Another season, another pair of graphics cards you won’t be able to find. This time, it’s the power couple Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti Nvidia announced at Computex 2021. The 3080 Ti will be available June 3 starting at $1,199, while the 3070 Ti ships on June 10, starting at $599. Don’t …
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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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Every spring, around the same time as Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Acer holds its Next@Acer global press conference where it unveils its latest products for PC gaming and content creation, as well as stuff for everyone else who uses a computer. This year’s livestream took place Thursday, and the company served up the usual mix of a few notable products sprinkled among a …
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At its annual storage launchapalooza, Western Digital on Wednesday announced several new products in its gaming-focused WD Black line as well as a new brand, SanDisk Professional, which will house its G Technology drives, launching with several new products. Notably, for those of us dearly missing an updated model of the Lexar Professional Workflow HR1 card-reader hub, WD gifts us with a modern …
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The Windows 10 May 2021 Update (also known as version 21H1) started rolling out to compatible devices last Tuesday, Microsoft said in a blog post. The operating system update is the latest since the October 2020 update, and includes a few new features like Windows Hello multicamera support and security fixes. (If you’re running Windows 7 ($5 at Target), you can …
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Microsoft Edge will get a speed boost with version 91 this week thanks to a feature called sleeping tabs that gives computing priority to the tabs you’re actively using while pausing others in the background. The new web browser version also will start up faster, the software giant announced at its annual Build developer conference on Tuesday. The changes will …
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The folding, dual-screen Microsoft Surface Duo promised to redefine multiscreen Android phones when it arrived nearly a year ago. It had support for Microsoft’s streaming Game Pass Ultimate games in beta mode then, but that didn’t help it feel like an especially game-ready device. That may change now that a new update has added touch-based controls on the second screen …
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Quantum computers, if they mature enough, will be able to crack much of today’s encryption. That’ll lay bare private communications, company data and military secrets. Today’s quantum computers are too rudimentary to do so. But data surreptitiously gathered now could still be sensitive when more powerful quantum computers come online in a few years. The computing industry is well aware of …
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As the Windows 10 May 2021 update rolls out to devices, it’s a good time to secure your Windows 10 machine. Whether you have a new device or one you’ve recently upgraded (you can still download Windows 10 for free, by the way, now that support for Windows 7 has ended), making sure you’re system is fully protected doesn’t have to …
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