Mediatek unveils 6nm Dimensity 920 and Dimensity 810 chipsets
Mediatek has just announced the arrival of two new chipsets – the Dimensity 920 and Dimensity 810. They are an evolution of the Dimensity 900 and Dimensity 800, respectively, and are built on TSMC’s 6nm manufacturing process.
Both platforms bring octa-core CPUs and support for Full HD+ displays with 120Hz screen refresh rate suggesting they are intended for mid-range phones.
The Dimensity 920 has its powerful Cortex-A78 cores running at 2.5GHz with the Cortex-A55 ones clocked at 2GHz. The GPU is a Mali-G68 MC4, and Mediatek claims an optimized design for power efficiency should offer up to 9% faster gaming performance over the Dimensity 900.
The Dimensity 920 supports LPDDR4x and LPDDR5 RAM, as well as UFS 2.2 and UFS 3.1 storage, giving makers extra flexibility when it comes to building smartphones with it.
The Dimensity 920 supports Dual 5G SIM connectivity as well as VoNR service. Other specs include all the latest Wi-Fi standards, 2×2 MIMO and Bluetooth 5.2.
Read more at Gsmarena
Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 4 is its first phone to officially launch with an invisible selfie camera
Xiaomi finally debuted its Camera Under Panel (CUP) technology with the Mi Mix 4 phone reveal last night. The company had demoed this tech last year, but the Mix 4 is the first commercial device to feature it.
So how does it work? Xiaomi has modified the circuit around the selfie camera to display “micro-diamond pixels,” which are brighter but smaller pixels than the rest of the screen. This helps the company maintain the 400 pixels per inch (ppi) pixel density throughout the screen, to ensure you won’t be able to tell there’s a camera hiding beneath the display.
To reduce light diffraction while taking selfies, the company has used a new transparent curved wiring Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) material in the circuit. All of these techniques sound similar to Oppo’s newly revealed prototype under-the-screen camera tech. But Xiaomi is the first one going to market with it.
Read more at The next web
AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT Launched To Compete Against NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
AMD officially unveiled the Radeon RX 6600 XT in late July but the cards have officially launched today, aimed at 1080p gaming. In a review at HotHardware, PowerColor is offering both a high-end Radeon RX 6600 XT Red Devil and its somewhat more mainstream “Fighter” branded counterpart, for example. Whereas AMD’s reference Radeon RX 6600 XT offers a Game clock up to 2359MHz and a Boost clock of 25895MHz, the PowerColor Red Devil peaks at 2428MHz (Game) and 2607MHz (Boost). Those higher GPU clocks result in higher compute performance and fillrate, etc., but the memory configuration and frequency are the same — so in memory bandwidth constrained situations, performance won’t be all that much different.
Performance-wise, with most game titles that use traditional rasterization, the Radeon RX 6600 XT is clearly faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 and previous-gen cards like the Radeon RX 5700 XT or GeForce RTX 2060 Super. However, when you factor ray tracing into the equation, NVIDIA has a distinct and significant advantage still. The Radeon RX 6600 XT Fighter should sell for at or close to its $379 MSRP. PowerColor says that they should be readily available for gamers to purchase today.
By MojoKid on slash.org
Motorola Edge 20 Fusion’s specs revealed ahead of August 17 launch
he Motorola Edge 20 Fusion will be introduced on August 17, and it will be available in India first. The teasers shared by Motorola revealed its design and a few specs, but thanks to Flipkart, we now have more details about the Lenovo-owned brand’s upcoming smartphone.
The Motorola Edge 20 Fusion will be sold in India exclusively through Flipkart, and the promo page set up by the online retailer on its website reveals the Edge 20 Fusion will be powered by the Dimensity 800U SoC.
The smartphone will come with a total of four cameras in tow – a 32MP selfie shooter inside the punch hole, with the triple camera system on the rear consisting of 108MP primary, 8MP ultrawide, and a depth sensor (likely 2MP). Flipkart says the ultrawide unit can also take macro shots.
The Edge 20 Fusion will pack a 90Hz 10-bit AMOLED screen, which from a previously shared teaser we know will measure 6.7″ diagonally. The smartphone will feature a side-mounted fingerprint reader and support 13 5G bands in the country.
Read more at Gsmarena
Norton and Avast are merging into an $8 billion antivirus empire
NortonLifeLock and Avast are merging in a deal worth more than $8 billion. The deal will see NortonLifelock acquire all of Avast’s shares, and create a much larger cyber security firm. “With this combination, we can strengthen our cyber safety platform and make it available to more than 500 million users,” says Vincent Pilette, NortonLifeLock CEO. “We will also have the ability to further accelerate innovation to transform cyber safety.”
The combination should lead to antivirus products that include the benefits of Avast’s focus on privacy and NortonLifeLock’s experience in identity, all at a time when cyber security is critical for both consumers and businesses.
Ransomware is on the rise, with new high profile cases occurring on what feels like a weekly basis. Gigabyte was hit by a ransomware attack earlier this week, and a large ransomware attack affected customers of Kaseya’s remote IT management software last month.
Read more at The Verge
Facebook shuts accounts in anti-vaccine influencer campaign
Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a mysterious advertising agency operating from Russia that sought to pay social media influencers to smear Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
A network of 65 Facebook accounts and 243 Instagram accounts was traced back to Fazze, an advertising and marketing firm working on behalf of an unknown client.
The network used fake accounts to spread misleading claims that disparaged the safety of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines. One claimed AstraZeneca’s shot would turn a person into a chimpanzee. The accounts targeted audiences in India, Latin America and, to a lesser extent, the US, using several social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram.
Read more at The Guardian
Seagate Firecuda 530 review: It’s very, very fast
The FireCuda 530 is a 2280 (22mm wide, 80mm long), PCIe 4 x4, NVMe SSD. Seagate, like many other vendors these days, are loath to reveal the fine details of their SSDs, so we’ve taken to stripping off the labels and reading the chip numbers. The 2TB model I tested has 2GB of SK Hynix DDR4 primary cache. It uses a Phison PS6108 controller, and it stores bits on 176-layer 3D Micron TLC (Triple-Level Cell/3-bit) NAND. Good stuff.
Read more at The PCWorld
Instagram will now let users limit interactions from non-followers
While Instagram can be fun for connecting with friends and scouting potential hookups, not every comment or DM slide is friendly. Now the social media platform has introduced an update aimed at curbing spikes in abusive messages, so you can get back to posting thirst traps in peace.
Announced in a blog post on Wednesday, Instagram’s new feature Limits allows users to automatically hide both DMs and comments from users who don’t follow them — or who have only just started following them within the past week. This means users can keep lines of communication open to their usual audience, but still protect themselves from temporary influxes of attackers.
Read more at Mashable
Everyone’s favorite Microsoft Teams feature is finally coming to the web app
You’ll soon be able to change your Microsoft Teams call background to whatever you want after the company revealed a welcome update to its web app.
Users of the video conferencing service will be able to blur their background or replace it entirely with the images provided in your video meeting or call.
According to an entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, the feature is still currently in development, but should be rolling out to users of Teams on the web by September 2021.
Read more at Techradar
Samsung launches ‘The Premiere’ 4K laser projector in India: Here are its details
As home entertainment, be it sports or cinema, has become all-pervading in these pandemic times, the demand for the large screen experience has also increased to match the energy of live events or movie theatres.
Keeping this emerging premium segment in mind, Samsung India has launched its upscale range of projectors called ‘The Premiere’ that is said to offer big-screen private cinema experience at one’s home.
Samsung says it has incorporated its high-end TV technologies into The Premiere, so that users can enjoy dynamic, 4K resolution on an extra-large screen.
Read more at Techradar
