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Asus VivoWatch SP promises ECG and blood pressure, too

Last year, the Apple Watch added an electrocardiogram (ECG) to measure heart health. This year, Samsung and Withings have, too. Asus’ new health watch that was unveiled at the IFA trade show in Berlin, the Asus Vivowatch SP, also aims to be a complete fitness companion and promises blood pressure functions, too. The VivoWatch SP has GPS, as well as …

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Laptops at IFA 2019 are all about speed

It was an odd IFA for laptops. IFA is normally a very mainstream show known for announcements like “world’s thinnest laptop.” And while there were a lot of new releases for general-purpose laptops from companies like Acer, Asus and Dell, the majority fell into the ho-hum-Comet-Lake-refresh category — existing designs incorporating Intel’s less-interesting 10th-generation CPUs.  Instead the big debuts were …

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Steam Library redesign makes it more of a personal hub

Steam’s bringing its Library design into the 21st century with a new Collections feature and more thumbnail-intensive, appealing view of your games and activity. You’ll be able to try it out starting Sept. 17 when it goes into open beta. Plus, its Steam Labs Micro Trailers experiment — an autogenerated playlist of 6-second trailers that you can browse by tag …

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AT&T No. 1, Verizon No. 2 when it comes to best US 4G network, report finds

AT&T’s 4G LTE network took some well-deserved hits earlier this year for rebranding to the arguably deceptive “5GE,” but it turns out that on the backend the wireless carrier actually did more to its network than just call it a new name.  In a report released Wednesday, mobile network evaluator Global Wireless Solutions found that AT&T was, in fact, the …

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Apple might launch a low

Apple will unveil its iPhone 11 lineup for 2019 next Tuesday, but we might already have a glimpse at what it expects to do in 2020. The Cupertino, California, company plans to add a cheaper iPhone — its first since 2016’s $399 iPhone SE — to its lineup next spring to win customers back from competitors like Huawei, Nikkei reported …

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Asus’ StudioBook One laptop closes the performance gap with desktops

Have you been waiting for a powerhouse Titan RTX-class graphics processor to make its way into a 15-inch laptop? Well, Nvidia and Asus crammed the workstation equivalent, the Quadro RTX 6000, into a relatively small space just for you. Asus’ new ProArt StudioBook One is the first laptop (ahem, mobile workstation) based on Nvidia’s Ace reference design, which puts all the …

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