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By Seth G. Macy Lenovo’s Y27G monitor is a high-end offering into the world of gaming monitors. The Y27 series makes good on gamer’s desires with a 144hz refresh rate, frame rate smoothing tech and a big, angular design that cuts sharp lines. If you really want to go wild, Lenovo even offers a version…

Google’s senior vice president Rick Osterloh has confirmed that the next-gen Google Pixel 2 will be launched in the second half of 2017. He also said that the handset will be a premium priced device. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Emma Boyle You’ve got your Nintendo Switch, you’ve got the launch title you want most (Zelda, anyone?!), you’re absolutely ready to make the most of your new Nintendo console, right? Well, almost. The Nintendo Switch comes with everything you absolutely definitely need to get the console up and running already in the box, but…

By Matt Hanson After years of the processor market being dominated by Intel, AMD is back in the game with the launch of its new Ryzen range of processors. It’s also proved to be very popular, with many stores going out of stock – but there are still retailers out there with Ryzen CPUs in…

By Darrell Etherington Google’s Pixel smartphone this year was a significant reset for the company’s mobile hardware strategy – and one that earned a lot of praise from customers and critics. Good news for those who liked it: Pixel’s successor will arrive sometime in 2017, as confirmed by Google SVP of Hardware Rick Osterloh to…

By Gerald Lynch Update: Voting for the best games console has now closed – do not vote below as your choice will no longer be counted. Be sure to tune back in on March 6 to see which consoles made the list. Original: SNES, PS4, Xbox 360, Game Boy, Dreamcast – all great games consoles,…

By Jim Hill Nest became a household name by reinventing the thermostat, but now the Google-owned company has a range of smart devices that work together to automate or protect your home. The latest product is this weatherproof camera that complements Nest’s existing indoor camera, and its performance and specifications are similar, which is no…

By Darren Allan AMD’s new Ryzen processors were officially launched yesterday to great fanfare (and plentiful reviews – here’s our 1800X write-up), and they’ve sold out of stock on Amazon already, not to mention other major retailers. Tom’s Hardware spotted that Amazon US has sold out of the flagship Ryzen 1800X, as well as the…

The latest AMD Ryzen 7 series processors may not be as good as the company’s claims. Several tests and benchmarks show that Intel’s Kaby Lake Core i7 7700K fares much better than AMD’s new chipset. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Devin Coldewey Pick up that can. Now say you had to put it down on its side rather than its base, how would you go about doing it? Very easily and without thinking about it, no doubt. But simple manipulations like that, which allow us to interact fluidly with objects and environments, are actually…

By Devin Coldewey In the hype period for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game’s creators compared it to the original NES classic. I chalked this up to the usual pre-release silliness; how could a brand-new game be anything like something released in 1986? It turns out I’d underestimated both Nintendo’s candor…

By Jonni Bidwell Last October Dell quietly updated its suave XPS 13 range of ultraportables. Pretty much since their inception, these beasts have been the undisputed champions of the premium laptop plains. Dell has hit on a winning recipe, and wisely chosen to only update and tweak it on this, its fourth generation. At the…

By Sarah Perez A new startup called unGlue wants to help kids better manage their time on connected devices. Just don’t call it parental control software, says co-founder and CEO Alon Shwartz. The idea, he explains, is to offer families a simpler solution for setting limits on screen time across devices, whether inside the home…

By John Biggs The tiny Pixel 2.0 is basically an Arduino board wedded to a tiny 1.5″ 128×128 color OLED screen. This means you can stick it inside a wearable and address the screen directly from the Arduino board, an improvement on current “solder the screen to the Arduino and hope it works” world of…

By Zak Storey Where do you start with a processor like Ryzen? The hype for this product has been unprecedented since its first mention. AMD has been long absent from mainstream competitive processor performance, and for the last five years Intel has sat on a positive monopoly of incremental 10% increases and 15% price hikes.…