From PC World: RGB lighting on gaming PCs is about to get a whole lot brighter and a whole lot more efficient thanks to Corsair’s new Capellix LED technology, which promises to be 60 percent brighter while using 40 percent less power.

The new LEDs are incredibly tiny and dense compared to typical...

From The Verge: AMD introduced its latest Radeon VII graphics card yesterday, just days after Nvidia revealed it was bringing its RTX 2080 line to gaming laptops. AMD’s new chip is designed to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 2080, but outspoken Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has laughed off the competition. In a...

From Forbes: This week I’m in Las Vegas attending CES 2019. The annual consumer electronics conference is a virtual who’s who of consumer tech, with most companies seizing the opportunity to announce flashy new products for the new year. Industry stalwart HP Inc., the #1 unit share PC manufacturer...

From Recode: Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are planning to divorce after 25 years of marriage, the couple announced in a joint statement posted to the Amazon CEO’s Twitter account on Wednesday morning.

“As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial...

From PCWorld: PC makers at CES have told PCWorld that they haven’t warmed to cutting-edge Optane Memory as much as Intel would have liked. But that hasn’t stopped Intel from innovating, most recently by combining Optane and flash memory on a single M.2 card.

Eventually, Optane Memory H10 with Solid...

From The Verge: Flash drives are good. Bigger flash drives are better. At CES 2019, SanDisk has the biggest flash drive ever: an absolutely massive 4TB prototype USB-C drive that can still fit in your pocket.

The drive doesn’t have a name, much less actual specifications like a price tag or a...

From CNET: Maybe PC audio is still important after all. At CES 2019 on Tuesday, EVGA introduced Nu Audio, its first-ever sound card with claims that it will bring “lifelike gaming” to your ears.

EVGA partnered with UK firm AudioNote on the card, which features a six-layer, gold-plated PCB. Making...

From Forbes: Google is finally melding two of it’s most useful apps into one package. The Assistant is coming to Google Maps. Navigating with Maps just got safer and easier.

Saying “OK Google” or tapping the microphone icon launches the Assistant while you’re navigating. If you’ve been using Maps...

From TechCrunch: Collaboration tools tend to be geared towards workers who are sitting at a desk for much of the day, but there are plenty of shift workers, also known as first line workers, who rarely use a computer, but still need to communicate with one another and management. Microsoft released...

From EETimes: IBM led in U.S. utility patent awards again in 2018, a year that saw a dip in overall awards. But a new ranking of global patent holders showed that Samsung leads the pack by far.

The U.S. issued 308,853 utility patents last year, down 3.5% from a historic high in 2017, according to...