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Google blankets CES 2018 with Hey Google branding to answer Alexa, the convention center loses power for hours, and 5G creeps onto every roadmap.
CES 2018 will always be remembered partly for what went wrong — a city-wide power outage blacked out a large section of the Las…
Qualcomm spent its summit in Maui this week talking less about how fast the Snapdragon 845 is and more about what it can think…
Xiaomi shipped 9.2 million phones in India in a single quarter and just passed Samsung to become the country’s number-one smartphone brand. Samsung. In…
The Xbox One X launched November 7, 2017 as the most powerful console in the world, and proved that raw power without exclusives doesn't…
Sailfish X launches as a paid OS download you flash onto your own Sony Xperia X. €49.90 buys you the license. The actual story:…
TSMC's 10nm node shipped the Apple A11 in volume while Intel's 10nm stalled, the moment the leading edge you could actually buy moved to…
OnePlus 5 at $479 in 2017, 5T at $499. The numbers seem small but they traced the beginning of a line: $299 in 2014…
Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore turn hundreds of millions of phones into AR devices overnight, leapfrogging headsets with the screen in your pocket.
Xbox Game Pass launched June 1, 2017: a flat monthly fee for a games library, with first-party titles day one. The subscription bet that…
The Nintendo Switch seamlessly combines handheld and home gaming, addressing the Wii U's failures. Its design focuses on user-friendly portability, highlighted by the engaging…
Xiaomi has joined Apple, Samsung, and Huawei by designing its own processor, the Surge S1, aimed at mid-range phones like the Mi 5C. This…
Samsung 10nm built every Snapdragon 835, the year Samsung spun out its foundry as a standalone division and tried to outrun the chipgate reputation.
Amazon barely has a booth at CES 2017, yet Alexa is in everything, Faraday Future finally reveals the FF91, and Qualcomm ships the 10nm…
If CES 2016 was the year Alexa arrived, CES 2017 was the year she took over. Amazon’s voice assistant appeared in virtually every product…