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‘We should start to see 96 gigabit HDMI 2.2 products next year’: Next-gen HDMI is set to arrive in 2027, says its licensing president — here’s what it means for PC gaming, TVs and home theater

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The first HDMI 2.2 products are likely to arrive in 2027Massively increased bitrates with 4K 480Hz support, or 10K resolutionGreat for PC gaming, but won’t make much difference to TV viewersHDMI 2.2 is coming, and it could be a very big deal for gamers. That’s because it delivers double the bandwidth of HDMI 2.1: up…

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Minimalist Phones Are Back In Style – Here’s Why

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fizkes/Shutterstock Gen Z and Millennials can still remember a world before smartphones, and many of them (along with their older siblings, parents, and grandparents) yearn for the peace and quiet associated with a “dumber” world. For some people, complete abstinence is an ideal answer. For others, there’s a happy medium — reducing distraction without removing…

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‘The $599 MacBook Neo was fun while it lasted’: Mac fans fear the worst for the cheapest model after Tim Cook warned about substantial price hikes for Apple products

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Apple’s CEO has warned that “price increases are unavoidable” for its productsThat means more expensive Macs, iPhones and iPads for startersPrice hikes will likely be substantial, and there are concerns that product lines could be adjusted as seen recently with the Mac mini – is the entry-level MacBook Neo to suffer the same fate?CEO Tim…

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Chinese chip makers won’t rescue us from the RAM crisis after all, SSD expert hints — their memory chip strategy ‘is not the same as that of foreign memory suppliers’

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Nelson Duann is a VP at Silicon Motion, a maker of SSD controllersIn an interview, Duann made it clear that the strategy of Chinese memory chip makers is different to foreign suppliersThey are obliged by the government to support the local market, and that could be bad news for theories about these chip makers helping…

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RAM is set to get even pricier? Yes — and way more expensive according to one expert, who I hope is very wrong

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A memory expert has predicted big RAM price hikes this yearThey say we could see hikes of 40% to 50% in Q3, and further 30% to 40% rises in Q4They predict that 2027 is also going to be painful, with a 40% to 45% increase year-on-yearThere’s more fuel to the fire for the theory that…

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Increase Your Google Pixel Phone’s Display Brightness Using This Simple Trick

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Mashha/Shutterstock Google’s more recent Pixel lineup, like the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL, boasts some of the most vibrant displays on the smartphone market today at up to 3,300 nits, but reaching that peak isn’t always easy. For example, you step outside on a beautiful sunny afternoon, trying to read a map for a quick…

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10 Home Office Trends That Are Actually Useful

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Alvarez/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While the work-from-home trend isn’t as strong as it was during the peak of the pandemic era, modern technology and a move to hybrid work arrangements mean there’s a pretty good chance that (if you work an office job) you also have a home…

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I’m painfully aware that the RAM crisis looks dire of late — but Asus and SK Hynix just provided some glimmers of hope

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Price hikes on Asus products will be much reduced in the second half of 2026This is over in Taiwan, but should be reflected to an extent globallyThere’s also a report that SK Hynix, a big memory chip maker, is set to slow AI memory production in favor of conventional RAMThere’s been a pretty relentless string…

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CMA puts in place fair ranking measures on Google Search

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Under the UK’s digital markets competition regime, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said Google will be required to improve transparency and fairness in how search results are ranked. It said that businesses have noted that current ranking practices are neither fair nor transparent. The CMA said businesses also found that changes made by…

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‘New normal’: the memory price crisis will get worse before it gets better, as Xbox says it expects prices to double again in 2027, Lenovo suggests they may never come down — and Micron hints Apple’s to blame for the whole thing by being too ‘aggressive’

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Lenovo has said that RAM prices will likely “never” fall back to pre-crisis levelsThe company also predicted a “new normal” for memory pricing from 2030 onwardsMicrosoft expects the cost of memory to double in just over a yearIf you were hoping we might get to the weekend without any more bad news on the RAM…

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