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Phones, chips, displays and robots — the hardware, what it costs and whether it is worth it.
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Wireless Android Auto’s 5 tradeoffs after you ditch the cable
Your phone loses about 10 to 15 percent of its battery every hour you drive with wireless Android Auto running. That’s the number nobody puts on the box,…
What makes an IMAX theater different from a normal one?
IMAX hasn’t manufactured a new film projector in about 50 years. Everything strange about buying an IMAX ticket right now, the sellouts, the road trips, the resale panic,…
Play Solana pushes $349 Pudgy Penguins PSG1 as PENGU burn stays attached to every sale
In Brief: Play Solana is marketing the Pudgy Penguins limited edition of its PSG1 handheld, priced at $349 against $329 for the standard model. Every PSG1 sale triggers…
Android’s anti-nausea dots are here, and they work [Hands-On]
Google is rolling out an Android feature that’s been proven to reduce, or even eliminate, motion sickness when you use a phone inside a moving vehicle. It’s called…
Newegg’s AliExpress store has the least overpriced 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit
RAM costs what it costs right now, and no amount of refreshing price trackers is going to change that. Upgrading an existing rig or building fresh, your budget…
The real downsides of digital car keys nobody mentions
Your phone dies in a parking garage. The car is right there. The key fob is on your kitchen counter, because why would you carry it anymore. That’s…
A humanoid robot ran the 100 meters in 9.39 seconds and looked absurd doing it
Usain Bolt’s 100-meter world record from 2009 still stands at 9.58 seconds. With an asterisk that didn’t exist a week ago: that’s the human record. At the second…
USB PD, PPS, SuperVOOC and more: why can’t fast charging settle on one standard?
Plug a phone that tops out at 20W into a 100W charger and you get 20W. That’s the whole problem with fast charging in one sentence, and it’s…
LG’s new FLiPP OLED tech ditches metal masks for bigger, brighter panels
LG says its new OLED panels can run 1.6 times brighter and last 2.4 times as long, while drawing 13 percent less power. The interesting part isn’t the…
