Sony’s PlayStation Classic looks like a tiny version of the original PlayStation game console. It has a list price of $100, comes with two game controllers and features 20 games pre-loaded. Officially, that’s the end of the story. Sony doesn’t officially offer support for loading any other titles or doing anything other than playing those […]
Google app for Android may be getting an experimental “Labs” feature
The latest beta version of the Google app for Android has a few lines of code tucked inside that hint at upcoming features, according ton an analysis by 9to5Google. Among other things, it looks like there may be Google Assistant could eventually add support for some new devices, the Continued Conversation feature that debuted last year […]
Amazon is buying mesh networking startup eero
Pretty much every major company that makes consumer routers has gotten into the mesh WiFi business over the past few years. But a startup called eero one of the first companies to posit the idea that you’d get better WiFi coverage in your house if you used a system of up to three routers instead […]
Run Windows 95 as an app (and yes, it runs Doom)
Developer Felix Reiseberg released an app last year… that basically let you use a rough-around-the-edges version of Windows 95 as a standalone app that can run in Windows, Mac, or Linux. There aren’t really a lot of reasons you’d want to do that, but it’s neat that you could. Now there are a few more reasons […]
Now you can run Linux on (some) ARM laptops designed for Windows 10 on ARM
The first Windows 10 laptops and tablets with ARM processors shipped in 2018… to mixed reviews. The Asus NovaGo, HP Envy x2, and Lenovo Miix 630 are relatively thin and light devices with long battery life and support for 4G LTE. But they’re also relatively sluggish computers… especially when Windows has emulate x86 architecture to […]
Taihe Gemini portable 1080p touchscreen monitor preview
The Taihe Gemini portable monitor has made quite a splash since going up for pre-order on Kickstarter in January, having raised over $1 million from more than 3,200 backers so far — despite the project’s modest goal of just $10,000. Update 2/19/2019: The Kickstarter campaign has ended, but you can now pre-order a Gemini through an […]
Google releases Chrome OS 72 with optimizations for touchscreen devices
The latest version of Chrome OS brings a number of new features for Chromebooks and other devices running Google’s operating system… including the growing number of Chrome OS tablets. Among other things, Chrome OS 72 includes a version of the Chrome browser that’s been optimized for touchscreen devices when you’re using them in tablet mode. […]
Smach Z handheld gaming PC inches closer to reality (gameplay videos)
The Smach Z handheld gaming PC is a few years overdue at this point… but it’s starting to look like like this might actually be the year you might actually be able to buy one. After promising a few months ago that mass production would begin in early 2019, the folks at Smach have started […]
LibreOffice 6.2 introduces customizable toolbar
LibreOffice is a free and open source suite of office applications for creating, viewing, and editing text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents, among other things. Basically it’s an open source alternative to Microsoft Office — and for the most part you can use it to open and edit Office documents without paying for an Office license, […]
Mozilla’s Project Fission brings site isolation to Firefox (Spectre and Meltdown protection)
Companies have been scrambling to offer software updates to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities since before they were disclosed to the public last year. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to use a speculative execution side-channel attack to obtain data from your computer that shouldn’t be accessible. One thing Google did to help protect […]
LG G8 ThinQ smartphone will have depth-sensing selfie camera
LG’s next flagship smartphone will have a 3D depth-sensing camera on the front with support for face recognition, augmented reality, and other features. The company plans to launch the LG G8 ThinQ smartphone at Mobile World Congress later this month, but LG has a habit of building a bit of hype by pre-announcing specific features. […]
Google’s Adiantum could bring encryption to budget phones (and other devices)
Google has required phone makers to offer storage encryption on most smartphones that have shipped with Android 6.0 or later. But the company has offered exemptions on devices that don’t support hardware-accelerated cryptography. In a nutshell, if you’re buying a modern phone with an ARMv8 processor, it probably supports disk encryption. If you pick up […]
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