One of the biggest tech products in the last few years has absolutely nothing to do with Apple. The smart speaker is a whole new category that was created by Amazon back in 2014, and includes an AI assistant called Alexa. That head start has allowed Amazon to control 70.6% of the market with Google's Home smart speaker garnering a 23.8% share. Microsoft will have its own device called the Harman Kardon Invoke. This combines a premium Harman Kardon speaker with personal assistant Cortana.Over the last few months, there has been speculation that Apple was working on a smart speaker of its ...
Microsoft revealed a handfull of details about the Windows Mixed Reality HMDs from Dell, Asus, and Lenovo, that give a glimps of the variety we can expect from Microsoft's MR partners. Each headset offers a different range of features and capability.
The Phison E8 wins the design for Patriot's new NVMe SSD, Scorch. The PCIe 3.0 x2 design will feature Toshiba 64-layer 3D TLC and take on Intel's mighty 600p in the low-cost NVMe space.
According to a report published in today's Wall Street Journal, Bixby has not been a good student when it comes to learning the English language. Apparently, Samsung's AI personal assistant is failing grammar and is also having problems with syntax. This means that Bixby is having difficulties creating sentences in English. The problem, as far as Samsung is concerned, is that competing assistants like Google Assistant and Siri have no problem turning out a snappy sentence in English when called on to do so.
These additions will make it easier for the company to detect phishing attempts, fight malware that spreads via attachments, let businesses make sure internal data stays within their control, and warn users when they're visiting a suspicious website.
EK Water Blocks revealed the Fluid Gaming series of full loop water cooling kits during Computex. EKWB’s new water cooling lineup offers an affordable way jump into the world of custom water cooling.
There are also ability modifications for McRee, Reaper, and Roadhog in the game's PTR version.
Hot on the heels of its 25th Anniversary COSMOS II chassis announcement, Cooler Master has rolled out updated versions of its classic HAF and COSMOS II chassis.
Oculus announced that you can now stream your Gear VR experience to any Chromecast-enabled device. Now you can share Gear VR as a social experience.
Hot on the heels of the official announcement about the forthcoming “Always Connected” Qualcomm Snapdragon 835-based Windows 10 laptops, Intel made its own “Always On” PC announcement.
Last month, Samsung started accepting pre-orders for the unlocked Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Galaxy S8+ in the U.S. Fast forward to today at warp speed, and both unlocked models are now available for purchase from Samsung's online store, or from Best Buy. The pair are being offered at full retail pricing, which means handing over $724.99 for the 5.8-inch Galaxy S8, or $824.99 for the 6.2-inch Galaxy S8+.
We expected an abundance of new X299 Basin Falls motherboards here at Computex 2017, and ASUS didn't disappoint. The company released seven new motherboards in the ROG, TUF and Prime families
Google's Allo application has just received a new update that's not detailed in the Google Play Store. Luckily, Allo's Head of Product, Amit Fulay revealed some of the new features that Android users will be able to take advantage of after updating to the latest version.
In a day and age when tempered glass, RGB lighting, and futuristic designs are all the rage, it is refreshing to see a company take a more contemporary approach.
Here at Computex, Asus unveiled a new high-resolution HDR gaming monitor called the ROG Swift PG35VQ.
When it comes to wireless gaming mice, there are three general problems: wireless input lag, weight, and battery life. With its Concept Zeus, Corsair is planning to solve at least one of those by adding Qi charging to a mousepad and a new wireless mouse.
We covered AMD's press event earlier today (yeah, it's night time here in Taipei) and couldn't help but notice the constellation of X399 motherboards adorning the venue, all fresh and awaiting their new 16C/32T ThreadRipper denizens.
Squad will continue to add more content to the game including the upcoming "Making History" expansion.
Asus pulled the curtains off of a new gaming PC that’s among the first consumer-level desktops to feature AMD Ryzen processors. Meet the Asus G11DF.
Computex 2017 continued with plenty of announcements, hands-on opportunities, and cramped booths.
AMD is the only company that has both GPUs and CPUs under the same roof, which could lend it a tactical advantage against its competitors. That's where EPYC and the Vega Frontier Edition come in.
Windows 10 laptops built on ARM chips are nigh; Asus, HP, and Lenovo have all pledged to build notebooks based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC. But we've heard all this before, haven't we?
The new smartglass certification program is supposed to "to pave the way for excellence in headworn devices."
The OnePlus 5 is officially launching sometime this summer, and we already know that it's going to be a very powerful smartphone - thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 processor. We also know that the upcoming handset features a rear camera made in collaboration with DxO, has a fingerprint scanner on the front, and (most likely) won't ditch the standard 3.5mm headset jack.
Google announced that Portable Native Client (PNaCl) technology will be deprecated in Chrome in the first quarter of 2018. The company will focus its efforts on supporting the new web standard and PNaCl alternative, called "WebAssembly."
In addition to that crazy-cool Winbot case we looked at earlier, In-Win also launched a pair of new 120mm fans that put a twist (quite literally) on traditional fan design.
So, the Essential Phone was revealed today — a powerful flagship of a smartphone with an all-screen front, a titanium and ceramic body, a magnetic connector for modules on its back. Announced to be designed to serve the user through and through, it's said that it will be fully unlocked and will not have any sort of pre-installed bloat. Additionally, it's supposed to "play nice" with competitor's smartphones, as Mr. Andy Rubin's main drive to found Essential was his discontent with how 21st-century tech is still relatively closed off from communicating with its own ecosystem.
Despite being very small, the X370 Gaming ITX/ac offers everything that a fairly powerful gaming system might require and its price is not too high.
Yesterday, Andy Rubin's new company — Essential — finally revealed the Essential Phone. A contemporary flagship through and through, with top-of-the-line hardware, titanium and ceramic build, an all-screen front, and even a courageously missing headphone jack. What else could one ask for? (water resistance would be nice)
AMD took the wraps off its mobile Ryzen CPUs at its press conference at Computex in Taipei on Wednesday, and they're coming to laptops very soon.
MSI fired off its X299 salvo at Computex 2017, which includes a slew of new boards in the Enthusiast, Performance and Gaming series.
So, the Essential Phone was just revealed yesterday and it has some cool things going on about it. Titanium and ceramc build, a 360-degree accessory camera, an all-screen front, so on and so forth — it's definitely a head-turner. But we didn't get to see any live footage of the handset, just renders.
