Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a gaggle of GPUs designed to give Nvidia a run for its money in high-end PC gaming. Sunday’s announcement of the Radeon RX Vega family marks AMD’s return to this corner of the market after several years of ceding domination to Nvidia in the most-sophisticated gaming PCs. Plenty of teases about …
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Microsoft has killed off the Windows Phone keyboard it released for Apple’s mobile operating system a year ago. Word Flow — described by Microsoft as a “blazing fast keyboard” for “one-handed typing” — has been pulled from Apple’s App Store. Microsoft is suggesting people switch to its SwiftKey Keyboard app instead. “The Word Flow experiment is now complete! We encourage …
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From the outside it appears Elon Musk leads a pretty sweet life, but what is it really like being a world-famous business magnate, engineer and inventor? In a series of tweets on Monday, Musk tweeted replies to questions by other Twitter users about his mental state, including some of the inner turmoil he struggles with. The reality is great highs, …
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The demise of once-beloved computer programs is always a source of misery for lovers of retro tech. The latest victim is the much-cherished Microsoft Paint, the canvas upon which many artistic visions have been realized over the years. The feature will be discontinued with a Windows 10 Fall Creators update, replaced by Paint 3D, but it will still be available in …
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Oh, those summer nights. What to do when you’re at a loose end? If you’re anything like Mark Zuckerberg, you butcher yourself some brisket and stick it on the smoker, then fire up a Facebook live video so the whole world can see. Facebook’s CEO spent an hour and 25 minutes broadcasting live from his back yard on Sunday evening …
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Nokia phones of the future, you could pack a stellar camera as a headline feature. Phone maker HMD on Thursday announced an exclusive partnership with imaging experts Zeiss that will see the two work together to develop cameras for upcoming Nokia phones. Frustratingly, we don’t yet know when exactly we we’ll see a high-end flagship Nokia phone, but at least …
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How fast is fast enough when it comes to internet speeds? There’s no such thing, according to EE, as it showed off its Gigabit LTE technology at Wembley Stadium in London on Wednesday. The technology, which is already available to EE Max customers in London’s Tech City and Cardiff, is faster than regular 4G, slower than 5G, but a massive …
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Google celebrated the 140th anniversary of Wimbledon on Monday with a dedicated tennis-themed Doodle Wimbledon is the world’s oldest tennis tournament and is held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in the South of England. The Grand Slam tournament was founded 140 years ago, although this is only the 131st edition of the championship. Google’s celebratory Doodle …
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LG announced an upgraded version of its flagship G6 phone on Monday. The LG G6 Plus has extra storage — 128GB up from 32GB on the standard model — plus support for high-resolution audio through the headphone jack and B&O Play headphones in the box. It’s not a major overhaul, but power users will no doubt be grateful of the …
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Is it just us, or has 2017 been a particularly stressful year so far? Here’s something that might help. Meditation app Headspace pushed out a new version on Thursday designed to help you cope with the mania of this crazy-ass year. The app has evolved from providing push-button meditation into what its founders hope will be a comprehensive guide to …
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