Lenovo is kicking off 2020 with a gaming laptop that needs a companion to thrive. It’s introducing the Legion Y740S, a slim 15.6-inch laptop (billed as Lenovo’s “thinnest and lightest” gaming model) meant to couple with the company’s first external GPU, the Legion BoostStation. It has some decent horsepower with up to a Core i9 processor, 32GB of RAM and a 1TB PCIe…
Procter & Gamble may be 183 years old, but last year marked its first appearance at CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. The company is appearing today with the same game plan — to make ordinary products better with AI, sensors, and other tech.
At one of the…
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By 2013 Samsung was one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world, but it had a reputation of building plastic phones at a time when Apple, HTC, Sony and others were pushing metal as the material of choice for flagships.
Samsung was also at the forefront of a trend it started, that of extra large screens. The large, plastic Galaxys had little overlap with the small, metal iPhones.
In case you’ve been losing sleep over whether that leaked Samsung invite video was real, fret no more. Samsung itself confirmed this evening that it plans to show off “new, innovative devices that will shape the next decade of mobile experiences” at a…
Samsung confirms Galaxy S11 event for February 11th
January 5, 2020
The next Galaxy flagship smartphone from Samsung is indeed being announced on February 11th. After the date was discovered earlier today thanks to an unlisted video, Samsung has now confirmed that its Unpacked event will be held that day in San Francisco.
There’s little…
'Fortnite' made a historic $1.8 billion in 2019
January 5, 2020
Fortnite won its chicken dinner in 2019 by grossing $1.8 billion in sales, more than any single-year sales total in videogame history. While the game itself is technically free-to-play, Epic Games offers a $10 per month Battle Pass as well as myriad in-game item purchases — from clothing and weapons to dance mores and player reactions — to keep the game’s 125 million active…
2019 Winners and Losers: Motorola
January 5, 2020
Another year is passing by and Motorola kept on pushing entry and midrange phones. We also got a break from the norm with the company’s long-awaited foldable phone – the rebord Razr. Let’s see what was good and not so good for the storied company in the…
LG may have a simple approach to fighting the next Galaxy S phone — offer a no-nonsense flagship. Well-known tipster OnLeaks and CashKaro have shared CAD-based renders of what they says is the G9, and it appears to be a slightly refined take on the G8X that revolves…
The US government’s concerns about Chinese involvement in tech are leading to significant restrictions on AI. The Commerce Department is instituting a rule on January 6th that will require companies to obtain a license if they want to export certain AI-powered geospatial imagery software to other countries besides Canada. Not surprisingly, officials are worried that the technology (which…
