BlackBerry is pretty proud of its new phone, the DTEK50. But it’s less a BlackBerry phone than any BlackBerry phone that’s ever come before. That’s because it’s practically a carbon copy of a different company’s smartphone: the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4. We’d known for weeks that the two phones might share a manufacturer: according to …
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Now playing: Watch this: Major Windows 10 update coming August 2 1:38 After Friday, Windows 10 is going to cost over a hundred dollars*. So you only have one more day** to decide whether you’re getting it for free. Should you upgrade? Personally, I’m a huge fan of Windows 10. I’ve been using it non-stop on all my computers for …
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“Back to the Future Part II” got it partly right. As of 2015, the hoverboard is a real form of transportation that lets trendy kids get into trouble while effortlessly zipping along the sidewalk. There are a handful of important differences, though. These self-balancing scooters don’t actually hover like the ones in the movie. Also, they could potentially catch on …
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Now playing: Watch this: Is your PC ready for a VR video card? 2:02 It’s tough to justify spending money on a PC graphics card. I can see why: for some it’s never made sense. Why would “PC gamers” pay $400 for a single, soon-to-be-obsolete component of a gaming computer, when that money could buy an entire Xbox or PlayStation? …
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You’ve gotta hand it to AMD. The company’s latest video card, the AMD Radeon RX 480, just brought the price of high-end PC gaming and virtual reality graphics down to $200. But long-time rival Nvidia already has an answer to AMD. Nvidia on Thursday launched the GeForce GTX 1060, a $250 desktop video card (roughly £195 or AU$335) which, it …
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The new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 are the graphics cards to buy for a futureproof virtual-reality PC. Their price, performance, and some special new VR-specific rendering techniques set them ahead of the pack. But if you buy one today, you may have some trouble connecting it to an HTC Vive virtual-reality headset. Don’t get me wrong: the GTX …
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Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 are two of the best new PC graphics cards you can buy. They’re currently expensive and hard to find, but they’re so good that you might want to wait to buy a GPU, period, until they come down in price. Enlarge Image Gigabyte Here’s another potential reason to wait: you’ll be able to buy …
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Now playing: Watch this: Building a PC? 5 rookie mistakes — and how to fix them 1:10 The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are here. But your PC has to be pretty powerful to use these cutting-edge VR headsets. If your PC is lacking performance, don’t worry. We’re going to show you how to build a VR-ready PC. Update, July …
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Now playing: Watch this: Building a PC? 5 rookie mistakes — and how to fix them 1:10 The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are here. But your PC has to be pretty powerful to use these cutting-edge VR headsets. If your PC is lacking performance, don’t worry. We’re going to show you how to build a VR-ready PC. Update, July …
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BlackBerry is going all-in on Android, and perhaps with more devices than we thought. BlackBerry is currently working on three new Android phones, according to Evan Blass, a journalist with an excellent track record for phone leaks. The three new phones are codenamed Neon, Argon and Mercury, according to Blass’ source, and we will reportedly see one of the phones …
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