We raved about the JBL Flip 5 speaker when it first came out in 2019 with a price tag of $130 but, today only, you can nab this impressive speaker for just $75 at Woot. At $55 off, the Flip 5 is available for just $5 more than the lowest we’ve ever seen it go …
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We don’t know a ton of details about Meta’s next VR headset, expected this October, but we do know it’ll feature a Qualcomm chip inside… and so will the company’s headsets for years down the road. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news during a press conference at Berlin’s IFA tech show. Qualcomm’s already made …
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The new Garmin Venu Sq 2 stands out from most other Garmin watches thanks to its square face, but it has all the same fitness tracking features as its round-faced cousins. An update to the original Venu Sq, released in 2020, this new model gets even better battery life that can last almost two weeks. It’s also got a bigger, …
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Samsung on Wednesday announced that a new gaming monitor called the Odyssey OLED G8 will become available in late 2022. With QD-OLED display tech, the Odyssey OLED G8 is Samsung’s first OLED gaming monitor. The 34-inch “ultra-slim” curved monitor has a 21:9 aspect ratio, 175Hz refresh rate and a 0.1-millisecond response time. “In addition to the rapid response time and refresh rate …
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Asus on Tuesday unveiled the ROG Swift 500Hz, the world’s first 500Hz Nvidia G-Sync display. The 24-inch gaming monitor‘s ultrafast refresh rate is designed with competitive gaming at 1080p in mind. It didn’t reveal the price or release date for ROG Swift 500Hz. “The ROG Swift 500Hz draws frames more than eight times faster than typical 60Hz displays in a …
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What’s happening At Computex 2022, AMD previews new generation of desktop PC CPUs, initially targeting gamers, and a new laptop CPU geared towards laptops costing $399-$699. Why it matters Cheaper laptops with fewer compromises are always in demand, plus the new PC CPUs promise more than just the usual generation-over-generation performance increase, as well as support for some technologies that …
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HP bolsters a fairly rote hardware refresh of its Envy and Spectre clamshell and convertible (two-in-one) laptops by extending some of its current suite of software smarts into them. The various models — 13.5- and 16-inch Spectre x360 two-in-ones, 13.3- and 15.6-inch Envy x360 two-in-ones and Envy 16- and 17.3-inch clamshells — all move up to 12th-gen Intel Core processors …
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Hisense now makes a Fire TV. Today the manufacturer announced a partnership with Amazon to produce Hisense’s first television featuring the Fire TV platform. The 50-inch, 4K LED TV has better picture quality specifications than many current Fire TVs made by Toshiba, Insignia and Amazon itself. It will include quantum dot technology and, according to the company, reach up to …
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Meta has turned off augmented reality filters for Facebook and Instagram in Texas and Illinois due to facial recognition and privacy laws in those states. Although Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said its AR technology is “not facial recognition,” it’s temporarily shutting down its AR filters and avatars in both states to prevent “meritless and distracting …
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You’ll hear Intel and laptop manufacturers refer to Intel’s latest chip as a “desktop-class” processor, but the new HX line of Intel’s 12th-gen Core i9, i7 and i5 CPUs are really just the company’s most powerful mobile CPUs to date. They share a lot of characteristics with their most recent fixed-location equivalents. They’re primarily targeted at creatives, though with unlocked …
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