HP’s Pavilion Gaming Laptop is one of the best mainstream gaming laptops under $1,000, and it looks like it’s going to get a little better. Like Dell’s G series, the Pavilion Gaming line gives you a mainstream option instead of shelling out for a pricier PC from HP’s Omen gaming brand such as the new …
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The Android Q beta has given us a good glimpse of what’s coming to the next version of Google’s mobile OS. Today at its Google I/O developer conference, however, the company showed a feature that’s going away: the back button. Android Q, the 10th version of the operating system, will get an all-new gestural navigation that will rely on …
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Apple is reportedly planning to combine its Find My iPhone and Find My Friends apps into a single app while also adding personal item tracking. The app, code-named GreenTorch, will have all the features of the individual apps as well as improvements allowing users to find an iPhone even if it’s not on a Wi-Fi, said Apple news site 9to5Mac, …
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European drone maker Parrot is giving its little folding 4K camera drone a new job. The Anafi Thermal is a slightly smaller, lighter version of the Anafi it launched last June, but its single camera is replaced with a module with both a 4K camera and a Flir thermal camera that can see a temperature range of 14 to 752 …
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Acer’s pushing hard into the corporate world with its latest Chromebooks. At its Next@Acer press event in New York Thursday, the PC maker announced the new 15.6-inch Chromebook 715 and 14-inch Chromebook 714. Both feature premium all-aluminum chassis with military-grade durability to survive drops from up to 48 inches (122 cm) and downward force up to 132 pounds (60 kg). …
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Looks like Google’s Pixelbook and Pixel Slate might be getting a new coworker. At the company’s Cloud Next 2019 conference on Tuesday, Pixelbook Group Lead Product Manager Steve Jacobs discussed a device coming “down the road” for users to be “be productive on-the-go,” 9to5Google reports. The new hardware was mentioned as part of a session called “The Premium, Versatile, & Secure: Introducing …
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The Windows 10 Game bar is about to get a whole lot more useful. The Game bar overlay, launched by pressing the Windows key plus G (Win+G), lets you do things like control volume, take screenshots, record gameplay and broadcast your gaming. Earlier in the year, Microsoft asked users for ways to improve the bar and now it’s starting to …
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Within LG’s deep portfolio of appliances, TVs, soundbars and phones is its line of Gram laptops. Available in 13.3-, 14-, 15.6- and 17-inch sizes, they all have ultralight bodies for their sizes and exceedingly long battery lives (though never as long as LG claims). This year LG added its first Gram 2-in-1 to the lineup by essentially putting 360-degree hinges …
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Razer’s Deathadder Elite is one of the most popular gaming mice available and that’s in spite of its regular price of $70. And today you can pick it up on Amazon for $37.99. Incredibly accurate with imperceptible latency, the corded Deathadder Elite has mechanical switches Razer says are tested to 50 million clicks. It’s also got seven programmable buttons, customizable …
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If you’ve got GeForce GTX graphics in your desktop or laptop, Nvidia’s got an update you’re going to like. The graphics chipmaker announced Monday at GDC 2019 it will enable DirectX ray tracing (DXR) on some of its older graphics cards with its Pascal architecture via a driver expected in April. DXR is one of the major features of its …
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