Intel has finally crossed the last threshold of artificial intelligence — re-creating the adorably grungy and slightly out-of-sync sounds of your high school rock band. The chipmaker pulled out all the stops at its Computex keynote in Taipei on Tuesday, with its senior vice president and GM of client computing, Gregory Bryant, unveiling brand-new eighth-gen …
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Apple may be the world’s biggest tech company, but it had only the second most exciting tech event on Monday. While the iPhone maker focused on sensible-but-not-sexy updates to its iOS software, Asus played its wildest cards. Chalk the excitement up to three new announcements: the VivoWatch BP, the ZenBook Pro and — oh, that’s right — a freaking two-screen …
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AMD’s having a good year, and it knows it. After having fallen far behind rival Intel in the chip race, the underdog finally found some success earlier this year with a 2.1 percent growth in 2017. While the number might not seem like much, it’s a huge gain for the company considering how dominant Intel is. That’s thanks to its …
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How big do you like your gaming monitors to be? No matter what size just popped into your head, Asus‘ new monitor is probably bigger. Announced here at Computex in Taipei on Monday, the Asus VG49V is a 49-inch, curved display. That may be average-sized in the world of TVs, but as a monitor for gaming rigs, it’s huge. With …
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In 2016, Lenovo tried something different with the Yoga Book. A flexible two-in-one laptop, it set itself apart thanks to its keyboard — or lack thereof. Its keyboard was entirely digital, and using it was kind of like using a larger version of the iPad’s onscreen keys. At Intel’s Computex 2018 press conference, we got a brief sneak peek at …
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Each year in June, just about every head in the tech world starts dutifully craning toward California to see what genius Apple will come up with next at WWDC. But this June, there’s a whole other world of tech happening outside the US. Forget WWDC, forget E3, forget Silicon Valley — if you want to see how the rest of …
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A dual-screen mobile device project from Microsoft thought to be abandoned may have been snatched up by Dell, reports Winfuture.de. The device, which resembles Microsoft’s Courier and Andromeda projects, was seen in documents by Winfuture.de and details a Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 on Arm device codenamed ‘Januss’. The site also suggests it would be the first device to use an unannounced Snapdragon …
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Think your gaming PC is beefy? Try mining cryptocurrency. Each of the 20 blue lines on this Asus H370 Mining Master motherboard is a special USB port designed specifically to connect a graphics card. That’s right: 20 graphics cards in a single computer. Not to mention three power supplies to keep them going. Because last year’s Asus crypto-mining motherboard only …
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With sunlight pouring in from a giant sliding door in a suite at Palo Alto, Calif.’s luxury Nobu hotel, Carl Pei sits on a firm grey couch. It’s early April and he has a lot on his plate. The company he helped co-found is a month away from announcing the new OnePlus 6 in London. On top of that, nearly …
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Google is integrating its Google Lens augmented reality helper into a camera app, which will unlock features like letting you grab text that you can copy and paste, and find other objects and clothing that match a style in front of you. Now playing: Watch this: Here are all the cool things Google Lens can do 2:48 Starting next week, Lens …
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