More battery life. We all want it, but batteries aren’t improving, at least not quickly enough. So companies have to find battery savings elsewhere. But when it comes to laptops, chipmaker Intel may have just found a veritable jackpot. According to the company, Intel’s new Low Power Display Technology will let a standard lightweight laptop …
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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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Nvidia just announced a chip that crams $10,000 worth of power into a tiny box. But it’s not for your laptop. The chip, Jetson Xavier, is for robots. “This little computer is going to be the brain of future robots,” company co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced at Nvidia’s Monday press conference at Computex in Taiwan. “Robots that drive, that …
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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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Just last week, Acer announced a bunch of new gaming PCs and accessories, but it apparently held back something for Computex 2018, which kicked off in Taipei today. The company’s new 17.3-inch Predator Helios 500 gaming notebook and Predator Orion 5000 and Nitro 50 desktops will be available with AMD Ryzen 7 processors as well as options for AMD Radeon …
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If I told you a great way to keep your flaming hot PC components cool is to dunk them into a mysterious liquid you’d probably think I’m crazy. I’m not. Allied Control’s Immersion Cooling demo at Computex Thursday was certainly cool. The company squeezed 10 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards, stripped of their cooling fans, as well as two Intel …
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The toy train chugged endlessly along the Wi-Charge booth… until I put my hand over it to block the laser that was transmitting power to it. It’s certainly impressive tech, especially considering it’s the only thing being demoed at the booth. It was surrounded by signs stating clearly that there were no batteries powering the toy train. It’s not the …
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Now playing: Watch this: Your bladder’s the limit with this virtual pet water… 0:53 If you’ve played endless negotiation games with your kids to try to get them to drink water, you could soon get a new weapon in your arsenal: the Gululu water bottle. The bottle has a built-in screen on the side that houses a little animated creature. …
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The sun’s going down on the last incredibly humid day of Computex 2017 in Taipei. As I’m preparing to fly home, back to Sydney in glorious winter, I’m thinking about the past week. The phenomenally slim laptops I saw, the visionary keynotes I listened to, the obscene gaming rigs that were tempting me to start my Season 5 placement matches …
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In Win’s Winbot looks like it dropped out of a giant gachapon vending machine. But while a gachapon machine dispenses plastic bubbles filled with toys, this one’s got a powerful PC inside. Inside, the Winbot is no slouch. It comes loaded with an Intel Core i7 processor, an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card and a 1,250W power supply from …
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