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Samsung posts steep drop in Q3 profit on weak chip demand

Samsung was hit hard in its third quarter by the slowdown in tech. The company on Wednesday reported a steep drop in operating profit amid ongoing weakness in the chip industry. But the company’s bottom line was buoyed by stronger smartphone sales. The South Korean electronics giant reported its third-quarter operating profit for the three-month …

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Samsung Galaxy Book Flex and Ion laptops first with QLED displays, wireless charging touchpads

Samsung’s done with 2019 — at least as far as its laptop lineup is concerned. While we’re still waiting on the Qualcomm-powered Galaxy Book S to arrive (Samsung says it’s coming soon), the company announced its first two laptops coming in 2020: the two-in-one Galaxy Book Flex and clamshell Galaxy Book Ion.  Both available in 13.3-inch and 15.6-inch sizes, the …

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MacBook Pro 16

Update, Nov. 13, 2019: Apple has introduced a new 16-inch MacBook Pro with a larger screen and improved keyboard. It completely replaces the previous 15-inch model.  It was back in February that we first heard rumors about a bigger-than-usual MacBook Pro in Apple’s pipeline. Analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, who has been out in front of many of the company’s announcements over …

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Google Pixelbook Go review: Chromebooks are great, but you don’t need this one

Is a Chromebook a laptop? Is it a budget machine? Is it something you’d just use online? Is it something you’d make your main computer? I can’t entirely answer all these questions, because I haven’t come to terms with them either. I’ve used Chromebooks for years. My kid lives on them at school. I had to work on a Chromebook, …

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Google’s quantum supremacy only a first taste of a computing revolution

Google’s success at achieving quantum supremacy sounds like a momentous victory. But really, it’s just the first step in making this radical new type of computing useful. On Wednesday, Google published a scientific paper in the journal Nature detailing how its quantum computer vastly outpaced a conventional machine, an idea called quantum supremacy. Powered by a Google-designed quantum processor called …

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The Surface Pro 7 is a welcome visit from a familiar friend

Getting to know the Surface Pro 7 is like visiting an old friend. Usually around this time of year there’s a new collection of computer hardware from Microsoft, and whatever is new ends up being in my PC rotation throughout the rest of the year. In 2019, the same seems to be holding true so far, but there are a …

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Google quantum computer leaves old

A Google quantum computer has far outpaced ordinary computing technology, an achievement called quantum supremacy that’s an important milestone for a revolutionary way of processing data. Google disclosed the results in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The achievement came after more than a decade of work at Google, including the use of its own quantum computing chip, called Sycamore. “Our machine performed …

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Convertible closeout: Best Buy slashes prices on the Surface Pro 6

Microsoft rolled out new Surface Pro tablets at its annual Surface hardware event in New York earlier this month. Apart from the addition of a USB-C port and updated processors, the new Surface Pro 7 models are very similar to last year’s Surface Pro 6. In fact, they look nearly identical and share the same 12.3-inch display.  The biggest difference between …

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 vs. Apple MacBook Air: 13

Microsoft’s recent Surface Laptop 3 updates to its Surface Laptop line fall into two camps. The 13-inch model, an upgrade to the Surface Laptop 2, offers the bare minimum of enhancements (or less) it needs to compete in the crowded field of lightweights with prices in the $1,000-or-so range. It gets a bump to the 10th-gen Intel processor with the …

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Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition is ready for your video editing on the go

Razer was one of Nvidia’s announcement partners for the Quadro RTX 5000 mobile graphics processor and Nvidia Studio marketing push back in May, and while we’ve known what the configurations would be for the Razer Blade Studio Editions, price and availability were elusive. At least part of the mystery has been solved: The Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition, based on …

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