At the year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, PC maker Lenovo showed off a handful of two-in-one PCs, some with new smart assistant software and game-ready graphics. The Yoga 730 is the latest laptop to add Alexa, Amazon’s smart assistant. At CES 2018, we saw Alexa announced for select ThinkPad laptops, but those were aimed …
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If last year’s Matebook X laptop was comparable to the Apple Macbook, the new Huawei Matebook X Pro is suitable competition for the Macbook Pro. Debuting at MWC 2018, the laptop is similarly slim and sleek with an all aluminum body. This new version is bigger than the Matebook X thanks to the extra selection of ports it offers. It …
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In a sound isolation room deep within Qualcomm’s testing labs in San Diego, California, six journalists snapped into blue, antistatic smocks watched a video play on an ordinary TV screen. The 5-foot-long sound bar piping out the music and dialogue, however, was anything but ordinary. Stretching 5 feet (about 1.5m) from side to side, Qualcomm’s prototype sound bar will perfect …
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I love my home-built desktop gaming PC, but I also long for the day I’ll be able to give it the boot. That’s why cloud gaming services such as Blade Shadow, launching today in California, have always intrigued me. They promise to make all my games and apps playable on any old laptop or even a phone, thanks to YouTube-like …
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I don’t have a DVR. When a New York Jets game begins on any given autumn Sunday, I’m racing to sit down and start watching. I clear my schedule. I open Twitter, and keep a sports app handy, too. I’m insufferable. It’s a routine. And being on time — to the second — matters immensely. I tried using Twitter’s live-streaming …
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Dell is offering a few Presidents Day doorbusters this week, including two notably good deals on laptops. The Dell Inspiron 15 5000 2-in-1 laptop will go on sale for $400 on Feb. 19 at 5 p.m. ET. That’s a savings of $180 for the model with a 7th-gen Intel Core i3 CPU. Then there’s the Dell XPS 13, which will …
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The promise that we’ll see the first 5G phones by 2019 has now become even more of a sure thing. Eighteen global carriers will start 5G speed trials in 2018, using a new Qualcomm modem that’s built to handle huge amounts of data at almost instantaneous speeds — at least theoretically. The list includes Verizon, AT&T and Sprint in the …
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HP’s most popular desktop workstation, the Z4, has been the province of Intel’s Xeon line of workstation CPUs. Now, in a push to reach more VR-creation pros, the company has added options for Intel’s most powerful consumer-grade processors, the Core X series, along with a commercial version of its Windows Mixed Reality headset. You’ll be able to equip it with …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A giant Silicon Valley company decides you might like to wear a computer on your head — so you can see helpful digital information floating right in front of your eyes. But this time, the company is Intel, not Google — and these smart glasses look like a regular pair of glasses, …
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Apple is set to ditch Qualcomm as a baseband chip supplier and to exclusively use Intel chips in future iPhone models, according to a report published Monday. At the moment, Apple uses a mixture of Qualcomm and Intel baseband chips, which power all the iPhone’s antenna functions. It has done so since the iPhone 7, but is set to part …
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