Enlarge / A few gadgets we liked using in the home this year. Jeff Dunn The first entry in our holiday gift guide dealt with gear your loved ones could use on the go. In contrast, today’s edition centers all on tech that’s more suited for the house—be it gadgets for improving a desk setup or an […]
WHAT ARE THOSE? Google wants to add sneakers to your existing VR setup. USPTO You can just walk forever, and the shoe wheels will keep you in the VR safe zone. Patents always aim for the widest coverage possible, but Google offers up these wheel types as a suggestion. The omnidirectional wheels would be great. […]
Intel’s 9th generation Core i9 CPU. Richard Baguley Another view of Intel’s 9th generation Core i9 CPU. Richard Baguley Let’s be honest here: modern processors aren’t exciting. Speed bumps no longer thrill us, and we’ve become blasé about adding more cores. But we are living in a time when computers casually offer amounts of processing […]
Enlarge Valentina Palladino It has been 10 years since HP launched the original Elitebook, and the company continues to improve upon this already stellar business notebook family. This year’s Elitebook x360 1030 is the follow-up to last year’s model and will replace the 1020 model in the Elitebook lineup. The new Elitebook has been sprinkled […]
The mid-range Pixel 3. Rozetked The back has this strange “C” logo. Rozetked A headphone jack! Rozetked These slots on the bottom edge are new. With the missing bottom front speaker grill, at least one of these is probably a speaker. Rozetked A neon power button. Rozetked Rumors of a cheaper mid-range smartphone from Google […]
Enlarge Apple Apple has lined up another partnership to boost its video-content offerings. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Apple signed a deal with A24 studio, a New York-based production company responsible for movies, including the 2017 Oscar winner for Best Picture, Moonlight. Details of forthcoming projects haven’t been disclosed, but Apple […]
The silver box is Essential’s new audio accessory. Essential It clips onto the back via the magnetic modular accessory system. Essential Despite only having a DAC and 3.5mm headphone jack, the box is a whopping 11.5mm thick. Essential Pogo pins on the back give the device power, while Wireless USB provides the data. Essential How […]
Enlarge / The new Windows 10 light theme. Microsoft While end users have been customizing the color schemes of their computers for decades, we’ve lately seen operating system developers follow their users’ lead with built-in, first-party support for dark themes. The dark theme was a big part of the appeal of macOS Mojave, and dark […]
If you plan to spend your Black Friday dollars at Target, there are plenty of deals for the taking. Here are some of the best Black Friday tech deals from Target. PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. Do you hear that? It’s […]
Enlarge Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Back at the start of the year, a set of attacks that leveraged the speculative execution capabilities of modern high-performance processors was revealed. The attacks were named Meltdown and Spectre. Since then, numerous variants of these attacks have been devised. In tandem, a range of mitigation techniques has been […]
Enlarge / This message, shown during Windows upgrades, is going to be salt in the wound. Just over a month since its initial release, Microsoft is making the Windows 10 October 2018 Update widely available today. The update was withdrawn shortly after its initial release due to the discovery of a bug causing data loss. […]
Enlarge Andy Maguire / Flickr The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s HTTP (versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2) are all layered on top of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). TCP, defined […]
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+Pro+11-Inch+Teardown/115457 Following the controlled destruction of the Mac mini and the MacBook Air, iFixit turned its gaze to the new 11-inch iPad Pro. Its teardown reveals lots of adhesive, even more magnets, and only a few surprises inside the newest Apple tablet. Unsurprisingly, the super-narrow bezels make the new iPad Pro harder to get into […]
Enlarge / A bike of roughly the same vintage as the author’s. Billy Meinke / Flickr We tend to think of technology as something that moves electrons around. But I’m going to take a little diversion into technology that is used to move us around (and yes, our electrons as well, you pedants). The humble […]