Philips, maker of the some of the best business monitors around today, has unveiled the Philips 27B2U6903, which comes with UHD 4K resolution and Thunderbolt 4 connectivity as standard.
The 27-inch monitor comes features an IPS LED panel with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 and support for 1.07 billion colours, making it ideal for anyone who needs to work in creative industries or to content content.
Thunderbolt 4 also adds a lot of oomph to the 27B2U6903, enabling a dual-screen setup via daisy-chaining, transferring data to external devices, and charging devices at up to 100W in power. For good measure, Philips has also added RJ45 for ultra-fast ethernet connections.
Smart features
Philips says one of the standout features of the 27B2U6903 is PowerSensor 2, which aims to save power by putting the monitor and its connected PC in sleep mode when a user walks away from them. When it detects their return, the devices are powered up.
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Philips also highlights its Smart KVM feature, which lets users hot-key between different input sources (think: PlayStation 5) by pressing the Ctrl key three times.
As with most modern monitors, the 27B2U6903 is height adjustable, and can tilt, pivot, and swivel to your heart’s content, all of which is vital for a monitor you will likely be looking at for many hours of the day.
The Philips 27B2U6903 will cost around £450, and is available now.
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The best business monitor?
The Philips 27B2U6903 is facing some pretty stiff competition for the crown of the best business monitor going.
After hours of testing, TechRadar recommends the BenQ PD3220U, a premium 4K monitor that comes with a 32-inch IPS panel, HDR, a wide array of ports, and support for KVM switching, like the 27B2U6903.
The Huawei MateView 4K+ 3:2 aspect is also an intriguing proposition, offering an unusual 3:2 display that is perfect for coding and other vertical tasks. The 28.2-inch display is pretty stunning, too.
Ultrawide fans, we have something for you too: the best ultrawide monitor is the LG UltraGear 38GN950, a massive 38-inch behemoth that looks fantastic and comes with a 160Hz display.
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Anyone looking for an ultrawide monitor on a budget (at least relatively), should look at the AOC CU34G2X, which comes in a 34-inch configuration and really suits gaming.
By combining two approaches to quantum computing into one device, Google has been able to simulate the behaviour of magnets in detail – and found discrepancies with our current understanding of certain magnet systems
Update 09/30/24: As we begin covering the upcoming October Big Deal Days event from Amazon (October 8 and 9), we’re once again reminded that you can find many budget, yet quality, TVs from TCL that average viewers love. Right now, we’re just getting started, catching the first items that hit sales, and are excited to see how this space develops.
October Big Deal Days are approaching, meaning great deals from Amazon (who is the originator of the event) and other retailers trying to get a slice of the pie. While the best Big Deal Days deals are varied, covering everything from computers to furniture, we’re also finding plenty of good deals in niche categories to cover them by themselves. For example, we found enough to create an entire listing of Best Buy Big Deal Days TV deals in case you want to take advantage of your membership there, while we were also able to create an entire curated selection of Dell Big Deal Days deals if you like the brand. Here, we’re giving TCL the same treatment. The following are quality deals on products from the already budget TV brand.
This is the kind of TV that you compare to a tablet not a normal TV. Why? It’s just 1080p and rather small. But imagine getting a smart screen that’s 32 inches diagonal to diagonal for just $115. It’s really difficult to picture, especially after comparing to the best tablet deals. If this is for you, you know who you are.
This is a cheap 4K TV with everything you need to enjoy it. It doesn’t have OLED or QLED tech, but it does have HDR, meaning there’ll be a slight color boost but not the brightness and contrast levels you could expect from a TV that cost 10X more. For the price, it really can’t be beat.
A 2024 model with a hefty discount. This low-cost TV provides ALLM for low latency gaming, personal Bluetooth audio, DTS:X, and HDR10. It even has an enhanced dialogue mode for better voice clarity to make everything pop, even in movies and show with intense atmospheric sound.
Despite the price, this TV has pretty much all of the features that you’ll need to be proud of a TV pick. It has ALLM for low input lag gaming, HDR PRO, motion rate 240 for great motion clarity, and even personal Bluetooth audio should you need it.
This TV is not for TV enthusiasts, at least according to our TCL Q7 QLED review. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be. It’s good for great contrast and gaming, but the nitty gritty that enthusiasts pay attention to might be lacking. To put it into perspective, our reviewer (Caleb Denison) imitated a potential average reader saying, “Man, that Caleb guy sure was going on about nothing. This TV looks great!” And at $500 you’ll likely agree.
Nearly a third off, a 2024 TV, QLED backlighting tech, and a huge 75 inch body. If it weren’t TCL, you would be expecting to pay a lot more for these stats, but right now it is a mere $748 if you pick it up while the deal lasts.
If you are interested in getting a mini-LED TV and, at the very least, trying it out for a spin, this is the deal to pick up. Bigger and higher quality mini-LED TVs will typically run at least a $1,000, after all, and this one usually runs $800. This is an excellent entry point.
An absolutely massive (the one in the image above is the 98-incher we looked at in our QM8 review) mini-LED with “massive appeal” as well. Caleb Denison, the same reviewer who was self-aware of the enthusiast vs average person issue when looking at the Q7 up above, actually says this TV is a recommend for 90% of people this year and that the “QM8 redefines what you should expect from a QLED TV” on the whole. This is an everybody TV, and for a limited time you can get it 20% off.
TCL TVs are cheap but pull higher punches than their cost suggests, especially while on sale. If phrases like “local dimming zones” or “nits of brightness” mean little to you and you haven’t already developed expensive tastes, TCL TVs are the ones to buy. There is one point of strategy here, however: Spending even $100 to $200 more than you typically would on a TV on a for-sale TCL TV will likely give you a TV that will last you several years longer in terms of satisfaction and style. If you can’t at all afford it, at the very least try to go for a 4K TV.
However, even if you do have TV taste there are certainly things to enjoy about TCL TVs, especially the ones over the $750 to $1,000 price point. We can’t recommend the QM8 enough, for example, as a QLED for the masses. TCL is shaping up to be a big brand, securing a role as the king of budget TVs, but we’re also starting to see contenders for high marks.
Have we mentioned budget in this article yet? If you were to chart the price distribution of TVs in any of our guides, TV deals roundups, or other content, this article would likely have the largest skewing towards budget TVs in the bunch. That’s TCL’s specialty. And people — real, ordinary people that look at one TV day after day instead of a constant stream of TVs for evaluation — seem to love them, often rating them highly. The price to quality ratio is just that high. And so it goes with our picks for TCL TV Big Deal Days deals; we’re going after TVs that people like with prices that people love.
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Once again, however, that isn’t to say that those wanting premium or large TVs should turn a blind eye to TCL deals. The difference is availability. Also note that when we look at premium TCL TVs, like the QM8, we’re still finding qualities that everyone will like. You won’t need a TV for gaming and another for movies, for instance. Plus, the price is still right, as we’re able to find large (over 15%) discounts on these high end TVs at this time.
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ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is reportedly training its AI on chips developed and built by Huawei Technologies. Both Chinese companies could be trying to build regional AI capabilities and counter US trade restrictions.
ByteDance to rely on Huawei for AI-optimized hardware
Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has become mandatory for every tech company. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, X (formerly Twitter), and several others have Gen AI platforms. Not to be left behind, ByteDance too has built and deployed a few AI platforms.
AI models have powerful pattern recognition and they can help make decisions or predictions based on large data sets. Hence, AI platforms are now common in gaming, e-commerce, social media, and many other sectors.
It is, however, important to point out that most of these AI platforms have tailor-made AI models. But, they all need AI-optimized chips that are capable of digesting a lot of data.
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According to Reuters, two Chinese companies are collaborating to develop and improve a custom AI model. Specifically speaking, ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is sourcing chips from Huawei Technologies.
Which Huawei chips will ByteDance source to train its AI?
According to Engadget, ByteDance’s AI projects used NVIDIA’s H20 AI chips. However, owing to geopolitics, ByteDance and other Chinese companies, have restricted access to American software and hardware.
To completely avoid trade restrictions, ByteDance could be sourcing AI chips from Huawei. Additionally, by approaching a Chinese company, the TikTok owner can source newer chips with better and faster processing capabilities.
ByteDance has reportedly ordered 100,000 Ascend 910B chips from Huawei this year. Although the company hasn’t made any official announcement yet, ByteDance has received 30,000 chips from Huawei so far.
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Multiple reports suggest Huawei’s Ascend 910B chips are superior to NVIDIA’s A100 chips. Interestingly, these reports stress the Chinese company’s chips outperform NVIDIA’s chips in GPU performance and computing power efficiency.
ByteDance has an AI chatbot called Doubao, an AI text-to-video tool Jimeng, and an AI photo- and video-editing app named FaceU. The latest chips from Huawei could help improve these products. With more than 10 million monthly active users, Doubao has become one of China’s most popular apps within weeks of its launch.
On Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) fined Cruise, GM’s self-driving vehicle division, $1.5 million. The penalty was imposed for omitting key details from an October 2023 accident in which one of the company’s autonomous vehicles struck and dragged a San Francisco pedestrian.
Cruise is being fined for initially submitting several incomplete reports. The NHTSA’s reports require pre-crash, crash and post-crash details, which the company gave to the agency without a critical detail: that the pedestrian was dragged by the vehicle for 20 feet at around 7 MPH, causing severe injuries. Eventually, the company released a 100-page report from a law firm detailing its failures surrounding the accident.
That report states that Cruise executives initially played a video of the accident during October 3 meetings with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, NHTSA, DMV and other officials. However, the video stream was “hampered by internet connectivity issues” that concealed the part where the vehicle dragged the victim. Executives, who the report stated knew about the dragging, also failed to verbally mention that crucial detail in the initial meetings because they wanted to let “the video speak for itself.”
Investigators finally found out about the dragging after the NHTSA asked the company to submit the full video. The government agency says Cruise also amended four other incomplete crash reports involving its vehicles to add additional details.
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The NHTSA’s new requirements for Cruise include submitting a corrective action plan, along with others covering its total number of vehicles, their miles traveled and whether they operated without a driver. It also has to summarize software updates that affect operation, report citations and observed violations of traffic laws and let the agency know how it will improve safety. Finally, Cruise will have to meet with the NHTSA quarterly to discuss the state of its operations while reviewing its reports and compliance.
The order lasts at least two years, and the NHTSA can extend it to a third year. Reutersreported on Monday that, despite the fine, the NHTSA’s investigation into whether Cruise is taking proper safety precautions to protect pedestrians is still open. Cruise still faces probes by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
To say the incident sparked shakeups at Cruise would be an understatement. The company halted its self-driving operations after the accident. Then, last November, the dominoes began to fall: Its CEO resigned, and GM said it would cut its Cruise investment by “hundreds of millions of dollars” and restructure its leadership. Nine more executives were dismissed in December.
Nonetheless, Cruise is trying to rebound under its new leadership. Vehicles with drivers returned to Arizona and Houston this year, and GM said it’s pouring an additional $850 million into it. Earlier this month, it began operating in California again, also with drivers — which, it’s safe to say, is a good thing.
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