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A new timeline sheds some light on when 5G's could come to your phone, home and more. There are so many promises about how faster 5G data will transform our lives, it sometimes feels mythical. Though lightning-fast download speeds are slowly coming to more carriers and phones, the prospects of self-driving cars talking to each other, remote surgery and 5G replacing your home Wi-Fi feel like the stuff of a still-distant future. But at last, we're finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Qualcomm, which makes the 5G chips and modems that every 5G phone in the US will rely on, shared a road map (scroll down to see the slides) that spells out when we might start seeing 5G improvements beyond just fast download speeds. Qualcomm isn't the only major 5G player, of course -- Huawei, Nokia and Ericsson are all leaders, too -- but Qualcomm's investments in 5G research and development mean that it has a strong hand in getting the next wave of 5G benefits o...

The next-generation wireless technology is expected to change your life. Just not yet. After years of hype, carriers have spent the last several months turning on their 5G networks. It's supposed to change your life with its revolutionary speed, but for now, the deployments remain limited, so don't be surprised if you're nowhere near the service. For 5G, as with any technology, give it some time. Between the end of 2018 through the first few months of this year, the carriers were racing to claim some sort of "first." Verizon and AT&T launched their mobile 5G networks, while KT said a robot in South Korea was its first 5G customer. Sprint turned on its network in June, followed shortly thereafter by T-Mobile. UK carrier EE was the first in its country to turn on 5G. Sounds great, right? But it's a virtual certainty that you aren't a 5G customer of any of these carriers. AT&T's network is live in 21 cities, including Atlanta, Dallas and Ne...

Ever wonder if there is a simpler way to change your Wi-Fi settings instead of having to call the helpline? Another good question is, why do we sometimes face disruption on our internet while using it? These are some of the many questions that we, as users, have regarding our internet connection. Many a time, we want to avoid calling the helpline and go through numerous steps and delays to get a simple task done. At other times, we are left blank as to why our internet has stopped working or has somehow become slow. Time to say goodbye to these worries as PTCL is now answering such queries through a series of very informative customer awareness videos that will help you deal with such persistent issues that may be handled by yourselves. These videos are especially useful now when everyone is stuck at home during the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and requires a seamless internet connection to work from home, to be entertained or to just stay in touch with your loved ones.  Th...

In brief: Intel's upcoming 10th generation Comet Lake-S CPUs are reportedly coming at the end of this month, and judging by several leaked promotional slides, they should be the best Skylake refinement the company can make before moving on to a new architecture step on its desktop CPUs. This past week Intel unveiled the 10th generation, Comet Lake H-series CPUs for high-end laptops, sparking gamers and creators' enthusiasm with potent silicon that breaks the 5 GHz speed barrier inside a 45 W thermal envelope. Image source - TECHSPOT / Image by    Adrian Potoroaca   Of course, people have also been waiting for a while now to see the desktop variants in all their glory. After all, these will require new motherboards with LGA 1200 sockets, so everyone wants to know if they're worth upgrading to. The new processors are reportedly slated for an April 30 announcement, and the marketing materials have already leaked online. As expected, the i9-10900K seems to be a 10-...

Image source - TECHSPOT / Image by  Isaiah Mayersen    Something to look forward to: Counting is a difficult skill for companies that are made of scientists and mathematicians and programmers. You know that Microsoft got to 10 and gave up, and that Apple forgot that 10 is a number and not a letter. So historically 10 is the difficult number. But the word on the street is, Intel have figured out how to count past it – correctly. You’ll recall that AMD have never, in fact, counted to 10. When the Athlon processors reached the 9000-series, they invented the Ryzen architecture so they could start over. Nvidia did manage to get to 10 with only a few minor hiccups (who needs 8?) but then they thought the next number was 20 so they had to go back and add 16. Intel is presently at the turning point: they’re halfway through the release of their 10th generation processors. The pressure is on. What will they call their next generation? A new Intel processor has appeared in...

Image source - TECHSPOT / Image by  Cohen Coberly Highly anticipated : Sony and Microsoft have both laid their cards on the table regarding their upcoming next-generation gaming consoles. Though Microsoft was the first to do so, both companies have revealed the bulk of their devices' hardware spec details, while elaborating on how they'll handle features like backward compatibility. Now, Sony is taking the next logical step forward by revealing the design of the PlayStation 5's controller. Unlike previous PlayStation controllers, the PlayStation 5's core input device won't have the traditional DualShock moniker. Instead, Sony is calling it the "DualSense," to better reflect its new capabilities. Much like the DualShock 4 represented a great leap forward for PlayStation's controllers -- thanks to its built-in touchpad and useful "Share" button -- the DualSense promises a similar degree of improvement with several core feature additions....

Following up to our review  of AMD's new Ryzen Mobile 4000 laptop CPU and having covered productivity performance and touched on gaming using the integrated GPU in our initial review, now it’s time to tackle the other main use case for these processors, and that’s gaming with a discrete GPU. Image source - TECHSPOT / Image by  Tim Schiesser   This is particularly important for Ryzen H-series parts as gaming laptops stick to these 45W-ish processors almost exclusively. We know that AMD has a very compelling part on their hands, with much better efficiency plus better multi-thread and single-thread performance for the most part, but gaming can often be a story of its own. Latencies, boost performance, frequency, can all play a part, so today we’ll be doing our best to explore how the Ryzen 9 4900HS fares in games. The biggest challenge for this test was getting an apples-to-apples platform to compare the 4900HS against Intel processors. Our Ryzen 4000 test b...