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When Apple killed the headphone jack and introduced AirPods, they changed the earbud game forever. Today, “true wireless” earbuds have trickled down to the budget realm, and the market is flooded with affordable alternatives.Read more...

Discord has already taken a few steps to help people stay connected during The Quarantine, but with its latest update, Discord may have just given gamers a true replacement for competing video chat apps like Zoom, Hangouts, and others. Read more...

In yet another escalation of the ongoing U.S.-China feud over Chinese tech giant Huawei, Donald Trump’s administration took steps to greatly expand punitive trade sanctions against the company on Friday, Reuters reported.Read more...

The Silicon Power PC60 is an entry-level portable SSD drive that features 3D NAND Flash technology and up to 1.92TB in storage. Specification-wise, the PC60 doesn't offer much to set it apart from an already crowded portable-SSD market (which has a range of great consumer choices); however, its 80mm x 80mm frame and 11mm width certainly make the PC60 one of the smaller SSDs we’ve seen. It can effortlessly fit in pockets and you’ll be able to easily maneuver this thing in the palm of your palm. The Silicon Power PC60 uses a USB 3.2 Gen2 interface and is specced to deliver up to 10Gbps while quoting speeds up to 540MB/s read and 500MB/s write. (more…)

Google announced three upcoming games that'll arrive on its Stadia streaming service before anywhere else.

It looks like Gigabyte's prepping its B550 Aorus Master motherboard with three PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slots.

This Raspberry Pi-powered robot is perfect for any tinkerer with a cat that has to be involved.

The Surface Go 2 has a bigger screen, longer battery life and better performance than its predecessor, but it gets expensive once you step above the base model.

David Tuhy, amongst other things, is the GM - Data Center Optane Storage Division, at Intel. In this podcast Brian and David discuss the modern data center and the impact of Optane SSDs on these architectures. Some of the new use cases include traditional architectures like Dell EMC PowerStore, which is using dual-ported Optane NVMe SSDs. For an emerging use case, David highlights VAST Data, which has a software-defined solution that leverages Optane SSDs in conjunction with low-cost QLC SSDs to deliver a blend of performance and aggressive economics. (more…)

Our picks for the best ultrabooks (super thin and light notebooks), along with other premium laptops now.