Looking for a phone with a microSD card slot? You’ll want to stay away from Samsung’s new Galaxy S21 line. Having been present on earlier Galaxy S phones, Samsung is finally dropping the microSD card slot for expandable local storage on its latest devices. (Here are CNET’s Galaxy S21 review and Galaxy S21 Ultra review.) Although the move …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CES being all digital is certainly weird, but the slew of luxurious and wacky products shown on Day 1 brought with them a sense of familiarity. Day 2 kept that momentum going, although here things feel far more futuristic. Literally, a flying …
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Qualcomm is betting big on a company designing powerful but power-efficient chips for data centers — $1.4 billion big. The company on Wednesday said it has reached a deal to acquire Nuvia, a two-year-old startup run by former Apple chip executives. But Qualcomm won’t just be aiming its newly acquired technology at servers. Instead, it plans to use Nuvia CPUs …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. For years, computer makers have tried to sell PCs built on Arm processors, a power-efficient family that powers smartphones. Compared with models running on x86 chips from Intel and AMD, though, Arm-based PCs have suffered from performance and software compatibility shortcomings. …
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary this week, Newegg is running a week-long sale with a different set of deals on PCs, monitors, gaming accessories, appliances and more every day. We’ve highlighted what we think are the best offers but check back on the sale each day to see even more savings. See more Newegg coupon codes: CNET coupons Newegg Dyson V7 HEPA …
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The engineers are back in charge at Intel. After just two years in the role, Intel‘s chief executive and former chief financial officer Bob Swan will step down effective Feb. 15, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. Pat Gelsinger, a chip engineer who spent 30 years at Intel but the last eight years at software company VMware, …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Game streaming has been slowly growing in recent years with the launches of Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google’s Stadia, Microsoft’s xCloud and Amazon’s Luna. This year, however, it looks to finally be picking up more steam. At CES 2021, LG announced that some …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. IBM secured 9,130 US patents in 2020, more than any other company as measured by an annual ranking, and this year quantum computing showed up as part of Big Blue’s research effort. The company wouldn’t disclose how many of the patents …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Day 1 of the weirdest CES ever is complete. (Here’s how to follow along for Day 2.) Instead of hundreds of thousands flocking to Las Vegas to see the biggest tech of the year to come, companies like LG, Samsung and …
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Working remotely during the pandemic has breathed new life into PC sales, according to a new report from the International Data Corporation. The fourth quarter of 2020 alone saw global PC shipments reach 91.6 million units, climbing more than 26% year over year. Over the entirety of 2020, IDC reported over 13% growth in PC sales. The company said that …
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