Apple confirms its first event of 2021 for April 20, possible renewal of the iPad in sight

After it was rumored that Apple advanced its first keynote to April 20, in the mouth of Siri itself, in the end the date has been confirmed by the company itself. So We already have the first keynote of 2021 confirmed; without us knowing for sure what is going to be advertised. The renewal of the iPad Pro would be almost assured.

The range of Apple devices is usually renewed from time to time; hence an iPad family refreshment is expected in the spring, before the WWDC brings a major refresh of the catalog of devices and software. So, if the 2020 iPad Pro saw the light of day at the end of March, Apple was a little behind if it wanted to keep the annual renewal. Just over a month late, the April keynote is already confirmed.

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The low efficacy of the Chinese vaccine forces to seek solutions such as increasing the number of doses or mixing different vaccines

China has a problem with the relatively low efficacy of its vaccines, such as Sinopharm and Sinovac (about 50-55% Sinovac, a vaccine that is also being used in Chile).

Faced with these data, Gao Fu, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has pointed out that health authorities are looking for ways to overcome the relatively low efficacy rates through various strategies, how to mix different vaccines with each other or go from inoculating two doses to inoculating three.

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characteristics, price and technical sheet

Without much fanfare and without making a lot of noise, AMD today unveiled its new seven-nanometer processors from the Ryzen 5000 family, Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800. They are two interesting processors, but unfortunately they are exclusive to OEMs, so a priori they will only arrive in pre-assembled equipment.

Both models are slightly trimmed versions of their X brothers. Basically, AMD has lowered the TDP of both chips and its base frequencies. One of the first devices to mount these processors will be the Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition R10 Gaming Desktop.

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The new 2021 TCL Series C82, C72 and C72 + televisions arrive with MiniLED panels, Android TV and sound signed by Onkyo

Manufacturers continue to present their novelties for 2021. This is the case of TCL, who today have unveiled their new C series. These are new models of televisions available between 43 and 75 inches and whose main bet is MiniLED technology together with QLED quantum dots.

These are the new TCL C72, C72 + and TCL 82, its three reference televisions in Spain with 4K resolution, HDMI 2.1 and Android TV. Here we review its characteristics.

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The United States wants to launch a nuclear-powered rocket into orbit in 2025 with Blue Origin

For years space agencies have been looking for the nuclear alternative at the space vehicle level. We already saw that Russia gave data on its progress and now it is DARPA, an American agency, which announces intention to launch nuclear rocket into orbit in 2025.

Specifically, it will be a space vehicle with thermonuclear propulsion within the DRACO program, acronym for Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations. An initiative of this research agency in the US Department of Defense focused on developing vehicles with this type of propulsion with which, as they have announced, they will have two old (very) acquaintances: Lockheed Martin and Blue Origin.

Both are common in the aeronautical and space industry. In the case of Loockhed Martin, we talked about them, for example, for their participation in NASA’s X-59 supersonic plane, and Blue Origin, Jeff BEzos’s space company, we have also commented on their progress, in fact a year ago they were I knew that both companies are working on a lander to get astronauts to the moon.

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the first single-dose vaccines will be administered to the age group between 70 and 79 years

Throughout this week, the first shipment of the vaccine Janssen, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, will arrive in Spain to combat COVID-19. As it is a single dose vaccine, it will not be administered to those who have already had the disease.

A total of 300,000 units that, as it is the first single-dose vaccine to arrive in Spain, it will count as if 600,000 doses of any of the other vaccines already circulating had arrived. It is estimated that up to 5.5 million doses will be added throughout this second quarter (approximately 1 million in May, and 4.2 million in June).

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Android Auto prepares improvements in night mode and a connection troubleshooter

Google has stepped on the accelerator of Android Auto from version 6.0, which introduced interesting improvements such as personalized wallpapers and third-party navigation applications such as TomTom Amigo. The changes do not end there, and we already have an idea of other changes to come to Android Auto.

As 9to5Google has been able to reveal after examining the code of version 6.3 of the Android Auto APK, two novelties are on the way for Android Auto– A connection troubleshooter and more flexibility when using night mode.

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