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Canalys: Google sold more smart speakers than Amazon in Q1, 2018

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Amazon pretty much invented the smart speaker category when the company introduced the Amazon Echo in 2014. And Amazon has pretty much dominated the space ever since… until this year. According to research from Canalysis, Google took the top spot in smart speaker sales for the first time in the first quarter of 2018. Amazon […]

Deals of the Day (5-24-2018)

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a thin, light, and professional-looking laptop that Lenovo’s been selling for years. The latest model is a 6th-gen version that has a starting price of $1140 at the moment, which is about as cheap as these premium ultraportables get if you want a new model. But if you’re cool […]

Huawei is killing its bootloader unlocking service

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Huawei has been selling a somewhat popular line of mid-range phones under its Honor sub-brand for the past few years. And while they tend to offer decent specs at a decent price, there’s been another selling point for some folks: Honor has offered an official method for unlocking the bootloader and partnered with xda-developers to encourage […]

Beelink S2 with Pentium N5000, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD launches for $300

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Beelink’s latest computer is a small-form-factor PC powered by an Intel Celeron N5000 quad-core Gemini Lake processor and featuring 8GB of DDR4 memory and a 128GB SSD. While there are certainly computers with better specs, the processor, memory, and storage are a cut above what we often see from entry-level mini PCs. The price tag […]

Qualcomm introduces Snapdragon 710 chip for mid-range phones

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Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 710 processor is designed to offer faster performance, improved graphics, longer battery life, and better network performance than last year’s Snapdragon 660. The new processor is the first member of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 700 series, which the company says brings premium features to “high-tier” phones. In other words, as the name suggests, […]

Chromebook “Kidd” with Intel Kaby Lake-G on the way (AMD graphics)

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Chromebooks aren’t just cheap laptops with Google’s Chrome OS software anymore. There’s a wide range of Chrome OS devices these days, including entry-level and premium devices, and new form factors including tablets. But one thing we haven’t seen yet is a Chromebook with AMD or NVIDIA graphics. But that could change soon. Xda-developers spotted a […]

Hands-on with the Acer Chromebook Tab 10

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The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 is the first tablet tablet to ship with Chrome OS… but it’s easy to think of this as an Android tablet that just happens to be able to run the desktop version of Google’s chrome web browser. It supports the Google Play Store and Android apps, allowing the Chromebook Tab […]

Acer’s new Swift 5 is a 2.2 pound, 15.6 inch laptop

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Acer is updating its Swift line of thin and light laptops with a new Swift 5 featuring a 15.6 inch display, slim bezels, and a screen to body ratio of nearly 88 percent. But the most impressive thing about the new Acer Swift 5 is its weight: it’s just 1 kilogram, or about 2.2 pounds. […]

Deals of the day (5-23-2018)

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Last week when Woot was selling the Logitech C920 webcam for $31, that was the best price I’d seen for this popular and well-reviewed 1080p webcam. It’s the same model I paid $80 for a few years ago, and I was pretty happy with the level of features and quality at that price point. But […]