Intel promised ”dramatic” clock-speed increases in its 11th-gen “Tiger Lake” Intel Core CPU. It delivered. In August, Intel surprised us by promising that its new SuperFIN transistor would push Tiger Lake to…
Asus unveils ZenBook and Expertbook laptops with OLED, Intel’s latest CPUs and more
Asus unrolled nine ZenBook and Expertbook laptops Wednesday, as part of Intel’s shock-and-awe wave of products with Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs. The laptops also feature cutting-edge display technology including OLEDS, secondary screens,…
The Acer Swift 3 and Swift 5 put Intel’s Tiger Lake CPU into affordable laptops
If you thought Intel’s shiniest and newest CPUs would be exclusive to high-end laptops, you were wrong. Acer’s perennial nicely built, but lower-cost Swift 3 and Swift 5 laptops just got updated with…
Intel’s new Evo brand will highlight updated, premium ‘Project Athena’ notebook PCs
The new Intel Evo sticker you’ll see on laptops this fall is Intel’s answer to the question, “So what this makes this laptop PC so special, anyway?” Ever since Intel launched its…
Scavengers Mixes a Bit of Everything for Something Totally New
This is the second time I’ve played Scavengers, the third-person PvEvP “co-opetition” shooter from Midwinter Entertainment, led by Halo veterans Josh Holmes and Mary Olson. The first time, I came away very…
No Man’s Sky Developer Hello Games Working on New, Large-Scale Project
No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games has a portion of its team working on a “huge, ambitious” new project. In an interview with Polygon, studio founder Sean Murray explained that Hello Games is…
Nvidia debuts its Reflex Latency Analyzer in an Asus 360Hz G-Sync display
Measuring the time lag (latency) between a mouse click and the muzzle flash in a video game has been an expensive, lab-only capability. But now, Asus and Nvidia say, you can do…
LIFX’s latest smart bulb boasts germ-fighting LEDs
The $70 LIFX Clean antibacterial smart bulb can emit the same spectrum of HEV light used by hospitals and other “clean” environments, LIFX says. Powered by WPeMatico
Dead By Daylight Getting Next-Gen Release With Free Upgrades
Dead By Daylight is set to receive a visual overhaul ahead of its Holiday 2020 next-gen release, with a series of free updates coming to the game over the next year. Current-gen…
Nintendo Switch eShop Gets Customer-Friendly Improvements
Nintendo Switch’s eShop has changed its pre-order policy to allow customers to cancel without payment up to a week before release, and added some useful signalling about sales ending. Both changes have…