Amazon’s Echo line of products may have introduced the world to the idea of smart speakers that respond to your voice, answer questions, and play music among other things. But one thing Amazon’s Alexa voice service hasn’t been great at until now is playing podcasts. While you could ask Alexa to play a podcast, by default […]
Daily Deals (12-13-2019)
Every week this year, the Epic Games Store has offered up at least one game for free, and sometimes two. This week is one of the twofer weeks — you can pick up The Escapists or The Wolf Among Us for free. But things will really kick into high gear next week, when Epic will […]
Lenovo may have a Chrome OS tablet on the way
Chrome OS tablets have been a thing for the past year and a half or so, but there still aren’t all that many on the market. Google makes one. Acer and Asus have models. And a few enterprise and education-focused companies including CTL and AOPEN have models. But soon there could be another player: About […]
Xbox Series X coming in late 2020 (It’s pretty much a gaming PC in console form)
Microsoft has taken the wraps off its next-gen Xbox game console and the Xbox Series X is either a big console or a small gaming PC, depending on how you look at it. It’s not expected to ship until the 2020 holiday season, but Microsoft revealed the basics of the upcoming console during the Game […]
Intel’s upcoming “Jasper Lake” chips could bring Gen11 graphics to Celeron and Pentium low-power processors
Intel doesn’t use the Atom name very much anymore, but the company still ships a lot of Atom-based, low-power processors for use in low-cost Chromebooks and Windows laptops. Basically if you find a sub-$300 laptop with an Intel Celeron or Pentium processor based on Gemini Lake or Apollo Lake architecture, you’re probably getting the successor […]
Daily Deals (12-12-2019)
Another week, another set of free PC games — but this time it’s not just the Epic Games Store hosting a giveaway. While Epic is letting you download the Escapists for free for the next 7 days, GOG is also getting on the action this week, with a 1-day giveaway of Wasteland 2 Director’s Cut. […]
Google’s “Interpreter mode” turns your phone into a Babel Fish (real-time voice translation)
Google has added real-time voice translation to Google Assistant for smartphones. Just ask Google to act as your translator or help you speak a language, and it can help you communicate with someone who speaks a different language from you. Google’s “Interpreter mode” could come in handy if you’re ordering food or asking for directions while […]
Proteus Device is a secure, Linux-based handheld (not a smartphone)
The Proteus Device from XXLSEC is a handheld computer with a 5 inch touchscreen display and a secure, Linux-based operating system called PriveOS. At first glance, it looks a lot like a smartphone. But the Proteus Device does not have a cellular modem and it’s not designed to make phone calls. What it does have that you […]
Samsung launches Galaxy A51, A71 smartphones (mid-rangers with quad cameras)
Samsung’s latest updates to its Galaxy A line of smartphones include two new models with punch-hole displays, quad cameras on the back, and at least 6GB of RAM. The Samsung Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71 were unveiled today in Vietnam and Poland, but they’ll likely roll out to other markets soon. The Samsung Galaxy A51 features a […]
Wearable gadget shipments nearly doubled in a year (thanks to smart earbuds)
Wearable electronic devices had a record quarter according to new figures from research firm IDC. The company has put out a report estimating that 84.5 million “wearable devices” were shipped in the third quarter of 2019, which is nearly twice as many as shipped during the same period a year earlier. Why the big boom? […]
Daily Deals (12-11-2019)
If you didn’t get a chance to pick up an Apple iPad 10.2″ tablet for $250 on Black Friday, now you have another chance — Best Buy is selling Apple’s latest tablet for the same low price today. And if that’s too much money to justify spending on a tablet, Amazon has deals on the […]
Oppo’s smartphone prototype has under-glass camera, no ports or buttons
Some smartphones are already shipping with in-display fingerprint sensors rather than visible sensors on the front, back, or sides of the phone. Soon we may see phones with in-display cameras as well. Chinese device maker Oppo revealed that it was developing an under-glass smartphone camera earlier this year. This week the company showed off the […]
CrossOver 19 runs 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit only macOS Catalina
CrossOver is software that allows you to run Windows programs on non-Windows operating systems including Linux, Chrome OS, and macOS. But one problem with that last part is that an awful lot of Windows applications are 32-bit… and even many 64-bit apps have 32-bit installers. So when dropped support for 32-bit apps with the launch […]
Pour one out for Windows 10 Mobile as it reaches end of support
Microsoft’s next smartphone is expected to ship next year, and when it does, the Microsoft Surface Duo will be running Google’s Android operating system. That’s a shift from the company’s earlier strategy — Microsoft used to make its own smartphone operating systems. But over the past decade the market share for Windows phones has diminished […]
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