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• Oppo Find X8 review: admired from afar

  15-12-2024 16:00 via techradar.com
  
  Oppo Find X8: Two-minute review
  Oppo is back! The new Find X8 series is the company's return to form, at least in regions like the UK and Europe, where patent disputes and the like led to a two-year absence for the company. No longer.The Find X8 line is Oppo's latest flagship phone family; it promises the best smartphone hardware the company can muster, paired with its latest Android-based ColorOS user experience.While the Oppo Find X8 Pro is the headline-grabbing entry now topping the company's
  
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• VTOMAN Flashspeed 1000 portable power station review

  15-12-2024 15:02 via techradar.com
  
  VTOMAN Flashspeed 1000: 30-second review
  SpecsCapacity: 828Wh
  Battery type: LiFePO4
  AC Continuous output: 1000W Pure Sine Wave
  AC Peak Output: 2000W
  AC Outlets: 3 x 1000W (Peak 2000W)
  Solar Input recharge: 300W
  AC Imput charge: 700W
  Ports: USB-A: 3 x 12W, 1 x 18W, USB-C 2 x 100W, DC 2 x 120W
  Dimensions: 393.7 × 279.4 × 269.24 mm (15.5x11x10.6 inch)
  Weight: 16.96kg (37.4 lbs)
  The FlashSpeed 1000 is a great-looking portable power station, finished in matte black and grey, with large ca
  
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• ‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

  15-12-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian visionIt was some time in the early 2000s and Asif Kapadia, already a successful film director, a wunderkind whose first feature in 2001, The Warrior, won the Bafta for outstanding British film, was travelling back from New York.“There’s a bea
  
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• Apricorn Aegis NVX secure hard drive review

  15-12-2024 08:44 via techradar.com
  
  Apricorn Aegis NVX: 30-second review
  SpecsConnection: USB 10Gbps with 1000 MB/s read/write speeds
  Compatible OS: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Symbian, and any powered USB OS with a storage file system
  Dimensions: 67mm x 120mm x 15mm
  Weight: 200g
  Certification: IP68, FCC, CE, and VCCI standards
  Warranty: 3-year limited
  The Aegis NVX 1TB is a relatively simple-to-use portable hard drive, but unlike the majority of portable hard drives, this device is all about security. As is common with this sty
  
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• ‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

  15-12-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken systemThe email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old undergraduate English student, scanned the content, stunned. He had been accused of using artificial intelligence to complete a piece of assessed work. If he did not attend a hearin
  
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