Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 850 platform was announced at Computex 2018, along with the news that Samsung is the latest partner to plan a device around it. Devices based on the 850 should ship in time for your holiday purchasing pleasure, according to Qualcomm. Whether you call them by their marketing moniker, “always-connected computers,” or their more …
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Intel has finally crossed the last threshold of artificial intelligence — re-creating the adorably grungy and slightly out-of-sync sounds of your high school rock band. The chipmaker pulled out all the stops at its Computex keynote in Taipei on Tuesday, with its senior vice president and GM of client computing, Gregory Bryant, unveiling brand-new eighth-gen Intel Core chips, showing off …
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AMD’s having a good year, and it knows it. After having fallen far behind rival Intel in the chip race, the underdog finally found some success earlier this year with a 2.1 percent growth in 2017. While the number might not seem like much, it’s a huge gain for the company considering how dominant Intel is. That’s thanks to its …
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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 run up to 28 hours …
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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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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Sorry, folks. After last year’s hardware-heavy WWDC, we got nothing this year. Bupkis. Not that we were expecting much after a recent Bloomberg report said WWDC 2018 would be all about software, not hardware. But it still stings a little that we have …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. We’re just days away from getting our next official glimpse of Apple’s future. The company kicks off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, June 4 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. CNET will have wall-to-wall live coverage, including a live blog and a …
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Arm, the influential designer of mobile processors, wants your Android phone to run faster — and maybe your ultralight Windows laptop, too. On Thursday, the company announced a new chip generation, the Cortex-A76, that it said will be 35 percent faster than today’s models when it arrives in 2019 phones. That’s a big jump for one year, and perhaps enough …
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Cheeps! If you were among the lucky 250 to purchase a Cheapskate Mystery Box, chances are good you’ve received it by now. (Share those pics! #CheapskateMysteryBox) But if you missed out, I’ll wager you’re wondering what was inside. Wonder no more. In the video below, I give you the Cheapskate Mystery Box unboxed! (Needless to say, if you haven’t received …
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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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