Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor is basically slightly cheaper, slightly less powerful version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The chip maker says it’s designed to offer a nearly the same level of performance as the company’s flagship mobile processor in more affordable devices. And one of the first devices that will use the […]
Brad Linder
PiBoy DMGx kit turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a handheld game console
Experimental Pi sells several kits that let you transform a Raspberry Pi single-board computer into a handheld game console, including a PiBoy DMG kit that’s been available for around 4 years and has a design that takes heavy inspiration from Nintendo’s Game Boy. But that kit was designed for the Raspberry Pi 4. Now Experimental […]
Daily Deals (3-18-2024)
Anker’s Soundcore Space A40 true wireless earbuds feature active noise-cancellation and ridiculously long battery life when you use the included charging case. I picked up a pair almost a month ago and I’ve used them to listen to an audiobook and a half, plus a fair amount of music and I have yet to recharge […]
GOG partners with Amazon Luna to let users stream games to TVs, tablets, and other devices
GOG sells over 9,000 DRM-free PC games including new releases and classic titles (GOG used to stand for Good Old Games), including titles that are playable on Windows, Mac and Linux. But now the company plans to get into game streaming, allowing users to play some games on a smart TVs, phones, tablets, and other […]
Pine64’s PineVox smart speaker is a hacker-friendly smart speaker with a microphone kill switch (under development)
Pine64 is a company that sells single-board computers, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches that are designed as hacker-friendly devices capable of supporting GNU/Linux and/or other free and open source software. Now the company is branching out into the smart speaker space. The PineVox is a work-in-progress smart speaker designed to run open source voice assistant and/or […]
QNAP TS-216G is a 2-bay NAS with 2.5 GbE LAN and an NPU for image recognition
Network Attached Storage company QNAP has unveiled a system that it’s positioning as its cheapest dual-bay NAS with a 2.5 GbE port for high-speed data transfer over a local network. The new QNAP TS-216G is also likely to be the company’s cheapest dual-bay model with an integrated NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for hardware-accelerated AI features […]
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 for (slightly) cheaper flagship phones
Qualcomm is adding a new segment to its Snapdragon 8 line of processors for flagship-class smartphones and tablets. The new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is a slightly stripped-down version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that the company launched in October. It shares many of the same core technologies, but scales back a few features […]
Daily Deals (3-15-2024)
Best Buy is a 3-day sale that kicks off today and runs through Sunday. Among other things, you can save some serious cash on some not-brand-new-but-not-that-old laptops and tablets. Case in point: the Lenovo Flex 3i 12.2″ convertible Chromebook with a FHD touchscreen display and an Intel Processor N100 is on sale for just $269. […]
GMK K9 is an Intel Meteor Lake mini PC with Thunderbolt 4 and 2.5 GbE LAN
The GMK K9 is a compact desktop computer that looks very familiar, because it’s virtually identical on the outside to the GMK NucBox K8 that the company launched in February. But while the NucBox K8 is powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 8845HS “Hawk Point” processor, the new K9 model has an Intel Core Ultra 5 […]
Walmart is selling the MacBook Air with M1 for $699
Apple’s strategy for offering budget devices is usually to keep selling older hardware at discounted prices after launching new hardware. So this month, when the company launched the new MacBook Air with an M3 processor for $1099 and up, Apple also lowered the starting price for models with M2 chips to $999. But at the […]