Redmi G Gaming Laptop to Launch on August 14

Redmi G gaming laptop by Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi is launching in China on August 14. It seems to come in an all-black hue and could offer a 15-inch display with thin bezels on the top as well as left and right sides.
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Google Beats $50 Million Lawsuit by Genius Over Scraping Song Lyrics

Google has won the lawsuit against Genius, a lyrics transcription site that was filed in December last year. Genius claimed that Google was scraping lyrics from its website and proved the same by hiding a watermark in Morse code into the lyrics themselves. However, the court stated that Genius does not own the lyrics to begin with.
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HCI at the Edge Benefits From Intel Optane & QLC NVMe SSDs

We in the IT community often obsess over show horses, the fastest and/or most powerful devices or systems, because we love those big and small numbers they showcase. The reality however, is that most users simply don’t need the ostentatious power of show horses; they need workhorses, systems that can serve up real workloads on a day-to-day basis at an affordable price. We have spent a fair amount of time looking into DataON’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) offerings, and even gave the DataON HCI-224 with Intel® Optane™  SSDs our Product of the Year award last year. In this article, we will look at another HCI-224 two-node cluster. However, this one features a unique mix of storage. Intel Optane SSDs front end Intel® SSD D5-P4326 15.36TB with QL
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VAVA USB-C 8-in-1 and 9-in-1 Hub Review

With most notebooks adopting and centralizing around the USB-C standard, one of the nice trends to hit the market is the explosion of universal USB-C docking solutions. These are great as they don't require the same vendor tie-in as past docking systems did, although they can still be a bit on the bulky side. Many need large power bricks, since besides adding ports they are also designed to power your notebook and devices as well. For those looking for more travel-friendly designs or perhaps if you need quick access to a port not offered on your notebook, non-powered USB-C hubs offer many of the same benefits at a fraction of the size. In this review we look at two such options from VAVA, who has two hubs, the 8-in-1 and…
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