Enlarge / This Killer 1650x is really a rebranded Intel AX200 under the hood—but to be fair, Intel put stuff into the AX200 chipset just for Rivet, which only gets enabled on Rivet’s version of the card. Rivet Networks On Wednesday, Intel announced its acquisition of Rivet Networks—makers of the Killer AC-brand line of gamer-oriented Wi-Fi […]
Enlarge / Eye Oh Ess. Aurich Lawson Is it iOS “eye-oh-ess” or “eye-oss”? Is it Linux “Lie-nux” or “Lih-nux?” How about sudo: is it really “sue-doo” for “superuser, do!” or has the more popular “sue-doh” population won out? In this article, you’ll find the answers to each of those and several more—along with some perspectives […]
Renders of the Galaxy Note 20. Xleaks7 x Pigtou That camera block, as you would expect, picks up the Galaxy S20 Ultra design. Xleaks7 x Pigtou There’s no headphone jack. Xleaks7 x Pigtou After launching the Galaxy S20 early in the year, the next big flagship for Samsung is the Galaxy Note 20, which is […]
Here’s the new Razer Blade Pro 17 gaming laptop. Razer It still has the matte aluminum chassis that has helped differentiate the Blade in a crowded gaming-laptop market. Razer Its 17.3-inch display can either be 1080p and 300Hz or 4K and 120Hz. Razer A look at the port selection on one side of the notebook… […]
The Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition! It has a case. Samsung This picture probably best describes what’s going on. A Galaxy S20 goes in a case, and then the marketers take over. Samsung This photoshoot is incredible. Samsung You can use it with gloves! You can also use the regular S20 with gloves. Samsung Use it […]
Enlarge / The iPhone 11. Samuel Axon Apple released iOS 13.5 and iPadOS 13.5 for iPhones, iPods, and iPads today. They went live alongside minor software updates for Apple TV and HomePod devices. The iOS update mainly adds new health-related features—most notably the much-discussed Exposure Notification API that was co-developed with Google to help local, regional, […]
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in 2018. Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images Google’s hardware division has been getting beat up in the press recently. A report of internal strife over the Google Pixel 4 made the group look pretty bad, with hardware lead Rick Osterloh reportedly internally criticizing […]
It seems inevitable that Apple will someday release a set of AR glasses, and today we have a set of rumors from YouTuber Jon Prosser of the “Front Page Tech” YouTube channel. Prosser is a fairly new leaker, but AppleInsider has a good roundup of things he has gotten right in the past. He claims to […]
The Dell Precision 5750. Dell The Dell Latitude 9510. Dell The Dell Precision 5550. Dell The Dell Latitude 9410 in a clamshell configuration. Dell The Dell Latitude 9410 is also available in a 2-in-1 convertible configuration. Dell Today, Dell announced updates to several laptops in its office (Latitude) and professional workstation (Precision) product lines, with […]
The Onn.8 Tablet Pro. Walmart A straight-on shot of the 8-incher. And Walmart, I know you are Walmart, but wow, please get a better photographer. Walmart A closeup of the navigation bar, with the Walmart button and off-center navigation buttons. Walmart The back of the 8-incher. Walmart The bigger 10.1-inch model. Walmart The 10-inch model, […]
Enlarge / Neither the stopwatch nor the denim jacket is strictly necessary, if we’re being honest about it. Aurich Lawson / Getty This has been a long while in the making—it’s test results time. To truly understand the fundamentals of computer storage, it’s important to explore the impact of various conventional RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive […]
Turns out that Huang was cooking eight A100 GPUs, two Epyc 7742 64-core CPUs, nine Mellanox interconnects, and assorted oddments like RAM and SSDs. Mmmm, just like Grandma used to make. Nvidia Looking at an A100 GPU without its massive heatsink installed makes us feel a little uneasy. Nvidia This fully assembled DGX A100 node […]
Chrome’s new tab group feature. It’s pretty neat. Ron Amadeo A gif of how this all works. Google The tab group menu. Pick a name and a color. Ron Amadeo Each tab gets a lot more right-click menu opens for tab groups. Ron Amadeo Hello, fellow tab hoarders. My name is Ron Amadeo and I […]
Enlarge / Eye Oh Ess. Aurch Lawson A lot of people pronounce common tech terms wrong, from iOS to SQL to Qi. It’s understandable: Some of the proper or official pronunciations of these terms are counterintuitive at best. Still, we think it’s time to clear the air on a few of them. It’s something of […]
The Huawei P30 Lite, now with a new hat (and more RAM). Huawei The “New Edition” comes in silver. Huawei Here’s the camera assembly for the Huawei P30 Pro and… wait, what? Is that a square camera lens? Huawei That under-the-square cover is a mirror, which allows the whole camera assembly to be horizontal. Huawei […]