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May 14, 2019
There’s something about gaming laptops that make manufacturers do weird things. It’s kind of wonderful, in a way. Companies tend to give their teams a much wider berth…
Read articleMay 11, 2019
Happy Blockchain Week to you and yours. HTC helped kick off this important national holiday by announcing the upcoming release of the HTC Exodus 1s. The latest version…
Read articleMay 9, 2019
More dismal news from the smartphone number crunchers. New figures out of Canalys put the North American smartphone market at five-year low for the first quarter of 2019.…
Read articleMay 9, 2019
Samsung has been understandably silent about the Galaxy Fold for the last couple of weeks. The company’s been reassessing issues with the foldable’s display after initially chalking up…
Read articleMay 8, 2019
Announced yesterday at Google’s opening I/O keynote, the Pixel 3a arrives at a tenuous time for the smartphone industry. Sales figures have stagnated for most of the major…
Read articleMay 7, 2019
If you’re going to go carrier-exclusive, Verizon (Disclosure: our parent company’s parent company) is probably about as good as any. Ultimately, however, exclusives invariably do more harm than…
Read articleMay 7, 2019
Hello old friend. I knew you would be back. I didn’t know how or when, but I knew we would be reunited again. It turns out all it…
Read articleMay 7, 2019
Last week’s earnings didn’t go the way Alphabet wanted. The fault primarily lies at the feet of the company’s ad business, but the hardware side didn’t come out…
Read articleMay 6, 2019
Microsoft has been leaning into accessibility in gaming lately, most visibly with its amazing Adaptive Controller, and a new patent suggests another way the company may be accommodating…
Read articleMay 3, 2019
The Pixel 3a is arriving next week at Google I/O. That statement felt like all but a given before, and now that the handset is showing up at…
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