The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Facebook is serious about being a long-term player in hardware. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast , where co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. Stories discussed this week: Amazon’s fall hardware event 2021: rumors, news, and announcements. Amazon’s AZ2 CPU knows your face.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

Video game spending in the US reached its highest point since 2010, according to a new NPD Group report , with sales through June reaching $6.6 billion on hardware, software, and accessories. US NPD VG - Year-to-date tracked spending across Video Game hardware, software, accessories and game cards reached $6.6

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all had a strong month for hardware sales, according to the November 2020 NPD gaming report. Read More.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset has leaked in full via a pair of promotional videos uploaded to a marketing hub run by parent company Facebook, The videos outline the specs of the standalone headset, which is a successor to 2019’s Oculus Quest. Image: Facebook Blueprint. There’s also no mention of the headset’s size or weight.

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Venture Beast

JANUARY 15, 2021

1 best-selling hardware, according to the NPD 2020 report. Nintendo Switch was the No. PlayStation 5 and Xbox also performed well. Read More.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Days before Apple’s California Streaming event on September 14th, a new investor report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says he expects the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max to each have a 1TB storage configuration (h/t 9to5Mac ). Last year’s iPhone 12 | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

Google is working on a next-gen video chat booth that makes the person you’re chatting with appear in front of you in 3D. The system is called “ Project Starline ,” and it’s basically a really, really fancy video chat setup. In a demo video, people using the tech describe seeing people like they were in the same room together.

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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

APRIL 27, 2021

Microsoft reported its Q3 2021 earnings today, and the Xbox division is growing fast thanks to hardware sales and services. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Huawei worked on a facial recognition system to monitor and track China’s Uighur minority, according to a new report from video surveillance researchers at IPVM. First reported by The Washington Post , the report draws on documents posted publicly to Huawei’s website, obtained via Google search.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Washington state’s video games industry overtook Texas last year and claimed the No. video game industry grew to new heights yet again. Those are two takeaways from a new report published by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the games industry’s trade organization in the U.S. ( Halo Infinite Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2021

Despite Xbox shortages, Microsoft reports $3.6B in Q3 gaming revenue, 232% growth in hardware sales. Like a lot of the hard data in the video game industry, there’s a certain amount of analyst speculation involved here. Much of the discussion in the Epic v. Apple all week.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

The second video shows off the very similar “Samsung AR Glasses” concept, though this time it’s letting the user “see” 3D digital objects appear in the real world, a visual that should be instantly familiar to you if you’ve ever seen any of Microsoft’s HoloLens marketing.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 22, 2020

gaming industry broke a record in April as sales across hardware, software, accessories and game cards reached $1.5 The data shows how more people are playing video games during the COVID-19 crisis, benefitting companies such as Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. billion, up 73% year-over-year.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2020

American consumers spent more this past quarter on video games than they ever have before, to the tune of $10.9 Top titles included Animal Crossing: New Horizons , Call of Duty: Modern Warfare , Doom Eternal , Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot , Fortnite , Grand Theft Auto V , Minecraft , MLB The Show 20 and NBA 2K20 ,” NPD reported.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 27, 2022

Motive’s AI Dashcam is most preferred for its image and video quality, accurate in-cab alerts and hardware design. Read More.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

If you have a sudden yen to replicate outer-space conditions, it behooves you to check out today’s online-only auction of the hardware left over from Planetary Resources , the Redmond venture that aimed to create a trillion-dollar asteroid mining industry. . — Wanna buy a used thermal vacuum chamber?

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2021

Testers on the game’s closed beta reported last week that running New World can “brick” high-end video cards like the GeForce RTX 3090. Please read this message regarding recent concerns with graphics cards hardware. pic.twitter.com/L1gNeBBPQS. — New World (@playnewworld) July 21, 2021.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2020

Bloomberg reports that in addition to these bundles, Apple plans to start offering new software and hardware combinations, like including a free year of Apple Arcade with purchases of an Apple TV streaming box. Apple’s subscription bundles could do the same for its services and hardware.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Amazon is developing a thin Echo device for users to mount on their walls and use as a “smart home command center,” according to a report in Bloomberg. The device could come with a 10- or 13-inch touchscreen display and be capable of controlling smart home devices, playing music and videos, and video chatting thanks to a built-in camera.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In fact, Peloton bike owners might have already experienced the fruits of those labors — BI reports that Peloton’s very first video game, Lanebreak , was actually powered by Google’s cloud gaming technology, now dubbed Google Stream. Capcom is in talks to do the same with web-based demos of its games, too, according to the new report.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The iPhone gradually took over Japan, and while you do get the occasional outlier like Sharp’s new Leica phone , the appetite for unusual hardware here shrunk accordingly. Photography and video games are two of my biggest passions, so it’s always going to be a good place to be based in that regard.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook is building a smartwatch as part of its ongoing hardware efforts, according to a new report from The Information. The device is said to be an Android-based smartwatch, though the report does not say whether Facebook intends for the device to run Google’s Wear OS.

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Mick's IT Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I decided to write a reporting tool for this event so that IT professionals will be aware of this error before a complete failure occurs and there is data loss along with losses in production time. In order to get this to report to SCCM, you will need to import the WMI class into the hardware inventory.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company plans to “continue to expand its business around the core concept of creating unique integrated hardware-software products,” which I’m taking to mean that the company will (brace yourself) make more video games and video game hardware in the future. So sometime between now and 2099, I guess.) Image: Nintendo.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Tom’s Hardware reports that MSI believes the heist was an insider job. The factory’s shipping area is covered by video surveillance, and the trucks that arrive and depart campus are inspected frequently, all of which point to an insider being behind the crime.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you’ve ever wished your Echo device was a control panel, well, good news: Amazon’s Lab126 hardware division is purportedly designing a wall-mounted Echo that can control your smart home and media, as well as host video chats. Read more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Microsoft has discontinued its Xbox One video game console — or rather, it’s been discontinued for over a year. The Xbox One, Microsoft’s third model of the Xbox and its entry into the eighth generation of video game consoles, originally debuted in 2013. A later revision of the hardware, the Xbox One X, came out in 2017.

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TechSpot

MAY 14, 2020

Tom’s Hardware reports that US retailer B&H Photo Video has listed the new CPU on its site as “coming soon.” At the time of writing, it's available to preorder for $599.99, which is quite an increase over Intel’s MSRP of $488.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Activision Blizzard, the video game developer acquired by Microsoft for $69 billion last year, was included in Microsoft’s results for the first time, with revenue of $2.08 The company did not report any material revenue gain from Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI tool for businesses, which launched Nov. Windows revenue rose 9.5%

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2022

But a subsequent video from YouTuber Luke Miani reveals that the Mac Studio still can’t be upgraded: not because of hardware limitations, but because Apple appears to be blocking replacement SSDs on a software level, via AppleTrack.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

New images and video purporting to show an Apple Watch prototype, concealed by a security case that resembles a tiny iPod, offer a rare look behind the product-development curtain of the notoriously secretive company built by Steve Jobs. The original cardboard packaging used to ship the prototype hardware to testers. Image: Apple Demo.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s cool to see a fireball — but even cooler to capture it on video. His day job at ServiceNow focuses on hardware reliability, but he’s also a photographer who specializes in wildlife shots, landscapes and views of the night sky. Capturing it on video! PT Monday night. What’s better than seeing a fireball?

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Venture Beast

JUNE 14, 2021

The May 2021 NPD video game report reveals another strong month for sales on the back of new hardware and Resident Evil: Village. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Project Starline is essentially a 3D video chat booth that aims to replace a one-on-one 2D video conference call with an experience that feels like you’re actually sitting in front of a real human being. The display unit and its various tracking hardware. Image: Google. Audio is captured at 44.1 kHz, and encoded at 256 Kbps.

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