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on (#V8NN)
I had an odd, futuristic dream the other day. I waved my keychain at my door and it opened smoothly. Walked into the living room and the lights switched themselves on, their hue warming to match the early evening sunlight. The room was already at my preferred temperature of 75° F, thanks to my learning thermostat.My phone then turned on my TV , which wasn't even in standby—the power outlet only provides juice when it's needed . Walked back to the clothesbin to drop in my gym clothes and noticed that ...Read more...
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The announcement of the Lumia 950 and 950XL back in October marked both the release of Windows 10 for phones and Microsoft's return to the high-end smartphone scene. The company officially released the Lumia 950 today, and a batch of reviews are already in. Folks who've had their hands on a Lumia 950 see some promise in the device, but each review we surveyed shows that Windows 10 on phones is still a work in progress. ...Read more...
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on (#V7Q7)
Happy Friday, gerbils. Black Friday may be just around the corner, but retailers are already offering a wide range of tempting deals. We've sorted through the mountain of "Black November" offers out there right now to bring you some of the best of the bunch.Those are the best deals we could find this week. If you find a great offer ...Read more...
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on (#V77J)
G.Skill has been expanding its product portfolio of late. The company is still best known for its RAM, though, and it's just released a 16GB DDR4 memory kit (made up of a pair of 8GB DIMMs) capable of hitting a double-take-inducing 4,133 MT/s. ...Read more...
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Convertible tablets haven't offered many options to choose from for users who want high-speed external connectivity and ease of service in the same package. HP is looking to rectify that with the Elite X2 1012, a two-in-one with Skylake internals, provisions for easy service, and Thunderbolt 3 external connectivity options....Read more...
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on (#V4SB)
Uh-oh. There's some bad news for those (like me) that were eager for another adventure in the skin and augmentations of Adam Jensen. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the upcoming title in the Deus Ex series, will be delayed for six months. The game's release is now set for August 23, 2016.David Anfossi, head of Eidos-Montreal, says the studio wants to take advantage of the extra time for "[post-production] tuning, iterations, and refinements to ...Read more...
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In case you've been hiding under a rock, AMD unveiled its Radeon R9 380X today. We've already looked in-depth at models from Asus and Sapphire in our review. Those two models are hardly the only options out there, though. For those who see an R9 380X in their future, here's a look at the fish in the sea so far.All of the models we're looking at here have the same single DisplayPort output accompanied by a full-sized HDMI connector and a pair of DVI ports. ...Read more...
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on (#V482)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate hits store shelves today, and Nvidia's holiday driver update onslaught continues in tandem with that game's launch. The WHQL-certified 359.00 drivers include "Game Ready optimizations" and an SLI profile for Syndicate, along with updates to prepare GeForce owners for the upcoming Overwatch beta test this weekend....Read more...
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Bitfenix has unveiled its Pandora ATX case, a follow-up to the microATX case of the same name. Like its smaller forebear, the Pandora ATX boasts good looks and plenty of room for liquid-cooling hardware. My favorite part is this case's programmable front-panel LED display, though. ...Read more...
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on (#V14Y)
Eurocom is doing its glorious excess thing again. This time around, the Canadian company is taking the wraps off its 15.6" Shark 5 "ultraportable" laptop. Check it out. ...Read more...
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Much like it has done with tablet displays in the past, DisplayMate has put the iPad Pro's enormous 12.9" screen through the wringer to test its brightness, reflectivity, and color accuracy. While the screen in Apple's biggest tablet fares a bit better than that of the iPad Air 2, the iPad Pro doesn't oust the iPad mini 4 as the tablet with the best display. ...Read more...
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Star Wars Battlefront is out now, and if you've been pondering a graphics card upgrade to handle the game, AMD might have a deal for you. The company is throwing in a Battlefront game code with the purchase of qualifying Radeon R9 Fury graphics cards from XFX, Sapphire, PowerColor, Asus, and Gigabyte. ...Read more...
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on (#TZXK)
Convertibles are all the rage these days, and Fujitsu is out looking for a piece of that market pie. Take a look at the Stylistic R726 convertible, aimed at business users. ...Read more...
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on (#TXK1)
Microsoft seems to be taking the security of its Edge browser seriously. Last May, the company announced Edge would drop support for the much hated ActiveX and Browser Helper Objects. This time around, the company is taking a hard stance against code injection.Until recently, users could be affected by certain strains of malware which would hook unsigned DLLs directly into the Edge process without consent. One of the most "popular" outcomes was the ...Read more...
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on (#TXCB)
After two weeks and dozens of submissions, we have a winner in our competition to take home Scott's Skylake Damagebox. We asked The Tech Report's readers to create humorous comics related to PC hardware and the world of technology, and we got some amazing submissions from our community. You can see them all in the contest entry thread on the TR forums. ...Read more...
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Asus is no stranger to doing interesting things with Chrome OS systems, but none of those experiments have been as small or inexpensive as the Chromebit CS10. This little computer puts a complete Chromebox in an HDMI stick that's only about the size of a first-generation Chromecast, and it'll set you back less than a Benjamin (not me). ...Read more...
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Nvidia's Shield Tablet has been a staple of our past mobile staff picks, but it's been difficult to find a Shield in stock over the past few months. That might be because the company recalled some of its tablets in July to address a battery fire risk. Against that backdrop, the Shield Tablet is making a triumphant return of sorts. Nvidia says it's "bringing back" the slate today as the Shield Tablet K1. The K1 comes with 16GB of storage, and it'll cost $199—$100 less than the original 16GB Shield Tablet. ...Read more...
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on (#TVTR)
AMD may have announced that the refreshed Radeon Crimson drivers and control panel software will be released by the end of this year, but Catalyst isn't dead just yet. The Catalyst 15.11.1 beta is hot off the presses with support for some recently-released and upcoming games.Performance and quality optimizations for four November releases headline this version's release notes. Star Wars Battlefront , Fallout 4 , Assassin's Creed Syndicate , and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 ...Read more...
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on (#TSVA)
Japanese manufacturer Scythe is known in PC-enthusiast circles for its big tower CPU heatsinks. The company has added another behemoth to its lineup called the Fuma. ...Read more...
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AMD wants to make software development easier for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, like those based on its FirePro S9170. At SC15 this week, AMD is showing off a set of tools called the Boltzmann Initiative that it says will help developers move CUDA-based applications to C++, and make HPC development more accessible to a wider audience.The most important part of the Boltzmann Initiative seems to be a Heterogeneous Compute Compiler (HCC) for C++. The company says the HCC will make HPC applications easier to write because of that language's popularity. The HCC can ...Read more...
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Intel's Haswell-E processors already pack as many as eight cores and 16 threads, but the next generation of the company's extreme desktop CPUs could offer more multi-threaded goodness yet. Chinese site Xfastest claims to have gotten its hands on a juicy document with the specifications of Intel's Broadwell-E desktop chips.If that information is correct, the Broadwell-E desktop lineup may include six-core, 12-thread chips called the Core i7-6800K and i7-6850K, an eight-core, 16-thread ...Read more...
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Samsung may have inadvertently given the world a sneak peek at its 750 EVO SSDs. According to Tom's Hardware, a product page for these drives briefly went up on Samsung's Japanese site over the weekend. The site believes these new drives likely use planar TLC NAND, given their "EVO" branding and the absence of 3D V-NAND from the spec sheet. Those specs also seem to indicate that the 750 EVO series will be targeted at the budget end of the SSD market.According to Tom's Hardware, the now-removed product page listed a 120GB 750 EVO, and contained a link to a 240GB version. The site captured the 120GB drive's detailed specs before the page went down. If that information is correct, the controller in these drives is ...Read more...
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Two weeks ago, Scott unveiled his Skylake Damagebox, a handsome gaming PC built with some of the finest parts from Cooler Master, Asus, and Kingston HyperX. The best part? We're giving that system away to one deserving winner. To enter, you'll need to create a humorous comic about PC hardware or technology in general and post it in this forum thread. The contest ends today, but stragglers still have a couple hours to submit an entry.Behold, once more, the ...Read more...
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Mini-PCs are here to stay, and Intel's NUC lineup is a mainstay of that category. The last NUCs we looked at had Broadwell CPUs. It was just a matter of time before the chipmaker put its latest and greatest Skylake-based mobile CPUs into the miniature systems, and that time has come. Several Skylake NUCs are now official. ...Read more...
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The Tech Report is looking for a staff writer to help expand our CPU and graphics coverage. This staffer will be responsible for assisting our senior staff with reviews of graphics cards and CPUs, along with daily news posts. We may also assign reviews of other hardware to this writer as needed.The ideal candidate will be a computing enthusiast with experience building and maintaining PCs. You should be passionate about and familiar with the personal computing technology we use today in ...Read more...
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on (#TG2C)
Variable-refresh-rate tech is all the rage now, but it's reasonable to say not every user is a gamer. Content creation professionals need correct colors above all, and Acer's ultra-wide B346C and B346CK monitors are right up their alley. ...Read more...
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Happy Friday the 13th, gerbils. We've collected some of the best deals and discounts we could find this week to help take the edge off any triskaidekaphobia you might be experiencing. ...Read more...
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on (#TFR0)
Last time Lenovo released quarterly financial results, the world's biggest PC maker missed targets and planned job cuts. In the second quarter (PDF) of its 2015-2016 fiscal year, the company is still on stormy seas. Revenue grew 16% year-over-year to $12.2 billion, but those gains didn't stop Lenovo from losing $714 million. That loss is due in part to one-time charges related to the restructuring plan announced last quarter, as well as a $324 million write-down of unsold smartphone inventory.Lenovo continues to solidify its position as the number-one PC maker in the world. It says its products now account for 21.2% of all ...Read more...
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Hot on the heels of the Asus Zen AIO Pro, MSI has announced its latest take on an all-in-one gaming PC. MSI's machine goes a little further than Asus' in several departments, though. ...Read more...
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Just a quick reminder that this is still happening: I built the Skylake Damagebox out of some of the best parts available from Cooler Master, Asus, and Kingston HyperX—and we're giving it away. The system is a beast, and looks pretty nice. Like so: ...Read more...
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All-in-one PCs are attractive to users short on space. The iMac may be the most recognizable all-in-one around, but Asus is getting in on the game with its Zen AIO Pro, an aluminum-and-glass system with Skylake processors and a goodly amount of graphics-processing power to boot. ...Read more...
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The first major Windows 10 update has arrived, and a plethora of tweaks and a handful of new features comes with it. Microsoft says this update brings performance and compatibility improvements, as well as some new business-oriented features. The company also claims that Win10's boot time and performance in common tasks should be improved nearly 30% versus Windows 7 on the same machine.According to HowToGeek , the Windows activation confusion has been finally cleared up: users can activate Windows 10 with any Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 product key, even when performing a clean install. Colored title bars have finally ...Read more...
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This fall is proving to be the season of SoCs. Samsung's Exynos 8 Octa 8890 is just the latest high-end mobile processor to hit the market. Samsung says this SoC is its first high-end chip to integrate the application processor and LTE modem into a single package. ...Read more...
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Intel's mobile Xeon CPUs are beginning to show up in more and more mobile workstations. These chips' relatively low power requirements and support for ECC memory have made for workstations with lots of power in a small space. HP has whipped up the Zbook Studio, a thin-and-light workstation with a Xeon, an optional Quadro graphics chip, and lots of connectivity options. ...Read more...
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And now for something completely different. The Raspberry Pi and other development boards of its ilk are already popular for hardware hackers and DIYers, but Nvidia is taking the concept to a whole new level with its credit-card-sized Jetson TX1. ...Read more...
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Cherry MX black and MX red mechanical key switches both offer a linear key press without a bump or click to signal a key stroke. Some folks find the 60-cN actuation force of the black switches uncomfortably heavy, though, and the feathery 45-cN force needed to register a key stroke on MX reds is too light for others. If you prefer that linear feel, but don't enjoy the weighting of Cherry's existing offerings, the company's new MX RGB Nature White switches (not to be confused with the now-discontinued MX white switch) might be just right. ...Read more...
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Gigabyte may have started small with its Xtreme Gaming graphics card lineup, but it's expanding that family in a big way. Five more cards—an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, air- and water-cooled GTX 980s, a GTX 980 Ti, and a GTX Titan X—are getting the Xtreme Gaming treatment today. ...Read more...
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Builders of Skylake-based budget systems already have no shortage of options, thanks to entry-level motherboards based on the B150 chipset. Asus is adding to that selection with its B150 Pro Gaming and B150 Pro Gaming/Aura. These ATX boards seem to be identical in every way save for one, ahem, illuminating feature. ...Read more...
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on (#T645)
Qualcomm has been teasing and tormenting us with its Snapdragon 820 SoC for months. Today, the company officially introduced the chip. To mark the occasion, Qualcomm held an event in New York, where marketing honcho Tim McDonough also hosted a Twitter-based Q&A session.Let's recap what's on board this SoC. The Snapdragon 820 will have four cores based on Qualcomm's custom 64-bit Kryo CPU . Zeroth , the company's first "neural processing ...Read more...
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on (#T5RP)
ARM is bringing 64-bit computing to its smallest, most efficient Cortex A-series CPU core yet with the introduction today of the Cortex-A35. The A35 is a licensable core, like the more familiar Cortex-A57, so its availability means that ARM's partners can begin the process of integrating this CPU core into their upcoming chips.ARM expects chips based on the Cortex-A35 to go to a number of different places. Most prominent among them is the burgeoning market for ...Read more...
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on (#T5D9)
The time is ripe for Steam Machines, and today's harvest is bountiful indeed. Maingear's Drift Steam Machine can stay cool with an optional closed-loop liquid cooling system, and its slim body still makes room for hot performance thanks to space for full-sized graphics cards. If black isn't your thing, Maingear will do up your Drift in any of several colorful "automotive" paint jobs. ...Read more...
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What's this? Another line of EVGA PSUs? No, you're not dreaming. The company's GQ series is the latest addition to its existing B2, G2, GS, and P2 power supply lineups.These juice boxes join the G2 and GS PSUs in offering 80 Plus Gold efficiency and semi-silent operation, but the GQ units are only semi-modular, unlike their fancier, fully-modular brethren. The fan grille on the ...Read more...
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on (#T2YD)
Panasonic's Toughbook laptops are famous for their knock-around durability. Recently, the Toughbook lineup has expanded to include rugged tablets as well as notebooks, and now Panasonic has launched what it claims is the world's first ruggedized convertible, the Toughbook 20. ...Read more...
on (#T2DG)
If the manifold Apple Watches aren't luxurious enough for well-heeled wearable buyers, TAG Heuer, Google, and Intel may have just the thing. The three companies unveiled the Connected Android Wear watch today at a grandiose event that also starred the Swiss ambassador to the United States, a large wheel of cheese, and glocken, because Switzerland. Yes, it was as crazy as it sounds. ...Read more...
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Nvidia is making good on its promise to have Game Ready drivers prepped and posted for the traditional holiday gaming onslaught. Version 358.91 has optimizations and fixes for this week's big releases, as well as updated SLI and 3D Vision profiles for several other titles.Most importantly, this fresh batch of drivers has Game Ready optimizations for Fallout 4 , StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void , and Star Wars Battlefront . Act of Aggression , NBA 2K16 , and the 64-bit ...Read more...
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You may be aware that Epic has kicked off a community-participation project intended to resurrect the classic Unreal Tournament using the latest version of the Unreal Engine. The new game, Unreal Tournament 4, will be free to download and use, and the current builds are already in very good shape.You can grab UT4 from the website and try it for yourself, which is just what I did this past weekend. Despite the "pre-alpha" label, the game already seems to be quite stable. It runs ...Read more...
on (#T1T0)
Asus continues to expand the ranks of its Republic of Gamers legions. The latest recruits for the cause are the ROG Maximus VIII Extreme/Assembly motherboard and the ROG Matrix GeForce GTX 980 graphics card. ...Read more...