After adding support for vertical tabs last year, Microsoft is now testing a new customization feature in Edge that allows users to resize the vertical tabs panel in its browser.
As reported by Windows Central, Reddit user Leopeva64-2 first spotted the new feature and recently uploaded a GIF of it in action. The option to resize the Vertical Tabs panel is now live for Edge Insiders running Microsoft Edge Canary build 90.0.810.0.
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While horizontal tabs have long been the standard way to have multiple websites open in a browser, vertical tabs are quickly becoming a popular alternative due to how they allow users to better utilize screen space and this is especially true on ultrawide monitors.
Resizing the vertical tabs panel
Regardless of whether you have the vertical tab panel pinned in Microsoft Edge, the company's new experimental feature still works and this makes it quite useful.
When contracted, the vertical tabs panel just shows the icons of the websites you have open but the panel can also be expanded if you want to see the full address of each site you have open in a different tab. Edge users can hover their cursor over the panel to expand it or they can pin it to keep it expanded.
Now that Microsoft has added the option to resize the vertical tabs panel in its browser, users can click and drag the panel to change its size. However, when pinned, the panel stays expanded at all times.
If you're the kind of person that uses your web browser with multiple tabs open, then you may want to give Edge's vertical tabs feature a try as it could help boost your productivity as it will be easier to find a particular tab.
AMD Big Navi is out and unveiled in all its glory. Nvidia’s RTX 3000 GPUs deliver impressive performance, so graphics card enthusiasts have high expectations of AMD’s long-rumored Nvidia killer. Luckily, Team Red is now in the perfect position to take on Nvidia's RTX 3080, RTX 3090 and RTX 3070 GPUs.
With the AMD Big Navi, which runs RDNA 2 tech, AMD is coming out of its budget and mid-range shell and returning to the high end – something that CEO Lisa Su hinted herself in October 2020. And, offerings like the Radeon RX 6800 XT, Radeon RX 6800 and the mighty Radeon RX 6900 XT, are certainly surpassing expectations – even if they’re a little pricier than AMD’s normal price point. RDNA 2 is also the graphics architecture behind the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, so they’re giving us a good idea of what kind of performance those next-gen consoles will bring.
That isn’t to say that AMD is now only focusing on the high-end market with its Big Navi cards. There are other more affordable options in the series as well, which could include the new Radeon RX 6000 GPU it's getting ready to launch tomorrow. So, whether you’re looking for a big-budget purchase in the GPU market or need something more affordably priced, there’s certainly something for you in the AMD Big Navi series.
Cut to the chase
What is it? AMD's high end graphics cards
When is it out? November 18
What will it cost? Starting at $579 (around £440, AU$820) for the Radeon RX 6800
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AMD Big Navi release date
It seems like AMD Big Navi release date rumors have been everywhere since the very beginning of time – or at least since Navi rumors first started appearing in late 2018. Initially, we had heard that Big Navi would be launching at Computex – but Computex didn’t even happen.
Days after Nvidia’s announcement of the RTX 3080 however, AMD teased the launch of both its Zen 3 desktop processors and RDNA 2 graphics cards, with the latter expected to come in right before Halloween on October 28 at 12pm EST – just a couple weeks before the November 10 launch of the Xbox Series X that the graphics architecture will be powering.
On the day, AMD announced that the AMD Radeon RX 6800 and Radeon RX 6800 XT will launch on November 18. Meanwhile, the Radeon RX 6900 XT will arrive a little later on December 8.
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AMD Big Navi price
AMD has traditionally enjoyed a reputation for providing more affordable products than their competition.
And to back this up, we'd like to point to the AMD Radeon VII. With this graphics card, AMD genuinely provided performance that was pretty close to what the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 provided at the time, while sitting with a price tag of $679 (about £540, AU$970), which was very close to the RTX 2080's $699 (£649, AU$1,119) price tag at the time.
Now, since launching its Navi lineup, AMD has put some price pressure on Nvidia's mid-range lineup, most notably baiting Nvidia into lowering its prices on its Super cards at the last minute. So, we might see something that challenges the RTX 2080 Ti for maybe $200 (£200, AU$300) less than that card's MSRP, but don't expect graphics card prices to drop to where they were before Nvidia Turing made everything more expensive.
So, AMD's Big Navi lineup starts at $579 (around £440, AU$820) for the Radeon RX 6800, while the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT costs $649 (around £500, AU$1,000) and the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT will cost $999 (£770, about AU$1,400).
With the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, AMD has undercut Nvidia's rival RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 cards, respectively.
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AMD Big Navi specs and features
A big thing for Big Navi is taking on Nvidia's strongest graphics cards, which requires a lot of muscle, especially for the RX 6900 XT, which is directly targeting the RTX 3090. While we haven't got our hands on these graphics cards yet, the on-paper specs are incredibly impressive.
Right off the bat, the Radeon RX 6800 XT is looking like it's going to be the headline graphics card here, even if it's not quite in the same league as the Radeon RX 6900 XT – it's also much less expensive. AMD is claiming that this RTX 3080 competitor will be twice as powerful as the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT.
That first-generation RDNA graphics card is packed with 40 compute units, with 2,560 Stream Processors (SPs), backed with a game frequency of 1,755 MHz. The Radeon RX 6800 XT, on the other hand, is packed with 72 Compute Units, with a game frequency of 2,015MHz. Assuming each RDNA 2 Compute Unit has the same amount of Stream Processors as RDNA, we're looking at about 4,608 SPs. When that's combined with the higher power budget and the 50% performance-per-watt goal that AMD claims, it isn't hard to believe that AMD will actually hit that number.
But do you know what other graphics card is around twice as fast as the RX 5700 XT? The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. Even according to the graphs AMD itself provides, the RX 6800 XT and the RTX 3080 are going to be trading blows, with neither card pulling definitively ahead across the board – this may be why Nvidia is rumored to be readying a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.
What's perhaps even more interesting, however, is that the Radeon RX 6800 cuts the GPU down to 60 Compute Units, power down by 50W and brings the game clock down by 200MHz. This graphics card looks to be a pretty sizable increase in performance over the RTX 2080 Ti – which is about the same level as the newly-launched RTX 3070. However, the benchmarks shown off here are with Smart Access Memory enabled.
This is a feature that gives your CPU direct access to GPU memory, which takes a lot of latency out of the render pipeline. There's a catch, though – this feature will be exclusively available with AMD Ryzen 5000 processors on 500-series motherboards (including X570, B550 and A520). When AMD spoke on this feature it suggested that enabling this feature in addition to Rage Mode, which is essentially an AMD-supported overclock, can boost performance up to 13%. So, if you're using an older AMD processor or even an Intel chip, you could experience much less performance.
How much performance will depend on these features remains to be seen, but you can rest assured that we'll be putting it to the test once we get our hands on both the AMD Ryzen 5000 processors and the AMD Radeon 6000 graphics cards.
The biggest surprise, however, came at the end of AMD's presentation, when CEO Lisa Su revealed the Radeon RX 6900 XT. With this GPU, power consumption remains shockingly the same as the Radeon RX 6800 XT, but because it gets bumped up to 80 Compute Units, along with the same 2,015MHz Game Clock, performance gets a pretty massive boost.
Again, AMD showed off performance claims both with Rage Mode and Smart Access Memory enabled, which is a bit on the shady side, but it looks like it will be within the same ballpark as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090. And, again, this is while costing much less at $999 (about £770, AU$1,415) compared to the RTX 3090's $1,499 (£1,399, around AU$2,030) price tag.
At the end of the day, however, it's important to take all of AMD's performance claims with a grain of salt. Team Red is trying to sell a product, so it's going to pick the absolute best-possible results to share. AMD Big Navi performance seems incredible, but we're going to have to wait until we get these graphics cards in our lab to see just how powerful they actually are.
Until then, we can still sit and revel in the fact that AMD is finally taking Nvidia on at the high end. We can't stop thinking about the trajectory AMD took with Ryzen starting in 2017, and we certainly hope it takes a similar path with its RDNA graphics cards. The most interesting question is: will Nvidia take AMD's attacks lying down like Intel has? Or will it hit back with strong innovation and pricing? We're definitely hoping for the latter, but we'll settle for the graphics card market being exciting again.
We've also included all the publicly available AMD Big Navi specs down below, for your reference:
AMD Radeon RX 6800 specs:
60 compute units
1,815MHz game clock
2,150MHz boost clock
128MB Infinity cache
16GB GDDR6 memory
250W total board power
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT specs:
72 compute units
2,015MHz game clock
2,250MHz boost clock
128MB Infinity cache
16GB GDDR6 memory
300W total board power
AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT specs:
80 compute units
2,015MHz game clock
2,250MHz boost clock
128MB Infinity cache
16GB GDDR6 memory
300W total board power
These Big Navi GPUs will feature "Rage Mode" for one-click overclocking, along with AMD Smart Access Memory, and when paired with an AMD Ryzen 5000 processor, these features are, AMD promises, able to give some serious boosts to game performance.
Instagram began allowing up to four people to live stream together in virtual Live Rooms, following in the footsteps of group-broadcast rising stars like Clubhouse.
Realme Buds Air 2 sale in India will kickstart today. The fifth true wireless earbud from Realme was launched in India last week along with the Realme Narzo 30 series. The Realme Buds Air 2 is the successor to the Realme Buds from 2019.
The Realme Buds Air 2 will go on sale on Flipkart starting today at 12 noon. It is available in two colour options - Closer Black and Closer White. The star of the show here is the ANC and impressive pricing. With the Realme Buds Air 2, the company aims to democratize ANC and bringing it to a lower price point.
The Realme Buds Air 2 TWS are priced at Rs 3,299 in India. It is available in Closer White and Closer Black colour options and will go on sale via Flipkart at 12 noon today.
Specs and features
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The biggest upgrade in the design department comes in terms of in-ear design as compared to the first-gen Realme Buds Air. There is a 10mm Diamond-class Hi-Fi driver. It supports ANC which cancel out up to 25 dB of low-frequency noise. There is a new Realme R2 chipset that improves latency by 35% and supports the Bluetooth 5.2 standard. It supports SBC and AAC codes. It also supports transparency mode and ENC for calls.
Realme has also partnered with Chainsmokers to developed and tune the audio. The TWS has three new music modes - Bass Bosst+, Lively, and Clear. There are also three noise control modes - Noise cancellation, General, and Transparency. Additionally, you also get gaming mode with 88ms low latency and volume enhancer. The buds can be paired with the Realme Link app which offers full customization.
As for the controls, it supports double, triple tap on each bud, touch and hold (long press) options for each bud and touch and hold action when both buds are pressed together. One of the fresh additions comes in terms of in-ear detection toggle which comes in handy when you don’t want the media to pause/play as soon as you remove and put it back on.
NBN 250 is a relatively new speed tier, and if you’ve been wanting to try it out, Superloop is now offering new customers a free upgrade to this lightning-fast broadband.
To be eligible for the upgrade, you need to sign up for an NBN 100/20 with Superloop. You’ll then automatically be bumped up to the provider’s NBN 250 plan for three months, which comes with unlimited downloads at speeds of up to 250Mbps, and 25Mbps uploads.
Superloop’s NBN 100 plan usually costs AU$89.95 a month, but you’ll pay a discounted rate of AU$74.95 for your first six months on the plan. That means you’ll be paying the lowest price for 250Mbps speed, though as mentioned above, you’ll only receive that speed for your first three months on the plan.
After that time, your plan will automatically revert back to the standard NBN 100 plan, which comes with unlimited data and a typical evening speed of 90Mbps – not as fast as you’ll receive on the free upgrade, but still a good amount for larger households and gamers alike.
This deal is a great way to figure out if you actually need the ludicrously-fast download speeds that come with an NBN 250 plan while only paying NBN 100 prices. If you decide the upgrade is worth it, Superloop has discounted its NBN 250 plan down to AU$99.95 for your first six months on the service.
And since Superloop’s plans come with no lock-in contract, you can easily upgrade without having to wait out a long contract term. If you decide NBN 100 suits you fine, then you can continue paying AU$74.95 a month for the service.
Gambling apps have been actively trying to pass themselves off as gaming ones for a while now and they have started pushing to make it official now. Recently, people like the co-founder of Nodwin Gaming, Akshat Rathee and Vishal Gondal, Co-Founder and Chairman of FAU-G studio Ncore Games spoke out about the same.
And now according to a post of Twitter by Vishal Gondal, he has been slapped with six legal notices from people all based in different cities in India. These legal notices threaten him with criminal and civil action for his tweets.
Received multiple Criminal & Civil Defamation notices https://ift.tt/3szQAwI @medianama https://ift.tt/380sBiE across India have taken offense to my article & tweets highlighting online gambling(read them they are hilarious 😂) @TheKenWeb #IndiaAgainstGambling pic.twitter.com/l1oJKrc3nlFebruary 23, 2021
Gondal has responded on the tweet saying that these legal notices are “frivolous and baseless” and that he has “full faith” in India’s courts. He urges the Indian gaming community “raise the issue of getting gambling under all surrogate forms under strict government regulation and oversight”.
Gambling companies are actively trying to get themselves classified as gaming apps and have even met with government officials to follow up on that. Since 2018 these companies have been trying to mask their way in being called gaming companies and even participated in the Indian Game Developers Conference.
Last year IGDC governor Rajesh Rao even defended these companies by stating that they are making 'games of skill'. In the last month or so, the debate of gambling apps vs gaming apps has heated up and IGDC seems eerily silent about the whole thing. According to this IGN report, this is rather unusual considering that it is pretty active when it comes to talking up to the international media. This is surprising since there is a stigma against gambling in India and yet this nonchalance is weird at best.
IGN says that it approached the IGDC for a comment back in January regarding this and is yet to receive a reply. While Vishal Gondal has the means to defend himself, many game developers do not and this needs to be a point of contention. Game development in India is hard as it is and developers definitely don't need to be compared with gambling on top of it.
All India Football Federation is all set to get into esports and has announced that it is going to hold trials to form and Indian team that will participate in FIFAe Nations Series 2021. This trial will be in the form of a tournament which has been named 'AIFF eFootball Challenge'.
With the selection and forming of a eNational Squad, AIFF announced that this will be a first for India to participate in the FIFAe Nations Series 2021. This is FIFA’s flagship tournament for Member Associations and is contested by eNational Teams in the game EA Sports FIFA 21.
The AIFF eFootball Challenge is set to take place from March 20 to April 4. The tournament will be played using the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 version of FIFA 21 to decide the winner.
The tournament will use FIFAe Global Series Rankings (West Asia Region) as of February 25, 2021 12:00am IST to determine the qualification and seeding. The winner and the runner up of the tournament will be the ones to represent India in the global competition.
The registration of the AIFF eFootball Challenge is currently live and will be open till March 10. As for the FIFAe Nations Series 2021 it uses a multi-phase structure including online qualifier stages. This culminates into the FIFAe Nations Cup which is the final event. India is set to participate as part of the Middle East and Africa server region.
AIFF General Secretary, Kushal Das, calls this a “brilliant initiative” that will "help grow the sport's popularity and boost fan engagement in the country.”
"Gaming has always been a great engagement tool for football fans across the world. Owing to the current pandemic situation the interest in eSports has increased manifold globally. Be it on the field or on a virtual platform, football generates passion and excitement among fans,” Das said. "As a modern and progressive organization, the AIFF is committed to engaging with stakeholders and fans and increasing the popularity and interest in football across the nation. AIFF aims to grow the competition with participation from across the country in the coming years."
“The opportunity to nominate eAthletes from India for the event is a unique opportunity to engage with the gaming community in the country and open a new avenue for fans to connect with the ‘Beautiful Game.’ At the same time, it will help promote the concept of eSports as a career and provide global exposure to Indian eAthletes,"
