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Chart of Intel's New i9 Processors at Computex

Intel Just Announced an 18-core, 36-thread Core i9 Today

AMD and Intel are just one upping each other and it’s awesome (for us, the consumers). After AMD announced their own “world’s most powerful consumer processor” with 16-cores and 32-threads, Intel has announced their contender–with two more cores and 4 more threads. The new i9 processor is the their new top model with a price of $1,999 but there will also be a bit more reasonable versions as well as new i7 processors being released, as well. Check out the full chart of their new processors below. With this and NVIDIA’s new Q-Max program of designing laptops along side OEMs […]

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Acer Reveals The GPU in Their Ultrathin Gaming Laptop (Hint: It’s Better Than I Expected)

Remember that Triton 700 super thin, metal gaming laptop I got to see at the Acer event in NYC last month? Well, when they showed it off, we didn’t know what GPU was inside. Until now. Turns out alongside NVIDIA announcing they’re new Max-Q program with OEMs, a way of optimizing laptops with OEMs to get them to be more efficient and powerful from the ground up, Acer has announced that the Triton 700 we saw is one of the first members of this new program. Because of this, they managed to squeeze a full-blown GTX 1080 into a chassis that’s

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DJI Announces the Spark Drone (& It Makes the Tiny Mavic Pro Look Huge)

After DJI announced the Mavic Pro less than 6 months ago, people went nuts. How can a high-quality drone be so tiny?! The drone was praised on nearly every outlet and YouTube channel and sold out everywhere instantly. And, it makes sense, it has awesome 4K footage, is super easy to fly, and easily folds up and fits in a backpack making it the smallest drone with such high quality. Or, at least it was… Today at an event in NYC, DJI just announced their even smaller brother to the DJI Mavic Pro, the DJI Spark. The drone is even

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The New Huawei Matebooks

Today seems like a good day for laptop announcements apparently. Alongside Microsoft announcing their new Surface Pro in Shanghai, Huawei just announced their new Huawei Matebook in Berlin. Now, you might remember the name Matebook from last year when Huawei launched a 2-in-1 convertible tablet, and while one of the models they launched today is a successor to that device, two of the others are Huawei showing they want to make legit, serious laptops. The first in the lineup, the aforementioned convertible, is the Matebook E is the successor to the original Matebook and comes with the same leather folio

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The New Surface Pro, Surface Pen, and Type Cover

The new Surface Pro was announced today by Microsoft in Shanghai today. Expected to be the Surface Pro 5, Microsoft has switched things up (and simplified things, I think) by just calling it the Surface Pro. Period. New Surface Pro Specs The new device is very similar to the Pro 4 in terms of looks and form factor. We have the same detachable design, screen size, resolution, and even weight and size (for the most part). The only real noticeable difference looks-wise is that the corners are a bit rounder on the new Pro and if you have the kickstand

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Appeals Court Just Overturned the Federal Drone Registration Law

Back in 2015, the FAA set in place a registration system for drones that required their pilots to use a website, pay a $5 fee, and pass an exam to get their license to legally fly their drones in the US. A few days ago, however, that has just been blocked by an appeals court in DC. According to the judges, a law from 2012 that limits the FAA’s power to regulate drones because they are classified as model aircraft in it. “Congress is of course always free to repeal or amend its 2012 prohibition on FAA rules regarding model

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Microsoft’s AI Powered Camera Recognition for Businesses is Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Movie (Video)

During Microsoft’s developer conference Build a bit ago, Microsoft demoed something that I thought was pretty damn cool. The new tech they’re using can analyze images from everyday security cameras to detect people and objects and then automatically direct those people to those objects, notify other people, etc. Watch the video and you’ll see what I mean. Straight outta a sci-fi movie, right?! Not quite sure how close Microsoft is to this being a reality, but Director of Commercial Communications Andrea Carl explained how it’s working and named all systems Microsoft already has running (including Azure Stack, Azure Functions, & Cognitive

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All the Things You’d Care About from Google I/O

Today was the last day of Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, where, lately, they’ve been announcing new versions of Android, new home automation products, and updates to their AI offerings. This I/O was no different. Android O is now in beta, Google Home got a bunch of new tricks, and Google’s AI is getting smarter and faster thanks to some new tech Google’s come up with. To save you from having to watch the entire live stream, here’s the things you need to know from Google I/O. Google Lens Google has announced their own Bixby-type camera integrations. Essentially Google

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The New York Times in 1942 Will Make Your Appreciate Writing On a Computer

I was inspired this morning by a feature on Mashable that showcased photos from 1942. Thought some of you guys might like to see them, too. The reason for these photos existing is that an Office of War photographer named Marjory Collins went for a visit to the New York Times in 1942 and documented the painstaking process of making the newspaper come to life. From the manual process of sending copies of printed pages on conveyor belts up to editors and back down (what? no email? no Slack?), to the physical laying out of each article to determine where it

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The MP3 Format Just Died

End of an era, people. The MP3, that revolutionary file format that basically made carrying more than 15 or so songs in your pocket (and started the death of the CD as well), has just been officially killed. The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, the German agency that invented the MP3 and licenses it out, has just ended its licensing program. In other words, there won’t be any new devices supporting the file format going forward. Essentially, they’ve simply admitted newer file formats have higher bit-rates with lower sizes and are just plain better than MP3s and it’s time to let the

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Refurbished Galaxy Note 7’s To Cost 50% Off The Original Price?

Samsung has already confirmed they are trying to “recycle” (aka salvage losses) the large stock pile of Galaxy Note 7’s they have sitting around after last year’s recall. Well now, “industry insiders” are claiming that the device, possible named the Galaxy Note 7R, will cost as little as $440. Or should I say, KRW500,000 since Samsung also mentioned they won’t be selling them in the US in the original report. Regardless though, that’s about half of what they cost when they were initially launched and the only reported difference will be a smaller 3200mah battery instead of the 3500mah in

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Amazon Makes the New Echo Show Official: An Echo w/ a Screen

Welp, that rumor I told you to take with a grain of salt last week? Think it’s safe to say the salt wasn’t necessary. Amazon unveiled their new Amazon Echo Show this week and that leaked image was pretty much spot on (although the better renderings make it definitely look sleeker than the leaked image did). The newest member of the Echo family now has the ability to show you videos and images in addition to speaking to you and responding to your voice. The video on the product’s page is actually pretty compelling for how the device could be

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Microsoft Has a New Design Coming and It’s Real Pretty

Microsoft held their annual developer conference this week called Build where they showcase their latest coming features to Windows and other products and new ways developers can make apps, etc. But this time they showed something that I think might be of interest to anyone interested in Windows: a new design overhaul. Check out the video below for a glimpse at their new Fluent Design System. Am I the only one that thinks it looks awesome? Microsoft has always been the one pushing the flat design for a while now, but to now see them fully embrace this material/flat look

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Your Phone’s Mic Could Be Used to Listen for TV Commercials

Back in 2015, a company called SilverPush ended up abandoning a technology that they had created that allowed app developers to use the microphone of a phone to listen for high-frequencies sounds within television advertisements to determine if a user ever watched said television ad. The idea being that one could then serve that user ads for the product from that show later on in the same type of retargeting that I’m sure we’re all used to seeing from Google and Facebook, etc. (You know, when you go to look for a product and then leave the site only to

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Microsoft Reveals Their Cortana Powered Echo Competitor

And it looks a bit like the Echo, if we’re honest. The new speaker made by Microsoft and, audio maker, Harmon Kardon, is called the Invoke and it does what you expect. It can use Cortana, Microsoft’s virtual assistant, to control IoT devices, play music, etc but, of course, with syncing with your Microsoft account/PC. The device does have the specs to play better audio than the Google Home or Echo with more speakers and that Harmon Kardon name attached to it. But it can also, use Skype to make and receive calls, which is a neat differentiator (since here

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