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Amd Ryzen 4900U pops up on UserBenchmark

A few months ago, Notebookcheck reported that AMD is releasing a Ryzen 4900U, which was shown on a YouTube video of a Lenovo Yoga Slim laptop, but AMD hid the details until Tum Apisak saw it pop up on UserBenchmark. The Ryzen 9 4900U has similar specs as the Ryzen 7 4800U. The only thing that differs from them is the clock speeds. The Ryzen 9 features a higher peak clock of 4.3GHz compared to 4.2 on the Ryzen 7. The 100MHz bump in clock speeds gives the processor some more power. This adds at least 10 more fps in…

Samsung’s S voice servers shutting down on June 1st

Samsung’s S voice is shutting off it’s servers on June 1st, 2020. According to a report by SamMobile, S voice, Samsung’s assistant which was first used on the Samsung Galaxy S III is shutting off completely on June 1st. If you try to use it after June 1st, you get the error ““I’m unable to process your request. Try again later”. Samsung had paid very little attention to this device, and due to that, it was hardly ever used, so it phased out after Bixby launched. Back in the early days, when most Android manufacturers were in a rat…

Apple and google partnered to beat COVID-19 using contact tracing tool

Apple and Google have partnered together in a first of it’s kind initiative to create a COVID-19 contact tracing tech for the Government. This tool helps people determine whether they’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19. Contact tracing helps the public health officials track the spread of the disease, and get those suspected of carrying the virus, tested. Two Phase Plan The first phase of the project which will be in May, uses an API in which public health authorities use for integrating into their own apps, which will be downloadable via the respective stores In the second phase,…

Nvidia prepares MX 450 to counter Intel’s Xe DG1 & AMD Ryzen 4000 series

Nvidia is the leader in producing graphics based chipsets for laptop users and desktop users alike. They also create graphics chips for servers, and their biggest competitor is AMD. But this time, Intel has entered the graphics market with their Xe DG1 GPU. So Nvidia devised a strategy to counter AMD and Intel by launching their latest GPU, GeForce MX 450. They are now assembling a replacement to their MX 300 series laptop graphics chipsets, which will be coupled with the new Turing architecture. MX 450 was made to rival Intel’s Xe DG1 & AMD’s 7nm Vega Integrated…

5G masts destroyed across UK due to misinformation

We all know that the Coronavirus is causing havoc across the globe. It started off in Wuhan, China, and has spread across the world. Recently a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists have thought to have linked the virus to 5G, and have started destroying masts wherever they see them. Destruction of 5G masts in UK At least 20 5G masts across the UK have been torched or vandalised across the UK since Thursday the 2nd of April 2020. According to govt sources, they are linking the Coronavirus to the installation of 5G networks across the country. Multiple attacks on 5G…