Pillars stretch up and through the screen as I play a game on the tablet sitting in my lap. It’s impossible not to think of the Nintendo 3DS. All glasses-free 3D tech makes me feel this way. The point is: Glasses-free 3D isn’t new. It’s been tried several times before, and it’s still struggling to …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. Ready for a monitor upgrade? Need more room than your laptop’s screen offers? I feel you, work-from-home warriors. While I agree that bigger is better when it comes to monitors, how much display space do you really need if you aren’t a PC gamer or …
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If you’re looking to have fun and get stuff done on the same device, a two-in-one computer — a laptop that becomes a touch-screen tablet when you flip it around — can offer the flexibility you need. Best Buy has shaved $250 off a solid two-in-one pick from HP, knocking the price down to $550 with free shipping. But it’s …
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Global PC shipments grew 4.6% to 71.6 million in the second quarter of 2021, according to new data from Gartner. That increase is a substantial drop from the 35.7% growth seen in the first quarter, due partly to the global components shortage. When the coronavirus pandemic had many students and employees self-isolating at home and tightening their budgets, companies started …
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This summer, a lot of people are going to actual places in the real world. I’ve visited one really memorable place in the virtual world: the Museum of Other Realities, an app available on SteamVR that’s hosting a joint showcase of immersive art and storytelling through July 17. The XR3 Festival, a joint production between Cannes XR, Tribeca, and the …
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Back in the 2010s, we saw computer manufacturers clambering to flatten their laptops and clinch the superlative of “thinnest and lightest.” (See: CNET’s YouTube compilation of “Every time Apple says ‘This is the thinnest and lightest MacBook ever'” spanning the past 15 years.) But as laptops have bottomed out at under half an inch, it looks like the race to …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Editor’s note, June 23: Prime Day has officially ended at Amazon, but Walmart’s sale continues throughout Wednesday. Check out the best Prime Day deals still available, and some other favorite Prime Day deals that are hanging on. Amazon Prime Day 2021 is …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Walmart has announced that its annual sales event Deals for Days will take place from June 20 to 23. Touting “Black Friday-like savings,” Walmart said Wednesday that the event will include sales across the electronics, fashion, beauty, …
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This year’s virtual Computex show — the normally mammoth trade show in Taiwan that’s gone virtual for 2021 due to the pandemic — kicked off with AMD CEO Lisa Su’s keynote address, and for once, a keynote made some real news. AMD’s long-anticipated mobile GPUs based on its RDNA 2 technology, the Radeon RX 6800M, 6700M and 6600M, debuted during her remarks. …
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On the eve of Computex, the normally mammoth trade show in Taiwan that’s gone virtual for 2021 due to the pandemic, Intel quietly rolled out a pair of faster processors for thin-and-light laptops and the 5G M.2 module for laptops, the Intel 5G Solution 5000. (Computex was canceled in 2020.) The 5G module, which went into testing in August, is intended …
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