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You could be forgiven for thinking that DSLRs are dead in the water, what with the leading camera manufacturers throwing much of their development weight behind mirrorless – and those manufacturers include Nikon. However, in September 2019, Nikon announced that the Nikon D6 was in development, just in time for the Olympic Games in 2020. Its predecessor, the  D5 , was announced all the way back in January 2016, but these kind of camera behemoths don’t tend to be as updated as frequently as cheaper and mid-range offerings.  2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Nikon single-digit D series, which launched in 1999 with the Nikon D1, and the company promises that the D6 will be “the most advanced digital SLR to date”. At the time of the D5’s launch, the camera market was in a very different place. Mirrorless existed – even full-frame mirrorless – but the number of players was limited, with Nikon and Canon yet to enter the full-frame mirrorless market.  Many may wonder why th

A s much as I like to credit to HMD Global for giving Motorola some desperately-needed competition here in America, some of the company's latest phones have been... problematic. The  Nokia 4.2  suffers from performance issues, the  9 PureView  had a buggy camera and fingerprint sensor, and last year's  Nokia 7.1  has a handful of hardware and software problems. The newest device in Nokia's lineup is the 7.2, a mid-range device priced at $350 in the United States and €299 in Europe. It has a similar design to last year's 7.1 (gotta love the notch-and-chin combo) with the same price, but the hardware has received a minor refresh, and there's an all-new camera setup. The Nokia 7.2 is a good phone in its own right, but at only $50 less than the Google Pixel 3a (in the US, anyway), I think it's going to be a tough sell. SPECS SoC Snapdragon 660 RAM 4GB (6GB version available outside US) Storage 128GB with microSD support Display 6.3-inch 19.5:9

Wednesday, Intel announced it's joining  Toshiba  in the PLC (Penta-Level Cell, meaning 5 bits stored per individual NAND cell) club. Intel has not yet commercialized the technology, so you can't go and buy a PLC SSD yet—but we can expect the technology will lead eventually to higher-capacity and cheaper solid state drives. To understand how and why this works, we need to go over a little bit of SSD design history. One of the most basic architectural features of a solid state disk is how many bits can be stored in each individual NAND cell. The simplest and most robust design is SLC—Single Layer Cell—in which each  floating-gate  NAND cell is either charged or not, representing a 1 or a 0. SLC flash can be written at very high speed and typically survives several times more write cycles than more complex designs can. (Endurance levels are specified per drive, but National Instruments uses 100K, 20K, and 3K as sample program/erase cycle endurance levels for SLC, eMLC, and M

AMD has been absolutely dominating Intel in sales and  we have the graphs to prove it . Ever since it dropped the  3rd-generation AMD Ryzen processors , Team Red has been giving its competition an absolute walloping when it comes to sales, and that probably won't change any time soon.  If you weren't aware,  Black Friday  is coming up in the next couple of months, and judging by the way retailers are starting to put up those Holiday decorations  in September , it's going to be a big one. AMD Ryzen 3rd Generation processors have been out long enough to get some deals of their own, but we expect to see a lot of  Ryzen 2nd Generation  chips getting a fire sale.  So, we're going to take some time to go into where AMD is right now, and why we think Team Red is going to be taking home one hell of a pay day on the biggest shopping day in the year.  ? Intel who Look,  we know the Intel Core i9-9900KS is going to be here in just a couple of weeks , but we re

The most bold addition in years to the FIFA franchise has to be the inclusion of Volta Soccer in FIFA 20, a brand-new game mode that's basically FIFA Street with the rough edges sanded down. There are still some rules, like spot-kicks for fouls, and a designated playstyle with no walls, which allows for the inclusion of throw-ins. Beyond that, there are barely any rules, and it’s all about embarrassing your opponent and scoring goals that are worth shouting about. It’s fast, frenetic and perfect for couch co-op – but how do you get good at it? In this guide, we’re going to run through some general tips to help you master Volta Soccer.  Jockey to intercept Easily the most crucial tip in this list, holding L2/LT + R2/RT when you’re not in control of the ball will make your player jockeys the ball, which basically entails crab-walking and strafing from left to right. What you want to do is get in between the opposing team’s players while jockeying, so that you can