This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple‘s opening keynote Monday for WWDC 2020, its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, started with Tim Cook addressing the empty auditorium about Black Lives Matter and coronavirus before it launched into the announcement of iOS 14 and its home-screen …
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Asus‘ creative-oriented ZenBook Pro Duo wowed me back in September 2019 and I like the gaming version even more; the ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 pulls out almost all the stops for performance in a way the ZenBook doesn’t, plus tweaks the design in a few ways that make it a lot more usable and flexible. But you’ll have to pull …
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Twenty bucks (or £20) won’t buy you a nice set of 7.1 surround gaming headphones, but it can help you fake it with Razer’s THX Spatial Audio App for Windows 10. It uses the same underlying technology as Razer puts into its headsets, but generalizes it to work with all brands and types (analog, USB or Bluetooth connected) and audio …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. The big buzz right now, at least in the tech community, is that Apple may be ready to discuss shifting the brains of its Mac systems — away from CPU heavyweight Intel to under its own proprietary wing — with its developer community …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s virtual Worldwide Developer Conference starts June 22, less than two weeks away, so it’s no surprise that the rumor mill has begun churning away in anticipation of what new technologies and products the company may reveal during the event. It’s a given …
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Intel’s Lakefield processor architecture arrives Wednesday in new Core i5-L16G7 and i3-L13G4 chips that look to challenge Qualcomm’s processor platform in the pursuit of full-day battery life for Windows laptops. The new Cores come at a time when Apple is reportedly breaking away from Intel to produce computer CPUs based around its own ARM-hybrid architecture, kin of the A13 and family used …
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I’ve been a huge fan of the Ornata’s hybrid keys since I first laid fingers on it a few years ago. I love the keys on the newer SteelSeries Apex 5 as well — at least for typing. Razer’s $100 Ornata v2 follows directly in the earlier model’s footsteps with a small tweak: There are now media keys above the number …
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HP released a flock of new sub-$100 gaming accessories, including its first 2.1-channel speaker system and wireless headset for gamers, as well as a couple of mice. Joining the budget crew is a curved 24-inch gaming monitor, which isn’t quite budget-range for its feature set. Enlarge Image The HP X1000 Wireless Gaming Headset. HP The new audio products round out …
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YouTube Kids on TV, Google’s streaming channel for the young (and young at heart), arrives for Apple TV streamers Wednesday. Apple’s box joins the club of Android TVs as well as LG, Samsung and Sony smart TVs that already support the app, which serves up parentally filtered video content for kids under 12. Over the past 12 months, YouTube has …
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Razer delivers unto its largest Blade a speed upgrade across the board with the current-gen versions of components, as well as the same much-needed change to the keyboard layout that its smaller siblings, the Blade 15 and Blade 13 Stealth, received earlier this year. The Razer Blade Pro 17 gets a bump to a GeForce RTX 2080 Super option, a …
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