Arm, whose chip technology reaches every smartphone and just about every corner of the computing industry, announced a new processor architecture Tuesday designed to significantly improve security and performance. The architecture, called Armv9, should make its way into an estimated 300 billion processors starting this year through the next decade, the UK company said. Armv9, …
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In case a year of nonstop Zoom hasn’t taught you everything you need to know, here’s how to make meeting calls less terrible: If you’re not the call leader, mute your microphone. No one wants to hear you munching your lunch or your dog barking in the background. Dial in a few minutes before the start time so you can …
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March’s NCAA basketball tournaments are making a big comeback after being canceled last year. That means buffalo wings, truffle fries and mini tacos are acceptable forms of food for dinner again. But watching the Elite Eight face off at a real restaurant may not be an option if you’re playing it safe or waiting for the vaccine. So how do …
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There are a lot of wireless headphones out there, and that means there’s a lot of competition for your headphone dollars. In CNET’s latest roundup of the best wireless headphones, David Carnoy assembled a veritable trophy case of awesome headphones like the Sony WH-1000XM4, Apple AirPods Max and Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. But while they’re all worthy audio gear, …
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Most portable projectors are a master class in feature compromises, image quality and disappointment. Every once in a while, though, one comes along that blows away all expectations and delivers a great image and good sound and works the way it should. That’s the Xgimi Mogo Pro, which usually sells for $549. But today only (Sunday, March 28), you can …
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Gamers are always in search of the perfect gaming mouse, which explains why there’s an enormous industry of lightweight mice, mice with lots of buttons, symmetric ambidextrous mice and customizable mice that come with spare weights for tweaking the balance. Rising above all that noise, though, is the iconic DeathAdder series of gaming mice, a clear favorite among esports gamers. …
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What are you looking for in a wireless charging pad? The product category is mature enough that you now have your pick: small and discreet, fabric-covered, even triple-coil multidevice pads for charging a whole family’s worth of phones. But what if you want a light show? Then consider RapidX’s Prismo, an RGB charging pad with nine color profiles. Right now …
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The battle over TV image quality is over, and OLED won. Yes, there are some truly outstanding LED TVs out there, but if you have the money, OLED delivers black levels, expansive contrast and off-angle viewing performance that are pretty much impossible to achieve with LED. And one of the best-reviewed OLED sets at CNET has been the LG CX, …
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You can jog on the road well traveled, but you’ll often pay full retail for it. Smartwatches like the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense are great health- and fitness-focused devices, but they’re pretty expensive. At the other end of the spectrum, CNET’s Lexy Savvides has covered the best budget smartwatches under $100. I’ve got some middle ground for …
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Streaming music service Qobuz has become the first hi-res streaming service on Sonos, allowing users users of the service to stream higher-quality music on compatible Sonos speakers. Qobuz is a competitor to Tidal and Amazon Music HD, which also provide hi-resolution files, and yet Tidal hasn’t enabled 24-bit on Sonos yet. “For many years Hi-Res audio was only available to a select …
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