Sometimes, I think the hardest thing to do in life is to admit you are wrong. Last week, before my colleague Jonathan Kwan and I set off on a road trip with a few of our friends, we were discussing plans as to how we would meet up before we leave. At first, he told me that we would all assemble at my place before heading out. However, the next thing he said seemed to be the opposite: "You can go pick up two people and then go to the car rental to...
Although I am all for seizing the moment as mentioned in my Kingston UV500 240GB (M.2) review recently, my friend Zach is a whole different level. The sheer brilliance of him seizing the moment is that half of the time you cannot tell if he is trolling you or being genuinely sincere; the other half, he is being genuinely sincere while completely unaware he is trolling you. A few weeks ago, we were walking in downtown Calgary when a homeless man...
From The Verge: Google has already given its blessing for third-parties to make Assistant-powered smart speakers with displays, but the search giant has yet to venture into this territory itself. That might change later this year, with a new report from Nikkei claiming that Google plans to launch...
From PC World: Fans of tiny PCs have some interesting new toys to play with. Intel announced several fresh bare-bones NUC kits rocking eight-generation Core processors late Wednesday, as well as two interesting NUC mini-PCs that introduce several firsts to the mainstream Next Unit of Computing...
From CNET: OnePlus' next flagship phone will get a feature that's new to the company: the backing of a major US carrier.
T-Mobile will be the exclusive US carrier partner for the OnePlus 6T when it launches in October, according to people familiar with the launch plans. That includes a specific...
From ASUS Press Release: Fremont, Calif., August 16, 2018 — ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Strix SCAR II (GL704), the latest 17.3-inch addition to the ROG Strix gaming laptop lineup.
Strix SCAR II puts an industry-leading 17.3-inch display — with a 144Hz refresh rate, 3ms response...
From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake is thrilled to announce that the TT RGB PLUS Ecosystem is officially Amazon Alexa enabled. All TT RGB Plus products such as the Riing Plus 12/14/20 LED RGB Fans and Pure Plus 12/14 LED RGB Radiator Fans come with Amazon Alexa integration, allowing users to...
From PC Mag: The discrete graphics market is dominated by two companies: Nvidia and AMD. However, Intel remains the largest producer of GPUs in the world simply because its processors ship with integrated graphics. Come 2020, though, and Intel looks set to offer a graphics card.
We were reminded of...
From CNET: The "Intel Inside" marketing campaign has put an Intel sticker on millions of personal computers since it launched in 1991. But your next laptop could have Intel outside if rival chip designer Arm gets its way.
Arm's chip technology is used in nearly every iPhone and Android phone in...
From PC World: Move over, Meltdown and Spectre. A new “Foreshadow” attack, alternatively called L1 Terminal Fault or L1TF, targets Intel’s Security Guard Extensions (SGX) within its Core chips.
You should be safe, though, if you’ve already patched your PC as part of the earlier Spectre and Meltdown...
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