Living With the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon If you’re on the road a lot – or were on the road a lot – and you’ve got to do business work that can’t be handled with a smartphone or tablet, you may want to invest in a seriously good, seriously compact notebook …
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MediaTek Now Provides Mobile Benchmark Cheating as a Service Cheating in benchmarks is a problem that rears its head in a lot of different contexts in the PC and mobile industries, but up until now, the cheating has typically been limited to OEM implementations of a different company’s SoC. MediaTek, …
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Maingear Will Build Ventilators for the Fight Against COVID-19 The boutique PC manufacturer Maingear has announced that it has retrofitted its factories to build ventilators rather than high-end PCs. The newly announced Maingear LIV is intended to be produced at scale at roughly a quarter of the cost of an …
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How to Stay Fit at Home With Your VR Rig As stay-at-home orders tighten in many parts of the US and around the world, it’s increasingly challenging for many of us to continue our fitness regimes. For the most part, all multi-player sports have been stopped — especially those involving …
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Five Months Later, Google Adds Eye Detection to Pixel 4 Face Unlock Google launched the Pixel 4 and 4 XL about five months ago with big changes to Android biometrics. Gone were the tried-and-true fingerprint sensors, replaced by an array of infrared face unlock sensors similar to the iPhone. Shortly …
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Nvidia Joins War Against COVID-19 With AI, GPU Supercomputing It’s genuinely not clear to me whether bringing exaflops of processing power to bear on a single virus can yield material improvements in killing it, but we seem increasingly likely to find out the answer as time goes by. Folding@Home usage …
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Quibi gains 300K launch day downloads, hits No. 3 on App Store Quibi, the oddly-named mobile streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, was downloaded over 300,000 times on launch day, according to preliminary data from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower. That’s only 7.5% of the approximately 4 million installs …
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Why TFLOPS Are Bad for Comparing PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X Performance With the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 both coming to market at some point between now and the heat death of the universe, it’s a decent moment to revisit the strengths and weaknesses of using TFLOPS to …
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Microsoft Edge Surpasses Firefox Usage Share Microsoft launched its Edge browser alongside Windows 10 almost five years ago, but it never gained traction in its original form. That’s why Microsoft took the unexpected step of redesigning Edge from the ground up with a Chromium base. It looks like that gamble …
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Apple Store Confirms New iPhone SE Branding, Launch Reportedly Imminent The rumors of an imminent launch of a new, updated (budget) iPhone have reached a fever pitch, with 9to5Mac implying the device might be announced as soon as today. The article was written yesterday, but Apple hasn’t announced anything yet …
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