From The Verge: Microsoft is launching a new Surface Plus program in the US today, helping spread the cost of a new devices over two years. Surface Plus acts like a cellphone contract, with a 24-month payment plan at zero percent APR for the first two years and 19.99 percent APR thereafter...
From CNET: Amazon just put budget phone maker Blu in the penalty box.
The online retailing giant told CNET that it was suspending sales of phones from Blu, known for making ultra-cheap Android handsets, due to a "potential security issue."
The move comes after security firm Kryptowire...
From PC Mag: With the launch of the 2DS XL for $149.99, Nintendo is offering the best combination of all its 3DS handhelds in the lightest package. It's also likely to be the last iteration of the 2DS/3DS hardware. But Nintendo hasn't given up on selling more of the smaller, non-clamshell 2DS...
From The Verge: Earlier this month, LG sent out invitations for an upcoming event expected to reveal the company’s flagship LG V30 phone on August 31st. It now looks like consumers will be able to get their hands on one soon thereafter: Android Authority reports that it’ll first go on sale in South...
From PC World: Continuing its attack on Intel’s high-end desktop chips, AMD on Monday unveiled a third Ryzen Threadripper CPU priced at $549. The Ryzen Threadripper 1900X will feature 8-cores and 16-threads of computing power, but unlike the Ryzen 7-series, which also features 8-cores and 16-threads...
From CNET: AMD unveiled a bunch of GPUs on Sunday, designed to Nvidia a run for its money in the high-end PC gaming stakes.
The announcement of the Radeon RX Vega family mark AMD's return to this competitive corner of the market after several years of allowing Nvidia to dominate graphics provision...
From PC Mag: With the Apple Music app now built into iOS devices, there's no longer much of a reason to purchase a standalone iPod. With the exception perhaps of hipsters carting around their ancient iPod classics or runners who rely on Apple's smaller MP3 players, most of us now listen to music and...
I think in life, it is important to challenge yourself in terms of learning new things. As such, I decided to pick up the cello recently. I went to a local music store with my colleague Jonathan Kwan to look at the cellos I could rent. On an aside, he too is looking at picking up an instrument, but I will let him talk about that later. The store associate showed me to the cellos, gave me a bow, and let me try them out. I grabbed the first one I...
Although it has been almost a decade since I graduated high school, I still have many vivid memories of being in class. I remember my Grade 11 math teacher was a funny and helpful man. The most outstanding trait, however, was not the fact he was funny and helpful -- but the fact he was always very relaxed and trusting. In fact, he was so relaxed and trusting, he even let us listen to music during exams. Now, our digital audio players did not hold...
For those of you who know, our Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan and I work in the same research lab at the University of Calgary. What you probably do not know is our research topics are extremely different. My research is about the traditional wireless communication systems, while Jonathan’s research is about the radio frequency energy harvesting. Even though we are in the same industry -- electrical engineering -- we have totally different...
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