Epson’s EcoTank bottle-refillable inkjet printers have been slow to catch on in the US. That’s unsurprising given that the US seems a lot more upfront-price sensitive than some other regions, and these don’t appear when you search for “printers under $100.” Even rolling out an ad campaign featuring Shaquille O’Neal only managed to help eat a …

Nvidia has slowly been climbing out of the reputational pit it dug with the initial release of DLSS, its AI-enhanced technology for upscaling games to run on higher-resolution displays without visual or framerate compromises. And with the second generation of the technology, it will presumably fix one of the last big disappointments: The way it works on screen resolutions lower than …

The “Ultimate” version of DirectX 12, officially launched Thursday by Microsoft and Nvidia, doesn’t add much in the way of capabilities to the gaming graphics programming architecture. It mostly wraps together several specific existing programming interfaces into a single update, including: Ray tracing (DXR 1.1) for more realistic and easier-to-create reflections, shadows and illumination. Variable rate shading, which allows developers …

While we’re still waiting for the 10th-generation versions of Intel’s Core i9 mobile processors, AMD is officially introducing its flagship Ryzen 9 4900H-series processor, an eight-core competitor for the i9-9880H using AMD’s Zen 2 process architecture. It’s a 35-45-watt CPU intended for thin-ish gaming and creative laptop designs (a la the Razer Blade 15) with a discrete, low-power GPU like …

Shadow is riding the wave of cloud-gaming buzz generated by big players such as Nvidia (GeForce Now), Google (Stadia) and Microsoft (Project xCloud). It’s expanding in the US with new plans and pricing for its PC-in-the-cloud service and a forthcoming experiment with VR timed to coincide with Valve’s Half Life: Alyx. Shadow has also entered a strategic partnership with LG, because …

Manufacturers are all over the place when it comes to OLED price premiums; the price bump can range from $150 on an Alienware m15 or HP Spectre x360 to about $700 on a Dell XPS 15; that’s because an OLED display sometimes only comes on a slightly higher configuration, so you end up paying more than you otherwise would have. …

Photoshop on iPad will probably be great when it grows up, but at least it’s moved on from toddlerhood. Adobe obviously spent a long time laying the groundwork for this generation of its mobile apps, but after its official launch it still had that inevitable minimum viable product feel (a personal pet peeve). With its first major feature update since it …

Canon’s triannual update to its EOS Rebel i-series DSLR cameras has arrived with the usual mix of minimal upgrades. In this case, the EOS Rebel T8i improves on the T7i with the more recent Digic 8 image processor, which helps deliver 4K/24p video, better battery life and eye-tracking autofocus. It also gets slightly better continuous shooting speed using the more …

At its first Unpacked event for 2020 , Samsung revealed the next generation of its ultrapopular flagship Galaxy phones, the S20, S20 Plus and the relatively mammoth S20 Ultra, as well as the new Galaxy Z Flip folding phone. The event took place in the shadow of coronavirus worries around the world. As well as all the new phones, Samsung …

Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service has been available on the company’s Nvidia Shield streamer for a while, but the versions for PC, Mac and Android phones have finally left beta. Like Google Stadia, Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass for PC/Project xCloud and other cloud gaming services, GFN renders and streams supported games from its data centers to phones, PCs and Macs so you …