a path of an aggressive turnaround that includes the company opening its doors to other firms to meet their chip manufacturing needs. Northland’s report comes after Intel reported its earnings results for its first fiscal quarter late last month, with the report outlining strong performance for its newly-established third-party semiconductor manufacturing division, dubbed Intel Foundry Services (IFS)....

iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 Final Download will be Available Next Week to Everyone We were expecting Apple to release the full and final version of iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 today, but that didn’t happen. But, we did get to hear that the update will be released next week, which is definitely something to look forward to. In terms of features, we expect the new update to come with Universal Control, 37 new emoji, the ability to unlock an iPhone using Face ID while wearing a mask without an Apple Watch and so much more....

Power Outages in China Could Have an Impact on iPad Production and Ultimately Affect Shipments Popular analyst Ming-Chi Kuo mentioned in a tweet today that power outages in China’s southwestern Sichuan province could have an impact on iPad production. The power outages are caused by industrial electricity rationing amidst a heatwave. According to the analyst, the power outage will have an impact on the iPad production and assembly facilities in Chengdu and Chongqing that are operated by Compal and Foxconn....

Apple Might Potentially Introduce a New Multitasking Interface With iPadOS 16 to Allow the iPad to Better Compete Against a Computer In his latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reports that iOS 16 will offer significant improvements to notifications and health tracking. However, a complete design overhaul is not expected from Apple at this stage. Gurman writes that “I’m not expecting an end-to-end redesign of iOS’s interface, even though it hasn’t changed much since iOS 7 nearly a decade ago....

Apple Removed The Physical SIM Card Tray on iPhone 14 Pro Max in The United States and the Teardown Has a Lot to Say The repair website iFixit has shared an in-depth teardown of Apple’s flagship iPhone 14 Pro Max, giving us a closer look at the internals. As mentioned earlier, all iPhone 14 models sold in the United States do not house the physical SIM card tray. The teardown confirms that Apple has filled the space of the physical SIM card tray with a small piece of plastic....

Always-On Display on the iPhone 14 Pro Models Will Show iOS 16 Lock Screen Widgets and More According to the latest Power On newsletter shared by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 Pro lineup will feature Always-On display to show iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets. The Always-On display will potentially be able to show time, date, unread notifications, and other data. Gurman believes that as “the Apple Watch, the iPhone 14 Pro will be able to show widgets displaying weather, calendars, stocks, activities and other data while the screen remains at a low brightness and frame rate....

Apple Has Been Rumored to Shift Entirely to eSIM, but Chances Are It Will Not Happen With the iPhone 14 Series In a letter sent to AppleInsider, GlobalData analyst Emma Mohr-McClune states that Apple is expected to bring both the eSIM and physical SIM variations to the iPhone 14 lineup. One of them is expected to use just eSIM, suggesting that future iPhone 14 models may be configured to tout two eSIMs....

Even if you’ve got some development experience but are coming to the world of iOS for the first time and need to get up to speed, this is the right course for you. Swift is the language of iOS development, and this course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of this powerful language. Details of “Swift 5: The Language of iOS Development” The course is currently available for just $19....

LIAN LI reveals new LANCOOL III cases that offer advanced cooling options for consumers Designed to provide the best-in-series stock performance, the LANCOOL III has a redesigned front panel with 51% porosity, four pre-installed 140mm PWM fans, and simultaneously supports up to three 360mm radiators at the top, front, and bottom. The LANCOOL III features an updated front panel design, continuous aluminum strips acting as side panel handles, and an improved cable management solution....

The promising Bloodborne meets Pinocchio title received some impressive new gameplay footage alongside a release frame during Gamescom last week, and many considered the action RPG to be quite the pleaser. As a matter of fact, the game received several awards during last week’s event, including awards for Best Action Adventure Game and Best Role Playing Game. We know it’s coming to PC and the next-gen consoles, but what kind of setup will PC players need to be able to play this promising-looking soulslike?...

Intel has their DG2 and Arc Alchemist desktop graphics cards and the server-based GPU Arctic Sound-M fully prepared for Linux 5.20 Intel’s development team has done a fantastic job updating each kernel cycle to future-proof all versions. We have seen plenty of Intel DG2, and Arc Alchemist code merged into the i915 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, including the most recent Linux 5.19 kernel. This particular version of Linux has seen compute user-space ABI support that will be available for the DG2 architecture, as well as several PCI IDs included in DG2 that appear to be utilized for the company’s notebook Arc graphics....

The new video, shared on YouTube by GameXplain, compares the original versions of the tracks with those launching for the latest entry in the series with the Booster Course Pass DLC announced during the February 2022 Nintendo Direct. You can check out the video below. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass DLC will add a total of 48 tracks, which will be released in multiple waves. The first wave launches on March 18th and includes the Paris Promenade, Toad Circuit, Choco Mountain, Coconut Hall, Tokyo Blur, Shroom Ridge, Sky Garden, and Ninja Hideaway tracks....

The game in development at Firaxis was recently rated by the South Korean rating board. Last week, leaker Tom Henderson also suggested that the mixed reaction regarding the card-based mechanics might have led to the delay from the original March window. The developers could have since reworked it to be more palatable to regular XCOM fans. The Legendary Edition includes: Base game, the Legendary Premium Pack (featuring 23 skins), and the Marvel’s Midnight Suns Season Pass....