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Latest News - January 2014
- Pebble Smartwatch Gets Premium Upgrade With Pebble Steel Edition, Pebble App Store
- ASUS Makes Upgrading Your Monitor a Tough Choice, Rolls Out 27-inch G-SYNC Display and 28-inch 4K Panel
- Asus Announces Transformer Book Duet TD300 Convertible and VivoTab Note 8 Tablet
- Look Who's Calling: ASUS Introduces ZenFone and PadFone Mini Devices
- MSI Shows Off Radeon R9 290X Lightning, Touch-Enabled Gaming All-In-One, and New Notebooks at CES
- Seagate, LaCie Go Big On Storage Capacity With New Glut Of Storage Devices
- LG G Flex Curved Smartphone Coming To AT&T With Quad-Core Snapdragon Processor Inside
- Boxes Shmoxes: Roku's Making Smart TVs Now
- Digital Storm Gives Its Steam Machine The “Bolt” Moniker, Killer Cooling
- Toshiba Trots Out a 13.3-inch Chromebook Priced at $280 MSRP
- Xi3 Launches X7A Modular Computer and Z3RO Pro Computer, Huge Booth At CES 2014
- Philips Unveils 27-inch Full HD 1080p Gaming Monitor with G-SYNC
- VIA Partners with Mozilla to Develop Firefox OS, Offers Free APCs to Bug Fixers
- NVIDIA's CES Keynote: Denver Debuts, Tegra K1 Breaks Cover
- Catch NVIDIA's Live Stream Press Conference From CES 2014 Here
- Lenovo’s CES Includes New Tablets, Laptops, Displays, An Android Desktop, and More
- Computer Scientists Invents Game-Developing Computer AI
- Corning Boasts Gorilla Glass 3D Manufacturing Process, Design Possibilities For Wearable Tech
- Yahoo! Visitors Hit With Malware Ads
- LG Considers Waving Goodbye to Traditional PC Market
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All News for January 2014
As the wearable computing market continues to heat up, Pebble is looking to distinguish itself a bit with a premium edition of its smartwatch. While the original Pebble was somewhat sporty, bordering on cute, the Steel is designed to be a more fashionable accessory--less tech chic and more traditionally classy. The...
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Gamers interested in a monitor featuring NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology are going to have some interesting options in the coming weeks and months. One of those options is the new ASUS ROG SWIFT PG278Q, a 27-inch panel with a WQHD (2560x1440) resolution, 120+ Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, and a full range of...
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As always, we're finding ASUS to be quite the busy body at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. That's to be expected when you consider that Asus has a robust product line that covers everything from smartphones to full-fledged laptops and everything in between. In terms of mobile devices, a couple of...
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Mobile is red hot right now, and that includes the smartphone market. That doesn't figure to change this year, though it will be interesting to see if Intel can wrestle some market share away from ARM, which so far has dominated the landscape. One company that's willing to give Intel a shot is ASUS, which announced a...
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The Consumer Electronics Show hasn’t officially started just yet, but that hasn’t prevented a number of companies from showing of their wares a bit early at venues other than the Las Vegas Convention Center. We’ve already had a number of private briefings that we’ll be able to talk about soon;...
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Seagate and LaCie came to CES with armloads of new storage devices, and the first thing that jumps out at you about the whole schmeer is the impressive capacity of the lot of them. And capacity, it seems, was indeed a focus. “People around the world are in urgent need of space to store their most cherished...
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The LG G Flex is no longer a unicorn for U.S. customers. After announcing in October that the curved, flexible-display smartphone was coming to Korea, AT&T told us that the device would be available on its network sometime in Q1 2014. The LG Flex offers a 6-inch curved display (1280x720), 4G LTE connectivity, and...
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Roku has made a name for itself with its demure streaming players, but the company is evolving its product offerings from those little boxes to actual TVs. The Roku TV, like the streaming boxes, will give users access to the Roku Channel Store and its cadre of 31,000 movies and 1,200 channels, and users will be able to control it with iOS...
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The long-awaited Steam Machine consoles are rolling out, and Digital Storm fittingly placed the “Bolt” name on its version. The first Bolt, which we reviewed, was all the things we expect now from Steam Machines--compact size, excellent specs, and a cool design. The Digital Storm Bolt II is a SFF and...
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A couple of years ago, low-cost laptop announcements usually revolved around the latest netbook release. These days the attention falls squarely on Chromebooks, and the newest player to jump on the bandwagon is Toshiba. Making a splash into the category, Toshiba's first Chromebook is a 13.3-inch model with a 1366x768...
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A few years ago, you may have assumed that Xi3 was just a fad. But yet, here we are at another CES, and the company is making news once more. It came to fame by producing modular, low-cost computers that can be applied just about anywhere, from schools to small businesses to even Steam Machines. This year, Xi3 is...
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If you're in need of a new monitor for your gaming machine, you're in good shape. We've already seen a number of display announcements at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, including an interesting 27-inch panel by Philips that uses NVIDIA's G-SYNC technology to synchronize refresh rates to the PC's...
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Mozilla's efforts to flesh out and promote its Firefox OS for new mobile devices got a shot in the arm today with VIA announcing an official partnership with the browser and operating system maker. VIA says it will help support and develop Firefox OS for new device form factors, and the company's also providing...
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NVIDIA's Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at CES tonight to discuss NVIDIA's overarching gaming technology efforts, starting with a discussion of PC gaming streaming courtesy of NVIDIA's Shield. We've discussed Shield's game streaming capability before -- it's easily one of the stronger selling points for the product. According to the NVIDIA...
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Some of us have already touched-down in Las Vegas for the week, while still others are enroute. The folks from NVIDIA, however, have likely been on site most of the weekend gearing up for their big press conference that is scheduled to take place just minutes from now at 11:00PM PST, 8:00PM EST. Just what NVIDIA...
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Lenovo has already announced its new lineup of smartphones ahead of CES, and now the company is pulling back the curtain on the rest of its computing devices. The list is rather long and consists of new laptops, multimode devices, displays, and some intriguing products that include an Android desktop and a home cloud...
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Over the past few years, short game writing "jams" have become a popular way to bring developers together in a conference with a single overarching theme. These competitions are typically 24-48 hours long and involve a great deal of caffeine, frantic coding, and creative design. The 28th Ludum Dare conference from held from December 13 - 16...
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For all the talk about curved displays and other innovations that we’re supposedly going to start seeing in wearable computing any minute now (what wonders will CES hold on that front this year?), OEMs are limited by what display manufacturers can create. To that end, Corning announced a new manufacturing...
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As if Yahoo needed more bad press after the slow-boil frustration that is the new Yahoo Mail, at least one security firm found that the company’s homepage served up malicious ads to potentially millions of users, with likely thousands infected. Security firm Fox IT, which operates Security Operations Center service ProtACT reported that...
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about LG mulling whether or not it wants to completely exit the traditional PC market is the fact that LG makes computers. Indeed, the South Korean electronics maker dabbles in PCs and even recently announced plans to unveil an updated Ultra PC model (laptop), Tab-Book 2 (hybrid 2-in-1 similar to Surface),...
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Watching 6-second Vine videos on the web isn't exactly a new feature, but up until now, Vine's browser-based experience lacked some critical features. The popular Twitter-owned video sharing service addressed those shortcomings by fleshing out the web experience. Now when you log into Vine from a browser, you'll be able to do much more, such...
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New details on Intel's upcoming 14nm Xeon Phi (codenamed Knights Landing) suggests that the chip giant is targeting a huge increase in performance, throughput, and total TFLOP count with the next-gen MIC (Many Integrated Core) card. Knights Landing will be the first ground-up redesign of Intel's MIC architecture --...
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