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This secret new Kindle Paperwhite model could be the best ereader on the market Amazon recently launched the new Kindle (2022) alongside a Kids' Edition version of the slate, but those apparently weren't the only new ereaders the company had up its sleeve. They were all of them deceived, for another Kindle was made. As spotted by keen-eyed fans, the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite from 2021 has received a new purchase option on Amazon's website – you can now buy it with 16GB storage, instead of just 8GB as before.  Amazon didn't make much of a song and dance about this new Kindle model at all – in fact, the news only started doing the rounds a few days after launch. As well as 8GB, the current model can also be had with 32GB storage, if you buy the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, but this ereader costs quite a bit more than the 8GB 'standard' Kindle. The new 16GB Kindle Paperwhite costs $149.99 / £149.99 / AU$259, making it only slightly pricier than the $...

Now is a great time to buy a second-hand or older Amazon Kindle The new Amazon Kindle (2022) has been unveiled, bringing a USB-C port and high-res screen to the company's line of budget ereaders – however it continues a worrying trend amongst the rainforest-named brand's E Ink gadgets. The new Kindle costs more than its predecessor, the Kindle (2019) , with an entry price of $99.99 / £84.99 meaning that you're paying $10 / £15 more for this new model than you would have spent on the cheapest variant of the older one. We saw the same thing happen with the Kindle Paperwhite (2021) , in some regions at least, as in the UK it cost £10 more than its predecessor (but the same in the US and Australia). Other Amazon gadgets aren't exempt from these price increases, with the Amazon Fire 7 (2022) costing $10 / £10 more than the previous-gen model - bear in mind these are all super-affordable devices, so even a low double-figure price increase is of note. Sure, these price ...

ASUS wants you to use its new ExpertBook business laptop everywhere ASUS is expanding its Expert line of business laptops by adding a new member: the mid-tier ExpertBook B3 Detachable, a computer that the company envisions will be used in a variety of industries. According to ASUS , the B3 can be used in remote work settings, “in the classroom, on the manufacturing line,” and even in healthcare environments. To facilitate this jack-of-all-trades style, the laptop includes features that give it a great deal of flexibility. Plus, the B3 only weighs 1.3 pounds (around half a kilogram) and has a battery life of up to 21 hours, so you can lug it around at work comfortably without worrying that it'll die on you quickly. The B3 is a 2-in-1 device with a detachable keyboard so it can turn into a tablet, complete with horizontal and vertical configurations for its screen. The display is a 10.5-inch touch screen that outputs at a resolution of 1920x1200, also known as WUXGA Resolution (...

Google Pixelbook is no more, proving the world wasn’t ready for premium Chromebooks It looks like the Google Pixelbook is no more, with reports that not only has Google cancelled its upcoming Chromebook, but it’s also disbanded the team who were working on it. This news, as reported by The Verge , is a real blow. The previous model, the Pixelbook Go , wasn’t just one of the best Chromebooks ever made, it was one of the best laptops as well. It also comes as a bit of a surprise, as there were hints that Google was working on a new Pixelbook as recently as at this year’s Google I/O. A Google spokesperson also hinted to us last year that a new Pixelbook was coming . Sadly, it seems that the plans have now changed, likely in part to Google’s decision to cut costs by cancelling or pausing certain projects. Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, wrote in a memo (and seen by The Verge ), that these measures “means pausing development and re-deploying resources to higher priority areas.” It seems...

Amazon's new cheap Kindle update comes with 3 useful upgrades It's been over three years since the launch of the Amazon Kindle (2019) , but finally, the tech giant has decided to update its entry-level ereader line with the launch of the Kindle (2022) . This new ereader, released alongside a Kids' Edition version, sits below 2021's Kindle Paperwhite, as well as the Kindle Oasis line which also hasn't seen an update since 2019, in the company's line-up. The entry-level Kindles are the budget options for people who don't need all the bells and whistles of the premium alternatives. The 2022 Amazon Kindle brings five key changes from its predecessor, and three of them are pretty useful. The first of these is a USB-C port, replacing the micro-USB of the older devices, and this port is quicker for the transfer of power and data. That means that the new Kindle will charge quicker than its predecessor, and if you use cables to connect the ereader to your compu...

Google could already be working on a Pixel Tablet Pro Google has already told us that it's working on a Pixel Tablet , with a full unveiling expected sometime in 2023, but it appears that there's also an as-yet-unannounced Pro version of the slate coming down the line as well. Some digging into the latest Android 13 code by 9to5Google has revealed evidence of a tablet with the codename "tangorpro". Given that the standard Pixel Tablet has the codename "tangor" in Android's code, you can see the obvious connection. The only other tidbit of information revealed here is that the Pixel Tablet Pro looks to be using a different rear camera sensor to the standard tablet – and you would expect camera upgrades to be one of the ways the two models are different. What we know and don't know While the existence of the Pixel Tablet is official, not much else about it is. We know what it's going to look like, and that it'll be running the same Tens...

AMD decides it has so many laptop CPUs coming, they need new names AMD has revealed a new naming scheme for its laptop processors going forward from 2023, as next year is the arrival time of a fresh set of families for Team Red’s mobile chips. The new system is explained in a blog post , in which the example chip cited is the Ryzen 5 7640U. All five characters of the ‘7640U’ mean something here, starting with the first, which denotes the model year, the Ryzen 7 family arriving in 2023 (alongside Ryzen 7000 desktop chips). AMD notes that Ryzen 8 will come in 2024, and Ryzen 9 in 2025. The second digit is essentially a rating from 1 to 9 as to the market segment, so in this case, the 6 means it’s a Ryzen 5 model. Confused? Well, we’ll come back to that, but both the 5 and 6 are used for Ryzen 5 chips, with the 6 being a slightly more powerful model (upper mid-range). The third character represents the architecture, which in this case is Zen 4, and that final 0 indicates the ‘featur...