Are you used to taking the Internet for granted? Some 4 billion people can only envy you. According to the UN, 57% of the world's population still do not have regular access to the Internet. The problem, first of all, concerns inhabitants of poor countries and territories outside the city limits, where it is technically difficult or too expensive to build a traditional infrastructure. From a business perspective, the IT giants are missing out on a huge chunk of the market pie, if not the most nutritious, for sure. To turn even more people into customers, big tech companies are hard at work figuring out new ways to deliver the internet. A vanguard of sorts has already formed, including Alphabet, Facebook, OneWeb and SpaceX with their ambitious ideas. Balloons, satellites, lasers and drones are being used.

3D printing is finding more and more practical applications. We have already seen printed dentures and a bunch of other interesting stuff. At the Dubai Airshow, the company Stratasys  and Aurora  showed a drone, which is interesting because it uses a jet engine and at the same time 80% of the parts are printed using a 3D printer. 

The tradition of adding to the game unexpected characters from outside the Mortal Kombat universe the creators took from the previous part. There they added Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street and Kratos from God of War.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is working on the creation of a new generation of condoms. The main requirements for contraceptives of the future are two. First, they must be as effective as existing solutions. Secondly, they should have less influence on the pleasure of sex, and it is desirable - to influence it in a positive way.

Samsung has announced the launch of the updated models of The Premiere 7 and The Premiere 9 projectors in Ukraine for the 2024 model year. Starting from 17 December, Ukrainian consumers will be able to purchase the devices at a price of UAH 149,999 for The Premiere 7 and UAH 269,999 for The Premiere 9. These ultra-short throw 4K laser projectors with Smart TV functionality promise to be the perfect choice for creating a home cinema.

Prevention is always better than cure, and dentistry is exactly the area where competent dental care can prevent a lot of problems in the future. That's why today we will go beyond the usual topics and tell you about a gadget that has already been dubbed the "Bentley in the toothbrush world" - Philips Sonicare DiamondClean.

The company Asus has created another line of products aimed at a gamer audience called Strix and released the first headset from this line of Strix Pro Gaming Headset. The headset has a rather exotic and angular design and 130 mm ear cups. According to the manufacturer, thanks to them and proprietary technology, 90% of external noise is cut off.

More and more interesting developments appear with the use of the virtual reality helmet Oculus Rift. This time, engineers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology decided to use it in conjunction with a quadrocopter DJI Phantom 2. The Oculus FPV project allows the user to see a helmet video from a quadrocopter.

The picture above does not relate to the first video, but we will necessarily return to it a little lower. At the beginning of the week we wrote about the quad-copter DJI Phantom 2 Vision + with a 14-megapixel camera and three-axis image stabilization.

Regular readers of gg may remember that my search for a new laptop three months ago culminated in the purchase of a 13-inch MacBook Pro with retina screen. That said, while I was certainly in a state of euphoria over the purchase of an expensive new toy, I just didn't have the courage to write about all the many inconveniences I encountered during the transition to a new ecosystem for me.

NVIDIA announced the first video cards on Maxwell architecture: they were inexpensive solutions GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750. As promised by the manufacturer. this architecture, thanks to new design solutions, will provide a performance-efficiency ratio in energy efficiency twice as much as in solutions on Kepler. Promise that the GeForce GTX 750 Ti will deliver twice the performance with half the power consumption compared to the GTX 550 Ti on the Fermi architecture and will approach the flagship GeForce GTX 480 with a power consumption of 60 watts.

At the end of last year I was faced with the question of buying a new laptop. It resulted in the purchase of a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a retina screen. This article reveals the reason for that choice with all its history. Therefore, it does not claim to be the truth in the last instance, is not a prediction, the result of any research, other than my personal, and so on and so forth.

ASUS likes to experiment with the form factors and design of its devices. And at CES 2024 was presented another interesting experiment, the notebook ASUS Zenbook Duo (2024). The main peculiarity is the use of two identical 14-inch OLED-displays ASUS Lumina OLED with 3K resolution, 120 Hz update rate and 16:10 aspect ratio. They are interconnected by a hinge with a maximum angle of 180°, which allows you to convert them into one large 19.8-inch monitors. Thanks to the built-in stand and removable keyboard, it can be used in vertical and horizontal orientation. In general, the device can be used in several scenarios: laptop, two screens, desktop PC and joint work. ASUS ScreenXpert software is available for dual-display operation.

ASUS likes to experiment with form factors and design of its devices. And at CES 2024, the company presented another interesting experiment, the ASUS Zenbook Duo (2024) laptop. The main feature is the use of two identical 14-inch ASUS Lumina OLED displays with a 3K resolution, 120Hz refresh rate and 16:10 aspect ratio. They are connected by a hinge with a maximum opening angle of up to 180°, which allows them to be turned into one large 19.8-inch monitor. Thanks to the built-in stand and removable keyboard, it can be used in both vertical and horizontal orientations. In general, the device can be used in several scenarios: laptop, dual-screen, desktop and collaboration. ASUS ScreenXpert software is available for dual display setups.