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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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I made my dumb appliances smarter with the Internet of Things Sometimes I forget things. In particular, I forget to transfer my clean but wet laundry from the washing machine to the dryer. When this happens,... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Networking |
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The Tech Report attends Silicon Valley Virtual Reality 2016 I spent a few days last week at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo in San Jose. SVVR is a fairly small convention that... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Mixing power-line networking with Wi-Fi proves intoxicating You may recall my failed attempt at using a second Wi-Fi router in repeater mode in order to overcome some signal-strength issues in the... Type: Blog post Tags: Networking |
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Time Warner slings free Maxx upgrades to counter Google Fiber I've been chronicling the slow progress of Google Fiber moving into my metro area, my city, and eventually, into my house. Since Google Fiber... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Networking |
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Farewell, beloved Rat Farewell, beloved Rat. You've been a faithful companion, constantly perched next to my right hand and always eager for the next opportunity to dart... Type: Blog post Tags: Input devices |
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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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Finally light bulb's Tesla tech gives LEDs a worthy rival Ever since I improbably started blogging occasionally about light bulbs, I've been waiting impatiently to get a look at the first product from The... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Cree raises its game, lowers prices with 4Flow bulb Since I posted my Friday night topic and then a blog post about LED light bulbs, I've been quietly waiting for another chance... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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More light bulbs? Yep, more light bulbs The Internet is a strange and wonderful place. A couple of months ago, I posted a Friday night topic on light bulbs that incited... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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For Valve, is the Steam controller both a blessing and a curse? As excited as we may be about Steam machines democratizing PC gaming in the living room, there's no question Valve's new platform will encounter some... Type: Blog post Tags: Input devices Game consoles |
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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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