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An explosion at an industrial park in China's Sichuan province has left 19 people dead and 12 others injured, officials say. In a statement quoted by Reuters, the authorities in Jiang'an county said the blast happened at a chemical plant run by Yibin Hengda Technology. Photos on Chinese social media showed a huge fire and plumes of smoke rising from the facility. It is not clear what caused the explosion. According to Xinhua the fire, which broke out on Thursday evening, had been put out early on Friday. Those injured in the blast were in a stable condition. Authorities have begun an investigation, the news agency said. Yibin Hengda makes chemicals for the food and pharmaceutical industries. According to local media reports, the three-storey buildings of the factory burnt down to their steel frames and nearby buildings had their windows shattered. The accident follows previous high-profile disasters at chemical plants in China. In 2015, 173 people died in an explosion at a chemical warehouse in the north-eastern port city of Tianjin. An official investigation into the blast found that corruption, political connections and official collusion allowed corners to be cut and safety systems to be overridden.

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Syrian government and Russian forces are reportedly attacking an enclave held by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in south-western Syria. Activists and a monitoring group said aircraft were bombing the Yarmouk Basin area, which borders Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The militants are said to have counter-attacked, targeting nearby villages. The fighting comes after the government recaptured most of the surrounding province of Deraa from rebel factions. Rebel commanders agreed on Friday to surrender their heavy weapons and begin handing over towns as part of a Russian-brokered agreement. In return, the Russian military is believed to have guaranteed the safe return of the 320,000 civilians who fled their homes after the government's offensive began on 19 June, as well as the evacuation to rebel-held parts of north-western Syria for people who wish to leave. An IS-affiliated group, the Khalid Ibn al-Walid Army, has controlled the south-western corner of Deraa province since 2014, when jihadists overran vast swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq and proclaimed the establishment of a "caliphate". IS was not covered by last week's ceasefire deal and on Wednesday its positions in the Yarmouk Basin was subjected to air strikes and artillery fire. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said Russian warplanes had targeted the town of Saham al-Golan early on Wednesday and that government helicopters had also dropped barrel bombs on the area. In retaliation, IS militants attacked Hait, a rebel-held town that recently agreed to return to surrender, it added. The pro-opposition Horan Free Media group reported that IS artillery fire killed four children and a woman in Hait. Syrian state media meanwhile reported that troops were advancing towards Tal al-Ashari, Jallain and Zaizoun, rebel-held villages in Deraa's western countryside that have agreed to surrender. On Tuesday, IS claimed it had carried out a suicide bombing in Zeizoun. An IS statement said the attack had targeted a gathering of Russian and Syrian troops, killing more than 35 of them. But the Syrian Observatory said the attack put the death toll at 14 and said they were soldiers and rebel fighters "who recently reconciled" with the government. Thousands of civilians have reportedly fled the Yarmouk Basin in anticipation of a government ground assault and headed towards the frontier with the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria during the 1967 Middle East war. Up to 190,000 people displaced by the assault on rebel-held areas are also gathered near the armistice line, according to the United Nations. Many do not have any shelter, leaving them exposed to harsh weather conditions, such as dusty desert winds and high temperatures. The Syrian army's advance towards the occupied Golan Heights has also alarmed Israeli officials, who believe it may attempt to deploy soldiers along the frontier in defiance of a 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement that created a buffer zone patrolled by UN peacekeepers. On Wednesday, the Israeli military said it had launched a Patriot missile at a drone launched from Syria, setting off air defence sirens in Israeli communities. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile flew to Moscow to discuss "Syria, Iran and Israel's security needs" with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Iran, Israel's arch-enemy, has deployed hundreds of troops to Syria, ostensibly as advisers to the government. Thousands of Shia militiamen armed, trained and financed by Iran have also been battling rebels alongside the Syrian army. Mr Netanyahu has vowed to stop what he considers Iranian "military entrenchment" in Syria and has ordered a number of air strikes on Iranian facilities.

Following a long list of leaks, Microsoft has finally announced Surface Go, a 10-inch tablet that's smaller, lighter and more affordable than previous Surface products. Microsoft will release the device on August 2 starting at $399, making it a rare affordable device in the Surface family. For a hands-on with the device, check out our sister site, Laptop Mag. The device measures just 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches with a 10-inch, 1800 x 1200 display in the Surface's usual 3:2 aspect ratio. It runs on an Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor, with up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of storage (the 64GB option is eMMC, the 128GB and 256GB options are SSDs). Microsoft is claiming the Surface Go will last up to nine hours on a charge. At launch, there will be a $399 model with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage and a $549 configuration with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Both will use only connect to the internet over Wi-Fi. LTE and 256GB SSD models are coming later. Commercial versions with the same specs will be available at $449 and $599 respectively. This will be the first of Microsoft's Surface tablets with USB Type-C. It's almost a surprise, as the more advanced Surface Pro doesn't have that yet (but we expect to see a refresh of the Surface Pro later this year). It also has a microSD card reader, Surface Connect and a headphone jack. In stores, the laptop will come with Windows 10 Home in S Mode, which limits users to programs in the Microsoft Store. Users can switch to regular Windows 10 Home, which doesn't have that limit, for free. Businesses and schools buying the device will get Windows 10 Pro, which they can put in S Mode if they wish. For typing, you'll still need to buy a type cover separately. There will be a black polyurethane Type Cover and a Signature Type Cover that comes in Alcantara, the suede-like material Microsoft has used for its keyboards and on the Surface Laptop in the past. That keyboard will be available in platinum, burgundy and cobalt blue. With 1 millimeter of travel and LED backlighting, Microsoft says the Surface Go offers the best typing experience ever in a Surface. Attaching a keyboard adds 0.5 pounds to the Surface's weight. Microsoft is also announcing a new travel mouse which pairs via Bluetooth and comes in platinum, burgundy and cobalt blue. We look forward to putting the Surface Go through its paces and seeing how premium an affordable PC can be when it lands in our lab.

Divers in northern Thailand have rescued all 12 boys and their football coach from flooded caves, 17 days after they got trapped underground. Their plight and the massive, dangerous three-day-long operation to free them gripped the world's attention. The group got trapped on 23 June after heavy rains flooded their way back out. They were found by British divers last week, huddled in darkness on a ledge amid fears they could be forced to stay there for months until water receded. There were cheers as a daring rescue operation involved dozens of divers and hundreds of other rescue workers came to an end on Tuesday evening. In an indication of how dangerous the journey out was, a former Thai navy diver died in the caves on Friday. Saman Gunan was returning from a mission to provide the group with air tanks when he ran out of oxygen. Aged between about 11 and 17, the members of the Wild Boars football team had entered the Tham Luang cave system in the province of Chiang Rai during an excursion with their coach. Confirming the completion of the rescue operation, the Thai Navy Seals Facebook page announced: "All 12 Wild Boars and coach have been extracted from the cave. All are safe." And at the house just below the mountains where the men who run the Wild Boars meet, there was laughter, shouts and cheers - and people shook hands in a very un-Thai way, says the BBC Jonathan Head. 'Mission Accomplished' By Nick Beake, at Chiang Rai hospital This is the moment Mission Impossible became Mission Accomplished. Families in Chiang Rai gathered at the hospital to watch the final ambulances bring in their precious cargo. Some said they couldn't believe it, others said they had never lost hope. All wore the brightest of smiles. Up on the eighth floor, doctors - who declared this morning that the first eight boys to be rescued are doing well - will now be examining their remaining team mates and their coach. Psychologists will be assessing the impact a fortnight trapped underground has had. The Wild Boars footballers went into the Tham Luang cave as a team. They survived as a team. And tonight, at the end of a remarkable 72-hour rescue, they are together as a team once again. How were they rescued? A team of 90 expert divers - 40 from Thailand and 50 from overseas - worked in the Tham Luang caves. They guided the boys and their coach through darkness and submerged passageways towards the mouth of the cave system. Getting to and from the trapped group was an exhausting round trip, even for experienced divers. The process included a mixture of walking, wading, climbing and diving along guide ropes. Wearing full-face masks, which are easier for novice divers than traditional respirators, each boy was accompanied by two divers, who also carried his air supply. The toughest part was about halfway out at a section named "T-Junction", which was so tight that the divers had to take off their air tanks to get through. Beyond that a cavern - called Chamber 3 - was turned into a forward base for the divers. There the boys could rest before making the last, easier walk out to the entrance. They were then taken to hospital in Chiang Rai. The last of the rescue team - three Thai Navy Seals and a doctor - emerged from the cave complex some hours after the last member of the trapped group was released. Who are the boys and their coach? Details have emerged of members of the team and their coach. Captain Duganpet Promtep, 13, is described as a motivator and highly respected by his teammates. He had apparently been scouted by several Thai professional clubs. Myanmar-born Adul Sam-on, 14, speaks several languages, and was the only team member to be able to communicate with British divers when they were first discovered. It was 17-year-old Peerapat Sompiangjai's birthday when the group became trapped in the cave. The snacks the boys brought with them to celebrate are likely to have helped them survive their ordeal. Assistant coach Ekapol Chantawong, 25, was said to be the weakest of the group when they were found, as he had reportedly refused to eat any of the food and gave it instead to the boys. What next for the boys? The first eight boys to be rescued - on Sunday and Monday - are still in hospital but said to be in good mental and physical health. They have undergone X-rays and blood tests, and will remain under observation in hospital for at least seven days. Their parents have been allowed to see them through a glass window at the hospital, but they are being quarantined. Drinking contaminated water in the cave or being exposed to bird or bat droppings in the cave could lead to dangerous infections, experts say. Football offers support to boys The boys lost weight during their time in the caves and are keen to eat. They are said to have requested a favourite pork dish, bread and chocolate, but solid food will have to be reintroduced slowly to prevent digestive upset. They will also need to wear sunglasses for a few days until their eyes readjust to the brighter light. Offers of hospitality for the football team have come in from around the world

We're checking out the 32” (31.5” viewable) Agon AG322QCX from AOC. It boasts 144Hz and FreeSync, along with Quad HD (QHD) resolution, which means speedy performance from less expensive video boards. We consider the 109ppi density of a 27” QHD monitor to be ideal. It keeps Windows at its most clear because no dpi scaling is required, and objects are large enough for those with not-so-sharp vision. The AG322QCX increases screen area significantly, dropping that density to 93ppi. That’s just enough to keep the small text of spreadsheets and word processors clear without imparting obvious jaggies to curved and angled shapes. Being part of the Agon line, this display is focused on the gaming experience. With a 144Hz refresh rate and FreeSync down to 48Hz, gamers can expect smooth play, free from frame tears. The operating range is wide enough to bring Low Framerate Compensation into the mix, so technically a tear is impossible. The AG322QCX is SDR-only, meaning it doesn't offer HDR, but it offers plenty of contrast, courtesy of a vertical alignment (VA) panel. Color goes well past the sRGB gamut and covers nearly 84% of the DCI-P3 space, competitive with many other monitors. Street prices are under $500 at this writing, so this appears to be a promising candidate for those seeking a value-oriented display with high-end gaming performance and a large screen. Let’s take a look. There is nothing quite like a solid-metal stand. The AG322QCX’s upright is made from the same material as its base and features a handle at the top, like all monitors should have. You’ll need a Phillips-head driver to complete assembly. Bundled cables include DisplayPort, HDMI, USB and analog audio. The power supply is external and comes in a nondescript, average-sized brick. A CD contains support software and a user manual Curved panels are not usually known for slimness, but the AG322QCX is an exception. The upper portion is less than an inch thick with the component bulge, trimmed in silver plastic, adding only another inch to the equation. It has a flush-mounted, anti-glare layer and hidden bezel. Controls come in two forms. On the panel’s bottom center is a single joystick, which operates all monitor functions. You can also plug in the included puck controller, which offers menu navigation and quick access to the three gaming modes. We found the joystick worked much better. The puck is clunky and has a noticeable delay between button-press and on-screen reaction. We ended up using only the joystick throughout the review. The AG322QCX's lighting feature comes in the form of two large arrays that illuminate the desktop and four more accents on the back. The color can be varied (red, green, or blue), and brightness has three steps. Alternatively, you can turn the whole thing off. Also around back is a headphone hook that flips out from one corner, upper-right as you look at the screen. The stand succeeds in keeping the panel from wobbling no matter where it’s set. It offers a 4.5 inch adjustment, along with 30° swivel in each direction, 28° back tilt and 5.5° forward. USB 3.0 is supported by an upstream port and two downstream ports on the bottom. Two five-watt speakers provide reasonably loud sound at higher frequencies. There is no bass. Distortion is low, but you’ll still find better quality from desktop speakers or headphones.

At least 100 people are thought to have died after record rainfall caused flooding and landslides in western Japan, a government spokesman says. Dozens more are reported to be missing and electricity supplies have been hit. Since Thursday, parts of western Japan have received three times the usual rainfall for the whole of July. Two million people have been ordered to evacuate as rivers burst their banks. "We've never experienced this kind of rain before," a weather official said. Rescuers restarted their search through the mud for any survivors or the bodies of those killed on Monday morning. An official in Okayama prefecture told AFP news agency that water levels were gradually receding and that emergency teams may be able to access the worst-hit areas on foot. The heavy rains began with a typhoon last week that was followed by days of record-breaking torrential rain. In the town of Motoyama, on Shikoku island, 583mm (23in) of rain fell between Friday morning and Saturday morning. Many buildings have collapsed and vast areas have been covered in debris and thick mud. Kosuke Kiyohara, 38, told AFP news agency that some of his family members, including his sister, are missing. His house in the town of Kumano was destroyed by a huge landslide. "I have asked my family to prepare for the worst," he said. "I haven't been able to reach her phone since Friday night. I wish she could have fled sooner." Kumano is in the Hiroshima prefecture where most of the deaths have occurred. One resident, 69-year-old Naoaki Ogawa, described how a mudslide left him trapped in his car as he tried to escape. "I turned the car to the right, and saw another wave of mud... sweep away three cars that were in front of me," he said. "I have lived here for more than 20 years, but there has never been something like this. I was so scared." Meanwhile, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has cancelled a trip to Belgium, France, Saudi Arabia and Egypt following the floods. He said on Sunday that rescuers were "working against time" and increased the number of personnel deployed to help with the response to more than 70,000. "There are still many people missing and others in need of help," he told reporters. Flood warnings are still in effect for some of the worst hit areas, including in Okayama prefecture. But more settled weather is expected over the next few days which is likely to help with the rescue effort.

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Basketball player Tyler Honeycutt has died after a shootout with US police, local media report. The Los Angeles Police Department said an unnamed suspect appeared to have died of a "self-inflicted gunshot", after reportedly firing on officers. US media report it was the former Sacramento King's player, who was on contract for Moscow's BC Khimki. Honeycutt's mother reportedly called the police because her son was acting "erratically". His team confirmed his death on Twitter after speaking with his agent. Police responded to the call at about 17:00 local time (00:00 GMT) on Friday. According to the LAPD, the suspect, who they have not yet confirmed as Honeycutt, seems to have fired on the responding officers and barricaded himself inside a house. No officers were injured. US media report this was Honeycutt's residence in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. After a prolonged standoff, SWAT teams entered the house early on Saturday morning and found the suspect "unresponsive". While initial reports suggested Honeycutt may have been hit by police fire, the LAPD tweeted that the suspect "sustained injuries consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound". Starting his career at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Honeycutt was drafted by the Sacramento Kings in 2011. He played brief spells for the Reno Bighorns before moving to the Houston Rockets. In 2013 he left the US to play for Israeli team Ironi Nes Ziona, followed by BC Khimki in 2014. He returned to Khimki last year after a year at Turkish team Anadolu Efes.

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A Pakistani court has sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison on corruption charges related to four luxury London flats. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court handed down the verdict after a series of delays. His daughter and son-in-law were also convicted. Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London and was sentenced in absentia, has said the charges are politically motivated. Judge Mohammad Bashir ordered Sharif to serve 10 years for owning assets beyond income and one year for not co-operating with the NAB. The sentences are to be served concurrently. Daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif received seven years for abetting a crime and one year for not co-operating - again to run concurrently - while son-in-law Safdar Awan was given a one-year sentence for not co-operating. Sharif and Maryam also received fines of £8m ($10.6m) and £2m respectively. They are currently both in London where Sharif's wife, Kulsoom Nawaz, is The case, known as the Avenfield Reference, relates to a number of properties in the UK capital. The Panama Papers leak in 2015 revealed several of Sharif's children had links to offshore companies, which were allegedly used to channel funds and buy foreign assets - including luxury flats in Avenfield House, on London's Park Lane. His family, however, insist they legitimately acquired the four properties. As part of the ruling, the court ordered they be confiscated for the federal government. Members of the Pakistani media set up outside the Avenfield House properties, where the family reportedly watched the verdict The UK has no formal extradition treaty with Pakistan, but Section 194 of the Extradition Act 2003 allows special extradition arrangements in exceptional circumstances. Fearing unrest, the Pakistani authorities reportedly closed roads around the Federal Judicial Complex in Islamabad and imposed a ban on public assemblies or rallies in the area. The court repeatedly delayed the decision, initially pushing the ruling back after Friday prayers and then several times again, sparking speculation about the wait. However, the judge reportedly said part of the delay was because of the need to photocopy the judgement - which is more than 100 pages long - for both the defence and the prosecution. On Twitter, the hashtag #AvenfieldReference became one of the highest worldwide trends as Pakistanis awaited the verdict. Pakistan holds a general election on 25 July. Sharif is disqualified from standing for his centre-right party, the PML-N. His brother Shahbaz Sharif now heads the PML-N, and is running in the election. All eyes on Sharif's next move Analysis by M Ilyas Khan, BBC News, Islamabad The ruling comes just a couple of weeks ahead of national elections and is seen by many as the culmination of a process that first saw Sharif disqualified by the Supreme Court last year on questionable grounds. The PML-N party has blamed the military for this process, saying it was conspiring to annihilate it for its criticism of the military's links with militant groups and its policy to improve ties with India. With elections approaching, the party is likely to use Sharif's conviction as proof of this "conspiracy" with an aim to preserve its substantial but increasingly jittery bloc of voters. Much will depend on Sharif's next move. If he decides to return to the country he will certainly be jailed, but it may also animate his party's election campaign and earn a sympathy vote. Shahbaz Sharif defended his brother at a press conference following the verdict, calling it "politically motivated" and saying the election in July would serve as a people's court that would condemn the decision. The country's Supreme Court ousted Nawaz Sharif from the premiership in July 2017 following the Panama Papers revelations. At the time, he was less than a year away from becoming the first head of government in Pakistani history to complete a full term in office. Sharif held the office from November 1990 to July 1993 and from February 1997 until he was toppled in a bloodless coup in October 1999.

Cooler Master stepped into Asus’ budget-focused Tuf Gaming Alliance in a big way recently, with a gaming-value case and two coolers. The company worked with Asus to supply review sites with the requisite hardware. Before we treat each component to an individual review, we got a chance to see how these parts worked and looked together. Should they form the basis of your next budget gaming rig? Supplied components include Asus's Tuf X470-Plus Gaming socket AM4 motherboard, along with Cooler Master's MasterAir MA410M dual-fan single-tower CPU cooler, MA620P dual-tower CPU cooler, and MasterWatt 750 Tuf Gaming Edition power supply. Once we put the parts through our full spate of testing, we'll have reviews of the Asus Tuf X470-Plus Gaming ATX Motherboard, Cooler Master MasterAir MA410M CPU Cooler, and Cooler Master Masterbox MB500 case. But for now let's take a quick look at how these parts fit and work together. We shot straight for budget gaming in our preview build, pairing the $150 X470-Plus Gaming with AMD’s value-awarded Ryzen 3 2200G ($100). We’ll unleash our more powerful parts upon the Asus motherboard in its full review. For now, using onboard graphics allowed us to not add a non-Tuf-series graphics card to the preview. Since we didn't have one handy, that worked out rather well. The MasterAir MA620P Tuf Gaming Edition is identical in every way except coloration to the one from our previous review, but the MA410M gets an extra fan compared to the MA410P we reviewed. The fans of both coolers feature RGB lighting with four-pin input, allowing users to choose between a compatible motherboard’s RGB interface or the controller included with each cooler’s installation kit. Moreover, both coolers are currently available at the same $60 price, which should prompt keen readers to consider the smallest of details--from installation to performance--in our upcoming review. The star of the show from Cooler Master’s viewpoint will certainly be its MasterBox MB500 case. The $70 mid-tower features three RGB fans (two front, one rear), support for a radiator up to 3x120mm or 2x140mm on the front panel, two top-panel fan mounts that lack vertical radiator clearance but might fit some radiator/motherboard/DRAM combinations thanks to an approximate 1.25” offset (away from the motherboard). Cooler Master’s MasterWatt 750 Tuf Gaming Edition fills our power bay. Capable of outputting its full power rating on the 12V rail if required by system demand, the special edition adds graphic detailing to the original black finish. The semi-modular design uses fixed cables for the 24-pin and 8/4-pin EPS12V/ATX12V leads. We did have a couple concerns with component installation, beginning with the CPU’s AM4 mounting methods. We didn’t like that the steel support plate had to be removed and replaced with a plastic version, and would have preferred a special set of standoffs. Cooler Master included special standoffs for LGA 2011/2066, but not for AMD AM4 boards. Our next concern was RGB synchronization. The case has an RGB splitter that connects its three fans to a single header, and the CPU fans each have an RGB splitter that connect two special ends to one standard end. The case and cooler each needed their own RGB connection, yet Asus equipped the value-priced Tuf X470-Plus Gaming with only one RGB header and no splitter cable. Stealing a cable from an MSI motherboard’s installation kit rescued our configuration. The system worked flawlessly after we added the extra RGB splitter cable, producing a 52 °C core reading at 19 °C ambient under multi-threaded Prime95 small FFTs, with the CPU overclocked to 4.00 GHz at 1.375V, and its DDR4 set to a 3333MHz data rate at 1.35V. Our noise reading was only 39.1 decibels at ½ meter, which works out to approximately 33 decibels at one meter. Aesthetics are always a matter of personal taste, but we think Cooler Master has done a fine job of tying these components together visually. From this point we need only confirm that each of these components is competitive in its own segment, and for that we look forward to putting these parts through their paces in upcoming reviews.

Facebook's algorithms have ruled that parts of the US Declaration of Independence are hate speech and removed excerpts of them posted to the platform. In the run-up to Independence Day, a US community paper based in Texas had been posting small daily chunks of the historic document on its Facebook page. At issue was a part of it that referred to "merciless Indian savages". Facebook later apologised and allowed the posting. The Liberty County Vindicator had been sharing excerpts from America's founding document to its Facebook page in an attempt to encourage historical literacy among its readers. Part 10 did not appear, with the paper receiving a notice from Facebook saying the post went against its standards on hate speech. Editor Casey Stinnett wrote afterwards of the offending paragraph: "Perhaps had Thomas Jefferson written it as 'Native Americans at a challenging stage of cultural development' that would have been better. "Unfortunately, Jefferson, like most British colonists of his day, did not hold an entirely friendly view of Native Americans." The newspaper later confirmed that Facebook had had a change of heart and apologised. "It looks like we made a mistake and removed something you posted on Facebook that didn't go against our community standards," the company told the Vindicator. "We want to apologise and let you know that we've restored your content and removed any blocks on your account related to this incorrect action." In a blogpost, assistant editor of political magazine Reason Christian Britschgi said the decision demonstrated the problem with automated searches for hate speech. "A robot trained to spot politically incorrect language isn't smart enough to detect when that language is part of a historically significant document," he said.

The BenQ EL2870U is ideally suited for movie watching and general computing tasks. It performs well when gaming with FreeSync, but hardcore players will want a faster monitor. HDR works fine, but low native contrast limits what the panel can do. And without DCI-P3 color, it won’t offer a significantly better experience than SDR. If you're looking for value, this monitor is hard to beat at under $500. But if you want ultimate performance, you’ll have to look elsewhere and spend a lot more money. Ultra HD is more than just 3840x2160 resolution. There are plenty of monitors that offer just that, but to correctly support the latest content, you’ll need HDR and extended color support. The EL2870U supports the most common HDR standard, HDR10, which is also found on Ultra HD Blu-ray and in streamed content. The panel has a 10-bit native color depth, which checks another box. In fact, the only thing missing here is the DCI-P3 color gamut, which is wider than standard RGB (sRGB). Since the monitor is based on an Innolux display panel released in 2014, sRGB is all the monitor can muster. Our tests revealed a little trickery engineered in to provide some extra visual punch, but we're clearly looking at an sRGB monitor here. On the other hand, gamers will appreciate the inclusion of FreeSync, but this is limited to 60Hz, like all Ultra HD monitors. Product 360 The EL2870U eschews a heavy stand in favor of a minimalist base and upright. It ships in three pieces, and you'll need a Philips-head screwdriver to attach the upright to the panel. If you’d rather use an aftermarket arm or bracket, the device offers 100mm VESA mount holes. The power supply is internal, so an IEC power cord is bundled, along with an HDMI cable and the user’s manual on CD. Power consumption is fairly low at 26.2 watts when the backlight is set to 200 nits output. The EL2870U features a prominently displayed HDR button on the front bezel. It toggles an HDR-emulation mode along with Brightness Intelligence + which varies color temperature based on your room’s lighting. That is detected by a small sensor hanging from the panel’s bottom edge. Underneath are five control keys, plus a large power toggle that features an internal LED. The monitor's front layer blocks reflections well without altering the screen’s excellent clarity. Some may dismiss the monitor’s twisted nematic (TN) panel, as this is a type of LCD that was prevalent in the '80s until they were improved upon with in-plane switching (IPS) panels. But when viewed head-on at a normal distance, the image looks every bit as good as an IPS screen. A thin grill surrounds the chassis, but it only has holes up top. Larger grills on the bottom cover the two, one-watt speakers. The speakers play with reasonable volume in the upper frequencies but offer little in the way of mid-range or bass. The upright allows just 15° back tilt and 5° forward. There is no swivel or height adjustment. The fulcrum is low, so when you rock the panel back its top moves away from you while the bottom stays put. Movement is firm and without play. The base is small but heavy enough to keep the lightweight panel from tipping over.