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Premium Smartphone Category in New Research Defined as More Than $400 New data from Counterpoint Research suggests that the premium smartphone market is outpacing the entire market, as it grew 24 percent year-over-year in 2021 to reach the highest level yet. The premium smartphone market also outran the overall smartphone market by seven percent during the same period, and it also contributed to 27 percent of the entire shipments run for the period....

Two Trademarks Show a Foreign Filing Deadline Date of June 8, Which Is Exactly Two Days After WWDC 2022 Officially Starts There were two trademark filings shared by Parker Ortolani and shared in the tweet below, and he notes that both trademarks were filed on December 8, 2021. Visiting the web pages of both trademark filings, the foreign filing deadlines were listed as June 8, 2022, which is two days after WWDC 2022 officially starts....

15.5-Inch MacBook Air is expected to launch in the Spring of 2023 with the same design as the current 13.6-inch model Analyst Ross Young shared a tweet with his super followers, speculating that the panel production for the 15.5-inch MacBook Air will start in the first quarter of next year. If the news has any heft to it, the display size will rest between the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models....

Apple’s Ambitious AR Headset Launch Does Not Appear to Be Affected and Will Likely Follow a Scheduled Release The latest information was published by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who states that Apple is not expected to bring this slowdown to all departments and that the AR headset launch will not be affected. Another reason may have to do with the Russia-Ukraine war, which forced Apple to halt sales in Russia a while back....

Apple Announces Apple Watch SE With Crash Detection, ECG Functionality, and Much More at $249 The new Apple Watch SE 2 comes with the same Apple Watch experience at a lower price. While the general design is the same, the back of the wearable is redesigned with a color-matched nylon composite material. Apart from this, the SE 2 comes in new color options, which include Midnight, Starlight, and Silver, with matching back cases....

ASUS hints at the possibility of offering support for AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series CPUs without having to flash another manufacturer’s BIOS Reddit user SovietMacguyver posted a conversation with an ASUS representative about support for AMD Zen3 processors. AMD officially blocked manufacturers from delivering Ryzen 5000 ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPU support on older X370 motherboards. This decision by AMD has required ASUS motherboards consumers and other companies to seek alternatives for help....

Both ASUS ROG Phone 6 and Zenfone 9 Found Their Way Into the AnTuTu Leaderboards for July 2022 The scores registered on AnTuTu revealed that the ROG Phone 6 was the top dog on the benchmarking website, obtaining over 1.1 million points. In second place, you have the compact but nearly equally powerful Zenfone 9. One thing to note about both ASUS smartphones is that they are fueled by Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, a chipset that is significantly superior compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1....

ASUS Has Hit a Ceiling as Far as Specifications Limit Go Because the ROG Phone 6 Have Has Internals That Are Similar to the ROG Phone 5s The Taiwanese manufacturer likes to go all-out when configuring its gaming smartphones with the best hardware possible, and the ROG Phone 6 is no exception. Digital Chat Station shared some specifications belonging to the device, starting with the Samsung OLED display, which would measure 6....

ATX design guide leaks online offering a closer look at the PCIe Gen 5 connector architecture First, the pictures show the various labeling for varying power levels for the PCIe 12VHPWR Auxiliary Power Connector Pin Assignment (also known as PCIe 5.0). The top photo shows four identical cables, except for the labeling, which ranges between 150W, 300W, 450W, and 600W. From our previous coverage of MSI’s, ASUS’s, Cooler Master’s, and Gigabyte’s PCIe 5....

Up until now I have used utilities like Ninite and AllMyApps but the biggest problem with these utilities is that the user is restricted to installing only the utilities provided by these tools and they need to download everything for starting installation on each new PC. First of all let me go through some tools which I have used to install and update multiple software silently. These utilities can be useful for those who want to install the most popular programs in their PC only once....

The shortcut for zooming in is Ctrl – + and for zooming out, you can press Ctrl – -. To zoom in or zoom out using the mouse, you can hold the Ctrl key and move the mouse scroll button up or down to zoom in or out. Most of the time, we need small images to be zoomed in to take a closer look at pictures. Hover Zoom – automatically zoom photos on hovering Update: Now you can use Hover Zoom+ for the same purpose....

While the game does feature some quick tutorials, they do not delve too deep into many of Babylon’s Fall’s mechanics, leaving players to figure things out on their own, which can lead to a little bit of frustration. For this reason, we have put together a list of six tips that will help you better understand things like combat from the get-go and possibly have more fun with the game....

Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8 Highlights New Class: Bard ○ Masters of song and speech dealing out both inspiration and devastation in battle, the long-awaited Bard class is the latest to join the party in Baldur’s Gate 3. Hurl pithy one-liners at your enemies or play songs with your companions by the campfire.○ Two subclasses: ■ College of Valour: A combat-focused subclass, Bards of the College of Valour gain proficiencies and skills that make them hardy enough to join the frontlines of a battle while still allowing them the ability to buff and inspire allies....

Arguably the most significant addition is the Paladin class, which comes with two subclasses based on the type of Oath chosen by the player. ■ Oath of Devotion Following the ideal of the knight in shining armor, these Paladins act with honor and virtue to protect the weak and pursue the greater good. Holy Rebuke: Call upon your Oath to grant an ally a vengeful aura that deals 1d4 Radiant damage to anyone who hits them with a melee attack....

A new job listing for a Design Director suggests that the studio will indeed be creating a new single player campaign for Battlefield. As a reminder, Lehto had founded V1 Interactive, which released a first-person shooter/real-time strategy game hybrid called Disintegration two years ago. The game didn’t sell well, though, and V1 Interactive closed shortly after its release. Role Overview: Reporting to the studio GM, you will manage the design team and design vision of a new Battlefield campaign....

Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones with Apple’s W1 Chip Available for a Low Price of Just $99 Ahead of Black Friday This deal does not require any discount code or coupon. The maximum discount is applicable on the black color option while others slightly discounted as well. Buy Beats Solo3 Wireless On-Ear Headphones - Apple W1 Headphone Chip - Was $199, now just $99 If you’re looking for a pair of headphones with Apple’s DNA, then there are plenty of options to choose from in the Beats lineup....

The two developers also separately shared some comments on the news. Bethesda Game Studios wrote on Twitter: We want to thank everyone for their excitement for Redfall and Starfield. That energy is a huge part of what inspires all of us every day and drives our own excitement for what we are creating. We can’t wait to share our first deep dive into the gameplay for both Redfall and Starfield soon....

BIOSTAR’s iMiner A588X8D2 System Repurposes Gaming-Ready Radeon RX 580 Graphics Cards For The Crypto Mining Market We have seen how manufacturers have been supplying their gaming-ready NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to the crypto market in bulk but BIOSTAR has gone one step ahead in offerings its gaming graphics cards directly to the crypto mining segment in the form of its iMiner A588X8D2 system. If you didn’t know, BIOSTAR also manufacturers graphics cards, specifically AMD Radeon parts....

Activision Blizzard decided to reveal the results of their Call of Duty Endowment program. The Endowment program’s mission is to place unemployed and underemployed veterans into high-end jobs meant to utilize their skillsets. Activision Blizzard not only is committing $30 million to support the cause until 2027 but also revealed that their efforts have helped 100,000 veterans find work (or better jobs), two years ahead of their goal. To celebrate (and also because we’re in Military Appreciation Month), the Call of Duty developer is re-releasing a cosmetic pack known as the C....

To celebrate the announcement, Tripwire Presents made a new trailer that celebrates the game’s arrival on Game Pass while also showing off the content of the Reinforced Update. You can watch the trailer below: So, what’s the Reinforced update for Chivalry 2? This new update brings the game’s first dual-wielded weapon, The Katars. They are a matched pair of deadly, armor-piercing daggers for swift, close-range attacks. Designed for the Ambusher class, it is a very fast stab weapon that does not interrupt opponents....