HTC has made a real statement of intent as Oculus’ Summer of Rift promotion comes enters its final days, slashing the price of its Vive headset by $200 down to a much more competitive $600.
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Acer said that its upcoming Nitro 5 Spin 2-in-1 for PC gamers will be based on Intel’s 8th gen Core processors. It builds upon the Nitro 5 foundation by using a special hinge enabling four different modes.
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HP has announced a new line of HP ProBook 400 G5 machines, the ProBook 430 G5, ProBook 450 G5, and ProBook 470 G5. Along with a thinner design and new Natural Silver finish, the machines incorporate Intel 8th generation notebook CPUs.
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At its 8th-Gen Intel Core launch event, the company discussed its upcoming plans for power-efficient quad-core laptops. It also hinted at new desktop processors, and confirmed the 8th Gen won’t launch with a new architecture.
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Just as reality appears to be getting worse by the day, VR companies are doing the lord’s work and making the price of escaping it a bit more accessible. HTC is dropping the price of its Vive virtual reality system from $799 to $599 as the Taiwanese tech giant seeks to compete with aggressive price cuts coming from Facebook-owned Oculus and their Rift headset. At the beginning of the… Read More
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Fintech startup N26 is getting more and more customers. The company reported 300,000 customers back in March. It now has 500,000 customers across Europe.
More importantly, growth seems to be accelerating as the startup announced that it was adding a thousand customers every day back in March. Now, around 1,500 customers sign up every day.
“More than 60 percent of our growth is still… Read More
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Claiming 40 percent better performance than even last-gen CPUs, Intel is pushing 4K, VR and more.
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It’s $200, £150 or AU$400 cheaper now.
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Just hours before the moon blocks out the sun in a traveling celestial show across the US, things are already getting strange.
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Microsoft announced today that its conversational speech recognition system has reached a 5.1% error rate, its lowest so far. This surpasses the 5.9% error rate reached last year by a group of researchers from Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research and puts its accuracy on par with professional human transcribers who have advantages like the ability to listen to text several times. Read More
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