Category: personalcomputing

Vote for the Best of CES 2020 People’s Choice Awards!

[ad_1] We’ve announced our Best of CES finalists so now it’s time for you to cast your vote for your favorite gadget at CES 2020! Just head over here (or below) to pick your three favorite items from our pool of finalists. You have until 6 PM ET tomorrow, January 10th, to get your votes […]

Samsung’s T7 Touch SSD can be locked with a fingerprint

[ad_1] “Consumers who are constantly on the go between work, play and passion projects want to be able to securely carry their content with them,” said Mike Mang, vice president of Samsung’s Brand Product Biz Team. In addition to the built-in fingerprint scanner, the T7 Touch includes password protection and AES 256-bit hardware encryption. It […]

‘Bayonetta’ developer is the latest to throw itself at Tencent’s feet

[ad_1] The cash influx won’t just improve Platinum’s financial position. Sato said this would help his firm move beyond development to possible self-publishing. He also hoped this would give the team a “wider global perspective” than it had in the past. This isn’t Tencent’s biggest investment. It has full control of League of Legends creator […]

Samsung SelfieType is a more virtual virtual keyboard

[ad_1] SelfieType is a project out of the Korean giant’s C-Lab startup incubator, which uses the front-facing camera to track your motion. Prop your phone up as if it was a display, fire up the app, and then touch type onto the table as if you had a keyboard there. The phone’s front-facing camera and […]

This massive 8K VR headset is built for NASA

[ad_1] It boasts other features too, such as foveated rendering capabilities, an AR mixed reality module, and improved lenses, which gives it a very immersive 180-degree field-of-view. I tried it on in a demo at a CES evening event, and I was blown away by how crisp and clear the images were. A VRgineer spokesperson […]

Watch Adobe show off its impressive AI-powered vertical video tech

[ad_1] The Adobe evangelist showed how easy it is to erase backgrounds and select subjects with the combined powers of Adobe’s Sensei AI engine and Intel’s chips. He also showed off Adobe’s AI-powered instant vertical video tech, which can be used to create vertical clips from horizontal ones. The technology doesn’t just crop videos, though: […]

You can actually buy Origin’s new ‘Big O’ console and PC monster

[ad_1] The 2020 ‘Big O’ puts a custom gaming PC and a single console — a PlayStation 4 Pro or Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, depending on your preference — inside a dual-chamber Corsair Crystal Series 280X case. (Yeah, we would have preferred an Xbox One X too.) The new machine uses original console hardware, […]

Elgato’s new capture card will let you stream 4K 60FPS footage

[ad_1] The 4K60 S+ is more substantial than Elgato’s previous external cards, the HD60 S and HD60 S+, and includes an SD card slot so that you can record footage without first connecting the device to a PC. With support for HEVC encoding, running out of space shouldn’t be too much of an issue — […]

HyperX’s Cloud Flight S is its first headset with Qi wireless charging

[ad_1] Besides a new, more premium-looking design that forgoes the usual garish details you see on gaming peripherals, the Flight S carriers over a lot of the same features that made the Cloud Flight a popular choice for gamers. Like its predecessor, the new model’s mic is detachable. Battery life is likewise rated at up […]

Intel’s ‘Ghost Canyon’ NUC will fit a full-sized desktop GPU

[ad_1] The last NUC we reviewed, codenamed Hades Canyon, featured Intel’s unique collaboration with AMD’s Radeon graphics. It was a capable little machine, but it was no match for a genuine desktop GPU. Intel says the Ghost Canyon NUC will also be powered by an i9 processor that can reach up to 5GHz on a […]