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Google Lens image recognition is like Google Goggles evolved

Google has announced that it’s bringing a new feature to Google Assistant that uses computer vision to recognize real-world items and suggest appropriate actions. It’s sort of like the all-but-defunct Google Goggles, in that you can point your phone’s camera at an item to find out what it is. But it goes further by allowing […]

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AMD Ryzen Mobile chips (Raven Ridge) coming later this year

AMD’s first chips based on the company’s new Zen architecture are all designed for desktop computers. But if you’ve been wondering when the new chip technology would make its way to notebooks and convertible tablets, AMD has an answer: in the second half of 2017. More importantly, the company has revealed a little bit of […]

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 16-core desktop CPU coming this summer

As expected, AMD has a new high-power desktop processor on the way, and it’s a beast. The AMD Ryzen Threadripper chip is a 16-core processor with support for 32-threads. It’s set to launch this summer. Based on the same “Zen” architecture as the company’s recently released Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 chips, the new processor […]

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Amazon’s new Fire HD 8 is priced at $80 and up (also comes in a Kids Edition)

Amazon’s latest Fire HD 8 tablet keeps just about everything that was good about last year’s model, with a slightly different case design. But more importantly, Amazon has dropped the starting price and introduced a new Kids Edition model of the Amazon Fire HD 8. The company’s new 8 inch tablet sells for $80 and […]

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Compal Jupiter II smart assistant hits the FCC (voice control, camera, and home automation)

A new voice-controlled smart home speaker showed up at the FCC website, and while it looks a bit like an Amazon Echo, the new Jupiter II smart assistant is actually a product from Taiwanese equipment maker Compal Electronics. The cylindrical device is described as an “all-in-one Smart Assistant” and features a camera, an array of […]

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Asus VivoBook Flip 12 is an Apollo Lake convertible with pen support

Asus has quietly added a new convertible laptop to its website. The Asus VivoBook Flip 12 is a notebook with an 11.6 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge that lets you use the computer as a tablet, and support for writing or drawing with a pressure-sensitive Asus Pen. The notebook will be available in a […]

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The Machine prototype from HPE has 160TB of memory (both RAM and storage)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has unveiled a prototype of The Machine, which is the company’s name for what it’s calling “the world’s largest single-memory computer.” What that means is there’s no distinct RAM and storage. Instead the system has 160 terabytes of memory which allows it to process huge amounts of data quickly. HPE says the […]