Look out Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV streaming system is coming to more products than ever. The retail giant just dropped 15 new Fire TV-equipped gadgets on attendees at the IFA show in Berlin. Most of them are televisions destined for Europe and the UK — including the first OLED TV with Fire TV, which will …
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4 September
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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4 September
Note 10 Plus vs. iPhone XS Max: Which phone has the best camera?
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus pulls out all the stops when it comes to the camera, with five different sensors, more shooting angles and better tools for video and low light photography. On paper it seems to have the upper hand against Apple’s iPhone XS Max, which only has three cameras and none of the bells and whistles. But …
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4 September
Acer Predator Triton 500 gaming laptop joins the 300Hz display club
Well that didn’t take long. Just hours before Asus announced its Zephyrus S GX701 will be its first gaming laptop available with an amazingly fast 300Hz display, Acer slipped into its IFA 2019 press conference that the slim Predator Triton 500 will have a 300Hz 15.6-inch display of its own. A laptop display with a refresh rate that fast is …
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4 September
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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4 September
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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4 September
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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4 September
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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4 September
When, where to preorder the new Amazon Fire TV sound bar, Fire TV Cube, 65
If you’ve been waiting to get a new Fire TV, right now might be as good as time as any. Amazon on Wednesday announced a ton of new Fire TV devices, most of which are available across the globe. Amazon partnered with Chinese brand Anker for the first-ever Fire TV Edition sound bar, a faster Fire TV Cube and a …
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4 September
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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