The Snapdragon 845 processor that ubiquitous mobile chip manufacturer Qualcomm announced back in December 2017 generated a bit of buzz with supervised performance tests on phones earlier this month.  Following that path, the chip manufacturer now has a reference design for standalone headsets for VR, AR and MR that are capable of better performance and higher …

Lensbaby Burnside 35 adds a new layer of effect control +10 more See all photos Lensbaby merged its classy all-metal Velvet lens body with a more versatile, 35mm-version of its Twist 60 and the result is the Burnside 35 f2.8. And it’s yummy like chocolate and peanut butter. It’s available now, though kind of on the expensive side since it’s …

HP’s most popular desktop workstation, the Z4, has been the province of Intel’s Xeon line of workstation CPUs. Now, in a push to reach more VR-creation pros, the company has added options for Intel’s most powerful consumer-grade processors, the Core X series, along with a commercial version of its Windows Mixed Reality headset. You’ll be able to equip it with …

For cloud gaming, what’s past is prologue. When OnLive launched in 2010, it was heralded as an example of “the future of gaming.” It died five years later. Fast-forward another three years, and we’re still waiting for that future. But there are signs of progress. At CES 2018, Nvidia boasted the same core capability as OnLive for its PC and …

The latest Adobe Photoshop update rolling out today delivers the Select Subject tool promised last fall, a one-click selection tool that chooses what it thinks is the subject of a photo and automatically selects it. As a way of getting you about 90 percent of the way for a subset of your images, it’s great. Of course, it’s probably going …

This week at the Bett show in London, Microsoft made its first education announcements for 2018. The highlights include a Lenovo 100e laptop starting at $190, an awesome looking Chemistry update for Minecraft: Education Edition and a 10 percent academic discount on HoloLens (still only in developer kits) through May 31, 2018. While the new durable, Celeron-based Lenovo 100e only costs …

Origin PC is all about the customization, so it’s not surprising that the new systems it showed at CES 2018 were mostly (though not entirely) about the razzle dazzle; the company adds first-rate laser etching and textured printing to its Custom Paint options. Of course, there are also some tweaks to system designs, series rejiggering and components. Now playing: Watch …

Dell debuted two basic-but-pretty displays at CES 2018, the HD 24-  and Quad HD 27-inch (S2419HM, S2719DM) Ultrathin Monitors. Skinny in all the places that count when style is your most important consideration, they’ve got thin bezels and a slim profile. They also bump up the brightness to a peak of 600 nits (typical about 400 nits), though you’ll start …

When Dell initially launched its budget and relatively low-key (for a gaming system) Inspiron Gaming Desktop, it was limited to AMD processors and maxed out at an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card. For 2018, Dell has expanded the power potential of the system with the ability to configure it with up to an 8th-generation six-core Core i7-8700 and Nvidia …

Google did us no favors when it announced Google Clips last year, reviving a not-much-loved product category that had pretty much died with the Narrative Clip. Following in Google’s footsteps comes the $199 Roader Time Machine Camera which made its debut at CES 2018. The Time Machine Camera is less creepy, for sure. It constantly buffers video, and when you …