Lori Grunin

Apple WWDC 2019: iOS 13 dark mode, iPadOS, the Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR and all that Apple announced

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose on Monday and threw a lot of new stuff at us, including a Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, iOS 13 with a dark mode, MacOS Catalina, an …

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Panasonic Lumix S1H bringing full

Mimicking Sony’s prototypical pro-entry-video full-frame camera strategy, Panasonic’s following up its Lumix S1R (pro) and S1 (entry) with a video-oriented addition to its S1 full-frame mirrorless line, the Lumix S1H, slated to ship sometime between September and November. Panasonic is targeting about $4,000 for the camera (roughly £3,165 and AU$5,760), which it’s showing under glass at Cine Gear Expo. Even …

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Steelseries Apex Pro keyboard’s switches autoadjust for hard or soft touch

Sometimes you need to pound and sometimes you need a light touch. Steelseries has developed new mechanical switches that can automatically change the amount of pressure required to register a press depending upon what you’re doing, such as gaming or working, and used them in its new Apex Pro and Apex Pro TKL keyboards. Enlarge Image The keyboards have a …

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Dell and EyeSafe partner to tackle the blue light blues

As bad as excessive exposure to artificial blue-light wavelengths may be, the current mainstream fix of shifting the screen display to yellow doesn’t cut it. Even if your eyes find it restful, it can be aesthetically unpleasant to look at and can be useless if you’re streaming video, photo editing, or performing other tasks that require accurate colors. Dell’s first …

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Alienware m15, m17 thin gaming laptops get a big facelift

Alienware launched its “Legend” laptop design overhaul at CES with the monster Area-51m. At Computex 2019, the company revealed an updated generation of its thin gaming laptops sporting that same design, the Alienware m15 and m17, along with some must-have performance updates and new options. The company also announced a pair of budget headsets to keep its lone pricey model …

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Asus ZenBook Pro Duo dazzles with double 4K displays

It seems 2019 is turning into the year of the dual screen. But while companies like HP with its Omen X 2S are just coming around, Asus has already marched on to its second generation. Its new flagship ZenBook Pro Duo pairs a 15-inch 4K OLED display with a second full-width IPS touch screen above the keyboard, which Asus dubs “ScreenPad …

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Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 will bring a new level of power to thin laptops

The next time — or the first time — you go shopping for a laptop with at least an Intel Core i7 H-class processor, 16GB or more RAM, 512GB or larger SSD and an Nvidia RTX GPU, it may bear an “RTX Studio” sticker as part of a new program Nvidia announced at Computex 2019. But that high-powered laptop, such …

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Razer and Acer boost laptops with new Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000

Nvidia’s early Computex announcement of its Turing-architecture mobile Quadro GPUs, headlined by the RTX 5000, may not have its typical accompanying flurry of partner system launches. But given that these promise to be pricey systems for a niche set of creators, well, “flurry” is relative. Among the the first 17 snowflakes to fall with Nvidia’s new RTX Studio badging are …

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Fujifilm’s $10K GFX100 is the most versatile medium

Fujifilm follows up its 50-megapixel mirrorless medium-format GFX 50S and 50R models with the 102MP GFX100, both the least- and most-Fujifilm-like camera the company’s delivered in quite a while. It’s pure Fujifilm in the way that matters: X-T3-like autofocus with fast-for-its-class continuous shooting, 4K video capture, plus the desirable five-axis sensor-shift image stabilization capability that it briefly debuted in last year’s …

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Father’s Day gaming gifts for the badass dad

This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Like mom, dad’s given up a lot of life-respawning time to spawn little humans, as well as playing Fortnite with them when he’s more of a Forza Horizon 4 guy. Thank him for the sacrifices by helping him get back into his …

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