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Latest News - May 2019
- High Capacity SSD Pricing Forecasted To Hit All Time Low Later This Year
- Secrecy Surrounding Google's Next-Gen Fuchsia OS Is Slowly Being Lifted
- MSI Teases Upcoming AMD X570 Ryzen 3000 Gaming Motherboards Packed With Killer Features
- Google Pixel 3a And Pixel 3a XL Flaunt Impressive Repairability In Teardown Analysis
- American Adults Are Spending Big On Video Games And The Top Platform May Surprise You
- Google Will Now Let You Pay For Android Apps With Cold Hard Cash
- Windows Hello Gets FIDO2 Certification As Passwords Edge Closer To Extinction
- Extremely Rare Pristine Commodore C65 Prototype Hits eBay For Big Bucks
- 2.5 Geeks 5/9/19: GeForce GTX 1650, Lenovo Legion Y740, LG G8, Pixel 3a XL Peek, Corsair Coolers!
- Qualcomm And Google Join Forces For Smart Headsets With Assistant And Fast Pair
- Samsung's ISOCELL Bright GW1 Sensor Could Bring 64MP Imagery To Galaxy S11
- AMD Ryzen 3000 Zen 2 Engineering Sample Spotted With 16 Cores And 4.2GHz Boost
- US Senator Declares War On Predatory Game Loot Boxes And Microtransactions
- Samsung CEO Claims Galaxy Fold Display Fix Confirmed, Re-Launch May Be Imminent
- Sharp Aquos R3 Snapdragon 855 Flagship Lands With 120Hz IGZO Display And Dual Notches
- Intel Confirms 10nm Ice Lake CPU Shipments Ramp In June, Roadmap To 7nm And Beyond
- Minecraft Celebrates A Decade Of Blocky Fun With Browser-Based Original Gameplay
- AMD Continues To Grab CPU Market Share From Intel With Zen-Fueled Assault
- Logitech’s G502 Lightspeed Is A Wireless Update To A Legendary Gaming Mouse
- Google's Android Q Beta 3 Brings A Bunch Of New Features To Mobile Devices With A Focus On Privacy
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All News for May 2019
2019 is shaping up to a big banner year for those looking to score a new solid-state drive (SSD). Over the years, SSD prices have been dropping to the point where enthusiasts don't mind forking over the added cashola to score a high-capacity SSD for their boot drive in their PC rigs as the price premium between HDDs...
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Over the past several years, we have seen numerous references to a mysterious next-gen Fuchsia OS being developed by Google. We say "mysterious" because Google has not come right out and said what exactly it is, or why it's developing another OS when it already has Android and Chrome OS. Will Fuchsia OS replace one or...
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All of those Encyclopedia Brown books I read as a youngster are now paying off. How is that? Well, MSI posted a partially cryptic image on Twitter that, if you don your detective cap like I have done, reveals itself to be a teaser of one of the company's unreleased X570 motherboards for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3000...
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This week, the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL are the hottest talk of the internet, as they are the new mid-range smartphones from Google. With a starting price of $399 for the Pixel 3a and $479 for the Pixel 3a XL, both phones offer a nice balance of features, camera image quality, battery life... and actually include a...
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The video game industry is absolutely massive and is outpacing even Hollywood when it comes to generating money. The video game industry racked up $43.4 billion in revenue in 2018 and it may surprise you to learn that the average gamer in the U.S. isn't a teen. The average gamer is 33 years old and plays mostly on...
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The Google Play app store ecosystem is robust, and many of the apps that people buy are purchased with a credit card that is tied to the person's Google Play account. For most people linking a credit card to their account isn't a big deal, but that isn't always the case in all market around the globe. Some users fear...
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Google announced in February that it had added FIDO2 compliance to Android, edging users closer to never needing a password again. Microsoft has now announced that Windows Hello has been FIDO2 certified. Microsoft says that Windows Hello has been letting Windows 10 users sign into devices with biometrics or a PIN with...
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Commodore 65 machines are most certainly a rare appearance these days, and when they do see the light of day, they can fetch astronomical prices. When we last caught up with a fully functional Commodore 65, it was selling for around $28,000 on the eBay's German language auction site.
Recently, another Commodore 65...
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In this episode of HotHardware’s Two And Half Geeks, Marco, Chris and Dave chat about NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1650, Lenovo's Legion Y740 Gaming Laptop, the LG G8 ThinQ Flagship Android Phone, a Sneak Peek at the Google Pixel 3a XL, Corsair's H100i RGB AiO Liquid Cooler and more!
Show Notes:
04:24 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
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Considering that many smartphone OEMs have abandoned 3.5mm headphone jacks on their smartphones in a bid to save space and "embrace the future," many consumers have skipped over adopting USB-C headphones and are instead going completely wireless.
While those firmly in the Apple camp have gravitated towards AirPods...
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Samsung on Thursday announced a pair of new ISOCELL pixel image sensors that will likely find their inside the company's future phones, paving the way for higher resolution and sharper photographs. One of them, the 64-megapixel ISOCELL Bright GW1, could end up in the company's flagship Galaxy S11 next year.
The...
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It's getting close to that time folks; AMD is just months away from launching its new Zen 2-based CPUs which are built on the 7nm process node. The first of these chips that will make their way to the market will be from the Ryzen 3000 family of consumer desktop processors.
Up until this point, it's been confirmed...
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At the risk of dating myself, I remember the days of sticking a cartridge into an Atari 2600, and that was it—you played the game as it shipped, with no post-game patches and certainly no in-game transactions. We live in a very different world these days. Microtransactions and so-called loot boxes rule the day, and...
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Samsung pitched a "revolutionary display" as part of the Galaxy Fold, the folding smartphone "made from bonded layers of innovative polymer material." And maybe it will be revolutionary when all is said and done. That will depend in part on whether or not Samsung has figured out and fixed the issue(s) that plagued the...
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The Essential Phone introduced us to the display notch, and its prevalence in flagship phones ballooned with the release of the Apple iPhone X a few months later. Now, save for a few smartphones from Chinese OEMs with pop-up selfie cameras, most flagship smartphones have some type of display notch.
However, Sharp...
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For Intel, the road to 10 nanometers has not been a smooth or easy one. That is why we are still waiting on volume shipments of 10nm CPU products, even though the original plan was to already be at this point a long time ago. So, where are things now? According to the latest update from Intel, volume 10nm CPU...
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It might be hard to believe but the blocky game Minecraft will turn ten-years-old this month. To celebrate the birthday, the folks behind the game have done something that fans will enjoy, and bosses might hate. Minecraft Classic is launching running the original game directly in a browser.
The developers say that...
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There's no question that AMD's Zen microarchitecture has been a boon for the company since it was first released in 2017 with first-generation Ryzen processors. We've gone from 14nm Zen, to 12nm Zen+, and we're now closing in on the release of 7nm Zen 2 processors (starting with the Ryzen 3000 desktop...
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In February 2019, Logitech revived one if its iconic MX518 gaming mouse with modern internals. Logitech has announced a new gaming mouse that will slip into the line alongside the MX518 called the G502 Lightspeed. The G502 Lightspeed combines professional-grade precision and performance technology in a classic design...
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As expected, the bigwigs in Mountain View rolled out the third beta of Android Q at Google I/O 2019, giving us a broader view of what the next major version of Android will bring to the table. We still do not know what exactly it will be called—Queen of Puddings, perhaps?—but here are some of the more notable...
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Smart glasses are an interesting item, but their typically high price tags and limited use cases have prevented them from gaining widespread traction. Epson's latest product may change the game, however. The Epson Moverio BT-30C Smart Glasses connect to Android phones and Windows PCs and ring in at a mere $500...
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Intel has announced that it will open Project Athena Open Labs in Taipei, Shanghai, and Folsom, California to support performance and low-power optimization of vendor components for laptops built to its design specifications. The Project Athena Open Labs are located in key ecosystem hubs and are operated by teams of...
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