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AMD and Intel’s Latest Mobile CPUs Go Head to Head in Benchmark Leak AMD and Intel have exchanged a quick round of fire over the mobile market, with AMD launching its first Ryzen Mobile 4000 laptops within the past week and Intel announcing 10th Gen-H parts just yesterday. There’s a …

Intel Launches New 10th Gen Comet Lake-H Mobile CPUs Intel has launched a new suite of 10th Generation mobile CPUs in the Comet Lake family. Like other recent product launches, these chips are also based on 14nm (Ice Lake notwithstanding), but Intel has pulled out the frequency stops for this …

T-Mobile Completes Merger With Sprint, Legere Leaves CEO Position After years of rumors, failed negotiations, and CEO swaps, T-Mobile and Sprint are finally one company. With government approval, T-Mobile has completed its acquisition of Sprint and will slowly absorb the company’s network and branding to become the “New T-Mobile.” This …

Apple Buys Popular Weather App ‘Dark Sky,’ Discontinues Android Version You wouldn’t expect people to be passionate about a weather app, but Dark Sky’s user base certainly qualifies. This “hyperlocal” weather client originated on iOS, but launched on Android in 2016. Now, it’s going back to an iOS exclusive following …

Windows 10 Update Fixes VPN, Proxy Connection Internet Issues Normally, this isn’t the kind of software update that we’d dedicate an entire post to, but with millions of people attempting to work from home for the first time, fixing this kind of problem is of outsized importance. The ability to …

Mobile app spending to double by 2024, despite economic impacts of COVID-19   The spread of COVID-19 has already had a significant impact on the mobile app industry, and that will continue in the years to come. According to a revised 2020-2024 market forecast from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, …

The 3dfx Voodoo Could Ride Again, in Lego Form Lego has an Ideas website, where users can submit ideas for products that Lego will consider turning into actual collectible sets. The idea of the website is simple: Anyone can upload a Lego design, which is then voted on by the …

Sense Energy Monitor Review: Making Your Home Smarter Not everyone obsesses about their home energy use. But as rates climb and concern over the impact using electricity from the grid has on climate change, it is becoming increasingly popular to try to get a handle on what you’re using, which …

Crippled No Longer: Matlab Now Runs on AMD CPUs at Full Speed A few months ago, we covered how Mathwork’s Matlab software didn’t run workloads on AMD CPUs at full speed. These products use the Intel Math Kernel Library, which will only run fully optimized code on Intel CPUs. AMD …

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Goes on Sale April 6 for $1,000   Google has essentially owned the premium Chromebook market ever since it launched the first Chromebook Pixel way back in 2013. Now, Samsung is about to dive in with its Galaxy Chromebook, which it unveiled at CES 2020. Samsung has …