If you want one clicker to control a rack full of AV gear, I recommend the excellent Harmony Smart Control for $70. If you really want to splurge on something even better, grab the Elite for $250. But maybe even that do-it-all clicker isn’t good enough for you. Maybe you want “a new kind of …
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When I reviewed the excellent Apple TV 4K, I had two major complaints: the price and the fact that it forced users to watch everything in high dynamic range. Apple didn’t lower the price (yet), but a free software update available today addresses my second concern. Now there’s a setting that lets people who care — video nerds like me, …
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It’s no secret that Black Friday deals — like Christmas decorations and pumpkin spice lattes — seem to start earlier every year. But the upside of that is that you can cash in on some good bargains without peeking at your phone during Thanksgiving dinner or waiting in freezing temperatures for the doors to open at Best Buy. To that …
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Nvidia is giving you a new reason to have a see-through side panel on your giant gaming desktop. The high-end Nvidia Titan Xp graphics card now comes in two Star Wars-themed versions — a Jedi Order GPU representing the light side and a Galactic Empire version for the dark. The Jedi GPU lights up in green, while the Empire model …
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YouTube TV, the $35-per-month live TV service aimed at cable cord cutters, launched in April. At the time I lauded its potential, but complained about the experience on an actual TV: namely, the need to stream using a Chromecast and a phone as the remote control. Competitors in the fast-moving TV streaming space launched with TV apps for Roku, Apple …
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Nvidia wants to help you afford an impressive gaming PC this holiday season. The company debuted the GeForce GTX1070 Ti on Thursday, a graphics card with high-end specs at a more affordable price than the company’s top-of-the-line 1080 cards. Calling it an “overclocked monster,” Nvidia says the 1070 Ti features 2,432 cores and 8GB of memory running at 8Gbps for …
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Intel might be an old-school computing company, but the chipmaker thinks the latest trends in artificial intelligence will keep it an important part of your high-tech life. AI technology called machine learning today is instrumental to taking good photos, translating languages, recognizing your friends on Facebook, delivering search results, screening out spam and many other chores. It usually uses an …
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Microsoft is heading into the holiday season with a new Surface computer, but it’s not what you might expect. No, this isn’t a new version of the slate-like Surface Pro two-in-one, or the slick-looking Surface Laptop. Instead it’s the other Surface hybrid, the Surface Book. This is a bigger, bulkier two-in-one with a detachable screen and a very laptop-like keyboard dock, …
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It’s been my dream for years: an ultrathin, light laptop I could carry anywhere — yet transform into a gaming powerhouse just by plugging it in. That’s the idea behind the $500, £500 or roughly AU$640 Razer Core, a black aluminum box that can add the power of a full desktop graphics card to the compatible laptop of your choice. …
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The worlds of voice assistants and streaming devices are quickly colliding. In just the past 24 hours, Amazon unveiled a new Fire TV with integration to its Alexa digital butler and the Nvidia Shield became the first TV device to get Google Assistant. For today’s episode, we invited CNET’s TV guru, David Katzmaier, to run through the details of these …
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