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Latest News - January 2019
- Google Assistant Installed Base Is Reportedly 10x Larger Than Amazon Alexa
- Here's A Roundup Elite Gaming Notebooks With NVIDIA GeForce RTX Mobile GPUs
- T-Mobile, Intel And Ericsson Demonstrate World's First 600MHz 5G Call
- Linksys Delivers AC2200 Max Stream High-End Mesh Wi-Fi Router For Your Ultra-Connected Home
- Samsung Unveils Dazzling 75-inch Micro LED 4K Modular 'Wall TV' At CES 2019
- Garmin's New Vivoactive 3 Smartwatch Adds LTE Connectivity For Streaming Music
- ASUS Outs Fleet Of High Performance Gaming Hardware And Peripherals At CES 2019
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Review: Reasonably Priced Ray Tracing
- Razer Raptor 144Hz FreeSync WQHD Gaming Monitor Has Stunning 2.3mm Thin Bezels
- NVIDIA Unveils GeForce RTX 2060, Support For Adaptive Sync At CES 2019
- Acer Unwraps Predator Triton Gaming Laptops With NVIDIA GeForce RTX Mobile GPUs
- Alienware m15 and m17 Gaming Laptops To Rock Powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX Mobile GPUs
- ASUS ROG Mothership Gaming Laptop Beams To Earth With 17-inch IPS Display And GeForce RTX 2080
- ASUS Zephyrus S GX701 Laptop Rocks 17-inch 144Hz G-Sync Panel And Beastly RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU
- Overwatch Contender Player 'Ellie' Revealed As Imposter In Controversial 'Social Experiment'
- Matrix PowerWatch 2 Uses Only Solar And Your Body Heat To Recharge
- Windows 10 Home May Finally Allow Users To Pause Updates
- HP's Omen X Emperium Is The First Of NVIDIA's Massive 65-inch 4K 144Hz HDR Gaming Displays
- Acer Debuts First Chromebook With AMD APU And Radeon Graphics Alongside Swift 7 Ultraportable
- ASUS Launches TUF Gaming FX505DY And FX705DY eSports Laptops With Ryzen APUs
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All News for January 2019
We’ll see your 100 million assistant devices and raise you 1 billion. Google announced that it expects to sell one billion Google Assistant devices by the end of the month. The company's boast is in response to Amazon’s announcement that they had sold 100 million Alexa devices.
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We've already covered a number of new laptops that are packing NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX mobile GPUs, which brings real-time ray tracing to the gaming laptop sector. The new GPUs are available in three SKUs: RTX 2060, RTX 2070 and RTX 2080. At this time, there is no mobile counterpart to the RTX 2080 Ti.
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T-Mobile says "the world is on the verge of a 5G revolution," and to prove it, the company teamed up with Intel and Ericsson to make the world's first 5G data call and video call on 600Mhz, both on a live commercial network. In doing so, the trio of tech companies provided a glimpse of future communication.
The 5G...
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Belkin has announced a barrage of connected products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), not the least of which is its new Linksys MR8300 mesh Wi-Fi router. Before we get to the actual router, though, let's talk a bit about the Belkin and Linksys brands, and where things currently stand (it can be a little...
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At last year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Samsung introduced The Wall, a fantastically large 146-inch micro LED display. Now a year later, Samsung is upping the ante with an even bigger 219-inch model, as well as a more pedestrian 75-inch micro LED display that could actually find its way into...
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Garmin on Monday announced the Vivoactive 3 Music with Verizon, its first smartwatch with both GPS and 4G LTE connectivity baked into it. As with other smartwatches with 4G LTE connectivity, users can leave their smartphones behind when going on a walk or jog, and still receive text messages on their wrist. The same...
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ASUS is on hand at CES 2019, and it has unveiled a slew of new gaming gear that runs the gamut from keyboards to all-in-one CPU coolers, GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards, and routers. ASUS has three new GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards including the ROG Strix RTX 2060, ASUS Dual RTX 2060, and Turbo RTX 2060.
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GeForce RTX 2060 rumors began circulating soon after the launch of the initial batch of cards. Some of the news suggested that NVIDIA would do away with the RT and Tensor cores in the more mainstream-targeted RTX 2060, and omit support for real-time Ray Tracing and DLSS as a result. Well, as it turns out, those rumors...
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Razer has announced a new gaming monitor at CES 2019 called the Razer Raptor. This is a concept design that Razer says it is an early-design-phase model, but it promises that production units will be available later this year. The Raptor promises ultra-wide viewing angles with custom-calibrated WQHD (2560 x 1440)...
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As has been the tradition for the last few years, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang got on stage in Las Vegas to host the company’s annual pre-CES keynote. Though Jensen’s last few CES keynotes have featured a myriad of AI, Deep Learning, and autonomous vehicle related news, this year’s keynote focused almost solely on gaming...
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Acer announced that its upcoming Predator Triton 500 and Predator Triton 900 gaming laptops will come equipped with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX graphics processors. In addition to the high-end hardware, these systems both have special features that help them to stand out from the competition.
We got our first look at the...
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Today is NVIDIA GeForce RTX Mobility day, which means that a number of announcements will be coming down in the coming hours regarding the new mobile-centric gaming GPUs. The latest company to announce new products based around the new family of GPUs is Dell, which is pushing both the Alienware m15 (our full review)...
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Well, this is definitely a break from the norm. ASUS has just announced its new Republic of Gamers (ROG) Mothership, which is a desktop-replacement gaming notebook that manages to pack quite a bit of hardware into a truly unique form-factor. At first glance, the ROG Mothership looks somewhat like an all-in-one...
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ASUS's Republic of Gamers (ROG) Zephyrus family of gaming notebooks is getting another update today in the form of the ROG Zephyrus S (GX701). This machine one-ups the 15-inch Zephyrus S (GX531) with a 17.3-inch 144Hz G-SYNC panel.
But the biggest news with the Zephyrus S relates to the GPU that it uses. While its...
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The Overwatch community has been shaken by a controversial “social experiment”. “Ellie”, the first female North American Overwatch Contenders player, was actually an imposter. Both Blizzard and Overwatch Contenders team Second Wind have confirmed the sad truth.
Overwatch Contenders is a tournament for potential pro...
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Smartwatches are finally starting to gain some traction in the marketplace, but one of their biggest downsides compared to their more traditional counterparts is battery life. Devices like the Apple Watch Series 4 can last at most 2 days before a recharge is needed, while Samsung's Galaxy Watch will give up after...
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Back in the old days, Windows users simply allowed the operating system to update as needed at times when the PC wasn't in use (to avoid obvious conflicts with your workflow). That certainly hasn't been the case of late with Microsoft's Windows 10 updates bringing a slew of bugs and issues for users to contend with.
PC users on Windows
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Remember those NVIDIA Big Format Gaming Display (BFGD) 4K HDR behemoths that were first announced back at CES 2018? While NVIDIA and its partners hoped to get products out the door sometime in 2018, the initiative was officially delayed in late August,with NVIDIA saying that products would begin shipping in...
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In an attempt to get the jump on the competition, Acer today announced two new lightweight consumer oriented laptops. The more interesting of these two systems is Acer's new Chromebook 315, which the company said is the first to feature an A-Series AMD processor with Radeon graphics.
Acer's Chromebook 315 will be...
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ASUS is adding a pair of new TUF Gaming models to its extensive laptop line. The new models include the 15.6-inch FX505DY and 17.3-inch FX705DY, both powered by AMD's Ryzen 5 3550H processor with Vega graphics, and up to 32GB of RAM.
Never heard of the Ryzen 5 3550H? That's because until now, it did not exist. The...
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AMD announced that its second-gen Ryzen 3000 mobile processors are ready to take on Intel in 2019. These new processors build on the success of the company's first-generation Ryzen Mobile CPUs by extending the product stack and pushing the performance envelope a little further.
The bulk of AMD's mobile Ryzen 3000...
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For many years, tech geeks have descended on Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show or CES as it's more popularly known. Each year we know that Android device makers will be at CES in droves, but the one company that has traditionally eschewed CES each year is Apple. It's a strange decision for one of the...
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