Brandon Hill
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If you haven’t yet been sucked into the mesh routing craze, Amazon is currently running a smoking deal on an entry-level system from Netgear. The retailer currently has the Orbi RBK23 AC2200 Mesh Wi-Fi System on sale for $249.99. However...
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Microsoft and Qualcomm are really pushing to get customers interested in ARM-powered Windows 10 machines. There’s no question that the Windows 10 scene is currently dominated by x86-64 processors from Intel and AMD, but ARM-powered systems...
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NVIDIA has an obvious vested interest in seeing ray tracing technologies take off in a big way, both in the way they are adopted by developers and implemented into games, and how it is all received by consumers. To further showcase what...
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Samsung dazzled tech enthusiasts when it first unveiled the production version of the Galaxy Fold in late February, and now we’re getting a firm launch date for the smartphone in the United States. Third-place U.S. wireless carrier...
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When YouTube TV launched at a price of $35/month, it was seen as a breath of fresh air in the streaming TV market. The service offers live programming (including local network channels) that can be streamed from just about any device, and...
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Intel today is providing hard specs for what it is calling next-generation of Optane memory that has been specifically optimized for thin and light notebooks. Enter Optane Memory H10, which is a new PCIe 3.0x4 NVMe-based 2-in-1 storage...
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We’ve been hearing for quite some time that OnePlus is not only working on a follow-up to the OnePlus 6T, but also a 5G variant that would serve as the flagship of the company’s smartphone family. Today we’re getting our first glimpse at...
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Samsung wasn’t kidding when it said that it would look to its mid-range family of smartphones to drive innovation. The company made the comments back in September 2018 after sales of the Galaxy S9 family were tracking well below...
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Could NVIDIA be cooking up something new in the Turing family of graphics cards? We've already seen plenty of activity on both ends of the spectrum with Turing-based graphics cards. At the high end, we have GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and...
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At this point, there’s no question that NVIDIA is releasing a new entry-level variant of its GeForce GTX Turing family of desktop graphics cards. Earlier this year, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, and then soon followed up with...
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When it comes to the vast ecosystem of Android smartphones available around the globe, Qualcomm has the lion’s share of the market with respect to the SoCs that power these devices. At the flagship level, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 is the...
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Microsoft had a rough go at things with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update that was released last year. That major feature release was plagued with issues including driver problems and a file deletion bug; things got so bad that Microsoft...
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When Samsung launched its Galaxy S10 family of smartphones in late February, it introduced no less than four variants (Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10 5G). All four models vary in screen sizes, features and most...
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When it comes to the market for folding smartphones, things are just getting started. In late February, Samsung pulled the wraps off its Galaxy Fold which will be available for purchase this year in the United States. A few days later, Huawei unveiled its sleek Mate X, which won’t [officially]...
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Microsoft surprised many when it decided that was going to abandon its homegrown EdgeHTML rendering engine for Edge in favor of Google Chromium. The move particularly incensed Firefox developer Mozilla, which said that Microsoft was...
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2018 was the year of the notch, and it looks as though 2019 is the year where smartphone OEMs seek out new ways to minimize the appearance of the notch or get rid of it altogether. Companies like Samsung have gone with a punch hole cut-out for the front-facing cameras, while this new...
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AMD is expanding its Pro family of processors with the introduction of new Ryzen Pro Mobile and Athlon Pro Mobile processors which come backed by Radeon Vega graphics. All of the processors are based on the 12nm process node, with the...
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One of the hallmark features of Samsung’s new Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+and Galaxy S10 5Gsmartphones are their use of in-display ultrasonic fingerprint readers. These newfangled sensors replace the tried and true optical fingerprint sensors...
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Microsoft is making some changes to the "rings" within its Windows Insider program. In a blog post today, Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc asked Insiders to take a peek at their ring settings to see how they would like to proceed going...
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Google is no stranger to the augmented reality (AR) field, having helped introduce many people to the concept with its original Google Glass wearable. Although Google found some success in the enterprise market with Google Glass, it wasn’t...
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When we think of handheld gaming consoles, the first things that come to mind are devices like the Nintendo 3DS or the Nintendo Switch. However, there are also PC-centric portable gaming devices, albeit they are typically not as well-known...
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NVIDIA has rather quickly fully fleshed out its family of Turing-based graphics cards. The company started off with the high-end, ray tracing-enabled GeForce RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti in Fall 2018, then hit up the mainstream...
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