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The Razer Blade has actually functioned as the core of Razer’s laptop lineup for several years now, however while the compact Razer Blade Stealth and high-end Blade Pro have gotten current updates in the past couple of years, the middle-of-the-road Blade has been largely excluded: the basic look has been …

Today, Micron announced that its shipping the industry’s first QLC (quad-level cell) NAND SSD, starting immediately. That’s a surprising move, for two reasons. First, for many years it wasn’t even clear if QLC NAND could ever be built. While TLC NAND first started shipping some years ago, the problems with …

Whether you’re moving from an older driver to a newer one or replacing your video card altogether, properly uninstalling your drivers is a critical component of system maintenance. In this guide, we’ll walk through using AMD’s standard utility for driver removal, as well as discussing whether or not you need …

Ossic, a high-end 3D headphone company supposedly dedicated to building cans for VR users, has formally shut down. The company has given notice that it will be unable to deliver any further headphones, cannot offer refunds, and will not be distributing any more of the 250 headsets it actually completed. …

Nearly four years ago, Intel announced a major shift in its overall silicon strategy. Instead of simply focusing on x86 cores, or even developing a line of specialized many-core accelerators like Xeon Phi, the company would also bring a Xeon CPU to market with an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) integrated …

Bitcoin might not be worth as much as it was at the beginning of the year, but miners are still operating at a phenomenal rate. A new calculation from Bitcoin analyst Alex de Vries says those mining operations are using a stupendous amount of energy. At current levels, de Vries …

A few weeks ago, at Google I/O, company CEO Sundar Pichai demoed an incredible advance in AI and voice technology. The demo involved a new AI assistant making phone calls to two businesses — a hairdresser and a restaurant — to make an appointment and book a reservation, respectively. You …

Google Chrome has won the lion’s share of the browser market with about 57 percent usage, blowing away runner-up Safari at just 14 percent. This gives Google the power to encourage change on the web just by tweaking the way Chrome works. That’s what it did over the last few …

We usually know more than the bare minimum about a phone’s hardware when carriers begin announcing they will carry it. That’s not the case with the heavily hyped Red Hydrogen One. Both ATT and Verizon have said today they will sell the mysterious phone with its holographic display. It’s going …

Ever since Intel announced its 10nm ramp would be delayed into 2019, there’ve been questions about what caused the delay and what a fourth generation of 14nm hardware might offer. At the JP Morgan 46th Annual Technology Conference, Dr. Murthy Renduchintala, group president of the Technology, Systems Architecture Client Group …