In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Alaina Yee, Mark Hachman, and Adam Patrick Murray dig into everything Intel revealed about its set of 45W Tiger Lake H mobile processors, the rumblings that Ryzen 5000 mobile performs badly when battery powered, and Nvidia’s official announcement of its RTX 3050 and 3050 Ti mobile graphics chips.The party starts with Mark giving the full rundown of five new six- and eight-core Tiger Lake H chips, then kicks up into high gear when Gordon decides to
PC enthusiasts adore MSI’s Afterburner utility, and it’s easy to see why. The free GPU monitoring tool can be used for everything from overclocking to checking your graphics card’s temperature to capturing gameplay footage, and better yet, it works with both Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon hardware—a versatile feature set unmatched by most rivals. But now bad actors are piggybacking on Afterburner’s popularity to potentially trick people into downloading malware, MSI warns.To read this article
A selection of 30 shows from the kaput Quibi mobile streaming service will premiere—again—on The Roku Channel, with more to come. https://www.techhive.com/article/3618728/rebranded-as-roku-originals-roku-collection-of-quibi-videos-will-debut-may-20.html#tk.rss_all
TiVo says it'll keep making Android TV streaming players despite reports the contrary. Let's hope that's true. https://www.techhive.com/article/3618750/is-tivo-done-with-streaming-dongles-not-so-fast.html#tk.rss_all
Intel unveiled more Tiger Lake H processors this week—a set of beefy, powerful chips that complement the modest 4-core parts that launched back in January and can compete with AMD’s best. Naturally, a slew of laptop reveals from long-time partners like Dell, Asus, and Acer accompanied Tuesday’s announcement. You can read all the details on Tiger Lake H45 in our comprehensive overview, as well as our comparison of Tiger Lake H and Ryzen 5000.To read this article in full, please click here http
Open confession to Lenovo: I still have your ThinkPad X1 FoldRemove non-product link. I promise I’ll send it back soon. Apologies for the delay, but what I thought would be a brief examination of your innovative foldable PC turned into a longer exploration of how this ultra-mobile device changed how I worked—at a time when I didn’t go anywhere.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3609491/the-ultra-mobile-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-fold-changed-how-i-work-fro
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For those of us who remember the early days of smartphones, “handsets” were fairly small devices that worked great for one-handed use. But thanks to burgeoning specs and features—as well as user demand for more screen real estate—phones have become larger and larger, and now smaller options are hard to find. Into this landscape walks Asus and its Zenfone 8, the company’s latest mainstream flagship device. This sub-6-inch phone doesn’t sacrifice power for size, and it’s a fantastic option for
The new Echo Show 8 has a camera that can pan and zoom during video calls, while the second-gen Echo Show 5’s upgraded camera boasts twice the resolution of the original. https://www.techhive.com/article/3618418/amazon-upgrades-the-echo-show-5-and-8s-cameras-rolls-out-an-echo-show-5-for-kids.html#tk.rss_all
AMD’s quest for CPU dominance has expanded in recent years—after first clawing back into relevance with its desktop processors, the company set its sights on laptops. Ryzen 5000 mobile chips dunked on Intel’s Comet Lake H parts, zipping past Team Blue’s best with ease.With Tuesday’s announcement of Tiger Lake H, Intel may regain ground as an industry leader. Its long-in-the-tooth 14nm process is gone, and with that change comes the promise of notable performance jumps and support for cutting-