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Mar- 2021 -22 MarchQualcomm
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 860, 2019’s Overclocked 855+ in 2021. To be featured on the Poco X3 pro
The same way that the Snapdragon 870 is an overclocked 865+, the 860 too is an overclocked 855+. Rebranding of older chips with new names is Qualcomm’s way of reusing an older node on a flagship 8xx chip numbering scheme. Qualcomm eventually released the 860 today packed deep inside the Poco X3 Pro! The million dollar question is, why would Qualcomm rebrand older chips especially one that is 2 years old? The reason is… LG recently launched the LG Velvet on the Snapdragon 845 node, one from 3 years ago. But there was a shortage of Snapdragon 845 devices, so…
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22 MarchAstro Photography
Finnish astrophotographer took around 1250 hours and 12 years to create a 1.7 Gigapixel of the milky way
Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio spent 1,250 hours over the course of about 12 years creating a single image that reveals the magnificent beauty of the entire Milky Way galaxy. Back in 2009, Metsavainio began this project, which is a 1.7-gigapixel mosaic of the Milky Way. It took him twelve years to get the whole picture which is around 100,000 pixels wide and has 234 individual mosaic panels stitched together.. The resulting image (which you can see below) captures the entire galaxy, speckled with about 20 million of the Milky Way’s roughly 200 billion stars. All images below are clickable for…
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20 MarchAMD
AMD RX 6500 on the cards, launch set for April. Could be priced close to the RX 6600 XT
AMD has only just released its Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, but that hasn’t stopped fresh leaks appearing for the currently unreleased RX 6500 series, projected to use AMD’s Navi 23 architecture.The details come from reputable leaker & also insider, KittyYYuko, who has a flawless history of posting GPU leaks several months before launch as we’ve seen with his Ampere leaks. The leaked GPU is listed as ‘Dimgrey Cavefish’, which is the internal codename used by AMD for the Navi 23 we heard circulating last year. This will be the third addition to the Navi family and the smallest…
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18 MarchAdaptive Refresh Rate
LTPO displays support adaptive refresh rate, Oneplus 9 will feature it and Oppo Find X3 pro receives an update for it
The OnePlus 9 series are all set to use the new LTPO type of AMOLED display. One of the key advantages of this tech is that it easily supports adaptive refresh rate – CEO Pete Lau revealed that the OnePlus 9 duo will be able to go from 120Hz all the way down to 1Hz. Similarly, Oppo too launched the Find X3 Pro with an LTPO type AMOLED display, and which supports the adaptive refresh rate from 1 Hz to 120 Hz. The Chinese company promised the flagship would have this feature, but launched it without, just to push it…
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18 MarchCOVID-19
A Florida woman just gave birth to a baby with COVID-19 antibodies
A Floridan lady who received a single dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine while pregnant recently gave birth to the first-known baby born with COVID-19 antibodies “after maternal vaccinations” in Florida, according to a study shared in a preprint server. While this finding has yet to undergo peer review and full publication in a legitimate journal, it could mean immunity against the COVID-19 illness might carry over multiple generations through pregnancy, via the Moderna vaccine. A US woman gave birth to a ‘vigorous, healthy’ baby girl with COVID-19 antibodies The mother — who is a frontline healthcare worker — was given…
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