Now playing: Watch this: 4 ways to connect wireless headphones to any TV 2:19 So you want to watch television at night without disturbing others trying to sleep. Or maybe you prefer to block out the noise of your surroundings — like that annoying dog next door who won’t stop barking — while catching up …
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An open secret on the PC gaming world is that 4K TVs double as great PC monitors. Or potentially great, anyway. Big-screen gamers have lived with many a compromise, if only to play Overwatch or Battlefield on a 65-inch display at resolutions that living room game consoles can still only dream about. But now, thanks to the new HDMI 2.1 …
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I wouldn’t blame you for forgetting all about the Nvidia Shield Tablet, especially after Nvidia had to recall practically every single slate when they became a fire hazard two years ago. But the tablet’s successor, the Nvidia Shield Tablet K1, could be a fantastic deal at $200/£170/roughly AU$260. Particularly because the inexpensive slate can now be updated to Android 7.0 …
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Nvidia’s offering a little incentive to bump up your laptop or desktop graphics to one of its higher-end GPUs. The Prepare for Battle bundle gives anyone who buys a GeForce GTX 1080 or 1070 GPU, or a gaming rig with one, a free copy of either Ubisoft’s For Honor or Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands. For Honor is a single- …
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Software upgrades can be a beautiful thing. The original Nvidia Shield streaming and gaming box made its debut in May 2015, and at the time we gave it a middling rating of 6.9 with 2.5 stars. It was too expensive and buggy, and didn’t come close to the app selection of competitors like Roku and Amazon Fire TV. What a …
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Now playing: Watch this: The coolest TV tech of CES 2017 17:51 For the last week I’ve been staring into the future of TVs, and it’s hella bright. CES 2017 is over, and now we know all about the year’s newest, biggest sets. I saw many, many inches of screen real estate, all of it in 4K resolution and most …
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Gaming laptops were once the Rodney Dangerfield of computers — they got no respect. Many were much more expensive than comparable desktop gaming rigs, despite having worse performance and less flexibility. Worse, many were laptops in name only, with back-breakingly big bodies, and some of the worst design elements ever pulled from the adolescent sci-fi fantasy look book. Over the …
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Reviewers agree that the GeForce GTX 1080 is the fastest graphics card ever made. If you’ve got the cash, it’s the one you want for VR and PC gaming. But at a typical 10.5-inches long, you might have trouble fitting the original in a compact, living-room friendly computer. That’s what Zotac’s new mini-GeForce GTX 1080 is for. Somehow, the fine …
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Now playing: Watch this: Noted everyman Nick Offerman warms up the CNET stage… 11:59 OK, now CES has finally started. Despite how busy the show’s press days were, it’s hard to believe that the doors of the Las Vegas Convention Center opened only hours ago. As attendees swarm in, there’s still very much to see, touch and tell you about. …
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The future is artificial intelligence, and that reality is happening now — at least according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Huang, speaking Wednesday in a packed ballroom at the CES tradeshow in Las Vegas, made it clear that Nvidia’s no longer just a computer graphics chipmaker. It’s one of the companies helping us live in a truly smart world, with …
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