So many tech items these days rely on rechargeable batteries, it’s easy to forget we still need regular old alkalines for lots of things: game controllers, drone remotes, TV remotes, kids’ toys, garage-door openers, smoke alarms and so on. Good news: For a limited time, Amazon is taking 25% off many AmazonBasics batteries when you …
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The future landscape of gaming platforms is starting to coalesce, and we’re getting a more solid vision of it from announcements made around the annual E3 gaming show. Google offered more of the details for its much-anticipated Stadia service in its pre-E3 press event — pricing, availability, speed requirements and launch games — while Microsoft gave us a glimpse of its …
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With E3 2019 fully underway in Los Angeles, everyone from Microsoft and Nintendo to EA and Ubisoft are showing off their latest gaming updates. As PC gaming continues to grow, LG has taken to the show to update its UltraGear line of monitors, with the company touting its newest editions as the world’s first one-millisecond response time IPS displays. Calling …
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A few moments on Project Scarlett stole the E3 schedule at Microsoft’s Xbox E3 press event, despite being barely more than a shot of the logo and some hyperbolic promises that it’ll be the most powerful Xbox ever. (I would hope so…) In truth, PC hardware at E3 today is already as powerful as the next Xbox or PlayStation consoles will …
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The classic Atari brand is making yet another return, this time as a retro-styled set-top box gaming console. Originally launched as a crowdfunding campaign in 2018 and raising more than $3 million, the Atari VCS console is available to preorder today from retailers Walmart and GameStop, as well as from the company website. Several models are being offered, with slightly …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. For a company with such tremendous customer loyalty, Apple attracts fans who can also zero in on a handful of features or topics they are just not down with. For some it’s the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro. For others, the butterfly …
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The Notebook 7 Force is Samsung’s newest 15.6-inch laptop, and it’s all clean lines and high performance wrapped up in a black metal chassis. The Force, which will start at $1,500 when it’s available in the US on July 26, is a traditional clamshell design — not a two-in-one like Samsung’s Notebook 9 Pro — and looks very much like …
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I’m writing these words on an iPhone as I stand in line at a McDonalds knockoff in Taiwan. I’d rather be away from my phone, but alas time is short and this article won’t write itself. I just got out of Intel’s Computex keynote and in a moment I’ll have to zip across town to another convention center. Subsequent lines …
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Next week the tech world will converge in San Francisco for WWDC, Apple’s conference on all things iOS and Mac. But for the past week in Taipei, Taiwan for Computex, we’ve gotten a glimpse into the future of Windows PCs and laptops. The big, long-term takeaway is that single-screen laptops are possibly a thing of the past — or dual-screen …
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Thanks to Nvidia’s Max-Q design graphics cards, gaming laptops have become much thinner and lighter in recent years. But “thin and light” is the opposite of how you’d describe MSI’s latest beast. Unveiled at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, the MSI GT76 Titan sacrifices portability for power. It’s a 17.3-inch laptop that can be configured with an Intel Core i9-9900K …
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