When Qualcomm announced the upgraded Snapdragon 730G in April, it featured a slightly overclocked Adreno graphics core to differentiate it from the Snapdragon 730. Now, Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 732G takes a similar approach: it tweaks the Kryo CPU core for increased performance.
The newest member of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7-series chips increases the Kryo’s clock speed to 2.3GHz, up from 2.2GHz. Qualcomm also says that the Adreno 618 GPU core has been “bolstered” compared to the version found inside the Snapdragon 730G, but didn’t provide performance specifics at press time to justify those claims.
"Bird Box", "Murder Mystery," "When They See Us" and more available for free now, along with the first episodes of hit TV shows such as "Stranger Things" and "Grace and Frankie."
Every laptop has to have a “thing” now, and the “thing” for Lenovo’s new Legion Slim 7i is its weight. Claiming the title of the lightest 15-inch GeForce RTX laptop, the Legion Slim 7i weighs a mere 3.96 lbs.
Sure, nit pickers will say even lighter laptops have had GeForce RTX 2060 GPUs, but those laptops are have smaller 14-inch screens too. The body itself is built out of aluminum.
Lenovo's laptop will come in a range of configurations, offering from a 10th-gen Core i5 all the way up to a 10th-gen Core i9—itself a noteworthy inclusion in such a diminutive frame. Graphics options range from the entry-level GeForce GTX 1650 Ti to the GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q.
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 9i will feature Intel’s next-gen Tiger Lake CPU and Xe graphics rolled into a luxurious, leather-wrapped, lightweight laptop with three Thunderbolt 4.0 ports.
The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 9i features a 14-inch 1080p screen with HDR400, WiFi 6, an electronics privacy shutter, a Windows Hello camera, and an ultrasonic finger print reader that works better with wet fingers.
But the star of the show is Intel’s new Tiger Lake CPU. You can read more about it here, but the 10nm, 11th-gen CPU is expected to take the fight to AMD with higher clock speeds and vastly improved Xe graphics.
Showtime's documentary series Love Fraud isn't really about the man who allegedly defrauded a series of women after meeting them online. It's about their search for him, aided by a bounty hunter.
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This year we had kids and caregivers in mind when we chose the genre for our summer poll — so here are 100 favorite kids' books, picked by readers and expert judges, to while away the hours at home.
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With all the upheaval this year, product announcements have been plentiful and scattershot as companies fire off news at all different times. It’s a lot to take in—so we’ve pulled out the best of the bunch with an eye to PC components, PC accessories, and software. We’ve also included items that launched this month so you don’t miss out, since shortages are a real thing these days.
August saw more products launching at the time of their announcement, including an excellent M.2 SSD from SK Hynix, a pair of Corsair water cooling kits, and a monster Threadripper PC that’s portable. Fitbit also teased new trackers, while Lenovo promised the arrival of several more Ryzen 4000 laptops.
Laptops work great on the road or in the classroom, but now that so many of us have been suddenly thrust into working from home and distance learning, you may be realizing that your tiny notebook isn’t optimal for being pounded on for eight hours straight. Yes, it can get the job done. But with a little help, your laptop can get the job done so much better.
We’ve rounded up a list of gear and services that can make working from home and distance learning just a little bit easier, because the less added stress in your life right now, the better. You won’t find big, pricey, obvious stuff here; you already know that if you can devote extra space and cash toward a proper desk and an office chair, you’ll be more comfortable. Instead, we’re focusing on more affordable accessories that can help smooth off some of the rough edges of full-time laptop life.
Each year, British Journal of Photography reaches out to its global network of photography experts, to deliver a magazine devoted to new talent: Ones To Watch. This year, we presented 18 photographers drawn from across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, nominated by an extensive list of curators, editors, agents, festival producers and photographers.
Throughout September, BJP-online will be publishing the profiles of our selected photographers, listed below. As ever, we are indebted to the growing network of nominators who make this the widest-reaching annual survey of its kind, committed to bringing new perspectives, and helping our chosen talents to achieve the exposure their work deserves.
British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch for 2020:
Sumi Anjuman / Gi Seok Cho / River Claure / Kennedi Carter/ Micaiah Carter / Thana Faroq / Alina Frieske / Neha Hirve / M’hammed Kilito / Rafael Pavarotti / Spandita Malik / Valya Lee / Agnieszka Sejud / Michael Swann / Eliska Sky / Abdo Shanan / David Uzochukwu / Ana Zibelnik
Ones to Watch was originally published in issue #7898 of British Journal of Photography.Become an 1854 memberto read BJP’s annual talent issue, digitally or in print.
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"100 Years 100 Women" is the title of a new show at the Park Avenue Armory. The artists in it all created new pieces to mark the centennial of the 19th amendment.
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British Journal of Photography first met the US photographer, Debi Cornwall, back in 2017, when we featured her photobook,Welcome to Camp America. Cornwall explained that while visiting Guantanamo Bay, the setting of the narrative, she was escorted by military personnel at all times, guiding and monitoring her every move. This resulted in hours spent with her guides, whose experiences she inevitably came to know over casual conversation, as they toured her around the prison’s facilities.
“I became interested in the human experience of preparing for war and its aftermath,” she explains. “More structurally, in Guantanamo Bay, the truth is stage-managed for public consumption, and I decided I wanted to look at the performance of American power directly.”
Using this insight as a springboard, Cornwall’s research led her to look into the sites of military training grounds – 10 in total, visited over the course of three years. More specifically, these were entire mock villages where, “immersive military war games are staged, populated by this cast of characters, ripped from the headlines, if you will,” the photographer recalls.
Cornwall explains that in some locations the characters – who act out the roles of local civilians, targets, guards and more – are cast from local towns, but her focus here was specifically upon the Iraqi and Afghan actors, “who are costumed to enact a past version of themselves”. The result is her new book, Necessary Fictions, published by Radius Books, in which Cornwall collates her research to illustrate the theatre of warcraft through the happenings of an imagined city, Atropia.
“One young Afghan player who I had the opportunity to get to know over multiple meetings, would always answer, ‘We are patriotic Americans and this is our way of serving and giving back’.”
Though fictional, the chosen reality of this cast of characters might seem puzzling. That individuals, who have experienced the terrors of real war in their countries of origin, choose to place themselves back into an environment to relive the violent trauma for the purposes of training the American military.
“I’m always fascinated by the personal, internal psychology of those enacting the games or playing out storylines as well as the structures that draft the stories and oversee them playing out,” says Cornwall. “So I asked those questions, when I had an opportunity, and my sense is there’s a range of reasons. One young Afghan player who I had the opportunity to get to know over multiple meetings, would always answer, ‘We are patriotic Americans and this is our way of serving and giving back’.” That, and the pay is good.
The photographer also observed the overwhelming sense of community between the actors, be they Afghan or Iraqi, speaking Arabic, Pashto or Dari. “They end up together over these very intense, very long days,” Cornwall explains. “They cook together, they eat, they tell stories – there are no cell phones, there are no distractions. As the exercises take place, there is a lot of downtime, so the actors end up spending a lot of time together.”
The book is loosely organised as a State Department Report – a document of key information and attributes about a country significant to the US government. We begin with location shots – concrete, sun-bleached ghost towns, with a slight air of unnerving superficiality. Then, the population – portraits of actors ‘in costume’, the “cultural role players”, as they are described, placed in position awaiting their stage queues. There are also ‘resources’ (props), casualties – military men with grotesque moulage – engagements of conflicts and after action reports, and essays and poetry writing around the subject of war.
Finally, the wealth of factual references – contracts, lawsuits and statistics – reflect Cornwall’s thorough, investigative method, and is telling of her 12 years’ experience as a wrongful-conviction lawyer before turning to photography. A page-turn video of the book can be viewed here.
While the images guide us through the narrative, the accompanying text builds on the already compelling attention to detail of these scenarios. Unlike her first book, Cornwall includes her personal observations and accounts of conversations too. “It felt important to not only acknowledge but to foreground myself as an actor within these sites,” she says. “I’m not pretending to be a fly on the wall… I’m performing and perhaps I’m being performed for in the games themselves.”
The term ‘fantasy industrial complex’ was coined by the American author, Ben Fountain. This idea, “of commodified web of themes, stories, products and distractions that paper over unsettling realities,” encapsulates what the book is about, says Cornwall. That, and the footprint, both military and other, that America leaves around the world and its context.
“I hope to invite people to look because, even though it’s not the thing that is overwhelming us right now, it invites critical engagement about the bigger questions,” the photographer says. “How state realities operate, what are the stories we are told, and what are the fictions we embrace. How is that impacting our functioning as a society, and is it serving us?”
When you think of author and illustrator Arnold Lobel, you probably think of Frog and Toad, his amphibian forever friends — but this story of loving things and letting them go deserves a fresh look.
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Cord Jefferson examines American racism on HBO's Watchmen. Critic Kevin Whitehead remembers Charlie Parker, born 100 years ago. Jean Guerrero writes about Trump advisor Stephen Miller in Hatemonger.
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Yaa Gyasi's new novel follows a young woman working on a neuroscience PhD who hopes that figuring out the pathways of addiction and depression in mice will help her work through her own feelings.
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Author Ibi Zoboi and activist Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, turn his childhood pain into poetry in this new novel in verse, about a Black teenager convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
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In her first book since the critically acclaimed H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald urges us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world — and fight to preserve it.
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We’ve refreshed this list a few times over the years, but now feels like a particularly appropriate time to do so. We could all use a way to hang out with friends right now, right? Co-op games have long been a way for people to “see” friends from afar, and that’s doubly important at the moment. If you’re looking for a way to spend time with your loved ones digitally, what better way than robbing trains or shooting aliens or whatever?
One day, when historians look back at graphics cards that changed the course of gaming, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 20-series could very well claim a top spot. But what does that mean for gamers who invested in the cutting-edge GPUs on day one? With Nvidia teasing the GeForce RTX 3090’s radical redesign ahead of a September 1 reveal of its next-gen graphics cards, we reflect on the last two years of ray-traced games, DLSS evolutions, and price drops to find the answer.
Overall, it’s a mixed bag. While there have been some standout wins among Nvidia’s RTX technologies, there have been some considerable hiccups as well, and far fewer games than Nvidia had led us to expect.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is scheduled to reopen to the public on Saturday, August 29th. We go behind the scenes to learn how curators and staff hope to pull it off.
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Eric Weiner's book is an invitation to experience philosophy, as he explores his relationship to the works of well-known philosophers and shows us how their ideas can help us improve our lives.
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This new translation of the ancient epic poem drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st century, giving us tales of blood, guts and glory told as if over beers in a loud sports bar.
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The Dell Latitude 9510 2-in-1 is a business laptop that just won't quit. Seriously: With nearly a full 24 hours of battery life, it just keeps going and going.
Intel and Dell engineers architected the Latitude 9510 as a ”Project Athena” laptop, optimized for responsiveness and battery life. It certainly ticks those boxes. Dell bills the Latitude 9510 as a productivity machine, but you probably don’t know what our review units are loudly telling us: The audio subsystem is also among the best there is.
This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best laptops. Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them.
NortonLifeLock, formerly Symantec, has changed up its security suite lineup. Norton Security Premium, the suite we’ve reviewed several times, is no more. Now it’s all about the Norton 360 brand that combines Norton’s protection with services from identify theft protection company LifeLock, which Symantec acquired in 2016.
Note: This review is part of our best antivirusroundup. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them.
By our reckoning, the best choice in terms of value and capabilities in the current lineup is Norton 360 Deluxe. There are two other suites above that with extra LifeLock features, but for most people 360 Deluxe hits the sweet spot at $50 for the first year for new users and $100 for returning users, covering five devices.
Independent music venues continue to be among the businesses hardest hit by the global pandemic. The corporate behemoths of concert promotion, however, can weather the storm.
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In the wake of Brexit and the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, Portrait of Britain 2020 compiles a vibrant record of modern Britain at a momentous time in our history.
Set to comprise one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary portrait photography ever held, the winning portraits have been selected by industry-leading judges including Simon Bainbridge, Editorial Director of British Journal of Photography, Martin Usbourne, co-founder of Hoxton Mini Press and Parveen Narowalia, Digital Picture Editor at British Vogue.
The exhibition will launch on JCDecaux UK’s nationwide network of digital Out-of-Home screens on 1 September, displaying the 100 winning images for one month throughout rail stations, shopping malls, high streets, bus shelters and beyond. The 200 shortlisted images will be published in the Portrait of Britain book, Vol. 3, published by Hoxton Mini Press and distributed worldwide from 1 October.
“I hope my portrait can help audiences see that Black Dreams Matter, and inclusive representation can inspire future generations — which benefits everyone. To win is a great feeling… Hopefully, it inspires young photographers from a similar background to me to keep pushing forward”
Brunel Johnson, Portrait of Britain 2020 Winner
From Brunel Johnson’s powerful portrait of a Black Lives Matter protester to Andrew Testa’s heart-warming profile shot of Captain Tom Moore — Julia Fullerton-Batten’s record of daily life in lockdown to Byron Hamzah’s celebration of the resilience of British healthcare workers — the selection of work sews a rich tapestry of our nation’s people in the face of immense struggle.
“As a photographer that is also a healthcare professional, I wanted to illustrate a different side of my profession; one beyond that of an institution under siege and beleaguered. In my winning image, I wanted to show that even in such difficult times, there is still resilience, hope, pride and optimism within us. It is these characteristics within all healthcare workers that uphold the NHS as the beacon it is for a better future”
“Since the end of WWII, Britain has been through a sustained and accelerated period of change. Our society is barely recognisable, and in many ways, Britain is now at a crossroad. Portrait of Britain is the microscope that helps us see more clearly what kind of nation we’ve grown into”
Julia Fullerton-Batten, Portrait of Britain 2020 Winner
“Portrait of Britain 2020 is a chance for us to step back and understand where we are and who we are. So much of this year has been one of turmoil, anxiety and loss — but at the same time, there are so many of us working for others, making the world a better place, and living our lives from a place of generosity and courage. Portrait of Britain is like a vaccine against division and hate”
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