TAIPEI—Giant curved computer monitors are a luxury, to be sure, but they they’re not exactly rare. You can pick up a 34-inch model from a handful of mainstream manufacturers like HP and Dell, and it won’t set you back more than a few hundred dollars. But boost the size to 49 inches, and you basically […]
Qualcomm is supposedly tackling Intel head-on by producing a Snapdragon 1000 chip targeting high-end Always Connected Windows 10 PCs. There are no specific details for now, only that it will draw more power at around 12 watts than the upcoming 6.5-watt Snapdragon 850 chip designed specifically for Windows 10 PCs. That power requirement would put […]
Among most people today (especially younger techies who may not remember the Mac and PC wars), Apple is best-known for its highly successful iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch — after all, Steve Jobs effectively pioneered the smartphone as we know it with the iPhone’s debut in 2007. The company originally built itself upon its excellent […]
Vojtech Okenka/Pexels Cutting out the background from an image can be time-consuming and fiddly, especially if there’s a lot going on in it. Fortunately, there are a number of tools to make the job quick and easy and some of them don’t even require a download! Want to learn how to remove a background from […]
TAIPEI—So you’ve just spent several hours and several thousand dollars on a high-end PC build with RGB lights galore to illuminate your intricate liquid cooling pipes and your SLI graphics cards. But perhaps you didn’t fill up all the memory DIMM slots, so there’s a glaring, dark hole on your motherboard. Talk about a first-world […]
Comcast If you’re a Comcast customer, you probably noticed that your phone and internet service may have been down since this morning. Customers have voiced concern and frustration over the massive nationwide outage affecting home and small business users across the country. Although Comcast’s business Twitter account only confirms that business phone service has been […]
[embedded content] For the last couple of years, Mozilla has offered its useful Test Pilot program that lets anyone try out new features it’s thinking about incorporating into its Firefox web browser. A couple more landed on Tuesday. The first should delight avid multitaskers, while the other will be useful for those who’ve ever felt […]
Alongside a powerful graphics card and processor and reliable accessories to control your actions, for the perfect game, you also need an exceptional viewing portal into those virtual worlds. To help you find the right one for you, we’ve put together a list of the best gaming monitors you can purchase right now. They’re not cheap, but […]
At its keynote presentation at Computex 2018, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 850, a new chipset made exclusively for Windows PCs. While the first generation of Qualcomm-powered laptops shared the Snapdragon 835 with Android phones, the next generation will get its own chip. Qualcomm says the 850 is separate from the 845, and has been optimized […]
We recently raved about the $ 329.99 Acer Spin 1, the Taiwanese tech giant’s least expensive 2-in-1 convertible laptop. The Spin 3 ($ 499.99) is Acer’s next step up, slotting in above the Spin 1 and below the Spins 5 and 7. As budget 2-in-1s go, the Spin 3 has a good feature set and […]
Windows Central Rumors have been swirling for months about Microsoft’s plans to integrate virtual assistants such as Alexa with the Xbox One console, and Windows Central has uncovered some evidence that such a move may come sooner than expected. A screenshot reportedly from an upcoming Xbox One build shows a “digital assistants” section added to […]
Casezy/Getty Images If you’ve been paying attention to news lately, you may have noticed the widespread calls from the FBI and DOJ to reset your home wireless router for security reasons. The warning came following a very thorough Talos Intelligence report on a type of malware called VPNFilter, which infects network routers. Since this malware […]
Bill Roberson/Digital Trends Apple is no stranger to controversy, but the missteps on the latest MacBook Pro design go beyond the standard fare. WWDC is just around the corner, and while we don’t expect Apple to refresh the MacBook Pro beyond a CPU bump, it’d be a great chance to level with its fan base […]
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Lenovo appears to be working on a follow-up to its Yoga Book according to a listing on the Bluetooth SIG website. It’s labeled as the Yoga Book 2 Pro along with the Yoga Book Pen 2. This is a 2-in-1 we’ll likely see this fall during the back-to-school season although the “pro” […]
Ticketfly has been down since Thursday, May 31, after a hacker had digitally attacked the Eventbrite-owned ticketing website and leaked stolen customer information. The hacker who called himself IsHakdz vandalized the site by replacing the website’s content with an image of Guy Fawkes from the film V for Vendetta along with the phrase “Your security […]