"Here is your new license plate," the person at the local registry said as she handed me a license plate ending in "1688". I quietly giggled to myself about my sheer luck of getting the most Asian plate in the world -- I swear it was pure coincidence -- as I inserted my debit card to the payment terminal. A few years ago, in my Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK motherboard review, I talked about why Chinese people like license plates with certain numbers...
From The Verge: Microsoft is currently working on a second generation of its Surface Hub, the company’s giant 55- and 84-inch 4K smart displays. “Surface Hub created an entirely new device category and we’re thrilled with the strong momentum we have seen across the globe,” says a Microsoft...
From PC Mag: if you want a fast PC in 2018, then an SSD is essential as your boot drive while hard drives still have their place in a system, offering terabytes of cheap storage. But there is a third option you'd be forgiven for forgetting about. It's called Intel Optane Memory, was developed by...
From CNET: Fortnite, released last July for the PS4, Xbox One and PC, is best described as a game that's kinda like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. But now it's truly setting itself apart with a mobile port.
The mobile version of Fortnite, announced on Thursday by Epic Games, is ambitious: It'll...
From The Verge: After leaks of each individual device, VentureBeat reporter Evan Blass has tweeted a photo of all three rumored versions of the Huawei P20: the regular P20, the P20 Lite, and the P20 Pro. We can now clearly see what will likely be the front and back of each phone. They’re about what...
From PC Mag: Yesterday, Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, revealed on Twitter that Windows 10 S becomes 10 S mode in 2019. However, today that revelation got clarified and we probably won't be waiting until 2019 to get S mode.
Windows 10 S is a...
From CNET: Apple uncovered a higher number of serious labor and human rights rules violations at its supplier facilities in 2017, the company said Wednesday in its annual audit of its supply chain.
Apple identified 44 "core violations" of labor rules, according to its 12th annual Supplier...
From The Verge: Facebook’s Messenger Lite app for Android is getting video chat, adding the final feature the slimmed-down app needed to become a truly viable replacement for the full-featured Messenger.
It’s an addition that more or less makes Messenger Lite the perfect Facebook Messenger app...
From CNET: 5G appears to be the solution to everyone's problems. For Broadcom, it's the potential key to completing its hostile takeover of fellow chip maker Qualcomm.
Broadcom, which makes chips for everything from set-top boxes to data centers, on Wednesday vowed to make the US a global leader...
From PC Mag: BlackBerry is suing Facebook for patent infringement on the claim that the social media company's messaging services use BlackBerry intellectual property without permission.
Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram have all benefited from patented technology that was originally used...
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