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...

From TechCrunch: Sex tech has been done at the Consumer Electronics Show. This year, however, seems to be different, with the organization behind CES, the Consumer Technology Association, revoking an innovation award from a company geared toward women’s sexual health.

The CTA revoked an innovation...

From CRN: Apple CEO Tim Cook’s total pay rose last year as the company hit multiple growth goals in fiscal 2018.

Cook reported total compensation of $15.7 million in fiscal 2018, up $2.9 million from the $12.8 million he received the prior year, according to a proxy filing Tuesday with the U.S...

From MSI Press Release: MSI debuts an industry-leading selection of gaming products at CES 2019, including the brand new GS75 Stealth laptop with the latest NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ GPU and the PS63 Modern Prestige laptop, designed for business executives and content creators.

“MSI is devoted to...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake announces the immediate release of its groundbreaking product today, the Thermaltake WaterRam RGB Liquid Cooling DDR4 Memory. An unprecedented DDR4 memory module integrated with liquid-cooling solutions. This is the world’s first two-way cooling DDR4...