At this year’s CES you’ll hear plenty of talk about driverless cars, connected homes and the internet of things. (Yes, we promise IoT, perhaps the buzziest of tech trends, is more than just hackable baby monitors and $400 internet-connected juicers.) Here’s the technology that will drive all of those innovations over the next decade: 5G. …
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Step away from the charging pad. Powercast said Tuesday that it’s won FCC approval for its PowerSpot transmitter, which can deliver over-the-air charging to electronic devices two or more feet away and, in some cases, as far as 80 feet (24 meters). The idea is that charging certain devices could work a little like Wi-Fi does: The devices just have …
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We’ve reached the point that nearly every new TV has Ultra HD “4K” resolution. Cheap media streamers output 4K, and more and more movies and games are in 4K too. With the exception of broadcast TV, 4K is basically mainstream today. But already there are prototypes and rumors of 8K televisions. The new HDMI 2.1 specification supports 10K. And while …
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While it doesn’t always garner the major headlines and once-a-year buzz of new big-screen televisions, the annual CES trade show is also big for the computer industry, with dozens of new laptops, desktops, tablets and 2-in-1 hybrids announced. Brands such as Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP and others use CES to launch new products, and we sometimes even get to …
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In advance of CES 2018, LG announced its newest flagship monitors. In addition to incorporating its Nano IPS technology for the first time in its monitors — Nano IPS debuted in TVs earlier this year — they also bear the imprimatur of the just-minted VESA DisplayHDR standard. The first is its 32UK950, a 32-inch 4K UHD display with a 98-percent …
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The Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner in January, and one of the first products to slip out early is the Samsung NW700– a slimline 3.1-channel sound bar. How slim? At just two inches (53.5mm) thick, slim enough to hug the wall right under Samsung’s “no-gap wall mount” TVs like the Q7. It achieves its vanishing depth thanks to …
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For the past 19 months, my wife and I have been living with another human. He can get cranky, and he’s sometimes a picky eater. But he can also flash a smile that melts your heart. I’m talking about my toddler son, Theodore. As a tech reporter and the producer of CNET’s Status Update podcast about parenting in the modern …
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Chinese phone maker Huawei plans to begin selling smartphones through a US carrier next year, an executive for the company told the Associated Press on Monday. Richard Yu, the president of Huawei Technologies’ consumer business, told the news agency its flagship Mate 10 would be the first handset offered but declined to discuss a price or identify which carrier or …
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Samsung could unveil the Galaxy S9 in a little over two months. The phone giant is rumored to announce the company’s follow-up to the Galaxy S8 in late February at the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, according to Korean news outlet The Bell. The report posits two possible Galaxy S9 launch dates: Feb. 25, the day before the …
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Samsung and LG could both be on the hook for launching new low-cost phones at CES 2018 in January. Which phones, you ask? According to Korean news site ETnews, Samsung may unveil its new Galaxy A8 and A8+ devices, while LG is reported to announce its next K series phone. Exact dates weren’t shared, but CES will run from Jan. 9-12, which …
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