The iTunes Phone – The Story of Apple’s Phone Before the iPhone (A Retrospective)

In 2007, Apple revolutionized the smartphone industry. Practically everybody today knows about the iPhone. But did you know that 2 years before the launch of the highly anticipated Apple phone, the Cupertino company was working on another phone? One that was manufactured by Motorola? It’s known as the iTunes Phone. And if you’ve never heard of it, there’s a good reason for that.

RFID and GSM Based Attendance System Using Arduino and DS3231 RTC Module

In this video, an RFID and GSM based attendance system using Arduino and DS3231 RTC Module. We can use this project for taking the student’s and office employee’s attendance or when they join and leave the work. The working principle of this project is when you put a tag on the RFID reader, it scans the tag, and the Arduino controller sends an SMS with help of the GSM module to the predefined number when you are joining or leave.

Nex Dock 2 Review Turn Your Phone Tablet Or RaspberryPi Into a Laptop!

In this video we take a look at the Nex Dock 2 This little Dock can turn your Android Phone into a Laptop using on a single USB type cable! It also works amazingly with Raspberry Pi 4 and in this video, I test out several devices with the Nex Dock 2 like the Galaxy S10 running Dex the Asus Rog Phone 2 the Raspberry Pi 4 and the iPad Pro 2020!

Inside HDHomeRun’s big bet on ATSC 3.0

Late last month, SiliconDust took a leap of faith and started taking orders for a new HDHomeRun TV tuner on Kickstarter.

If all goes to plan, the HDHomeRun Quatro 4K will be the first external ATSC 3.0 tuner for consumers when it launches in September. Like other HDHomeRun tuners, the Quatro 4K will capture over-the-air broadcasts from any antenna and stream the video to phones, computers, and connected TV devices around the house. But in markets where ATSC 3.0 is available, the tuner will support broadcasts in up to 4K resolution with up to 7.1.4 surround sound, while also improving reception and allowing for new features such as on-demand video.

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Collin’s Lab: Desoldering

Learning to remove a sturdy connection is almost as important as knowing how to make it in the first place. Electronics repairs, modifications, hacking, and salvage all necessitate one important skill – desoldering. Join Collin as he explains the basics of the electronic maker’s undo button.

The New RaspberryPi HQ Camera Is Awesome! – Set Up And Testing

In this video, we take a look at Set up and test out the all-new Raspberry Pi HQ Camera along with both available at launch, the 6MM Wide-angle, and the 16MM Telephoto lens. With a Sony IMX477R stacked, back-illuminated sensor, @ 12.3 megapixels this is the best Raspberry Pi camera to date!

This video is sponsored by MICRO CENTER but all options are those of ETAPrime.

AMD Ryzen 3 3100 & 3300X CPU Review

AMD has been going from strength to strength in recent years. The launch of their multi-award-winning Ryzen 1st Gen CPUs was a big turning point for the company. They made some minor improvements for the 2nd Gen CPUs, but it’s this superb 3rd Gen that’s really pushed them into the lead. The 3xxx CPUs have blown us (and others) away since they launched. However, now we have two new models, the Ryzen 3 3100 and the Ryzen 3 3300X that look set to disrupt the affordable CPU market. Not only do they offer great prices, they look set to tangle with some more expensive Intel CPUs such as the i7-7700K.

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Intel’s Flagship Core i9-10900K Comet Lake-S 10 Core Desktop CPU Benchmarked on Z490 Motherboard – Almost On Par With An AMD Ryzen 9 3900X

The latest benchmarks of Intel’s flagship and upcoming mainstream desktop processor, the 10 core, Core i9-10900K, have once again leaked out. This time, the results were posted on a Z490 motherboard and not an OEM branded LGA 1200 socketed motherboard which, providing us a more realistic look at the performance of Intel’s new chip.

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NVIDIA RTX Voice Removes All Microphone Background Noise in Real Time!

Nvidia RTX Voice is an audio application & driver developed for Microsoft Windows 10 to instantly removes all microphone background noise in real time utilizing the massive processing power from your Nvidia RTX GPU Tensor cores via CUDA programming API to run complex machine learning & artificial intelligence algorithms to dynamically determine what is a human voice & what is not on the fly. This means you can live stream or record videos in noisy environment with things like phones, vacuums, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, fans, air conditioners, mechanical keyboards, dogs barking & banging on your desk, etc all being silenced from your viewers with only your voice getting through which seems like complete magic the first time you experience it.