OnePlus beats Google with four years of major OS updates
Enlarge (credit: OnePlus) Android OEMs still don't provide the six years of updates you get with Apple phones, but some manufacturers are trying to close that …
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Showing posts from November, 2022
Review: Intel’s “Raptor Canyon” NUC is a compact gaming PC without the stress
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Intel's new "Raptor Canyon" NUC Extreme (rear) is a lot larger but also a lot more capable than previous NUC Extreme boxes (front). (credit: …
Read moreGoogle reportedly has Gmail and Calendar apps in the works for Wear OS
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The Pixel Watch colors and their default bands. There are three watch body colors here: black, silver, and gold. Google recently launched the Pixel Watc…
Read moreEpson quitting laser printers doesn’t address its bigger sustainability issue
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Getty ) There was a time when laser printers were a luxury. High prices pushed them out of the budgets of most homes and small businesses decades …
Read moreUsed thin client PCs are an unsexy, readily available Raspberry Pi alternative
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / This ThinkCentre M90n-1 Nano from 2019 , passively cooled with a big heatsink, was $145 when the author last looked on eBay. It's not a Raspberry Pi, a…
Read moreApple Watch Ultra becomes a diving computer with launch of Oceanic+
Harsh Dhankhar
An Apple Watch showing dive metrics. [credit: Apple ] In September, Apple announced a new wearable called the Apple Watch Ultra , and one of the company's…
Read moreRegulatory filings suggest Nvidia’s scrapped RTX 4080 will return as the “4070 Ti”
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Nvidia) Last month, Nvidia took the unusual step of "unlaunching" a previously announced product . The 12GB version of the GeForce RTX 4…
Read moreGoogle says Google should do a better job of patching Android phones
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Google's "Project Zero" team of security analysts wants to rid the world of zero-day security vulnerabilities, and th…
Read moreUSB-C desktop power chargers tested—the best GaN-based boxes
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / GaN desktop chargers in their native habitat. From left: Ugreen Nexode 200W, Hyper 245W GaN Desktop Charger, and Anker 727 Power Station. (credit: Kevin Pu…
Read moreThe best Black Friday deals for Apple devices
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Black Friday is in full swing, and that's great news if you've had your eyes on an Apple device but have been waiting f…
Read moreThe best Black Friday laptop deals we can find
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Microsoft's Surface Pro 8. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Black Friday laptop deals are as American as pumpkin pie. But tracking down worthwhile option…
Read moreHP plans to cut up to 6,000 jobs amid plummeting PC demand
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Getty ) HP is the latest tech company to announce extensive layoffs. Following a surge in demand for computing products amid pandemic-related lock…
Read moreReview: Dell’s new UltraSharp monitor has high-contrast IPS Black screen
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Dell's UltraSharp U3223QZ 4K monitor. (credit: Scharon Harding) Specs at a glance: Dell UltraSharp U3223QZ Panel size 31.5 inches Resoluti…
Read moreAndroid TV will require App Bundles in 2023, should reduce app size by 20%
Harsh Dhankhar
The Android App Bundle logo. [credit: Google ] Android TV is going to be less storage-greedy in the future. Google has announced that Android's space-sav…
Read moreLG continues diversifying OLED monitor options; lists 27-incher for $1,000
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / LG's UltraGear 27GR95QE-B OLED monitor. (credit: LG ) LG continues to show a commitment to diversifying OLED monitor options. And that's particu…
Read moreNetwork-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned by 2035, for at least a century
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / An astronomical clock in Prague, Czech Republic. (credit: Getty Images) There are not many things you can get Facebook, Google, the United States, Franc…
Read moreAmazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The fourth-generation Echo device is a cloth-covered sphere with a halo at the base, contrasting with the squat plastic cylinders of earlier-generation Ech…
Read moreLG reveals vibrating speakers as ultra-thin alternative to traditional car audio
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: LG Display ) LG Display will commercialize thin, vibrating speakers for cars in the first half of 2023, the company announced today. The Thin Actu…
Read moreA history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The Acorn Archimedes 3000, released in May 1989. (credit: Wikipedia) The story so far: At the end of the 1980s, Acorn Computers was at a crossroads. A sm…
Read more“Just a bunch of idiots having fun”—a photo history of the LAN party
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The burned-in timestamp, the water-cooled PC tower, the chaotic configuration of monitors and peripherals—this is what LAN Party aims to capture. (credit:…
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