The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Dan Seifert discuss all the important announcements from Amazon’s fall hardware event this week — a security drone for your home, a spherical Echo , a cloud gaming service , a location-tracking mesh network , new Eero routers , and a whole lot more. Amazon’s fall hardware event: the 13 biggest announcements.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At Ignite 2020, Microsoft detailed new Surface Hub 2S hardware, as well as software upgrades headed to existing Surface Hub devices. Read More.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

According to The NPD Group, all hardware and accessory categories experienced double-digit growth last year, but it was PC headsets, monitors and keyboards that saw the most growth, both in terms of dollars generated and units sold.

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TechSpot

JULY 16, 2022

According to two estimates from 2020, data centers consume anywhere from 1.5% to 2% of the world's energy and could be consuming as much as 13% within ten years. Around half of that energy is used by the computers themselves and 25% to 40% is used by air conditioning, says the US Department of Energy.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

There’s even the possibility of new hardware. WWDC 2020 live blog. WWDC 2020 live stream. The iPhone is due for iOS 14, and among the things we’re expecting are support for AirTag location trackers, improved widgets, plus a focus on performance and stability. The event kicks off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, so we’ll see you then!

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

billion in 2020 in the US, according to a new NPD Group report , a 27 percent increase compared to 2019. Spending on hardware hit its highest level since 2011 at $5.3 NPD classifies video game spending as money spent at retail and digital storefronts on “video game hardware, content, and accessories.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We’re expecting many new devices Amazon is hosting its annual hardware event on Thursday, September 24th, at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, where we expect it to announce a bunch of gadgets. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. It won’t be live-streamed, so, unfortunately, we can’t all watch together.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a year of historic challenges, 2020 saw firmware and hardware issues become one of the most active areas of enterprise security. APT and ransomware threat actors targeted enterprise VPNs […].

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The Verge

JUNE 14, 2021

Gaming peripheral company Turtle Beach announced at E3 2021 that it’s getting into a new product category: flight sim hardware. And, for a first effort in this competitive space, it seems like a very comprehensive offering and a decent value if you’re into playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

million subcontract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to build flight hardware for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft , which is due to conduct the first-ever up-close study of a metal-rich asteroid. The contract calls for the hardware to be delivered in early 2021. NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU Illustration).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Microsoft is extending the warranty on its Xbox Elite 2 controller following complaints over hardware issues. We were concerned whether hardware issues would appear again on the Elite 2 during a review of the controller last year , and it’s now clear some are having problems. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Glitches and bugs are not uncommon occurrences, and early demos are far cries from what the game may look like on the standard hardware most players have in their living room. If you’re playing on older hardware, you’re going to want to wait for some fixes. It’s important to note that this is definitely not the case on older hardware.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Apple is hosting its last big hardware event of 2020 on November 10th at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. The prompt for this one is “One More Thing,” the line that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously used to cap the company’s events with a special surprise announcement. So what’s in store for this event?

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TechSpot

JUNE 4, 2020

With the Windows 10 May 2020 update, Microsoft added a new system that informs users when their PCs can’t install the upgrade due to conflicts with certain hardware/software. As reported by Windows Latest, anyone sporting Optane memory in their PCs will be blocked from installing the update until Microsoft has.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Nintendo Switch continues conquering 2020 with massive dollar and unit sales in August. The system set new records in the United States. Read More.

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Venture Beast

MAY 22, 2020

Console-hardware spending jumped to a near record for an April month in the United States. Nintendo Switch sales continue to dominate. Read More.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Resizable BAR and AMD's equivalent technology, Smart Access Memory (SAM), have been available for motherboards and PC hardware since 2020. The performance-improving feature became part of the PCI Express bus with Gen 2.0, which means users could theoretically access it on much older systems running a compatible GPU.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Microsoft is back with a refreshed $1,499 Surface Pro X this year, and not much has changed hardware-wise. The 2020 model includes an updated Microsoft SQ2 processor, with promises of improved performance and battery life. Hardware: The basic Surface Pro X hardware hasn’t changed for this latest model.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

It’s the first time we’ve seen the PS5 hardware outside of leaked images from Taiwan’s National Communications Commission. Some photos also show how the PS5 will cool itself, and 4gamer notes that it wasn’t able to hear the fan inside the console or feel much heat exhausting from it during its limited time with the hardware.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

You should now be able to purchase a Stadia Premiere Edition hardware kit with the Chromecast Ultra and Stadia Controller for just $22.22 Google has given away a lot of hardware already. Previous get-free-hardware-with-your-game bundles required you to pay for a full-price $59.99

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2023

-based PowerA , acquired by ACCO for $340 million in 2020 , specializes in making controllers and gaming accessories. If you’re looking for a second controller for the game console in your living room, or more specialized hardware like a six-button fight pad , PowerA’s got you more than covered.

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2021

I hadn’t done a personal hardware refresh in a while; my laptop was a 2017-era MacBook Pro (with the much-disliked butterfly keyboard) and my tablet was a 2014-era iPad Air 2. Included in that order was a new 2020 13" MacBook Pro with the Apple-designed M1 CPU. Read on for more details. Speaking of software… Software.

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Galido

MARCH 23, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - 7 Emerging Technologies In 2020 - Information Technology Blog. Below, we’ll explore some of the trends emerging in 2020. AI is one of the new technologies that will transform eCommerce in 2020. Market studies show that at least half of smartphone users will use voice search in 2020.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Amazon’s 2021 fall hardware event is coming September 28th. Amazon is holding its annual fall hardware event on Tuesday, September 28th starting at 12PM ET / 9AM PT. If last year was any indication, expect to see a massive amount of hardware. Yet, that likely won’t be the only Ring hardware.

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Venture Beast

JULY 30, 2020

Apple's revenues are in for the fiscal third quarter of 2020, and the company is succeeding during one of the most uncertain times in world history. Read More.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s really great, but the limitations are becoming grating The new 2020 edition of the iPad, now in its eighth generation, continues to be an iPad. iPad hardware. It does make the iPad feel a little out of step with the rest of the gadgets and tablets you’ll see in 2020, where bezels are the exception rather than the rule.

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Galido

JANUARY 28, 2020

Information Technology Blog - - Ultimate Gaming Computer for 2020 - Information Technology Blog. If you are here looking for the ultimate PC, you should be ready to spend some of your hard-earned money on decent hardware. The post Ultimate Gaming Computer for 2020 appeared first on Information Technology Blog.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

Sony put the decline down to lower hardware and software sales, highlighting the importance of the upcoming PS5. Microsoft has said that its competing Xbox Series X console is also still set for a holiday 2020 launch , though Xbox chief Phil Spencer warned that software development could still be disrupted.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple has no problem taking its sweet time developing its take on popular software and hardware features. And, WWDC is usually when Apple takes the stage to let its competitors know it’s got its sights set on murder. Read more.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 May 2020 Update today. Microsoft released a final version of the update to testers last month , and everyone on Windows 10 can get access to the May 2020 Update through Windows Update today. The May 2020 Update also includes some big Cortana improvements.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We covered nearly a hundred products on our YouTube channel in 2020 and countless more here on the site. The Quest 2 is the first piece of consumer VR hardware without a big and obvious compromise. The Oculus Quest 2 is a big compromise as a platform, since it ties virtual reality directly to the Facebook service.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Despite being divisive, The Last of Us Part 2 won the coveted Ultimate Game of the Year award, as well as PlayStation Game of the Year, Best Audio, Best Visual Design, and Best Storytelling, while developer Naughty Dog won developer of the year. It looks like it'll be a good.

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Venture Beast

JULY 9, 2020

PC shipments in Q2 2020 grew, according to Gartner and IDC. In fact, Gartner estimates PC shipments were up 2.8% and IDC estimates they were up 11.2%. Read More.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Tech reviewers are giving the company high marks, mostly, for the unique hardware of the Duo, a hinged device with two 5.6-inch — Panos Panay (@panos_panay) September 10, 2020. Overall, in terms of the hardware, he says, “I’m not going to say that Microsoft nailed it with the execution, but they came damn close.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Roku says its Roku TV line was the top-selling smart TV OS in the US and Canada throughout all of 2020, using NPD data to illustrate the company’s powerful standing. Customers won’t have to worry about any lip sync problems, as latency is communicated between hardware devices to ensure proper A/V synchronization.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 12, 2021

Since Honor was spun off Huawei in late 2020, the company has been absent from the global market. During this time, it launched devices such as the View 40 and the Honor 50, but only in China. The latter is confirmed to come with Google services, and it's expected to.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

billion on video game hardware, software, and accessories in August, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Consumers spent $3.3 Read More.

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