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NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super review: A modest, necessary upgrade

September 16, 2019
When NVIDIA announced its revamped Super RTX video cards earlier this month, the bulk of the attention was on its affordable midrange entries, the RTX 2060 Super and 2070 Super. For just $399 and $499, they delivered significantly faster speeds than their predecessors, and they arrived just in time to go head to head with AMD’s latest Radeons. Then there’s the RTX 2080 Super, which…
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GamingNews

IKEA SYMFONISK review: Sonos speakers at IKEA prices

September 16, 2019
Although IKEA is mostly known as a purveyor of flatpack furniture and Swedish meatballs, it has dabbled in electronics as well. In years past, it’s launched its own line of smart bulbs, Bluetooth speakers and a lamp with a built-in wireless charger. This year…
MobileNews

Readers tell us why the OnePlus 6T has earned so many fans

September 16, 2019
When Senior Editor Richard Lai reviewed the OnePlus 6T, new features like its distinct dewdrop notch and in-display fingerprint reader stood out to him. As the company’s first offering through a US carrier and the successor to the popular OnePlus 6, the device had a…
ComputersNews

Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro review (2019): This is the one

September 16, 2019
Last fall, Apple finally updated the MacBook Air. In doing so, it made choosing the best entry-level Mac laptop far more complicated than necessary. The Air was directly pitted against the 12-inch MacBook and the cheapest 13-inch MacBook Pro (sans Touch Bar). There was no clear-cut best option: There was too much feature overlap, and no one machine was a winner in all regards. Fortunately, Apple…
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MobileNews

Honor 20 in for review

September 16, 2019
The Honor 20 series aims to provide a viable alternative to Huawei’s P30 handsets for those that can’t quite stretch their budgets that far. Sure you won’t get the periscope around the back, the display is IPS instead of OLED and there isn’t any official IP rating. At the same time, you’re still getting the flagship Kirin 980 chipset, an All-view display and a quad camera in a more…
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Oppo Reno Ace arriving on October 10

September 16, 2019
Oppo introduced three Reno2 smartphones in late August, but none of them were a true flagship specs-wise. At the end of the event the company VP Brian Shen actually revealed a new phone is incoming, called Reno Ace. Today, the Weibo account of the phone maker confirmed the…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI can gauge the risk of dying from heart conditions

September 16, 2019
AI’s ability to predict threats to your health could soon include deadly heart conditions. Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL have developed a machine learning system, RiskCardio, that can estimate the risk of death due to cardiovascular issues that block or reduce blood flow. All it needs is a 15-minute ECG reading — from there, it gauges the danger based on the sets of consecutive…
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