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Early Microsoft Lumia 950 concept included Surface Pen support

Windows may be the dominant operating system for notebook and desktop computers, but Microsoft’s Windows software for phones has an ever-dwindling market share. While the company continues to offer updates to Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft hasn’t launched any new smartphone hardware since the fall of 2015. At the time, the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 […]

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ARM Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55, and Mali-G72 details leaked

ARM’s next-gen chip designs are on the way, and if the benchmark results listed in a series of leaked slides are accurate, the company’s new Mali-G72 graphics design could offer up to a 40 percent improvement in graphics performance while the new Cortex-A55 and Cortex-A75 CPU designs could should provide at least a 20 percent performance […]

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Zotac’s new mini PC lineup includes AMD Ryzen, Intel Kaby Lake CPUs and NVIDIA graphics

Zotac is expanding its line of tiny desktop computers with a whole bunch of new ZBOX mini PCs All of the new ZBOX E-series computers support for NVIDIA GeForce 10 series graphics, but you get a choice of CPU options: some models ship with Intel Kaby Lake chips while others are equipped with AMD Ryzen […]

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More Intel Gemini Lake chip details leaked (Apollo Lake successor)

Intel is expected to launch a new line of low-cost, low-power Celeron and Pentium chips later this year. Code-named Gemini Lake, the processors are the follow-up to the Apollo Lake chips currently found in entry-level notebooks, desktops, and 2-in-1 tablets. While Intel hasn’t said much about the upcoming Gemini Lake chips yet, a leaked product […]

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NVIDIA launches entry-level GeForce MX150 graphics for laptops

NVIDIA is launching a new entry-level graphics processor for notebooks. The new GeForce MX150 is an upgrade from the GeForce 940MX graphics that have been used in laptops for the past year or so, but NVIDIA says the new card offers up to 3 times better performance-per-watt. Among other things, that means the new chip can […]

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HTC Link is a smartphone-based VR headset with 6 degrees of freedom (for HTC U11… in Japan)

HTC makes smartphones. And HTC makes virtual reality systems. So you might think it would make sense for the company would develop its own phone-based VR headset to compete with Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s Daydream View. And you’d be right, because HTC just introduced one. The new HTC Link headset is also one of the […]

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Deals of the Day (5-25-2017)

Amazon’s new Fire tablet is thinner and lighter than its predecessor and Amazon says it has improved contrast and crisper text. But the new $50 tablet isn’t really all that different from the model which launched in 2015. So if you’re looking to save a few bucks, you might want to snag a previous-gen model from […]

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First phone from Android founder Andy Rubin’s new company launching May 30th?

Essential Products has been teasing a new smartphone for a few months, and rumor has it that the company’s first phone will also have special features including a pressure-sensitive display and the ability to add third-party hardware through a special charging port. What makes the upcoming phone interesting is that Essential was founded by Andy Rubin, co-founder of […]