May, 2017

• 31 May

  Your future e

  

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• 30 May

  AMD: Hey Intel, we have lots of CPU cores too

  

  AMD’s new 16-core Ryzen Threadripper CPU is all set to take on Intel’s 18-core Core i9 in high-end desktops. Making the announcements on Wednesday in Taipei at its Computex press event, the company said the new CPUs would be shipping in summer 2017. It’s not the first time AMD’s debuted multicore chips though — earlier models like the Ryzen 7 featured up …

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• 30 May

  Nvidia channels Star Trek, shows off Project Holodeck VR

  

  Star Trek fans, rejoice. Soon you could be spending your time inside your very own holodeck — as an animated torso. Taking a brief step away from GPU spec talk, Nvidia on Tuesday showed off a live demo of its new Project Holodeck VR tech at Computex in Taiwan, Taipei. It’s a virtual world, created through HTC’s Vive headset, that …

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• 30 May

  Kogan’s Agora 8 costs just $200

  

  If you need a new phone but don’t want to shell out four digits, Kogan has your back.  The company today announced its Agora 8 — it’s similar to the Agora 6 Plus, but at AU$199 is about a hundred bucks cheaper.  For that money you’ll get a phone with a 5-inch 1,280×720-pixel display, 2GB of RAM, a quad-core processor …

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• 30 May

  Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone debuts, along with home assistant

  

  Now playing: Watch this: The Essential Phone is almost all screen 1:57 Creating Android wasn’t enough for Andy Rubin. He needed the right phone to go with it. That’s why, on Tuesday, he introduced the Essential Phone. It’s a high-end Android device that could keep alive the hopes for modular phones — an idea that failed to take off with …

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• 30 May

  Enter for your chance to win* an M3D Pro 3D printer!

  

  CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. If there’s a tech gadget I love as much as drones and Bluetooth speakers, it’s a 3D printer. Because what could be cooler …

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• 30 May

  Essential Phone specs vs. Galaxy S8, Google Pixel XL and iPhone 7 Plus

  

  Now playing: Watch this: The Essential Phone is almost all screen 1:57 Remember Andy Rubin, the creator of Android? Since leaving Google, he’s been busy creating a new company, Essential. It’s making an entirely new phone called the Essential Phone — its model name is PH-1. The Essential Phone has some slick features like being made out of titanium and …

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• 30 May

  Reddit users can now add locations to posts

  

  You now can add your location to your posts on Reddit. As first reported by Mashable, the famous forum-based site that calls itself “the front page of the internet” has just partnered with Foursquare to enable posts from its mobile app to include geotags. Users can choose to narrow down the location to a specific venue or keep it as …

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• 30 May

  Twitter switches MLB game streaming to Tuesdays

  

  Twitter’s taking its livestreaming of Major League Baseball to Tuesdays. The first matchup starts this evening and features All-Star Chris Sale of the Boston Red Sox returning to Chicago to take on his former team, the White Sox. The switch to Tuesdays from Fridays will give Twitter back-to-back nights of livestreamed baseball when a new show on Wednesdays called “The …

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• 30 May

  Google formally abandons its Nik photo

  

  Google has officially put its Nik photo-editing suite on ice. The tech giant, which last year made the popular collection of photo-editing tools free to use for Mac and Windows, quietly let users know Tuesday that it had gone as far as it plans to go with the suite. “The Nik Collection is free and compatible with Mac OS X …

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