Tobii makes a compelling case for more natural and immersive VR with eye tracking We've heard murmurs about the benefits of eye-tracking in VR headsets for quite some time now, but even with the number of press days and... Type: Blog post Tags: Displays Input devices Gaming |
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Synaptics' Clear ID fingerprint sensor feels like the way of the future Edge-to-edge screens are poised to be the new hotness of smartphone design in 2018, but pushing pixels right out to a device's borders leaves little... Type: Blog post Tags: Input devices Mobile computing |
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How much does screen size matter in comparing Ryzen Mobile and Kaby Lake-R battery life? As we've continued testing AMD's Ryzen 5 2500U APU over the past few days, we've been confronted with the problem of comparing battery life... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Mobile computing |
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Here's a first look at the battery life of HP's Ryzen-powered Envy x360 My initial tests of AMD's Ryzen 5 2500U APU gave us a fine picture of the APU's performance, but we admittedly didn't test battery... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Mobile computing |
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TR's VR journals, part one: setting the stage Over the past couple months, I've been places. I've dangled from the side of a rock wall hundreds of feet above crashing waves. I've... |
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Rowhammer attack exploits shrinking process size in DRAM A couple weeks ago, Google's Project Zero team demonstrated a very clever exploit of modern DDR3 memory. Their inspiration came from a research paper, |
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Notes from TR's next-gen storage testing In between work on other projects, I've been running exploratory tests on PCIe SSDs to see how their performance characteristics differ from the... |
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Thanksgiving offers a perfect chance to crack open a busted iPad Air Phew. I needed that break. I was able to take off the latter half of last week and this past weekend to spend some time... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Gaming on the Grid with Nvidia's Shield Tablet Music and video streaming are big business these days. Game streaming hasn't taken off in the same way, but Nvidia has big plans for it.... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Gaming |
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You can snag a 39'' 4K display for $404 The other day, my friend and fellow PC enthusiast Andy Brown pinged me and told me I needed to come over to his house to... |
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Oculus Rift's 'Crystal Cove' prototype tickles our rods and cones The absolute highlight of last year's CES was getting a first look at an Oculus Rift prototype. Strapping on a Rift for the first... |
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High-PPI support in Windows 8.1: still not so great Displays with high pixel densities are pretty much standard in tablets, and we're all waiting for them to become standard in notebooks. Take a trip... Type: Blog post Tags: Displays Mobile computing Windows |
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Google, I love you, but you're bringing me down I was listening to LCD Soundsystem the other day, and New York, I love you, but you're bringing me down somehow coalesced my feelings... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Internet Operating systems Personal tech |
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A few thoughts on Nvidia's G-Sync On the plane home, I started to write up a few impressions of the new G-Sync display technology that Nvidia introduced on Friday. ... |
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Papa's got a brand-new, undead-proof European carryall So iPhone 5S and 5C mania has died down (although someone needs to tell the entrepreneurs on eBay), OS X Mavericks has yet to go... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Mobile computing Personal tech |
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The desktop PC needs a makeover My PC is too big. Much too big. I'd always vaguely suspected it,... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Cases Cooling Storage |
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The PC is booming—just not the PC we know So, you heard the news: PC sales are tanking. Apparently, nobody wants to buy Dells or HPs anymore; nobody cares about clunky laptops and bulky... Type: Blog post Tags: Systems Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Dispatches from the Nexus This past summer, the power button my Palm Pre started misbehaving. At last, I had an excuse to replace the aging handset with something... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Operating systems Personal tech |
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PSA: Satellite Reign is free today at the Humble Store | 11 |
I got up this morning and retested the Intel system with DDR4-2666 memory. I'm not going to type up all the results here, but I will note that there i... | +17 |