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Launched last week, the Samsung Galaxy Book S features a new chip than Intell calls a “next generation Intel Core processor with Intel Hybrid Technology”. 

"Hybrid technology" here refers to Intel’s much-vaunted Foveros, found in the Core i5-L16G7 - a 10nm Lakefield CPU clocked at 3GHz with 4MB cache.

It uses one big core and four small Atom cores, which is another first for this processor, emulating what ARM has been doing for quite a few years now with big.LITTLE. Note, Intel doesn’t currently list this CPU on its ARK database.

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What makes Foveros so interesting is the fact it allows different, usually separate components to be layered one on top of the other in a 3D stack. To recycle Intel’s analogy, it's like layered cake as opposed to pancake layers.

You end up with something that occupies much smaller real estate and, because they are physically closer (and more tightly integrated), should end up costing less, using less energy and reducing latency (which will improve performance).

In a not so distant future, such a chip could mix and match memory, connectivity, I/O and even storage class memory, allowing Intel to offer a plethora of options to meet the needs of its customers - almost spilling into the world of semi-custom offerings.

As for the new Galaxy Book S (the previous one used the Qualcomm 8CX), it weighs 950g, comes with a 13.3-inch 600-nits touchscreen display, 512GB eUFS (no SSD), 8GB LPDDR4x memory, four speakers, two USB Type-C ports and a 42Whr battery that should power the laptop for at least half a day.

The device will suit a consumer's needs, but many of its features (e.g. long battery life, Windows Hello sign-in with a fingerprint sensor and Windows 10 Professional) are likely to be especially popular with a business audience.

It's available to pre-order at £999 in the UK, but prices for other regions have yet to be announced.

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Mi Notebook is all set to debut as Xiaomi’s first laptop in India on June 11. The laptop will not only mark its India debut next week, but this will also be its global debut. Despite selling several laptop models in China, the company is bringing an India-specific laptop for the country.

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Friday resigned from the social network firm's board and sought to be replaced by a black candidate.

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Businesses across the globe have been strong-armed by the coronavirus pandemic into overhauling established ways of working.

Many firms previously hesitant to allow employees off the leash have come to recognize that the benefits of a remote-first model - including access to a wider talent pool and improved work-life balance - do not come at the expense of productivity.

However, as countries begin to relax lockdown measures, it remains to be seen to what extent the changes made necessary by the pandemic will remain in place in the long term.

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According to Richard Rawcliffe, VP & GM, UK Public Sector at Dell Technologies, it is vital that ground gained in the march towards modernization as a result of the unhappy pandemic isn’t surrendered once restrictions on life and work have been lifted.

“We’ve all learned a lot [since the start of lockdown], and it would be almost a tragedy if we then went backwards and reverted to the way things were,” he told TechRadar Pro.

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Unlike many businesses, Dell Technologies has long been a proponent of remote and flexible working. The company’s flirtation with remote work began circa 11 years ago with the introduction of its Connected Workplace initiative.

According to Rawcliffe, roughly 65% of the Dell workforce were afforded a level of flexibility even prior to the pandemic, with 40,000-50,000 employees working remotely at any given time.

For this reason, the firm was as well equipped as any when the need arose to transition to a universal remote working system. But Rawcliffe recognizes that many businesses weren’t so lucky.

“There are a number of organizations that probably thought their infrastructure was good enough, and are now finding that good enough isn’t actually good enough,” he said. “It was built for the way in which they were working [prior to the pandemic], without offering that crucial level of flexibility.”

“The reality is that the global pandemic has been more influential in driving digital transformation than almost any other factor. Where the opportunity has been taken to modernize infrastructure and automate processes that surround existing working practices - those are the [companies] that have transformed their businesses.”

For Rawcliffe, who himself has worked from home on and off for 30 years, the move back to some semblance of normality represents a pivotal moment for businesses, which must decide whether to lean in to remote-first culture, or not.

“[The widespread transition to remote working] has validated the things we’ve always wanted to talk about with our customers. We’ve all got a chance now to change how we think about work - and work is no longer all about going to the office.”

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From the Xiaomi’s budget lineup of smartphones, the Redmi series never fails to make it to India and the upcoming Redmi 9 series is expected to debut soon. However, the smartphone has been listed on an e-commerce site in the Philippines ahead of launch. This entry has tons of renders detailing all aspects and key features with seemingly-official renders. 

The listing on a Philippines store reveals more than just an overview of the device. The device has shortly been listed for a price tag of PHP 6990 (~Rs.10,603). However, this could be just a placeholder price for the time being.

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The website further expands to reveal the device having a circular ring around the camera and textured design on the back. The circular ring around the camera reminds us of the Poco X2.

As leaked earlier, the bigger 6.53-inch FHD+ dot-drop display is almost confirmed now. However, there is a mention of the word AMOLED in the listing which could just be erroneous. We expect it to have an IPS LCD panel. 

Interestingly enough, the promo material all but confirms Mediatek’s Helio G80 SoC which is different from the CPU leaked earlier. There are other variants in the series as well which, like the Redmi 9C, is also likely to have MediaTek CPUs. The listing claims a 214% boost over the previous Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 on the Redmi 8.

As speculated, the device has quad-cameras housing a 13MP f/2.2, an 8MP ultra-wide lens with a 118-degree field of view, a 5MP Macro and a 2MP depth sensor on the back. 

An LED flashlight and fingerprint sensor accompanies the camera setup on the back. On the front, there is an 8MP selfie shooter. There is a headphone jack, USB-C port on the bottom, and an IR blaster and secondary mic up top.

The Redmi 9 will have a 5,020mAh battery and the listing claims 14 hrs of navigation and 34 hrs of calling. However, there is no mention of fast charging support.  There are three colours - Green, Purple, and Grey.

The storage versions listed have  3/4GB of RAM and 32/64GB respectively. There is no word on the launch but the new entry indicates the device could debut sooner than we expect.

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Oppo India has announced that it will be bringing the newly launched Oppo Reno 4 series to the country. The company hasn’t shared a timeline of the launch; however, it did say that the India variants of the Oppo Reno 4-series phones will come with exclusive features for the Indian market.

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Oppo Reno 4 Pro and Oppo Reno 4 phones have launched in China. The phones come with triple camera setups at the back, accompanied by a laser detection auto-focus lens. The Oppo Reno 4 and Oppo Reno 4 Pro phones are powered by the Snapdragon 765G SoC, bringing 5G network connectivity.

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Reliance Industries late on Friday said US private equity fund Silver Lake and its co-investors will invest an additional Rs. 4,546.80 crores in the company's digital unit Jio Platforms.

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