NVIDIA‘s GTX 1080 is no longer the king of the GPU mountain. That honour is now the company’s newest graphics card, the GTX 1080 Ti. Announced at a GDC press conference on Wednesday in San Francisco, the $700 1080 Ti is 35 percent more powerful than the GTX 1080, says NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. It …
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28 February
BlackBerry returns with 3 possible new phones in 2017
The BlackBerry KeyOne may soon see some siblings. TCL isn’t wasting time building up its portfolio of phones using the BlackBerry name. The company plans to release as many as three phones this year, TCL Communications Nicolas Zibell said in an interview on Saturday. The company is working on an all-touchscreen version, a spiritual successor to the DTEK 50 and …
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28 February
How you can get Verizon’s 5G broadband service
Who says 5G is all hype? Verizon, after all, is set to launch a field trial of the super-fast service in 11 markets across the US this year. It’s not full cellular service like 4G LTE, but instead a replacement for home broadband. It’s supposed to be 10 times faster than even Google Fiber, which offers internet connections as fast …
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28 February
SoundCloud launches cheaper, $5 subscriptions
Streaming-music service SoundCloud launched cheaper, $5 subscriptions Tuesday, giving people the option of paying less for most of the same features of its $10 option but without the full music catalog. The company, often called the “YouTube of audio,” first launched an all-you-can-eat music service last year for $10 a month. That transformed SoundCloud into paid subscriptions from its all-free …
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28 February
How to turn AT&T’s Stream Saver feature off
Now playing: Watch this: Jumping on AT&T’s cheaper unlimited plan? Not so fast… 2:46 Stream Saver is meant to save your data plan, limiting most video you stream using AT&T’s network to 480p, or roughly DVD quality. But unlimited data plans are now available, so who wants to watch DVD quality video? Not me. Thankfully, AT&T has an easy way …
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28 February
We compared the new Nokia 3310 to the original
Now playing: Watch this: New Nokia 3310 versus old Nokia 3310 1:38 Nokia launched a feature phone — it barely has a browser — and the internet went nuts. Part of that is because the original was such an iconic phone: simple, indestructible, easy. Now the 3310 is back and better than ever. How much better? We stumbled across an …
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28 February
You probably don’t have as many TVs as you used to
In the past six years, the average number of TVs used by US homes has moved closer to two per household than three. Plus, the percentage of homes with no TVs at all has increased. The US Energy Information Administration released results from its 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey on Tuesday. The results show the average number of televisions in …
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28 February
Now Xiaomi’s a chipmaker, too, for its very own phones
Here’s how serious Xiaomi is about its status as a phone maker: It’s now building its own phone chips. That puts it in a small but noteworthy group, along with phone titans Samsung and Apple and up-and-comer Huawei. The new Surge S1 chip, designed in-house by Xiaomi, makes its debut in the midrange Xiaomi Mi 5C, a moderately priced phone …
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27 February
Wheel by Miniot: I’ve fallen in love with this crazy minimalist turntable
Some people marry the Eiffel Tower, some even their motorbike, but has anyone ever given thought to wedding the humble turntable? Forget levitating turntables and forget Bluetooth lint brushes. Here is the “novelty” turntable I might even consider buying (if not actually commit bigamy for). The Wheel by Dutch design firm Miniot is as minimalist as a turntable could possibly …
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27 February
Google honors humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi with a doodle
Abdul Sattar Edhi’s life mission was to help others. The humanitarian and philanthropist spent his years delivering medicine and supplies to people in Pakistan and to survivors of disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, around the world. He was known as the “Angel of Mercy.” Google honored him on Monday with a Google Doodle, which depicts him as elderly man standing on …
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