Thursday, May 5, 2016

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 06/05/2016

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VAGO – A Travel Compressor That Makes Space
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In this week’s ‘Crowdfunding Campaign Of The Week’ we feature a nifty travel gadget, VAGO. VAGO is a travel tool smaller than the size of your palm that frees up space in your luggage, via compression – making the pain of packing when travelling a little more bearable. Space taken up by clothes, bags or...

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Huawei G9 Lite and MediaPad M2 7.0 announced
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Huawei has announced a new smartphone and tablet for the Chinese market today, the G9 Lite and the MediaPad M2. The G9 Lite is basically the P9 Lite for China, with specs that include a 5.2-inch Full HD display, Huawei’s Kirin 950 processor clocked at 2.0GHz, and a 13-megapixel rear camera. There’s also an 8-megapixel...

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Turtle Beach rolls out Elite Pro gaming headset
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Turtle Beach has announced its Elite Pro gaming headset. While the market is flooded with offerings from the likes of Razer, Steelseries, Logitech, and others, Turtle Beach is looking to differentiate its headset by offering what it calls Aerofit Ear Cushions, which sees the earpads infused with a cooling gel. There are other tweaks that make the headset more...

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AMD Radeon R3 Series entry-level SSDs announced
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AMD has rolled out a series of SSDs aimed at the entry-level segment. The drives are branded as the Radeon R3 Series, and are available on Amazon. The drives are available in configurations of 120 GB, 240 GB, 480 GB, and 960 GB, and offer TLC NAND flash memory along with Silicon Motion SM2256KX controllers on a SATA 6 Gb/s...

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Intel’s unannounced six-core Core i7-6850K benchmarked
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Intel’s Core i7-6850K has made its way to a reviewer at Overclock.net ahead of its official debut. The CPU is designed for the LGA2011v3 socket, and is based on the 14nm Haswell-E silicon, featuring six cores clocked at 3.60GHz, HyperThreading with up to 12 logical CPUs, and 15 MB of L3 cache. The i7-6850K is pin-compatible with current LGA2011v3 boards, but its fiberglass...

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Marshmallow captures 7.5 percent of the Android market
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Google has released the latest distribution numbers for the Android platform, and the latest iteration of the OS has seen a major jump in share over the last month. Android 6.0 Marshmallow now runs on 7.5 percent of Android devices worldwide, up from 4.6 percent 30 days ago. It’s not surprising to see this increase,...

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Possible Samsung Galaxy A4 in the works
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Samsung’s Galaxy A lineup of premium mid-range smartphones has come a long way, with multiple devices having made their way to the market since the series was originally launched. Now, Samsung seems to be working on yet another Galaxy A smartphone – a device that could possibly be the Galaxy A4 has surfaced online on...

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Hitman Episode Two update plays havoc with DirectX 12 support
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Hitman Episode Two picked up an update (v1.1.2) over the weekend, but all’s not well as the patch plays havoc with DirectX 12 support. The folks at PC Gamer found out that the latest patch resulted in unusually long loading times for the game: Launching the DX12 version of Hitman no longer worked. The spinning disk appears when you click...

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AMD Radeon R9 480 rumored to be as fast as the Radeon R9 390X
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According to benchmark figures listed on the GFXBench database, the upcoming Radeon R9 480 graphics card could deliver performance very similar to the Radeon R9 390X. We cannot be entirely sure though, as we only get to see the OpenGL benchmarks on GFXBench. Still, it is definitely a positive sign and raises out expectations from...

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Nvidia rolls out 365.10 Game Ready drivers
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Nvidia has rolled out the 365.10 Game Ready drivers, providing performance tweaks for games such as Battleborn, Forza Motorsport 6: APEX Beta, Overwatch Beta, and Paragon Beta. Several Oculus Rift games have also been optimized. Here’s the breakdown of what’s new in 365.10: Improved performance for Vulkan 3D API. Adding or updating the 3DV profile in Battleborn...

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HTC 10 pre-orders to start shipping in the US this week
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The HTC 10 was announced quite a bit later than Samsung’s and LG’s Android flagships for the year. Naturally, the handset will be going on sale considerably late as well, but for those that have pre-ordered HTC’s latest hero device, the wait will come to an end this week. This has been confirmed by HTC’s Senior...

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More Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) specifications revealed
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The Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) was spotted on an online benchmark earlier this week, and the upcoming budget phone from the Korean company has now popped up in another benchmarking tool, which has given us more information on what specs it will carry. A notable difference in the device tested on AnTuTu and on the...

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Meizu Pro 6 with 3GB RAM spotted on benchmark
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The Meizu Pro 6 has already gone official, but unlike most smartphones from China these days, the Pro 6 was only announced in a single variant as far as the RAM was concerned. However, it seems Meizu did work on a slightly lower-spec version of the phone, as a model with 3GB of RAM has...

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HTC announces the Desire 830
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HTC’s Desire series have gotten yet another entry, with the Desire 830 now official. The Desire 830 doesn’t offer many surprises compared to previous Desire phones launched this year, with a 5.5-inch Full HD display on the front, and an octa-core MediaTek processor chugging under the hood. The Desire 830 comes with a 13-megapixel rear...

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ZTE Axon 2 listed by retailer with a $599 price tag
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We recently saw the ZTE Axon 2 getting certification from China’s telecom authority TENAA, with the device sporting a Snapdragon 820 processor and the latest version of the Android operating system. Now, the Axon 2 has been listed online by retailer OppoMart. The listing reveals the phone’s spec sheet and also its price tag. At $599,...

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HTC’s smartwatch announcement delayed to June
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HTC has been surprisingly quiet in the smartwatch game, having confirmed that it is working on a smartwatch back in 2014 without making any official announcement yet. The last rumor about the company’s first smartwatch said that it could be launched alongside the HTC 10. That didn’t happen, and prolific leakster evleaks is now saying...

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 “Pascal” cards to go official this week
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The highly anticipated successors to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 could be announced on May 6th. NVIDIA has started sending “mysterious” looking boxes to a few reviewers with an ‘Orderof10’ puzzle. A website is now live as well, where people are being asked to solve the puzzle. The countdown on the website...

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AMD officially teases its upcoming “Polaris” GPU architecture
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AMD now has a dedicated website up for its upcoming Polaris architecture. While there are no specific details available on the page yet, you do have the option of signing up to be notified when the first Polaris based cards go on sale. The upcoming high-end notebook GPUs from AMD will be based on Polaris...

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ASRock unveils the entry-level H110M-HDVP motherboard
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ASRock has introduced a new entry-level socket LGA1151 motherboard, the H110M-HDVP. The micr-ATX board draws power using a combination of 24-pin and 4-pin ATX power connectors. For the CPU, the board offers a 3+1 phase VRM, not surprising on an entry-level offering. It comes with two DDR4 DIMM slots, with support for up to 32GB...

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Sapphire launches the Radeon R9 390 TOXIC graphics card
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Sapphire has come out with a new Radeon R9 390 card, the air-cooled Radeon R9 390 TOXIC. The graphics card is meant exclusively for select Asian markets such as China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It features an attractive looking VaporX vapor-chamber cooling solution and comes factory-overclocked. In fact, it is the highest clocked Radeon R9...

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