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Latest News - May 2019
- Vivaldi Web Browser Now Syncs Razer Chroma Lighting Effects With Your Keyboard And Mouse
- Tencent Kills PUBG Mobile For China Kowtowing To Government-Approved Clone
- Google Confirms Pixel 3a And Pixel 3a XL Aren't One-Offs, Folding Phone In Development
- Microsoft's Popular 90s Era PowerToys Utilities To Make A Triumphant Return To Windows 10
- Lenovo ThinkPad X395, T495 and T495s Laptops Announced With 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Pro APUs
- Apex Legends Is Coming To Mobile As Red Hot Battle Royale Game Boosts EA Earnings
- Get A Google Pixel 3a Or Pixel 3a XL Already On A Hot Deal With Free $100 Gift Card
- Google Announces Nest Hub Max With 10-inch Display Priced At $229
- EA Access Game Subscription Service Lands For PS4 Five Years After Xbox One
- Google Officially Launches Pixel 3a And Pixel 3a XL Priced From $399
- MegaCortex Ransomware Strain Summons Morpheus To Hold Data Hostage In The Matrix
- Lenovo Legion Y740 Gaming Laptop Deep Dive Review With Benchmarks
- Microsoft Is Adding A Full Open Source Linux Kernel To Windows 10
- Amazon Alexa Goes Hands-Free On Windows 10 With New App Update
- Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser Leaks For macOS, Linux Variant Likely Coming
- Google Pixel 3a Full Specs Leak Confirm Snapdragon 670, 4GB RAM And 3000 mAh Battery
- Samsung Prepares To Cancel Some Galaxy Fold Preorders As Display Failure Fallout Grows
- Apple Slapped With Lawsuit Over iPhone 7 Loop Disease Defect And Substandard Materials
- AMD Scores EPYC Win With Cray And ORNL On Frontier 1.5 Exaflop Supercomputer
- Microsoft Shows Off Its Vision For The Future Of Cortana Conversational AI
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All News for May 2019
I used to think that a toaster would be the final frontier for RGB lighting, but apparently Razer has that covered, or at least it is planning to. So what else does that leave? I'm not sure, maybe washing machines and dryers are on the radar. In the meantime, companies are coming up with new ways of leveraging RGB...
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The mobile version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUGB) sees over 70 million average daily users in China, but even so, Tencent Holdings is yanking the game and replacing it with a more government friendly alternative called Game for Peace. Analysts believe it could generate over $1 billion annually through in-game...
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Yesterday, Google announced its Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL mid-range smartphones which rock a Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 SoC, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage and the familiar two-tone design aesthetic (albeit with a plastic body). Best of all, the phones start at an incredibly reasonable $399 and $479 respectively...
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Few things rarely go out of style for good. The best stuff has a way of coming back into view, like vinyl. This also applies to computers, apparently. No, the floppy disk is not making a glorious comeback, but something that dates all the way back to Windows 95 is—it's called PowerToys, and it is being rebooted for...
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Earlier this month, we saw Lenovo pull the wraps off a new ThinkBook S family of consumer laptops and today we're witnessing the launch of a revised family of ThinkPad business laptops. The new laptops include the ThinkPad X395, T495 and T495s, with the "5" at the end of the name representing that these are machines...
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EA held an earnings call this week where it talked about the state of things and offered up some details on how its popular game franchises have been doing. The call was for Q4 FY2019, and the star of the call was Apex Legends. The game launched in February and single handedley turned things around for EA. Apex...
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The ink is barely dry on the announcement for Google's brand-new Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL mid-range smartphones, but a hot deal has already presented itself. Google revealed the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL priced at $399 and $479 respectively, which is already pretty reasonable pricing for these mid-range Android Pie...
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Google is making some changes in its smart home product lineup to help erase some of the confusion between Google and Nest-branded device. Going forward, its smart home products will fall under the Nest brand name, starting with the Nest Hub Max.
The Nest Hub Max is a larger extension of the 7-inch Google Home Hub...
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EA launched a game subscription service back in 2014 for the Xbox One called EA Access. PS4 players at the time felt left out, but fast-forward to 2019, and EA has now announced that PS4 gamers can get in on the EA Access service starting in July. PS4 gamers will pay the same $4.99 monthly subscription fee or an...
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After months of leaks, Google's Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL mid-range smartphone have officially been announced. As you might have guessed, there aren't any surprises given how much we've already learned about the devices so far, but we'll give a quick rundown of the all the goodies that come with each smartphone.
The...
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Where is Neo when you need him? We don't have an answer for that, but Morpheus has been making an appearance on some business PCs, just not in the manner you might think. His mug is part of a message that is delivered by a new ransomware strain called "MegaCortex," which is a misspelled reference to MetaCortex, the...
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Lenovo's line of Legion laptops and desktops are designed for gamers, but one complaint levied against last year's Legion Y730 model was the lack of more powerful graphics options. However, Lenovo was obviously listening to consumer feedback and the new Lenovo Legion Y740 we are looking at today, rights this previous...
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Microsoft has announced something interesting for Windows 10 users that could mean buyers no longer need to decide between a Windows machine and a dedicated Linux machine like Dell's new Ubuntu workstations unveiled a few days ago. Microsoft has announced that starting with Windows 10 Insider Preview builds this...
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One of the biggest conveniences of using a digital assistant is hands-free operation. Thanks to a recent Alexa app update for Windows 10, Amazon has made that ability possible on Windows 10 systems, allowing users to invoke the digital assistant whether it is running in the background or foreground. It's a 'Look Ma...
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Microsoft shocked pretty much the entire tech community when it officially announced that it would be abandoning its EdgeHTML-based Microsoft Edge browser in favor of an all-new version built on Google's Chromium engine. Microsoft has already issued Canary and Dev builds of the new Chromium-infused Edge, but it has...
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The Google I/O 2019 event is kicking off in just a few hours (at the time of this writing), or is already underway, depending on when you are reading this. Among other things, it's expected that Google will formally launch its Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL phones. There may not be many surprises, though, as there have been...
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Some customers who preordered a Galaxy Fold handset in the United States are having their orders cancelled. Amid reports of numerous display failures, including models that were sent out to reviewers, Samsung has delayed the Galaxy Fold's global roll out, and is putting some preorders in the US on hold while it...
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Apple has in the past charged iPhone 7 users to repair a microphone defect that appeared to many to be a design flaw in the phone. The charge to fix that mic defect was $300, not too far off from the cost of replacing the phone. Apple was offering users a refurbished replacement device for $329 to $349. The microphone...
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AMD has definitely been on an serious upswing in recent years thanks to its Zen CPU microarchitecture, and the company has gotten the attention from some big names in the computing industry. Now, AMD is definitely showing its computing muscle thanks to a collaboration with the Cray, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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Most people have used natural language computing in one form or another. thanks to voice assistants out there from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others. The idea is that you can interact with your device just as if you were talking to a human. The most popular of these voice assistants is Amazon's Alexa and...
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Google I/O isn't scheduled to kick off until tomorrow, but Google has announced an update for it Android Auto infotainment system ahead of schedule. Perhaps tomorrow's event is just too jam-packed full of awesomeness to include Android Auto, but for whatever the reason, there's plenty of new stuff to talk...
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Apple and other smartphone makers have been struggling with smartphone sales globally as consumers hold onto devices longer. However, Apple is of course still pressing on with new iPhone models for this year, which aren't expected to support 5G technology. A new rumor claims that the next iPhone models will have a new...
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