After working for a year, I have pretty much been taking the exact same route to and from work. I take Deerfoot Trail down to my office, while taking slower routes like Memorial Drive and Crowchild Trail to get back home. My rationale is the path I take in the morning generally has free flowing traffic. As it is a freeway, I can travel down it pretty fast. However, by the afternoon, Deerfoot is all backed up, and it makes sense for me to take the...
From ExtremeTech: Intel’s Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K has launched, earning our top CPU recommendation at its price point. But there’s one issue worth being aware of going forward: Intel has declared that it will no longer officially disclose its per-core Turbo frequencies. When we queried Intel why...
From PC World: In 1992, IBM shipped the ThinkPad, the iconic bento-box laptop that defined a generation of productivity. Twenty-five years later, Lenovo has launched the ThinkPad 25, an anniversary edition that even boasts a retro $1,899 price tag.
The ThinkPad 25 is the culmination of a...
From PC Mag: Not thrilled with your current mobile browser? Microsoft has a new option.
The software giant just announced plans to bring its Edge browser to iOS and Android devices. Along with that, Microsoft introduced a new Android launcher app, which lets you customize you phone's home screen....
From CNET: China has given HP the green light to buy Samsung Electronics' printer business, but the deal comes with conditions.
HP has received approval to buy Samsung's printer business for $1.1 billion -- along with restrictions meant to keep the company from monopolizing the market and engaging...
From The Verge: It’s a GoPro. Just like the iPhone 8 is an iPhone, the new iPad is an iPad, and how most iterative product releases tend to resemble their forebears, the new Hero 6 Black is stunningly similar to the camera it’s supplanting.
Well, mostly. After spending all launch day with the $499...
From eWeek: Google introduced the Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 2 smartphones Oct. 4, to refresh the sales momentum behind these popular Android handsets and their Google-centric applications.
The phones, which have been rumored for months, include the Pixel 2 XL, which has a 6-inch quad-HD edge-to-edge...
From AnandTech: Seagate is launching a trio of 12TB hard drives today with a focus on the consumer market. The 3.5” drives build upon the 'PMR platters in a helium-filled enclosure' platform used in the 10 TB consumer hard drives released last year. The new 12TB drives target three different market...
From PC World: Google’s Pixel Buds earbuds look like just another pair of wireless earbuds. But the $159 Pixel 2 accessories do something different: They’ll help you translate a conversation into a language you don’t already know.
The Pixel 2 smartphone lacks a headphone jack, but the new Google...
From PC Mag: Bad news, Netflix members: prices are going up.
Netflix's most popular plan, Standard—which offers HD-quality streams and lets you watch on up to two devices at a time—is increasing $1 to $10.99 a month. The company's Premium plan, which offers Ultra HD quality and allows four...
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