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Nvidia’s GeForce Experience now optimizes settings for creative apps such as Lightroom, AutoCAD, and DaVinci Resolve, and OBS Studio gets noise cancellation

2021-04-15 Danie

Clever of Nvidia to branch out from just focussing on gaming and now also tweak the power of their GPUs into another category of apps that really thrive on heavy horsepower processing ability. Nothing really […]

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Phone wet and won’t turn on? Here’s what to do with water damage (hint: putting it in rice won’t work)

2021-04-15 Danie

While many smartphones are advertised as ‘water resistant’, this doesn’t mean they’re immune from water damage, and it usually just means they have more glue inside them. As a rule I treat all phones as […]

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Dcbel r16: This EV charger turns electric cars into back-up power sources – Could power a house up to 12 hours long from the EV

2021-04-14 Danie

The unit can charge up to two EVs at the same time, and offers fast charging (known as Level 3 or DC Fast Charging) giving you 60 miles of battery range in an hour. CEO […]

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The SharkRF Openspot3 can actually play audio through the browser for digital ham radio modes

2021-04-14 Danie

A very short clip just showing the Icom IC-7100 D-STAR radio connecting and listening to the Brandmeister DMR radio network through the SharkRF Openspot3. This just demonstrates the cross mode functionality with text read out. […]

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DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Vivaldi will block Google’s FLoC

2021-04-13 Danie

Basically, Google’s FLoC replaces third-party cookies by grouping Chrome users based on their interests and demographics. Google claims it’s a better alternative to third-party cookies, but privacy advocates disagree — and so does DuckDuckGo, Brave, […]

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Like it, or not – the sugar tax is working in South Africa but it needs to be increased to WHO recommendation levels

2021-04-13 Danie

We are drinking far less of the bad stuff, says Prof Karen Hofman of the Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science. South Africa introduced a sugar tax of 11% per litre three years […]

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TicWatch GTH is a ‘familiar looking’ but budget health tracker that can monitor your skin temperature with a 10 day battery life for US$80

2021-04-13 Danie

Interesting that this is a dedicated health tracker so no Android Wear OS (hence the longer battery life) or other apps. It seems more targeted at those that actually don’t want a smart watch but […]

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Find yourself watching the screen instead of webcam in VCs? Try this open source Eyecam instead which mimics a real eye

2021-04-12 Danie

The eyebrow-raising design pulls no punches in the uncanny department: the eye behaves as you’d expect (if you could have expected this) — it blinks, looks around, and can even waggle its brow. The eyeball, […]

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Your WhatsApp account can be suspended by anyone who has your phone number… Because it still uses phone number verification and has a bug

2021-04-12 Danie

Yes it’s partly an oversight on Whatsapp’s side ie. they should not disable the whole account, just the new device. But phone numbers are often known, so it is quite easy to sabotage someone’s account […]

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Open source Monster Mash is Google’s fun new tool for getting started with 3D animation

2021-04-12 Danie

3D animation isn’t an easy task. Each stage in the process is incredibly complicated, often taking large teams of people to create even small animated scenes. Google wants to beginners learn the tool of the […]

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