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Microsoft's Surface Laptop 3 packs a 10th-gen Intel CPU

October 2, 2019
Microsoft has good news if you just want a straightforward portable PC instead of one of its more exotic models: there’s a new Surface Laptop in town. The Surface Laptop 3 shares much of the familiar design (more on that in a bit), but there’s considerably more power under the hood. You now have the option of special Surface Edition AMD Ryzen processors with Vega 11 graphics, for a…
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MobileNews

Duet Display for Android turns your smartphone into a second monitor

October 2, 2019
The popular iOS app Duet Display that turns your smartphone or tablet into a secondary monitor is now available to download on Android. While you can already turn your Samsung Galaxy phone into a desktop machine using the DeX system, it’s harder to turn your phone into an actual extra screen for an existing PC or Mac. Duet Display for Android, when released, will enable you to turn your…
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MobileNews

Blue Yeti X review — The best USB microphone yet

October 2, 2019
If you ask a group of young kids what they want to do when they get older, at least some of them are going to answer “YouTuber” or “Twitch streamer.” Content creation is a huge business, and Blue Microphones is one of the companies capitalizing on that. Its Blue Yeti…
MobileNews

Apple will let Siri open third-party iOS apps by default

October 2, 2019
Apple’s iOS operating system has increased its included collection of apps over the years, growing from 17 in 2007 to just under 40 in 2019 — all while guaranteeing that everything included is the iPhone’s or iPad’s “default” app for its own functionality. Now…
ComputersNews

Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 3 with AMD processor

October 2, 2019
At its Surface event in New York City today, Microsoft refreshed its Surface Laptop with updated specs, USB-C support, and AMD Ryzen 7. This is the first time a Surface device has been powered by AMD. Furthermore, while the Surface Laptop 2 only came in a 13.5-inch size, the Surface Laptop 3 is available in 13.5-inch and 15-inch flavors. The Surface Laptop 3 starts at $999 (same as the Surface…
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Rune raises $2 million to use AI to find friends for mobile gamers

October 2, 2019
Rune has raised $2 million in funding in its effort to use artificial intelligence to help find friends for mobile gamers. Rune is a Y Combinator accelerator grad, and it was built by two doctoral students who dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sanjay Guruprasad and Bjarke Felbo. They started their company by asking a simple question: Can AI find you friends? Users have…
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