Tiny laptops are having their moment… again. A decade after the rise and fall of netbooks and UMPCs, a crop of Chinese device makers is breathing new life into the idea of laptops with small screens and tiny keyboards. The TopJoy Falcon is the latest entry in the category. It borrows liberally from the design […]
Intellivision Amico retro-style game console on the way for under $180
As promised, Intellivision Entertainment is rising from the ashes with a new game console. Sort of. The upcoming Intellivision Amico is a new product that pays homage to the e classic game system. It’s being developed b what seems to be a new company with the rights to the Intellivision name. And it’s not expected […]
Chrome OS updates to bring Linux apps to MediaTek Chromebooks, Android 9 to most Chromebooks
I’m in the camp that believes Google’s browser-based Chrome OS was always a “real” operating system and not just a glorified web browser. But the addition of support for Android apps and Linux apps in recent years has certainly gone a long way toward making the operating system more versatile. Now it looks like there […]
SteamVR motion smoothing aims to make VR bearable on cheaper PCs
A high-end gaming computer can easily cost thousands of dollars by the time you’ve outfitted it with the latest high-performance components. But you don’t necessarily need an Intel Core i9-9900K processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 graphics to play games — there are thousands of games that are perfectly playable on older or less powerful […]
There’s an official Ubuntu MATE 18.10 build for GPD Pocket devices
Canonical released Ubuntu 18.10 this week. But Ubuntu isn’t just a single operating system: there are also a bunch of official and unofficial flavors. So this week we also got Kubuntu 18.10, Lubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu MATE 18.10, and Ubuntu Budgie 18.10, just to name a few. They include core Ubuntu updates plus a group of […]
Daily Deals (10-19-2018)
RAM is expensive these days, but storage is getting cheaper all the time. Today you can pick up a 500GB M.2 SATA SSD for your laptop for just $85 or a 200GB microSDXC card for your phone, tablet, or camera for $42. But I’m particularly tempted by the sale running on the SanDisk Extreme line […]
ODROID-H2 mini PC board with Celeron J4105 Gemini Lake CPU coming next month
Hardkernel has been selling a line of single-board computers under the ODROID brand for years. So far most of them have featured ARM-based processors. But the company’s next product is a compact PC board featuring an Intel Celeron J4105 Gemini Lake processor. The company has announced that the ODROID-H2 should go on sale in November […]
Google could charge up to $40 to include its apps on Android phones in the EU
This week Google announced that it would comply with an EU order to unbundle some of the apps it licenses to Android phone makers while appealing the ruling. The move would allow phone makers to include the Google Play Store and Gmail without loading the Chrome web browser or Google Search apps, for example. But […]
Would you rather have a phone with a slide-out camera, or a hole in the screen?
As the war on bezels continues, smartphone makers seem to be falling into one of three camps this year. There are phones with slimmer-than-in-the-past bezels. There are notch-phones with a cut-out near the top of the display for a front-facing camera. And recently we’ve seen the addition of a third category: phones with slide-out or […]
Ubuntu 18.10 released (new default theme, performance improvements)
The latest version of Ubuntu is here, bringing a number of performance enhancements, bug fixes, and software updates to the popular Linux-based operating system. Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is now available for download from Ubuntu.org. Among other changes, Ubuntu 18.10 uses the Linux 4.18 kernel which brings better support for Thunderbolt 3 and USB Type-C ports, support […]
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