Samsung's Galaxy S23 feature can bypass battery charging, power the phone directly

Gamers and power users will appreciate Samsung's Galaxy S23 new feature called "Pause USB Power Delivery" that's been added to Game Booster settings, as discovered by YouTuber NL Tech. When enabled, the phone will halt charging and send power straight to the phone's hardware, bypassing the battery. This maintains the...Read Entire Article

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After a year in development, Transmission 4 is ready

Transmission is a free and open-source BitTorrent client with a very low resource footprint. With over a thousand commits, and many improvements, Transmission 4 uses less memory, brings code modernization and several new features.Read Entire Article

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Nvidia releases automatic update for Discord bug, but users aren't sure how it works

Nvidia recently released an update to fix a VRAM glitch affecting its GPUs when users left Discord open. However, the company hasn't provided clear directions of how the update works, only saying that it doesn't require manual action. The company's latest GPU drivers seem to include the patch but might...Read Entire Article

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Canon introduces the EOS R50, its new entry-level mirrorless camera

The Canon EOS R50 packs a 24.4-megapixel CMOS (APS-C) sensor alongside a DIGIC X image processor that is capable of capturing 6K oversampled 4K uncropped video at up to 30 frames per second. Around back, you'll find a 3.0-inch, 1.62 million dot touchscreen LCD as well as a 0.39-inch OLED...Read Entire Article

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A new lithium-air battery design promises unprecedented energy density

A new paper published in Science describes the chemistry behind a novel lithium-air battery, an innovative design which could potentially provide way more energy density than traditional li-ion battery technology. It could serve as a real breakthrough for the battery market and a possible revolution for transportation and heavy-duty vehicles...Read...

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Google AI chatbot Bard dishes up wrong answer in first demo

Microsoft announced an AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser while Google introduced the world to Bard, an experimental conversational AI service powered by its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (or LaMDA for short). Chinese tech company Baidu is also working on a ChatGPT-like service called Ernie.Read Entire Article

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How Hollywood is unlocking the fountain of youth with de-aging technology

The characters we see on screen usually adhere to the laws of space and time. For example, when a director wants to show a scene from the protagonist's childhood, they will typically cast a child actor who looks similar to the adult version of the character. But what if an...Read Entire Article

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Watch the first episode of The Mandalorian on broadcast TV later this month

Disney's Star Wars series The Mandalorian is coming to broadcast television for one night only and it all happens later this month. What's the big deal, you ask?Read Entire Article

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Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control?

How much data is a Windows operating system sending to online servers? According to a recent video from The PC Security Channel (TPCSC), the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS is a real "talker" when it comes to telemetry and other data about users' preferences and online behavior.Read Entire Article

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The Nvidia RTX 4070 looks set to arrive in April

VideoCardz writes that it attained embargo documents from Nvidia revealing release information for the RTX 4070. The embargo information is listed as To Be Determined (TBD), but the on-shelf date, which is the actual launch, is down as April.Read Entire Article

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