Last month at its Unpacked event, Samsung announced the Galaxy Fold, a phone that folded out to become a tablet. It’s a marvel of engineering, making the Korean company the first major manufacturer to reveal a foldable phone. That same week, Chinese manufacturer Hauwei knocked the air out of that announcement, with an arguably better-designed foldable phone of their own, The Huawei Mate X.
The beginning of March brings a sad day for handheld console enthusiasts. After a production period of seven years, Sony has officially laid the PlayStation Vita to rest. As of this weekend, Sony has discontinued the last two remaining models of the Vita, as seen on the console’s official product page. The discontinuation falls in line with the words of …
There has been a surge in recent times of tech companies cracking down on their user-based content and how it is moderated. With YouTube taking a stand against videos and channels that they deem inappropriate, it has now emerged that Twitter is looking to introduce the option to hide replies to a tweet. The “Hide Tweet” option would give users …
FedEx has joined the challenge of automated delivery with a new robot designed to help with short distance deliveries.
AMD’s Ryzen family has already gone through two generations of chips and motherboards, and has come out pretty strong against the competition from Intel, boosting AMD to around 15% of the CPU market. Where Ryzen was lacking was in options for creative professionals who wanted workstations based on the Zen architecture, but without the high cost of a Threadripper system. …
This past week at MWC 2019 the USB Implementation Forum (USB-IF) announced the release of the USB 3.2 specification, which tacks on another level of speed to the existing USB 3.0 specification. And when I say “tack on”, I really mean tack on. USB 3.2 is basically two USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports that were smashed together to push twice …
Having spent the last few days salivating over the Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X, a question on many people’s minds is battery life. While these two phones may be looking to further cellphone design to something like we saw on HBO’s Westworld, their 4380mAH and 4500mAH packs are not inspiring anyone. Especially given how much power those screens …
This week AMD released their new Radeon Software 19.2.3 drivers. The naming isn’t sexy or catchy, and it looks like any other driver release. But the release notes and AMD’s press notices about this driver are focused on something that AMD users have been petitioning the company for years now: the bundling of their drivers for discrete and integrated graphics …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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