Every January, the world gets a look into the latest tech trends at CES, where companies from around the world showcase their most audacious, exciting and groundbreaking products. In the world of TV and home entertainment, this year Samsung, Sony, LG and other manufacturers debuted everything from new TV models, to new features, and even new …
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Lots of people want a cheap, easy way to get streaming video from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu, YouTube and Apple TV Plus on their TV, and two companies make the most popular gadgets for doing just that: Roku and Amazon. In one corner is Roku, the most popular name in streaming devices. In the other corner …
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Nvidia is getting ready to abandon its acquisition of chipmaker Arm after struggling to get regulatory approval, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The company apparently told partners it doesn’t expect the $40 billion deal to close. A final decision has yet to be made, and the companies are still negotiating with regulators, the outlet noted. Japanese tech giant SoftBank agreed to sell Arm to …
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Meta, the tech giant previously known as Facebook, revealed Monday that it’s built one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, a behemoth called the Research SuperCluster, or RSC. With 6,080 graphics processing units packaged into 760 Nvidia A100 modules, it’s the fastest machine built for AI tasks, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says. That processing power is in the same league as …
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Samsung’s Galaxy S22 is just around the corner, and the company has already launched its new flagship processor that will almost certainly be inside the new phone. The Exynos 2200 will sit at the top of Samsung’s chip range and will feature a dedicated GPU, called the Xclipse 920, that’s been co-developed with gaming hardware giant AMD. The result? A …
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With most of us now well versed in the whole working remotely thing, many people are starting to realize that their family laptop from 2015 just isn’t cutting it anymore. That’s why PC sales are having their best year in a decade and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. PC-makers and retailers are taking advantage of the noise to …
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This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond. CES 2022 has come to a close, and the important news about new TVs is out of the bag. Most major TV-makers have introduced their biggest and best screens, talked up improved picture quality and dropped buzzwords like …
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Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card with 12GB of memory, a 2GB bump over the 10GB version of the RTX 3080 that came out in 2020. The upgraded 12GB RTX 3080 will be available starting today from Nvidia’s partners, though specific pricing could vary depending on board makers. Though difficult to find …
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Editors’ note: This story was originally published on Jan. 7, 2017. In 2007, Nokia was the world’s largest phone maker. Microsoft was gearing up to launch Windows Vista. And the best new products at CES included a wireless TV and an MP3 player that streamed internet radio. Then, on Jan. 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a device that …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Whether you’re looking for cool new designs, stunning new panels or speedy new tech, CES rarely disappoints for gaming monitors. CES 2022 was mostly remote for a lot of us, but that didn’t mean companies didn’t bring out the big guns …
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