Acer is joining a flurry of PC makers in adopting the next wave of NVIDIA and Intel chips inside its laptops. It&aposs updating its 15.6-inch Predator Triton 500 (above) and Nitro 5 (below) gaming portables to use NVIDIA&aposs new GeForce RTX Super laptop GPUs as well as Intel&aposs 10th-generation Core H-series processors. As you might guess, the premium Predator series is the…
Lenovo is leaping quickly on the latest NVIDIA and Intel technology for its gaming laptops. It&aposs introducing Legion 5i and Legion 7i portables (successors to the Y540 and Y740 respectively) that, most notably, are among the first to use NVIDIA&aposs Advanced…
One of the key privacy features in iOS 14 is a new option that allows users to disable tracking between different applications. During its quarterly earnings call last month, Facebook pointed out that the new tracking setting could impact its advertising revenue, and a new…
Oral-B's absurd $200 AI toothbrush is finally available
August 24, 2020
Oral-B showed off its flashy new AI-powered iO toothbrush at CES 2020. It threw around phrases like “linear magnetic drive” and “oscillating, rotating movements,” but the company didn’t reveal the price. Now, the brush is finally available, and it starts at a whopping $200.
Oral-B insists that the iO is worth the investment. The company spent six years on R&D and got input from…
Twitter opens up anti-troll feature to all iOS app users [U]
August 24, 2020
Twitter tested an anti-troll feature earlier in the year, allowing select users to choose who is able to reply to their tweets. The experiment was clearly a success, as the latest version of the iOS app makes the feature available to all …
It turns out Twitter made a…
In case you didn&apost already feel inundated with news, Microsoft is introducing a new app that will display a scrolling news feed across your desktop. News Bar, currently available as a beta for Windows 10, will curate the top regional news from over 4,500…
Acer's Ryzen 4000 series laptops will be available in weeks
August 24, 2020
Acer is adding the option to choose Ryzen 4000 series processors to another of its laptops. After announcing the Swift 3 would get AMD chips back at CES, the company has announced that the Aspire 5 will also join the party.
There are no major changes from the existing models beyond the processor, although the Swift 3 is coming to market earlier than expected. To refresh your memory, the Swift 3…
If the US is going to build a quantum internet and otherwise claim technical supremacy, it’s going to need appropriate funding — and that might be forthcoming. As the Wall Street Journal reports, The White House has proposed a 2021 non-defense budget that includes a…
iOS 14 lets users grant approximate location access for apps that don’t require exact GPS tracking
August 24, 2020
An iOS 14 feature that has gone a bit under the radar is the Precise Location toggle for Location Services. This new toggle gives the user more control over which apps can access your current location, and to what granularity.
Before iOS 14, you could grant an app access to…
If you&aposve been lucky enough to get your hands on the new MacBook Air, you know that the keyboard really is excellent. Thanks to the scissor mechanism, which replaced the hated butterfly keyboard, the keys are noticeably cushier, with more travel. iFixit took a closer look at those keys in its latest teardown and reports that the height difference is about 0.5 millimeters.
“More…
