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Latest News - July 2019
- Apple's Evolutionary iPhone 11 Refresh To Bring New Taptic Engine, Wide-Angle Smart Frame Cam
- Fortnite's Decline Is Reportedly Hitting Microsoft's Gaming Business The Hardest
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Tipped To Rock Snapdragon 855+, 256GB, 4300 mAh Battery
- AMD Flute Zen 2 Ryzen SoC Leaks Online And Could Be Bound For Project Scarlett
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Review: More Bang For The Buck
- DRAM Prices Could Plummet 40 Percent In 2019 On Erroneous Semiconductor Forecasts And A Perfect Storm
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare Gunsmith Weapon Customization Teased On Video
- Apple Releases iOS 12.4 For iPhone And iPad With Direct Data Migration Tool
- Is Fortnite's Loot Lake Mystery Orb Destabilizing Towards An Apocalyptic Map-Changing Event?
- Redmi Shows Off Pixelicious Photo Sample Of World's First 64MP Smartphone Camera
- Origin PC Gives Us A 'Big O' With Its Badass Hybrid PC, Xbox One, PS4 And Switch Gaming Tower
- Equifax Makes Off Relatively Easy With FTC's Weaksauce Fine For Epic Data Fumble
- Microsoft Makes $1 Billion OpenAI Investment As It Sips From Artificial General Intelligence Holy Grail
- Google Pixel 4's Massive Top Display Bezel May Hide Impressive Sensor Array
- Apple's 2020 iPhone Rumored To Adopt 120Hz ProMotion Display
- Tinder Reaches Around Google, Stiffs App Store Payment System
- ASUS ROG Phone II Revealed: Snapdragon 855+ 120Hz OLED 6000 mAh Flagship Killer
- Western Digital 1TB Gaming Drive Accelerated SSD Levels Up Xbox One Storage
- Google Fast Pair Tech Now Details Individual Earbud Battery Life In Android, Here Are Compatible Devices
- Xiaomi Black Shark 2 And Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus Performance Dominates In Benchmark Leak
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All News for July 2019
If you were expecting a revolutionary design update for the 2019 family of iPhones, you're going to be woefully disappointed. As widely expected, this year's iPhone refresh will look much like the 2018 iPhones, which looked nearly identical to the 2017 iPhone X.
The iPhone 11 family -- as it's being called for now...
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Microsoft capped off its record fiscal year with $33.7 billion in revenue during its most recent quarter, to go along with operating income of $12.4 billion and a profit of $13.2 billion. Not too shabby. However, gaming revenue took a hit, and there is speculation that Fortnite, one of the most popular games on the...
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We are roughly two weeks away from the big unveil of Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 family, and like clockwork, additional details on the smartphones are starting to rise to the surface. The latest bit of information comes from ever-reliable gadget leaker Evan Blass.
According to Blass' latest report, the Galaxy Note 10...
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Well, this is interesting—benchmark results for a mysterious AMD "Flute" chip have popped up online, leading some people to speculate that it is an early sample of the custom system-on-chip (SoC) that will find its way into Microsoft's upcoming Project Scarlett console. We cannot say for sure if that it is what it...
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The final member of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Super-series officially arrives today, the GeForce RTX 2080 Super. In case you missed it, a couple of weeks back, NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super, to preemptively zing AMD in the lead-up to the Radeon RX 5700 series launch. The GeForce RTX...
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If you're a semiconductor manufacturer pumping out DRAM and NAND for today's hordes of electronic devices, you might be sitting in a corner crying right now. But for us enthusiasts that need to purchase DDR4 modules and PCIe NVMe SSDs for our gaming rigs, the closing months of 2019 might be a prime opportunity to make...
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Back in May, Activision unveiled the reboot of the classic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare shooter complete with ray tracing-enabled graphics. Since then it has announced the new Modern Warfare 4K gunfight mode. Activision is now teasing another new feature for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare courtesy of a new gunsmith...
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Apple has announced the availability of the latest iOS update for iPhones and iPads, and it is dubbed iOS 12.4. While this is a "lowly" point release, it does introduce a rather significant feature for anyone that has labored through the process of transferring data from an old iPhone to a new iPhone.
The new...
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This weekend was the Fortnite Season 9 finale with the giant robot facing off against the monster dubbed Cattus. The fight was by all accounts an epic battle, and the end result was that the robot, dubbed Doggus, defeated Cattus. The expectation from most was that the battle would destroy a lot of the familiar...
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We all have that one friend or family member who absolutely hates having their picture taken. The litany of excuses range from their hair being messed up or makeup smudged, to wearing the wrong outfit or bad lighting, and everything in between. Well, they are going to despite an upcoming handset by Redmi, which...
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Origin PC has finally unleashed the successor to its original "Big O" gaming machine that debuted way back in 2010. While the original Big O combined a high-end gaming PC with the internals of an Xbox 360 gaming console, the new 2019 edition of the Big O is a much more ambitious design and was built to celebrate...
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The day of reckoning has come for Equifax for a massive data breach two years ago, but for consumers hoping for more than a slap on a wrist, prepare yourself for disappointed. Equifax's penalty for failing to secure private information belonging to around 147 million Americans is a fine totaling at least $575 million...
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OpenAI has been given a big vote of confidence from Microsoft, which today announced a massive investment into the company. OpenAI is a research lab that counts Elon Musk as a co-founder and has a mission to "ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."
Microsoft has agreed to invest $1...
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Smartphone rumors are coming in hot and heavy as of late. Earlier today, we reported on an Apple rumor suggesting that the company's 2020 model iPhone might wield a switchable 60Hz/120Hz display (similar to gaming phones, like the ASUS ROG Phone II), and now there is talk of Google's upcoming Pixel 4 devices utilizing...
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It is never too early for rumors of the next iPhone iteration, right? So it goes in the land of smartphones—leaks, rumors, and speculation constantly abound. As it pertains to Apple's bread and butter device, there is talk of a 2020 model iPhone getting a display upgrade with a refresh rate than can be switched from...
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Many app makers are growing tired of paying the relatively high fees that the Apple App Store and Google Play are demanding. Google Play and the Apple App Store each take 30% of the revenue an app generates, leaving many developers looking for ways to maximize their revenue. Some have moved to take payments directly...
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After a week of teasing and a few leaks, ASUS is getting officially official with its ROG Phone II gaming phone. As ASUS confirmed last week, the ROG Phone II is powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 855 Plus, which a binned version of the existing Snapdragon 855 with higher CPU and GPU clocks.
The Snapdragon 855...
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Your Xbox One may not be easily portable, but that does not mean your games can’t be. Western Digital just announces its Gaming Drive Accelerated SSD for the Xbox One. The portable SSD allows players to store more games and load them more quickly.
The Western Digital (WD) Gaming Drive Accelerated SSD is available...
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Google's Fast Pair technology has been updated with an interesting new feature that users of connected Bluetooth devices will find useful. There are also a bunch of new products that are compatible with Fast Pair technology. Google is talking up some of the upcoming experiences for Fast Pair aimed at improving...
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We've already heard about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus SoC that is aimed at high-end gaming smartphones. We also know that the ASUS ROG Phone II will sport that high-end chipset and have seen that smartphone in a leak. One thing that has been unknown is what levels of performance the SoC will provide to gamers...
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Wow, talk about a battle for the ages! No, we are not talking about the events taking place at The Open Championship, or 40-year-old boxing legend Manny Pacquiao delivering 30-year-old Keith Thurman his first defeat to claim the WBA Super welterweight title. All exciting stuff for sure, but Fortnite's Season 9 'The...
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Microsoft is giving its popular Windows Defender antivirus utility a name change, and it is reflective of the company's increasingly important (and lucrative) decision to branch into cross-platform endeavors. Windows Defender will now be called Microsoft Defender, while Windows Defender Exploit Guard is now called...
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