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Huawei Porsche Design Watch GT 2 Announced With Limited Availability

Huawei Porsche Design Watch GT 2

Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei and German automaker Porsche are continuing their long-term collaboration, having just done so earlier today with the announcement of yet another member of the luxurious Porsche Design family of high-end consumer tech. The product in question is the Porsche Design Huawei Watch GT 2, a Wear OS smartwatch that tries to blend form over function, catering to consumers who are only interested in the very best, no-compromise solutions.

Made entirely out of titanium, the Porsche Design Huawei Watch GT 2 is a sleek device that should do a good job of blending with virtually any clothing style, from premium formal wear to completely casual looks. It uses two digital crowns that are the primary way of interfacing with its many functions.

Meaning a few rotating gestures are all that is required in order to activate pretty much any feature of the wearable. As expected, this thing will have an extremely limited availability once it releases early next month. There is still no word on the official pricing but previous generations from this smartwatch family, same as the Hublot family, were well into the quadruple-digit territory, and there is no reason to believe this one will be any different.

Prospective U.S. customers will have to import the Porsche Design Huawei Watch GT 2 from Europe, as per usual.

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MSI Puts Future PS5 Owners’ Minds At Ease With Monitor Console Mode

MSI Monitor Console Mode

The latest announcement out of MSI’s workshop isn’t centered on hardware, at least not in the way we’d expect. Instead, Micro-Star International today took the wraps off the MSI Monitor Console Mode, a software feature coming to a large number of its gaming displays that are already on the market and available to buy, as well as pretty much every future monitor that’s in the works.

The functionality in question has a pretty telling name but just for added clarity, its entire idea is to ease the concerns of future PlayStation 5 owners. If you did not hear about Sony’s curious technical decision just yet, note that the PS5 won’t offer native QHD output. Instead, QHD displays would be forced to upscale an FHD signal. This will not just degrade the quality of the final image compared to a native 4K output but also complicate the process of displaying the action on the screen to the point that it might introduce latency issues which could hurt one’s ability to compete in reflex-based multiplayer games such as shooters.

The MSI Monitor Console Mode addresses this hindrance by tricking the PS5 into sending it a 4K signal, then simply downscaling that image to a QHD one. This, in turn, will deliver better texture quality than native 1440p. As an added bonus, the HDR capabilities Sony baked into its next-generation gaming console will also work without a hitch in this mode. Of course, assuming the actual monitor in use supports HDR functionality.

As reported by Gameria.pl, Five of the latest curved monitors and three flat models from MSI’s Optix, Creator, and the newly introduced MPG Artymis series are planned to receive this feature in the coming days via an update, or will simply offer it out of the box.

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Microsoft Edge Now Supports Mixed-Reality Browsing Via HoloLens 2

Microsoft Edge Now Supports Mixed-Reality Browsing Via HoloLens 2

Microsoft has just started rolling out a new beta, or Insider build of its Internet Explorer successor Edge.

The biggest novelty in this revision of the Chromium-based browser has to do with something truly cutting-edge – support for mixed-reality experiences powered by the HoloLens 2, Microsoft’s latest pair of futuristic glasses that has been in the hands of tens of thousands of developers for almost a year to date as of this very moment.

As for the update at hand, note that we are talking about an installer package for Windows 10X that manages to combine the Microsoft Edge codebase with the HoloLens 2 hardware through the power of MXIS, a proprietary Windows app package format that combines the functionality of both .exe programs and compressed archives in order to sieve through to the absolute best aspects of both.

It is worth reminding that both HoloLens generations technically ran Microsoft Edge out of the box, but that was a legacy version of the browser with extremely limited functionality. With this realease, Internet interfacing akin to those scenes we remember from the 2002 thriller Minority Report are finally within reach.

If you happen to have the necessary tech, you can glimpse this potential future of browsing by joining the Microsoft Edge Beta program which is publicly available to all U.S. consumers.

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NVIDIA Debuts New Ray-Tracing GPUs With RTX 30 Series

NVIDIA Debuts New Ray-Tracing GPUs With RTX 30 Series

NVIDIA today announced the second generation of its ray-tracing graphics cards; three of them, to be more specific. The trio is launching as part of the GeForce RTX 30 series which is planned to reach the mass consumer market in the coming weeks. First as part of pre-built systems, and then individually.

Do not expect to be able to buy these things on their own that quickly, however, as new product generation shortages have been a thing in this industry even before Bitcoin mining took off. As a result, the most reliable way to get in on the next generation of graphical fidelity from NVIDIA will be to buy a gaming laptop, notebook, or even desktop. Or pre-order one just in time for the holiday season, that is.

As for the actual products that were announced today, the GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 and 3070 graphics cards promise up to twice greater performance compared to the RTX 20 series which launched in late 2018. In terms of energy efficiency, the company cites up to 1.9 greater improvements.

A swath of new software services powered by this new tech is also coming out as part of the generational leap, led by solutions for streamers and eSports professionals alike.

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Montblanc Refreshes ‘Affordable’ Orbis Terrarum Line With 2020 Model

Orbis Terrarum Line of smartwatches refreshed

German luxury watchmaker Montblanc today announced the Orbis Terrarum (2020), an update to its eponymous lineup of affordable smartwatches. Affordable relative to the rest of its portfolio, that is.

As you are still looking at an investment amounting to nearly $7,000, depending on the exact model you purchase. The most affordable one is the stainless steel variant, as expected, whereas any involvement of gold drives up the price by a factor of at least three.

This is the first revision of the Orbis Terrarum range in a while now, with its goal being to bring the series in line with the Star Legacy brand that Montblanc launched in the meantime. As was the case with the 2014 originals, the main selling point of these watches is still their worldtimer watch functionality that allows you to easily keep track of time in any corner of the globe, so long as your geography knowledge includes the the list of the most iconic world capitals around the globe.

Montblanc isn’t advertising these new watches as anything close to affordable, mind you, as that simply wouldn’t be in line with its brand proposition, on the whole. Which doesn’t mean these models aren’t accessible by the company’s own standards, of course, which is ultimately all that matters. You can place your orders in the U.S. as of today, by the way.

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Snap Celebrates New Milestone With 170 Million Daily AR Users

Snapchat developer Snap Inc. today announced a pretty remarkable, if somewhat niche-sounding milestone, having said its augmented reality tools now boast 170 million daily users. And what it didn’t say but definitely should have is that this means Snapchat succeeded at something even the global phenomenon Pokemon Go failed at: immersing countless smartphone owners in the United States and abroad into the world of modern AR apps.

Looking at the wider context, about three-quarters of all Snapchat users peruse the app’s AR tools every single day. This metric is in line with years’ worth of various indicators that have long been painting Snapchat as a mobile app with a remarkably high user engagement rate, even compared to other social media platforms on Android and iOS.

Snap is already in the process of following up on this achievement with a staged release of a new in-app Snapchat tool that lets users scan their surroundings and interact with a range of digital content made to respond to their attention.

The tool, simply called Scan, should be available on every stateside Android and iOS device compatible with the latest version of Snaphact by the end of the year – and probably even before this month comes to a close.

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ASUS Cleans Up Good Design Awards 2020 With 15 Honors

ASUS Cleans Up Good Design Awards 2020 With 15 Honors

Over in Fremont, California, a delegation from Taipei-based ASUS just finished sweeping up this year’s Good Design Awards venue. The 2020 edition of the established technology industry ceremony saw ASUS pick up not one, not even 14, but 15 honors in total.

As far as the Taiwanese computer giant is concerned, this is its best GDA haul to date. A major chunk of the merits for this achievement goes to ASUS’s Republig of Gamers subbrand, more commonly referred to as ROG.

As the said gamer-dedicated unit accounted for a third of the new additions to the conglomerate’s trophy cabinet. That push was led by several new products from the ROG Zephyrus series of electronics poetically named afer the ancient Greek god of west wind.

Other than that, ASUS managed to win recognitions with three ZenBook lineups of notebook spanning five models in total, its flagship ProArt StudioBook One and the functionally related ExpertBook B9450.

The company’s product design expertise was also svknowledged in the mobile segment with honors to its newly released ZenFone 7 family of Android-powered flagships fueled by Qualcomm’s best-ever chipset in the Snapdragon 865 Plus 5G.

All of these newly acclaimed products will be available for purchase in the U.S. by early November, with some already hitting stateside retail channels in the last several days.

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Razer Naga Pro Gaming Mouse Launches With New Modular Design

Razer Naga Pro Gaming Mouse

Razer launched its latest gaming mouse in the form of the Razer Naga Pro earlier today. The company is well-known for its high-end gaming accessories and PC peripherals, and the Naga Pro definitely fits quite nicely into both of those categories.

Meaning you can expect a high-quality build with some unique selling points, the most notable of which is a new modular design which allows users to switch in and out of certain hardware setups, depending on their current requirements on a case-by-case basis. Pun intended, because the Razer Naga Pro will be launching alongside three cases for specific in-game use cases and setups.

All three of these side plates are magnetic, which should make adding and removing them as simple as possible. The plates offer a choice between two, six, and 12 programmable buttons. The first option is said to have been designed with FPS games in mind, whereas the six-button one should be ideal for MOBA and Battle Royale players.

Finally, the 12-button setup exists to cater to RTS and MMO games with a large number of custom action possibilities and shortcuts any given playstyle requires. The Naga Pro is compatible with Razer Hypershift customization software and can be purchased in the U.S. as of today, priced at $149.99 plus applicable sales tax.

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(Refurbished) PSVR Headsets Drop To New Low Of $99

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The PlayStation VR headset has been arguably the most affordable entry point into the world of virtual reality entertainment for a good few years by now. At least when it comes to somewhat high-end experiences. And hunting refurbished products has been an excellent way of shaving off a lot of money from your next gadget purchase for even longer. See where we are going with this?

Regardless, GameStop is currently offering refurbished PSVR headsets for just $99, which is the new all-time low for Sony’s VR gadget by quite a margin. The deal appears to be limited to U.S. customers (sorry, Canada) and probably won’t last for long but it does redefine our perception of what a good value price for a PSVR is. Naturally, this offer does not include the PlayStation Move motion controllers, and neither does it have the PlayStation Camera, both of which are integral to experiencing any truly interactive VR content on your PlayStation 4 (Pro) console.

For reference, a comparably capable Oculus Rift – the original one from ages past – still goes for $300-$400, even as a refurbished unit in this day and age. Furthermore, the upcoming arrival of the PS5 will not be followed by a new generation of PSVR, making the original headset a sound investment even today, four years following its original market release.

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Google Meet Finds New Home In Lenovo Enterprise Tech

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Google and Lenovo are hardly strangers, but they haven’t been collaborating too closely ever since the former sold Motorola to the latter back in 2014.

That particular event allowed Google to net in excess of $2.9 billion, and while the duo’s latest endeavor probably won’t lead to such financial incentives, it does show promise in the enterprise segment. More specifically, Google and Lenovo teamed up in order to make Google Meet even more accessible to companies of all sizes.

The project, powered by Google Cloud, revolves around specialized Google Meet hardware coming in the form of the so-called Google Meet kits which are meant to be super easy to set up and start using momentarily. The Plug-and-play solution will be made available to all new and existing G Suite and Google Meet subscribers interested in investing in a better set of equipment for home offices and setups involving a large number of those.

Technologically speaking, the kits are powered by the Tensor Processing Unit developed by google’s AI chip experts. Intuitive voice recognition, 4K capabilities, and intelligent framing automation are all part of the package that Lenovo and Google are now offering to enterprise customers in the United States and abroad.

Prices, naturally, will depend on order sizes, as tends to be the case with B2B solutions.

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Xiaomi Debuts World’s Fastest (80W) Smartphone Wireless Charger

Xiaomi Debuts World's Fastest (80W) Smartphone Wireless Charger

The smartphone charging race has been one of the more entertaining competitions that the consumer electronics industry delivered over the last couple of years. The latest development in this constantly changing segment comes from Beijing, where Xiaomi managed to prototype the world’s fastest wireless charger.

The innovation in question baffles with its unmatched support of an 80W charging standard. In more practical terms, this combination of a wireless charger and coil sitting above a generic smartphone motherboard can top up a 4,000mAh battery from 0 to 100% in only 19 minutes, Xiaomi claims.

Of course, that figure is based on laboratory testing in ideal conditions which are almost impossible to reproduce in real-world scenarios. Yet that doesn’t exactly make it much less impressive. Especially since it was barely a few weeks since Xiaomi also made wired charging history with a 120W system implemented into the Mi 10 Ultra flagship whose 4,500mAh battery was hence doing zero-to-hero in some 23 minutes.

As for the wireless coil at hand, it takes no more than a minute to bring a dead battery up to a 10% level. Likewise, its average halfway mark is hit in about eight minutes. Unlike the 120W tech mentioned above, however, this prototype does not appear to be particularly close to any mass-consumer market right now.

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2020 HP Omen 30L Desktop Boasts RTX 3090

2020 HP Omen 30L desktop announced

Two weeks after NVIDIA took the wraps off its GeForce RTX 30 lineup of high-end gaming cards, HP is already fully prepared to take advantage of the newly introduced component breakthroughs – just in time for the traditionally competitive but very shopping-intensive holiday season.

Cue the introduction of the 2020 HP Omen 30L models meant to succeed the firm’s previous-best Windows gaming towers. This new family offers hardware all the way up to NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 – assuming you can afford it, that is. Because, to be honest, with an introductory price of $1,500, the HP Omen 30L series does not appear to be too impressive in the accessibility department, which is simultaneously unsurprising and yet difficult to swallow seeing how much more competitive HP Omen products tend to be in nearly every other product category.

The current shortages of NVIDIA’s second-gen ray-tracing GPUs obviously do not apply to enterprise clients, which is why pretty much every single configuration of the HP Omen 30L is scheduled to become available to buy in the U.S. in time for the holiday season.

In the CPU department, HP intends to offer both Intel and AMD’s latest tech, wheareas RAM will be capped at the expected 64GB mark.

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