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HP Omen X 2S gaming laptop sports a second screen

HP’s Omen X 2S 15 joins the Asus ZenBook Pro 15 in the second-screen club. It has a six-inch 1080p touchscreen above the keyboard. It’s there for activities that you probably use your phone for while gaming: watching a stream, chatting, listening to music or monitoring your system stats via the command center. You can also …

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HP Omen Photon wireless gaming mouse, Outpost pad promise lights, speed and Qi charging

With such a wide variety of great gaming mice already on the market, it would be easy to overlook options from the likes of HP’s Omen brand. Its upcoming wireless Photon mouse and Outpost mousepad is worth your attention, however.  The $130 Photon ambidextrous wireless gaming mouse (approximately AU$190 and £100 converted) uses optical-mechanical switches that allow for a click …

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Tribeca’s VR gave life to creepy dolls and alien pals. Here’s where they go next

This year’s mascot of Tribeca Immersive was a creepy living doll that meandered around the room projecting light in people’s eyes. At the very least, it made the prospect of leaving actual reality for a virtual one a little more appealing. With its Immersive slate the Tribeca Film Festival, which closed Sunday in New York, again brought together a selection …

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New HP 3D printer is for factories, not prototypes

You can’t print a new lung or Stradivarius violin yet, but a new HP 3D printer announced Thursday takes a big step toward making the technology more useful. The Jet Fusion 5200 is designed for high-volume manufacturing. That’s a market with more potential for profound change than the more common 3D printers used to build prototypes or, like HP’s earlier …

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Google won’t release an Oculus Quest VR competitor anytime soon

Google’s 2019 I/O developer conference has key news on how Google Search and Lens are pushing into deeper phone uses for AR. But what about VR? In a year full of new VR headsets, including Facebook’s Oculus Quest and the Valve Index, plus hardware from HP, Vive and Qualcomm on the horizon, Google’s taking a different approach: shifting VR focus to …

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Gifts for the graduating gamer

For the graduate who’s looking forward to Borderlands 3 or The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening more than a new smartwatch, feed their need for speed with a great gift to celebrate. At a loss as to what will thrill them? Here are some suggestions to get you started, no matter how little — or how much — you want …

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What the Huawei Matebook X Pro tells us about Nvidia MX250 graphics

Light, powerful or affordable: Pick two. Given the state of technology today, you can’t get all three. Nvidia’s MX line of mobile graphics processors (GPUs) is designed as a compromise between Intel’s lackluster integrated graphics and more power- and space-hungry discrete graphics like Nvidia’s GTX mobile chips to deliver on weight and power without punishing creators and gamers who need …

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Mother’s Day gifts for the Mom who’s got game

This story is part of Mother’s Day Gift Guide. CNET editors round up the hottest gadgets for Mom this year. Instead of eyeing that Apple Watch for Mother’s Day, give her something that will really get her heart pumping instead of just tracking it. She may not have as much time as she used to for gaming, but you can …

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Oculus Quest and Rift S available for preorder, both at $399, shipping May 21

Oculus ignited people’s interest in virtual reality when it announced a Kickstarter for the Rift headset in 2012, promising high quality VR for $300.  Fast-forward seven years, after a more than $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and the 2016 release of the Rift, and Oculus is preparing to launch its next-generation VR headsets.  They’re called the Oculus Quest and the …

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Best Buy’s 4

A four-day sale at Best Buy started on Wednesday and runs through Saturday. (Fine print: It ends Saturday, April 28 at 11:59 p.m. CT — that’s 9:59 p.m. PT or the wee hours on Sunday in the East.) A large swath of products are included in the sale, from TVs and tablets to laptops and hard drives. Best Buy constantly …

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