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Editorial Editor: Ben Mansill ben.mansill@futurenet.comSenior Journalist: Shaun PrescottSenior Journalist: Joel BurgessSenior Journalist: Chris SzewczykGroup Art Director: Troy Coleman Contributors Jon Bailes, Rowan Campbell, David Crookes, Barry C
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Gadgets
$549 | teenage.engineering Teenage Engineering is rightly famous for the design of its music-making devices and its second-gen EP-133 KO II sampler is no exception. Designed to make it easy to record vocals, instruments and the sounds around you, the
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Zotac Gaming RTX 4080 Super Amp Extreme Airo
PRICE $1,949 WEB www.zotac.com The RTX 4080 Super was the last of Nvidia’s Super cards to launch. Though it’s easily the fastest of the three, it’s arguably the least exciting, even if it’s hard to complain about a card that’s faster than its non-Su
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AMD Ryzen 5 8600G
PRICE $379 WEB www.amd.com If you care little for 4K with ray tracing and just like to enjoy a bit of gaming in your spare time or online with friends, the Ryzen 5 8600G could be exactly what you’re looking for. The 8600G is an affordable six-core v
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Best tech 2024
When it comes to future technology, no show does it quite like CES. It’s the A-Z of everything electrical, with companies from Acer to Zyxel displaying their new products for 2024. But it’s not just about big companies: over 1,400 startups were at Eu
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AMD Ryzen 7 8700G
PRICE $539 WEB www.amd.com The 8700G is outwardly similar to its Ryzen 7000-series siblings. It’s built around the Zen 4 architecture, but it is a different beast. Most especially, it uses a monolithic die as opposed to the chiplet design of regular
APC3 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
Upscale Your Old Photos
YOU’LL NEED Upscayl TIME REQUIRED 10 minutes For better or for worse, artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to make a big impact on our lives, but there’s one undeniable positive to its growing reach: its ability to improve sub- standard images.
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A Decade In Technology: How Different Was Consumer Tech Ten Years Ago?
This will be my last Random Access column and issue of APC. I’m moving into a role in environmental policy to help keep the planet from being iceless in the next hundred years. I’ve been writing with Future Australia since 2014, and while nine years
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Microsoft Clipchamp vs Premiere Rush
MICROSOFT CLIPCHAMP | PRICE Free/$11 a month ADOBE PREMIERE RUSH | PRICE Free There’s probably a reason for the explosion in popularity of YouTube and the rise of multi-core PCs with GPUs happening at around the same time. Sure, you can shoot and ed
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Apple Vision Pro
There are several elements of the Vision Pro that stand out, but nothing will quite prepare you for the brilliance of the all-encompassing micro-OLED display that transports you to an entirely different world – or worlds, as is perhaps a fairer asses
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D-Link Aquila Pro AI
PRICE $360 (2-pack) WEB www.dlink.com.au We won’t lie, we twitched a bit when D-Link’s Aquila Pro AI AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 Smart Mesh System turned up: it gave us flashback’s to 2022’s hateful D-Link EaglePro AI Smart Router which was one of the most infur
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The A-List
Find the best deals on new gear at getprice.com/au STUNNING CREATIVE POWER A reasonable processor upgrade to device with an impressive screen and unparalleled battery life. The new M3 3nm processors is more efficient, so you’ll be able to run the sa
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Make Windows better
Adding comments to folders in File Explorer is a handy way of reminding you what they contain. To do this, you first need to show the Comments column. Open File Explorer (press Windows key+E), then click View at the top, followed by Details. Next, ri
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Chip Chat
WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE FOR ONLINE EYE CONTACT? We’ve all been annoyed by the placement of a webcam since it never sits exactly where you’re looking, but it’s definitely not as annoying as having something hanging in front of your screen. The makers of C
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Should I Pay For?
WEB www.burnaware.com FREE TRIAL Seven days PRICE $29.95 per year or $89.95 lifetime licence NEEDS Windows 7, 8, 10 or 11 BurnAware is one of the few remaining programs for creating your own CDs and DVDs, and recently released version 17.2. The disc-
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How Grand Theft Auto stole hearts
Rockstar Games recently unveiled a 90-minute trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI. Within a single day, it had been watched 90,421,491 times, making it the most viewed videogame reveal on YouTube in 24 hours, according to Guinness World Records. Many mill
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Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Super OC
PRICE $1,249 WEB www.asus.com The original RTX 4070 was one of the better releases of the Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series generation. It offered a leap in intergenerational performance, DLSS 3 with Frame Generation, excellent performance per watt and its
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Build A Pi Pico Electronic Piano
• Pi Pico or Pico W • A buzzer • 15x M2M jumper wires • 7x push buttons • Large breadboard • Blu Tack, modelling clay, double-sided tape • Code: tinyurl.com/ APC530piano As I write this, Christmas is happening and it’s got me thinking of my childhoo
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The Slipping Schedule
By the time you read this, Intel will have rolled out a whole new roadmap, the next waypoint on its journey to renewed technological dominance. Except I can’t help but notice that the company hasn’t come close to delivering on its existing roadmap. Y
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The Two Rivers Hypothesis
PRICE Free PLATFORM PC WEB bit.ly/RiversHypothesis The Two Rivers Hypothesis is pure aesthetic and atmosphere, with little beneath that – but what aesthetic and atmosphere. It’s a game where you pilot a submersible around a dark and flooded facility,
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Reviews
29 HP Spectre Fold 30 AMD Ryzen 8700G and 8600G 33 WD Black SN770M PCIe 4 SSD 34 TP Link Archer BE800 Wi-Fi 7 Router 35 D-Link Aquila Pro AI M30 AX3000 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 36 Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra 38 TP Link Tapo P100M mini-smart plug 38 Samsung Por
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The Roottrees Are Dead
PRICE Free PLATFORM Browser WEB bit.ly/Roottrees The Roottrees are Dead stands on the shoulders of Tim Sheinman’s Family, a similarly browser-based detective game that had you investigating a music scene and filling in a family tree of linked musicia
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Make Office better
When writing in LibreOffice, you can choose from a variety of preset styles – with different fonts, sizes, and paragraph spacing. LibreOffice also lets you choose a ‘next style’, which means you can swap from one style to another when you tap Enter.
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Browser Tips
2023 was a bad year for Chrome’s security, with Google frequently rushing out patches to fix vulnerabilities in the browser. Although it’s impossible to predict which flaws may affect Chrome in 2024, you can do your bit to protect it using the revamp
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Total Shell Recall
Shell history is one of the most useful and powerful tools at your disposal if you spend a lot of time working with the CLI. While you can easily tweak the settings on your preferred shell to store 500, 2,000, or even more commands, Atuin offers some
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System News
CES has wrapped up for another year, and once again we’re treated to a plethora of new technologies, concepts and soon to come products. Display technologies were one of the largest categories on show with: LG and Samsung showing off flashy transpare
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Market Watch
$2,549 tinyurl.com/APC530itw This all-white system has some solid underpinnings that are unfortunately becoming a little dated. The Ryzen 5 5600X is no slouch and is perfectly serviceable for most games and tasks, but it sits in the outgoing (though
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Phone & Tablet Tips
The Android version of Firefox (tinyurl.com/APC530aff) is one of the only mobile browsers that lets you install extensions, but until now you were limited to just 21 of them. Although these included useful tools such as uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and T
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Showtime
Oh we do love the annual CES show. Except that it’s on right at the start of January. It’s easily the busiest week of the year, and coming out of our holidays it’s a rather abrupt halt to the holiday bliss. And yet, we go and we love it. This is wher
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TP-Link Archer BE800
PRICE $999 WEB www.tp-link.com/au We were seriously impressed with our first Wi-Fi 7 kit – TP-Link’s recent BE22000 mesh – even though it was eye-wateringly expensive. It redefined wireless speed to the point where we were getting faster transfers t
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