The UCI Road World Championships have customarily opened with the individual time trial events in recent years, and Kigali 2025 follows suits, with the elite time trials the first event of the championships, taking place on Sunday 21 September. The rolling Kigali course is one of the most challenging in recent memory. Beginning at the BK Arena and finishing in …
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It’s always something. The late, great Gilda Radner coined that phrase during her valiant battle with cancer in the ‘80s, and while it seems unlikely that the comedian ever crossed the Hudson River during her days on Saturday Night Live to attend a college football game, you would be hard pressed to come up with three better words to sum …
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Looking for an impressive gaming monitor to match your powerful desktop? The 32-inch version of the Samsung Odyssey G8 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is currently marked down from $1,300 to just $1,100. Only the beefiest gaming rigs can dream of powering its 3,840 x 2,160-pixel resolution at the full 240-Hz refresh rate, but those who can will be hard-pressed to find …
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Both the Oppo Find X9 Pro and Vivo X300 have made recent visits to Geekbench with MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500 in tow. That chipset will be rivaled by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which has now also been spotted on Geekbench aboard the upcoming Xiaomi 17 Pro. The Xiaomi 17 Pro has now surfaced on Geekbench ahead of its debut …
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Qualcomm has announced that its upcoming flagship mobile chipset is the “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5,” a confusingly named successor to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. While the processor itself will be unveiled during the Snapdragon Summit on September 23rd-25th, Qualcomm has already published an explanation for the branding update. “It might look like we skipped generations, but the truth is …
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TL;DR Qualcomm has announced that its new flagship processor will be called “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.” Xiaomi has confirmed that its next flagship phone lineup, the Xiaomi 17 series, will be powered by the new chipset. The processor will also power the Galaxy S26 series, with a possible “Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy” branding. Qualcomm has officially …
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Before he became the Bears’ head coach this year, Ben Johnson spent the last six seasons as a Lions assistant. And he’s been telling his players what to expect when they play in Detroit on Sunday. “They know what kind of hostile environment this is going to be,” Johnson said. Johnson, who was the Lions’ offensive coordinator, said the Lions’ …
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Rafael Nadal has always been seemingly invincible on the tennis court and endearingly vulnerable off it. The 22-time Grand Slam champion, who arrives for a video interview from his home in Mallorca, Spain, is also a tired father, trying to catch up on sleep after the birth in August of his second son, Miguel. After transforming and defining the sport …
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Qualcomm has to wait an entire year before it showcases the capabilities of its first 2nm chipset, but later this month, it is expected to introduce a slightly more powerful version of its current-generation flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. The latter’s direct successor is rumored to be named the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 instead of the Snapdragon 8 Elite …
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A few hours passed, and we learned that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 might officially be called the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. After a brief gap, a fresh rumor now provides partial specification details, giving us a closer look at the improvements between two generations, at least on paper, because there is something else too. The tipster who …
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