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- Xiaomi says it can now fully charge a phone in eight minutes at 200W
- Intel’s latest 11th Gen processor brings 5.0GHz speeds to thin and light laptops
- Instagram making changes to its algorithm after it was accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content
- Vilnius, Lithuania built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected
- New Trailers: The Tomorrow War, Eternals, Infinite, Werewolves Within, and more
| Xiaomi says it can now fully charge a phone in eight minutes at 200W Posted: 30 May 2021 08:53 PM PDT  Xiaomi has shown off its latest fast charging tech demo, and consequently is claiming the new world records for both wired and wireless charging speeds. Using a modified Mi 11 Pro with a 4,000mAh battery, Xiaomi says it's able to fully charge the phone in 8 minutes over a 200W wired "HyperCharge" system, or in 15 minutes with 120W wireless charging. Charging speeds are a frequent battleground for Chinese smartphone companies, who often release demonstrations of breakthroughs that may or may not show up in final products. Two years ago, for example, Xiaomi announced a 100W system that could charge a 4,000mAh battery in 17 minutes, while last year's Mi 10 Ultra filled up in 23 minutes at 120W — though it did have a bigger 4,500mAh battery. ... |
| Intel’s latest 11th Gen processor brings 5.0GHz speeds to thin and light laptops Posted: 30 May 2021 07:30 PM PDT  Intel made a splash earlier in May with the launch of its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake H-series processors for more powerful laptops, but at Computex 2021, the company is also announcing a pair of new U-series chips — one of which marks the first 5.0GHz clock speed for the company's U-series lineup of lower voltage chips. Specifically, Intel is announcing the Core i7-1195G7 — its new top of the line chip in the U-series range — and the Core i5-1155G7, which takes the crown of Intel's most powerful Core i5-level chip, too. Like the original 11th Gen U-series chips, the new chips operate in the 12W to 28W range. Both new chips are four core / eight thread configurations, and feature Intel's Iris Xe integrated graphics (the Core i7-1195G7...  |
| Instagram making changes to its algorithm after it was accused of censoring pro-Palestinian content Posted: 30 May 2021 12:39 PM PDT  Facebook-owned Instagram has made changes to its algorithm after a group of its employees reportedly complained that pro-Palestinian content was not viewable for users during the conflict in Gaza. Instagram typically surfaces original content in its stories before reposted content, but will now begin to give equal weighting to both, the company confirmed to The Verge on Sunday. As reported by BuzzFeed News and the Financial Times, the Instagram employee group had made numerous appeals about content that had been censored by Instagram's automated moderation, such as posts about the al-Asqa mosque being mistakenly removed. The employees didn't believe the censorship was deliberate, according to FT, but one said that "moderating at scale is...  |
| Vilnius, Lithuania built a ‘portal’ to another city to help keep people connected Posted: 30 May 2021 11:57 AM PDT  Weary of pandemic travel restrictions and aching to get out and see new people? The city of Vilnius, Lithuania has interesting solution: A real-time "portal" to another city. They really went all-in on the idea and the design; it looks quite a bit like something out of the erstwhile sci-fi movie/show Stargate. The city installed a circular "door" for the portal near its train station that connects to a portal in Lublin, Poland, about 600 kilometers (or roughly 375 miles) away. The portals both have large screens and cameras that broadcast live images between the two cities— a kind of digital bridge, according to its creators— meant to encourage people to "rethink the meaning of unity," Go Vilnius said in a press release. Aw.  |
| New Trailers: The Tomorrow War, Eternals, Infinite, Werewolves Within, and more Posted: 30 May 2021 10:35 AM PDT  So tonight is the finale for Mare of Easttown and there are so many threads that need to be tied up that I legitimately don't know how they'll answer all the open questions. I have a theory of who the killer is, and I don't think it's the same person who fathered Erin's baby. Will Mare ever find happiness? It seems unlikely, I'm afraid. But maybe she'll find answers or closure. I realized that in this week's trailer roundup that— in addition to a time-traveling theme— we have two movies that feature Sam Richardson, who played Richard Splett, arguably the best supporting character on the late great HBO show Veep. Please cast him in all the things, Hollywood, he's hilarious. The Tomorrow WarChris Pratt is drafted into a war where he has...  |
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