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Apple’s iPad Air tablets will get a major performance boost with the company’s new A14 Bionic processor, a chip that likely previews what’s to come with Apple’s upcoming Macs. Compared with last year’s midrange iPad Air models, the new tablets are 40% faster at ordinary processing tasks and 30% faster at graphics, Apple said at …

The spotted cow boxes are back. If you’re old enough to have once had an AOL account, a Blockbuster card or a Nintendo Game Boy, then you may recall Gateway’s line of computers that shipped in black-and-white cow-print boxes. Founded in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1985, Gateway enjoyed a successful run in the 1990s selling low-cost computers direct to consumers. …

Qubits, the fundamental data storage and processing elements in a quantum computer, are essential to making these revolutionary machines practical. Now IBM plans to pack a whole lot more into models coming this decade. Big Blue plans for its Condor quantum processor, coming in 2023, to have 1,121 qubits, an enormous increase over the 27 and 53 qubits, respectively, in …

Nvidia announced its new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000-series graphics cards earlier in September that promise to be better, faster, stronger than its current stable of RTX 2000-series GPUs. The new cards and gaming PCs with the new cards won’t begin rolling out until later this fall, which means you’ll need to exercise patience if you’re looking to upgrade your current …

What’s old is new again. In an era of remakes, reboots and the return of retro tech, PC brand Gateway is also making a comeback. The company said Wednesday that it’s returning with a new line of laptops and tablets exclusively at Walmart.  The products range from mainstream laptops to two-in-ones to the Ultra Slim series. The laptops are powered …

Apple has set the date for its next event. The company’s latest devices — which will likely include the sixth-generation Apple Watch and a new iPad — will be unveiled on Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. PT. Like Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the event will be held entirely online amid continued concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Apple’s event will be streamed via …

The Labor Day laptop deals are going fast. But if you’re on the hunt for a new laptop this fall, whether for work or college, it’s still possible to find great price cuts on Best Buy, Amazon and NewEgg. And since your three-day weekend plans likely involve activities that are more entertaining than shopping for a new laptop, I’ve done the legwork for …

The coronavirus pandemic might mean that the IFA 2020 tech show, usually held in Berlin every year, is mostly being held as a series of online events, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t as many neat new gadgets being launched. I’ve swapped a German beer for a strong coffee and a creaky press conference bench for my lumbar-supporting office chair …

We knew Intel’s Tiger Lake laptop chips were going to be better than last year’s Ice Lake models. Now we know how much better. At a launch event Wednesday for the chips, formally called the 11th generation Core processors, Intel showed speedups that indicate it’s got some of its mojo back after years of sluggish progress. For productivity chores like …

The future generation of PC chips from Qualcomm is here — and Acer and HP will soon sell products using the technology as Apple gears up for similar computers of its own.  Qualcomm on Thursday at the IFA electronics show in Berlin unveiled the second generation of its 8cx processor for Microsoft Windows laptops and 2-in-1 devices. The company says …