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Android 14 may let you use your smartphone as a webcam for your PC

Most modern laptops ship with webcams… and most of them aren’t all that good. It’s still common to see PC makers announce new laptops with 720p cameras. Microsoft just introduced one today. So, while you could shop around for a model with a 1080p or higher-resolution camera (there are more than their used to be), many […]

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AYA Neo Pocket Air is handheld Android game console with 5.5 inch OLED display and Dimensity 1200 ($279 and up during crowdfunding)

The AYA Neo Pocket Air is a handheld gaming system with a 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display, built-in game controllers, and a MediaTek Dimensity 1200 processor. It’s also the first Android-powered system from AYA, a company that’s best known for shipping handheld Windows computers built for gaming. First unveiled in January, it’s […]

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Lilbits: Sony buys Audeeze, MSI leaks Raptor Lake-S details, and previews of upcoming Android features

Intel’s 14th-gen processors are set to debut this year, and it looks like desktop-class chips that are part of the “Raptor Lake-S Refresh” line are going to be… a lot like the company’s 13th-gen Raptor Lake chips. They’re manufactured on the same Intel 7 node, and featuring the same core and thread counts (for the […]

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Lilbits: Arm IPO, Atari 2600+ and the “first conformant” GPU driver for Apple M1 and M2 chips

The folks behind Asahi Linux have been had to reverse engineer Apple’s CPU and GPU architecture in order to get Linux up and running on the latest Macs with Apple Silicon processors. But one of the developers responsible for much of the work that’s gone into creating open source graphics drivers for Apple M1 and […]

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Xiaomi Pad 6 Max enters the big tablet fray with 14-inch display and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor

Xiaomi has announced a new addition to its tablet lineup: the Pad 6 Max. It’s the company’s biggest tablet yet with a 14-inch display. That’s more than an inch larger than Apple’s largest iPad Pro model, and puts it in the same territory as the Samsung Tab S9 Ultra and Lenovo Tab Extreme. It’s not […]

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Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 revealed with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip and a new cover display

Hot on the heels of Samsung and Honor announcing new foldables, Xiaomi is getting in on the action. The company has revealed the Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 and is already taking pre-orders in China. Starting at around $1250, the Mix Fold 3 is built around a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor with a top clock […]

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Firefox desktop extension support coming to Android browser

Mozilla has announced that a major change is coming to the Firefox Android app. Desktop browser extensions will finally be fully supported by the end of this year. An exact date hasn’t been set yet, but Mozilla plans to announce one in September. Firefox users have been able to install extensions that were part of […]

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Lilbits: Purism’s refund policy (or lack thereof), Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE, and better QR code scanning

The Purism Librem 5 Linux smartphone has had a long and storied journey. Purism was one of the first companies to announce plans to release a smartphone capable of running software based on a mainline Linux kernel… but it took years for the company to actually begin shipping phones to customers who had placed pre-orders, […]

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Lilbits: Samsung’s new foldables and AMD’s new security vulnerability

Samsung’s newest Galaxy Z foldable phones are up for pre-order. Prices start at about $1000 for the Galaxy Z Flip5 and $1800 for the Galaxy Z Fold5, although various retailers are offering free storage upgrades, gift cards, or other perks to sweeten the deal before the phones are generally available on August 11. Meanwhile, I […]