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...
From The Verge: Amazon has revealed a new delivery locker designed for apartment blocks and other housing complexes that may not have mailroom services to securely process packages.
First spotted by Engadget, The Hub is essentially a set of lockers where packages are delivered and stored. When...
From PC Mag: Intel became the world's largest semiconductor company by revenue in 1992 when is surpassed NEC. It has held the top spot ever since, but 25 years later and as predicted Intel is now just like NEC, being replaced. The new world's largest semiconductor company is Samsung.
According to...
From PC World: A new mega streaming music service may be coming to your phone. In a panel discussion at the New Music Seminar conference in New York, a YouTube exec has confirmed what we all hoped would happen one day: YouTube Red and Google Play Music are planning to merge.
As first reported by...
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