A common issue that a lot of MacBook Pro owners (you can become a MacBook owner at a lower price if you leverage the Black Friday MacBook deals) run into once they’ve had their laptop for a few years is a bad battery. Your MacBook Pro might seem like it needs to charge all the […]
Despite the fact we’re all stuck at home, CES 2021 is well underway, albeit as an online-only event. But those restrictions haven’t stopped companies from announcing a flood of new products. Sony, in particular, has had a field day, revealing new TVs, release dates for highly anticipated games, and a drone that can have an […]
LG helped kick-off the first day of CES 2021 with a list of exciting product announcements highlighting TVs, phones, and various smart home technology. It’s newest lineups of OLED TVs will help usher in a new era of home entertainment optimization and smart home devices — and we’re still trying to wrap our heads around […]
Intel’s 11th-generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will be team blue’s answer to AMD’s Zen 3 chips, and they’re going to be an interesting bridge between technologies as Intel continues to iterate on its 14nm process. They are the follow-up to last year’s 10th-gen Comet Lake chips, which officially debuted in the spring. Rocket Lake has […]
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra has gotten all of the hype recently, but it’s important to remember Samsung’s other — and arguably more important — flagship. The Galaxy S series is expected to get an update in January, and as happens a lot these days, very little is being left to the imagination. The […]
Memes are a cultural shorthand that, like all forms of communication, evolve with those who use them. Nobody can claim to know or understand every single meme that exists. There are simply too many, and they can often be too personal to the individuals creating and sharing them. Still, there are some common elements that […]
AMD’s Ryzen 3000 CPUs vastly improved performance over Ryzen 1000 and 2000 CPUs when they launched in 2019. Featuring the redesigned Zen 2 architecture, AMD’s then latest foray into its Ryzen platform proved to be more than just a slight generational improvement. AMD promised huge gains over Zen and Zen Plus, as well as over […]
Microsoft usually refreshes its Surface hardware every October, typically focusing on both the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop. But this fall, we didn’t see the much-anticipated Surface Laptop 4 and got the budget-friendly Surface Laptop Go instead. Rumor has it that Microsoft is instead planning the Surface Laptop 4 for next year. We haven’t heard […]
Microsoft usually refreshes its Surface hardware every October, but things were very different this year. The focus for Microsoft was on the Surface Duo dual-screen smartphone. That means the follow-up to 2019’s Surface Pro 7 wasn’t discussed at all in 2020 or given its yearly refresh. There hasn’t yet been much official talk about the Surface […]
Text messages — the communications tech we’ve known and loved since the 1990s — are starting to show their age. They just don’t perform the way we’re used to and come to expect in recent years. For example, they don’t support read receipts, group messaging, or the animated stickers everyone likes to trade on apps […]
The Google Pixel 4a may have just been released, but already we’re looking ahead to the next Pixel phone, the high-end Google Pixel 5 The Pixel 5 will likely offer a number of upgrades over the Pixel 4, including a spec bump, a complete design change, and more. Like previous Pixel releases, rumors about the […]
Nearly two years after bringing ray tracing to the mainstream with its Turing cards, Nvidia is hard at work on the successor to its popular RTX 2080 flagship. The RTX 3000 series will use a new Ampere architecture that debuted on Nvidia’s DGX A100 supercomputers, marking the first time that the company will use a […]
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Hitman 3 is coming this January, and developer IO Interactive has me more excited for it than ever. The studio dropped the latest trailer for the assassination simulator today that features a stage the designers obviously modeled after an Agatha Christie locked-door […]
Panasonic teased the upcoming Lumix S5 mirrorless camera Wednesday, August 19, ahead of the official announcement set for September 2. This is Panasonic’s first acknowledgment of the purportedly lower-end full-frame camera that has been heavily rumored. If a leaked spec sheet is to be believed, the S5 will sit a tier below the Panasonic S1, […]
The Samsung Galaxy Note series has long offered one of the best big-screen experiences for those who want a device for productivity and entertainment. The last model, the Galaxy Note 10, received rave reviews for its modern design, excellent camera, and more. Now there’s another model coming, and it could up the ante even more. […]