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Save $400 on a loaded Gigabyte Aero laptop at Amazon

The Gigabyte Aero 15 won an Editors’ Choice Award last fall on the strength of its excellent OLED display and its wealth of color-management tools. These features make the Aero 15 a winner for creative pros, but it also has a few items that will draw the attention of gamers. It features RGB keyboard lighting …

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Apple to reveal plans for using its own chips in Macs at WWDC, report says

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. In 2010, Apple surprised the tech world when it announced it built its own chip, then called the A4, to power its newly revealed iPad tablet. This year, the company might do it again, but this time to announce a shift to its homemade chips …

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Get a deal on an Asus gaming laptop at Amazon or Best Buy

The Asus ROG Zephyrus is the company’s thinnest, most compact gaming laptop. Despite its trim dimensions, which pack a 15.6-inch display into a 14-inch chassis, the ROG Zephyrus doesn’t sacrifice performance. It offers the latest silicon from AMD and Intel as well as GPUs from Nvidia’s current GeForce RTX line.  Read more: Best laptops of 2020 The RTX 2060 is …

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HP’s new Omen 15 gaming laptop promises big performance in a smaller size

On the heels of a reset of the Omen gaming brand and a new gaming desktop, HP announced a complete redesign of its 15.6-inch laptop, the Omen 15. Available to order today from Best Buy starting at $1,250 and directly from HP starting at less than $1,000, the updated design has its smallest footprint yet, but it’s filled with the …

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The 3 best gaming laptop deals right now at Best Buy

Best Buy is offering discounts on a wide variety of gaming laptops. I’ve picked out three that I think are the best deals, and each hits a different price point, from an entry-level, big-screen Acer model to a sleek, thin and high-powered Razer Blade. In between is an Asus gamer that sits in the sweet spot, delivering excellent value for your gaming …

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Tidal brings Dolby Atmos Music to Apple TV, Fire TV and Android TV streamers

Dolby says Tidal Hi-Fi subscribers can now stream Atmos Music via their compatible streaming boxes and Atmos sound systems for the first time. Dolby says the feature will roll out to devices from Thursday. Until now immersive formats have only been available on phones and devices such as the Amazon Echo Studio, so this may help with adoption of the Atmos …

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AI reconstructs Pac

If you watched 50,000 games of Pac-Man, you’d probably be pretty good at drawing out what you saw. Nvidia’s GameGAN artificial intelligence model, however, was able to recreate the classic dot-chomping game for its 40th birthday from scratch without a traditional game engine in a matter of days.  Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are made up of two competing neural networks. …

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Save up to $250 on Asus, HP and Lenovo 2

If you are in the market for a high-end, two-in-one laptop that can operate as a laptop and tablet, Best Buy currently has a pair on sale — an Asus ZenBook Flip and Lenovo Yoga C940 — that can save you $250. Both are 15-inch models better suited for laptop mode, where the large display provides plenty of screen real …

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AT&T says HBO Max and quality broadband make for a compelling combo

HBO Max will only be as good as the underlying internet connection powering the streaming video service, which launches May 27.  At least, that’s according to Jeff McElfresh, CEO of AT&T Communications. Of course, he has a perspective forged from his role as the executive in charge of the telecom giant’s broadband, wireless and subscription video services (AT&T owns WarnerMedia, …

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Nvidia’s new data center GPU packs 20 times the performance of its predecessor

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Whenever a new GPU or CPU hits the market, it boasts faster speeds, usually in the magnitude of two or three times better than before — at most. But Nvidia on Thursday blew right past those normally strong performance increases. The company’s new …

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