Computex is kicking off once again in Taipei, Taiwan, and CNET is on the ground, braving the humidity, ready to bring you all the big news. Unlike CES in Las Vegas, which catches the whole tech industry in its massive net, or next month’s E3, which zeroes in on gaming for three days in LA, …
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Now playing: Watch this: See Google Assistant on Android TV in action 2:09 OK Google, take over my TV. Google Assistant, the company’s voice recognition and control technology found in devices like Google Home, is coming to Android TV. That means devices that use Google big-screen operating system, namely select streaming boxes and recent Sony TVs, will soon get even …
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Now playing: Watch this: Watch and control YouTube 360 videos on the big screen 0:55 Do you like big-screen TVs? Do you like YouTube 360 video? Well, has Google got a feature upgrade for you. The company says its big-screen YouTube app will soon receive an upgrade to enable you to pan around the many 360-degree videos available on YouTube, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Acer announces a new beastly Predator 1:16 Acer’s annual global press conference was held, April 27 in New York. The recorded stream of the event is at at the top of this page, and a list of newly announced products is below. Acer makes a wide range of popular laptops, desktops, tablets and monitors, and is …
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High-end custom gaming PC makers are known for great performance, great customer support — and high prices. That’s often left PC gamers with modest budgets stuck with off-the-shelf options from big mainstream brands such as Dell, HP or Lenovo. Those familiar names make some excellent, reasonably priced gaming laptops, but sometimes you want the extra service and attention to detail …
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Bringing its top-end graphics card up to speed for 2017, Nvidia‘s updated its Titan X monster gaming GPU with a bump up in CUDA cores and increased memory bandwidth for the Titan Xp. It’s already been slipped into the line replacing the X. More cores — the Xp has 3,840 vs. the X’s 3,584 — allows for a greater number …
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Lenovo has added a new entry-level VR-ready computer to its ThinkStation line. The Lenovo ThinkStation P320 is scheduled to go on sale at the end of April, with official pricing yet to be announced. The desktop PC, which will be available as a full-size tower and in a smaller chassis, will offer Intel’s latest Xeon processors and up to Core …
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NVIDIA‘s GTX 1080 is no longer the king of the GPU mountain. That honour is now the company’s newest graphics card, the GTX 1080 Ti. Announced at a GDC press conference on Wednesday in San Francisco, the $700 1080 Ti is 35 percent more powerful than the GTX 1080, says NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. It comes with 11GB of GDDR5X …
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There’s no shortage of reasons to be paranoid in 2019, and Lenovo‘s refreshed lineup of ThinkPad business laptops, announced Sunday at MWC 2019, reflects our anxiety. Andrew Hoyle/CNET After updating its premium ThinkPad X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga business laptops at CES in January, the company has now installed some premium security features across the remainder of its ThinkPad portfolio. In addition to standard enterprise fundamentals like …
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When you unpacked your new TV or streamer for the first time, you probably couldn’t wait to start watching it. In the excitement to put it through its paces, chances are you just clicked “I agree” to all those screens of legal mumbo jumbo that came up during the setup process. Did you know one of the things you likely …
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