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Tesla will deliver its first Chinese made Model 3 sedans to the public on January 7 at an event at its Shanghai plant, a representative for the firm told Reuters on Thursday

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Realme X, Realme 5 Pro, Realme 3 Pro, Realme 3i, Realme 3, and Realme C2 have received discounts during the Realme 2020 sale in India. The four-day sale lasts until Sunday, January 5.

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Realme says that the Realme 5 and Realme 5s update comes with version number RMX1911EX_11_A.23, and is rolling out in a staged manner. The update will only reach a few users today.

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India will launch a heavy communication satellite Gsat-30 on January 17 from Kourou space centre in French Guiana on board an Ariane-5 rocket of the European Space Agency (Arianespace), ISRO chief K. Sivan said on Wednesday.

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We can all be honest with each other, January isn't exactly a time where you're flushed with cash. Christmas parties, festive gifts and New Year have left us all bankrupt. So what do you do if you're phone contract is coming to an end?

The likes of the iPhone 11, Huawei P30 Pro and Google Pixel 4 are probably off the table with their massive price tags. However, there is one thing offering top specs at a low price tag - Google Pixel 3a deals.

Taking everything we loved about the impressive Google Pixel 3 and dropping the price tag, the Google Pixel 3a can be yours at a pretty budget price. Considering prices float around the £20 a month mark, it is a phone with specs way above its price.

We've put in the hard work and picked out the best couple of Google Pixel 3a deals and listed them below. With everything from big data plans to the cheapest around.

• See how Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL deals compare to these

It really is a decent option, especially for the money you'll pay for it. We gave it a 4 out of 5 rating, which is frankly staggering for a mobile you can get comfortably for £20 per month.

OK, so this isn't the handset for you if you're head is turned by premium features like wireless charging and glass casing. But the 5.6-inch Full HD+ OLED display looks splendid, the battery life is impressive, the 12.2MP main camera is extremely good and it even has a headphone jack!

Read our full Google Pixel 3a review

• Decided Google isn't for you? Check out the best of Samsung phone deals, iPhone deals or Huawei phone deals

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Honor 9X India launch is set for January 14, Huawei sub-brand Honor revealed in invites to the tech media on Saturday. Flipkart has also created a microsite to indicate that it will be carrying the phone in the country.

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It’s time I kicked my Chrome and Windows habit. Now, I know that in the past I’ve moaned about Windows, and I’ve vowed before to stop using Chrome due to its RAM gobbling tendencies, but the problem is I’m just too lazy.

All my PCs run Windows 10, most new laptops I’ll get will come with it preinstalled, and I know that my games will (mostly) run fine. It’s easy to stick with Windows, but it means I’m continuing to have to put up with its crap.

Microsoft is still pushing out buggy updates, and my PC at home refuses to install an update because I seem to have some sort of Virtual Machine software installed. The update keeps telling me it can’t install without removing the software first, but I can’t for the life of me find the software in question.

So, every few hours or so, Windows 10 tries (and fails) to update, then bugs me about uninstalling some random software I’m not entirely convinced is still installed. Frankly, I’ve had enough.

Down with Chrome

It’s the same sorry story with Chrome. The amount of RAM it consumes on my devices, along with the wonky stability, has become a complete pain in the unmentionables.

Yet, despite my moaning, both in real life and on this website (and occasionally at the same time, much to my co-workers’ annoyances), I still use it. Because I’m lazy.

Chrome has all my bookmarks. My passwords. My extensions. It’s installed on all my devices, including tablets and smartphones. It’s too easy to just keep on using it.

But I shouldn’t. Not when there are so many better alternatives out there.

So here’s my New Year’s resolution: I’m going to stop using the software that keeps letting me down.

When it comes to dropping Windows, I’ve got plenty of choice when it comes to Linux. There are some brilliant distros out there that offer polished and well supported operating systems. During my time at Linux Format (a fine magazine that you should all be reading), I grew particularly fond of elementary OS, a stylish disto that is easy to use, and being based on Debian, has got excellent app support – including Steam.

Time to embrace the penguin

As for games – while native support in Linux still isn’t great, things like Proton, which is a tool created by Valve, let you run Windows games in Linux via emulation. Now, that might have an impact on performance, but seeing as I’m currently running a super-powerful PC that can run the likes of Red Dead Redemption 2 at 8K resolution, I could simply brute-force those games to run.

And when I need to upgrade my laptop, the 16-inch MacBook Pro has really stolen my heart. If I go for that, hey presto: my Windows dependency is severed.

As for ditching Chrome, there are enough alternatives out there all vying to win over disillusioned Chrome users. The easiest thing to do (remember, I am lazy) would be to switch to Microsoft’s new Edge browser. It’s based on the same Chromium engine as Edge, which means my settings can be easily ported over, and most of the extensions I’ve come to rely on will work as well. Crucially, it seems to be less of a memory hog than Chrome.

Going with Microsoft’s browser doesn’t mean I can’t ditch Windows, either, as the new version of Edge is coming to a range of platforms – including Linux.

But sticking with a Microsoft app built on Google tech in a way feels like a half measure. To really be rid of them both, maybe I should turn to Firefox. It used to be my daily browser before i found it getting too bloated, and switched to Chrome (oh, the irony). 

These days, it’s looking much better, with some excellent new features being added regularly.

No matter what browser and operating system I do choose, however, I’ll be making sure that I’m no longer putting up with tech that frustrates me – and it’s a New Year’s resolution many of us should be considering.

•  These are the best web browsers

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Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon and ThinkPad X1 Yoga have been refreshed with a PrivacyGuard feature to protect your screens from prying eyes. Lenovo has also provided buttons on the keyboard to attend VoIP calls.

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The 2020 Golden Globes are slated to take place Sunday, January 5. You can watch them in India Monday, January 6 at 7:30am IST on Comedy Central, Colors Infinity, and Vh1 India.

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Ready to invest in the best laptop cooling pad 2020 has to offer? Laptop makers and engineers are constantly pushing the boundaries in terms of making machines thinner, and yet more powerful – the latter being a prime consideration with gaming portables, naturally. And of late, huge strides have been made in terms of powering up gaming laptops, with the ability to pack near-desktop-level equivalent GPUs into a notebook.

However, this brings obvious issues in the form of not just space constraints, but heat-related problems (of course the two are closely interrelated). It’s becoming increasingly challenging to innovate with cooling systems and clever fan setups or super-efficient heat-pipes to cool a chunky CPU and GPU. Because otherwise, these parts can end up throttled back with their performance, and not so desktop-level after all… 

But, cooling can be an external process as well – using a laptop cooling pad, for example. As the name suggests, this is a pad your laptop sits on which provides cooling with upward-facing fans (and sometimes additional heat dissipation via the metal chassis of the pad). Which is where we come in with our top picks of the best laptop cooling pads in various different categories. From cooling pads designed for large laptops through to highly portable solutions, wallet-friendly pads, and even models with nifty integrated accessories like built-in speakers, these are the best laptop cooling pads 2020 has to offer.

How laptop cooling pads help with cooling

Any additional cooling the best laptop cooling pad can deliver will help in the battle against throttling. It could also potentially prolong the longevity of your laptop. That CPU and GPU will last longer if they aren’t being constantly run at overly hot temperatures.

So spending a little money on some extra cooling might save you a lot of heartache by avoiding the danger of your notebook giving up the ghost early. The best laptop cooling pad can also provide a convenient place to situate your laptop on those occasions when you’re actually using it in your lap, preventing a warmer notebook from being unpleasantly hot against your legs.

Note that the mileage you get from any cooling pad may vary in terms of the cooling vents present on the bottom of your notebook, and their respective position compared to the location of the fans in the pad. As common sense would dictate, a decent amount of vents on the underside of your laptop is a good thing here – and in general – and preferably these will be (roughly) lined up with the pad’s fans.

Although some laptop cooling pads run with one big fan – or multiple smaller ones – that’ll hit pretty much everything, and there are even modular pads where the fans can be repositioned.

Even unfortunate notebooks with no vents on the bottom can benefit somewhat from having the underside of the chassis cooled as a little bit of help in terms of temperature management.

At any rate, while your mileage may vary somewhat given your exact model of laptop, you’ll likely find some benefit from a cooling pad – and perhaps a considerable one, providing, of course, that you choose the one of the best models around.

• We’ve picked out all the best gaming laptops of 2020

The best laptop cooling pads at a glance

1. Kootek Cooler Pad Chill Mat 5
2. Cooler Master Notepal XL
3. Thermaltake Massive 20 RGB
4. Enermax TwisterOdio 16
5. Targus Chill Mat
6. Cooler Master MasterNotepal Maker
7. Tree New Bee Cooling Pad
8. TeckNet N8 Laptop Cooling Pad
9. Cooler Master Notepal X-Slim
10. Klim Cool

The best laptop cooling pads of 2020

Kootek Cooler Pad Chill Mat 5

Kootek makes a highly impressive laptop cooling pad which uses five fans (the one in the middle is a bigger 120mm model, surrounded by 70mm fans) to deliver an impressive amount of cooling – while still remaining quiet to boot.

The Chill Mat scores strongly in the versatility stakes as you can switch some of the fans off (it’s possible to have one working, four, or all five), plus it can be raised (using a ratchet mechanism, like a deckchair) through six different height settings depending on your preference (you might want to crank it right up when watching a movie, for example).

This cooling pad can take 12-inch to 17-inch laptops, so all common sizes, with a pair of stoppers at the front to prevent the notebook from sliding off. It also boasts a USB hub with two USB 2.0 ports.

In short, this is a high quality cooling pad with flexibility in spades, and it benefits from a reasonable mid-range price tag, making it our top pick for an all-rounder that covers everything without doing too much damage to your wallet.

Cooler Master Notepal XL

Cooler Master knows cool, you would hope, and the firm’s Notepal is a winner in our books. Using a single large 230mm fan – which is impressively quiet, we might add – it has a fan speed controller, and is designed to pipe ‘optimal airflow’ through your laptop. Indeed, it shifts an impressive amount of air, being rated at 89.8 cubic feet per minute; a very effective level of cooling.

This device also benefits from a slightly tilted ergonomic design, aiming to give you the best angle to use your notebook’s keyboard, along with nonslip feet for stability when placed on a surface. As an added bonus, there are three USB ports around the back.

The Notepal XL is capable of holding laptops up to 17-inches in size, and to cap things off, it’s reasonably priced for the cooling performance you’re getting here. This product is a very close second to the Kootek, but just loses out on the versatility front. If you can’t find the Kootek outside of the US – in some regions stock seems very thin on the ground – then this is a great alternative for powerful cooling.

Thermaltake Massive 20 RGB

If you need a cooling pad suitable for a hefty notebook, then this Thermaltake product can cope with a massive laptop as the name suggests – it won’t break a sweat with a 17-inch portable, and is even capable of playing host to larger 19-inch gaming laptops.

It has one 200mm fan for cooling (the fan speed is adjustable), and there are three different height settings (up to an angle of 13-degrees). The large fan provides efficient cooling for bigger laptops, plus you also get RGB lighting around the edges of the pad with various different modes (pulsing, blinking, or just static lighting of different colors).

It’s fashioned from plastic and the build quality perhaps isn’t the best you’ll encounter in the cooling pad world, but it’s plenty sturdy enough to do the job of supporting a hefty gaming laptop. Note that the price tag is reasonably hefty here, too.

Enermax TwisterOdio 16

When thinking about laptop cooling pads which do something a little different from the norm, one possibility is an accessory that doesn’t just keep your notebook from getting too hot, but also comes with built-in speakers. Because aside from dealing with heat, another area that laptops often struggle with is providing a decent level of audio quality and volume.

The Enermax TwisterOdio is only capable of dealing with laptops up to 16-inches in size, but its built-in pair of ‘DreamBass’ 2W speakers are pretty decent (and provide some bass, as the name might suggest).

This pad is fairly thick, naturally enough due to those integrated speakers (which are housed in the cylinder at the rear of the pad), but surprisingly light, and provides solid cooling as well as sound quality. Incidentally, you can turn the speaker on or off, and manually adjust the fan speed.

This is definitely worth considering for those who have poor laptop speakers and want a reasonably priced solution to address that issue and any cooling worries in one fell swoop.

Targus Chill Mat

For those who want their cooling pad to also provide expansion capabilities to hook up a number of other peripherals, check out the Targus Chill Mat, which is a little bit like a laptop dock crossed with a cooling solution.

The Chill Mat sports a 4-port USB hub (with USB 2.0 ports), and delivers cooling via a pair of fans (although Targus doesn’t specify what size they are – although the maker does state that they can run at up to 2,500 rpm).

This is a well-constructed device which is impressively slim, and can be adjusted between four different height levels. For those with laptops that have few USB ports, this could be a useful solution on twin fronts.

Cooler Master MasterNotepal Maker

Remember at the outset of this piece we discussed that the relative positioning of the vents in the bottom of your laptop and the fans in the cooling pad can be an important consideration? Well, one way you can ensure optimal positioning is by placing the fans yourself – and that’s possible in this modular cooling pad from Cooler Master.

Modular simply means that the fans can be moved to anywhere on the cooling pad, to target exactly where you need air delivering to your laptop. The MasterNotepal Maker also benefits from an excellent build quality and a ‘sandblasted aluminum’ surface – that can also help with heat dissipation – plus this pad can be set at five different angles.

There are other benefits such as excellent cable management, an attachable USB hub, and removable stoppers (to prevent the laptop from being in any danger of sliding off the stand). However, the downside to this top-of-the-range Cooler Master product is that it isn’t cheap, but for those who really want to fully tailor their pad to suit their notebook, it may well be worth the outlay.

The other thing to bear in mind here is that stock seems rather thin on the ground, now, as this product has been out for some time: so if you want one, you may have to move relatively quickly.

Tree New Bee Cooling Pad

If you want a very affordable solution for laptop cooling duties, well, here it is. Tree New Bee’s product runs with four 110 mm fans with adjustable speeds (the blue LED lights get dimmer as you turn the speed down – you can also turn two of the fans off, if you wish).

This device is nicely priced, pretty quiet, and provides a good amount of (suitably variable) cooling, and it can be raised on a pair of legs at the back for what the makers argue is a more ergonomic typing angle (and improved cooling, with more airflow underneath, of course).

The downside is there’s only one height setting, and it might be a touch steep for some. As you’ve probably seen elsewhere on this page, most products offer a range of different heights.

Still, this doesn’t stop the Tree New Bee Cooling Pad from being a great choice that strikes a commendable balance between price and performance.

TeckNet N8 Laptop Cooling Pad

If you want to spend as little as possible on a cooling pad, then TeckNet has a great solution which is priced as cheaply as you’ll see anywhere – and you’re still getting a decent product.

The N8 comes with a trio of 118mm cooling fans which provide a decent level of cooling, plus the device benefits from a highly slim and portable design, too. It has a pair of feet that can be extended to raise it up, and a USB port to plug in an additional device (the N8 connects and is powered via USB, incidentally).

The build quality perhaps isn’t the best, but the N8 is impressively quiet, and quite simply it does the job – and does it very cheaply indeed.

Cooler Master Notepal X-Slim

If you want a cooling pad which is nicely portable to carry around with you, then the X-Slim fits the bill. It measures only 27.5mm at its thinnest point, and it’s very light with a weight of 700g.

There are other products that come close to this level of portability – Havit’s 12-inch to 17-inch Laptop Cooler, for example – but Cooler Master’s effort gets the nod due to its quality build. It’s also capable of coping with laptops up to 17-inches in size, and the single 160mm fan offers excellent airflow while keeping things whisper-quiet. The X-Slim benefits from nifty cable management facilities, too, to keep things tidy as well as portable.

While the Notepal X-Slim is tidily compact, if you want a truly portable accessory to cool your laptop, check out our final entry below.

Klim Cool

Okay, so we thought we’d throw this one in at the end as a bit of a wildcard, because while it isn’t a laptop cooling pad as such, it’s a fan-based accessory which does a similar thing (albeit via sucking rather than blowing air). And for those who want a really portable solution, this is a truly compact affair – whereas obviously any laptop cooling pad won’t be all that small, given that they all (inevitably) have a notebook-sized footprint.

Note that there is a sizeable caveat here: your laptop will need a vent at the side or rear for one of these devices to be attached. If you only have air vents on the base of your laptop, then we’re afraid you’re out of luck as far as these particular products go.

As mentioned, rather than blowing air into the laptop to cool it, the idea with a so-called ‘vacuum cooler’ is that they suck air out, but that has an equally cooling effect. Some even argue it’s more effective than a traditional cooling pad, but either way, you’re getting the job done as long as you pick a good product from the available solutions out there.

And in this case, our recommendation is Klim Cool, a very effective cooler which comes with a number of different attachments so you’re covered whatever the size of the air vent you’re attaching the device to. It also measures the temperature inside your laptop and automatically adjusts the fan speed for the appropriate level of cooling – pretty nifty indeed.

The manufacturer backs the product with a five-year warranty and a 30-day free return policy, so you can give it a whirl to see how it works with your notebook. A further bonus is that this isn’t an expensive accessory, either, falling in line with the pricing of the more affordable cooling pads.

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A very late Christmas present or a gift to kick-off the new decade. However you want to see it, Vodafone currently has a promotion on its best fibre broadband deal that you can't really ignore.

The offer is simple, invest in its Superfast fibre 2 package and you'll pay the exact same price as with its lower speed fibre plan. That means you're essentially getting a free speed boost, paying just £23 a month for speeds averaging 63Mb.

And, it's even better news for existing Vodafone mobile customers as the cost drops down to just £21 a month, which is edging nearer to ADSL in price over fibre. Ready to get your hands on a free speed upgrade? You can find out more about it below.

• See what else is available with our broadband deals guide

Vodafone's cheap fibre broadband deal in full: 

What other broadband deals are there right now?

While Vodafone has the world of fibre locked down, there are some even cheaper prices if you're willing to drop your speeds.

Thanks to the addition of £50 in cashback, Plusnet currently stands tall as the cheapest broadband deal around. It costs £17 a month but when you take into account the cashback, you're effectively paying just £12.83 instead.

Of course, if you do really want fibre but want it from another name, BT could be a good option right now. With speeds averaging 36Mb at a price of just £24.99, this is one of the best prices you can pay for BT right now.

Read more:

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Huawei P40 series is reported to include three flagship phones this time. The company is reportedly going to launch the Huawei P40 and Huawei P40 Pro as expected, as well as an additional more premium Huawei P40 Pro Porsche Edition or a Huawei P40 Pro Max variant

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Drop whatever weekend plans you might have had lined up because we have the perfect, fun way for you to spend your days off - buying your new phone contract. Yep, we lied, it's not fun at all...but if you're looking to invest in Apple's best then we can at least help relieve the stress of it all.

That's because we have spent the entire time the brand new iPhone 11 series has been out analysing what is available and finding the absolute best of the best. And although prices aren't quite Black Friday-standard anymore, there are still some promising options lurking around.

With some big data plans, doubled storage options, the best EE can offer and more, we've compiled the best five iPhone 11 deals you can get your hands on this weekend below. 

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The top five iPhone 11 deals this weekend:

What makes the iPhone 11 so good?

The iPhone 11 is the cheapest of Apple's latest trio and yet, really isn't much of a downgrade. You still get Apple's new incredibly fast CPU, a 6.1-inch screen, IP68 rating and even a 3046mAh battery, enough to keep you going all the way through the day on one charge.

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Only a few days in to the New Year and retailers are already jumping on the January sales bandwagon. And for anyone looking to get their hands on a brand new mobile phone deal this month, EE will be the retailer many are looking for.

Luckily, the UK's fastest 4G network jumped straight into sales as soon as January kicked off, cutting prices and boosting data across a range of phones including the iPhone XR, Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and the Google Pixel 4.

Head straight to EE to see the full range of January deals

However, if you are looking to get your phone directly from EE, you will have to rush. Many of the best contracts are coming to an end on Monday, giving you the weekend to get your hands on something.

As is expected with EE though, the prices here are higher for some devices than you'll find elsewhere. If you're really not fussed what network you're attached to, consult our guide to the best mobile phone deals to see what else is currently available.

EE's January mobile phone deals ending Monday:

• Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus + free Galaxy Watch Active | £54 a month | £30 upfront | 60GB data
• iPhone XR | £54 a month | £10 upfront | 60GB of data
• iPhone XS | £64 a month | £50 upfront | 100GB of data
• iPhone XS Max | £69 a month | £50 upfront | 100GB of data
• Oppo Reno 2 | £34 a month | £10 upfront | 10GB data 
• Huawei P30 Pro | £49 a month | £50 upfront | 60GB data 
• Google Pixel 4 | £49 a month | £10 upfront | 60GB data
• Google Pixel 3a | £26 a month | £50 upfront | 4GB data

Why go for an EE contract?

Beyond those speedy 4G connections, there are a lot of benefits that make EE the network to go for.

EE offers a data gifting scheme, that means you can send any leftover data you have to someone else that needs it. A feature that will make you very popular with friends and family.

You also get access to Wi-Fi calling. That means if you're in a bit of a signal dead-zone but you've got Wi-Fi, you're all good to send as many texts and calls as you want. 

Another major benefit of EE is its entertainment scheme. With this you can take out six month subscriptions with Amazon Prime Video, MTV Stars and Apple Music. On top of that you can get free access to BT Sport for three months - that's a total of 21 free months of subscriptions with EE. 

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Iran’s retaliation for the United States' targeted killing of its top general is likely to include cyberattacks, security experts warned Friday.

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