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By Darren Allan Asus has just pushed out UEFI BIOS updates that allow compatible motherboards to make full use of Intel’s new Optane memory for turbocharging a traditional spinning hard drive. As we saw yesterday, Intel launched low-capacity Optane modules in 16GB or 32GB flavors, which use the motherboard’s M.2 slot, and act as a…

By Joe Osborne Update: UK users who’ve been waiting patiently for Google WiFi won’t have much longer to wait. The company has confirmed that it will bring the router to the UK on April 6. As devices like Netgear Orbi and Eero have showed us: routers and range extenders are over. The future is Wi-Fi…

Android cofounder Andy Rubin just gave everyone a peek at the smartphone his company is developing. Not much can be gleaned from the photo because it’s covered by a hand, but a nearly bezel-less screen looks to be a shoo-in. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey It goes without saying that working with robots and heavy machinery is more than a little dangerous. While better practices and ethical companies are still less common than they should be, smarter robots are another, parallel solution. German research outfit Fraunhofer suggests an intuitive model for human-robot collaboration in industrial settings. Read…

By Ty Pendlebury The Onkyo TX-SR373 is a 5.2-channel receiver with 4 HDMI inputs, Bluetooth and automatic room calibration. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Devin Coldewey Late last year the European Space Agency doubled down on its Mars mission, dedicated half a billion euros to the next phase of its Exomars 2020 program — and now we are seeing the benefits of that enormous investment: a pretty awesome new render of the rover they plan on deploying to…

By Samuel Horti Update: Activision has officially confirmed Destiny 2 via tweet, and while we don’t have an official release date, we do have a poster leak with a European release date of September 8. The poster has leaked from GameStop Italy and suggests that PlayStation 4 players will have early beta access to the…

By Desire Athow Solid-state drives (SSDs) have been mainstream for more than a decade now, managing to take the performance, reliability and power consumption crowns away from their hard disk drive cousins. The latest SSD-related technology trickling down to the mainstream is 3D TLC NAND which is supposed to improve performance by cramming in even…

By Darrell Etherington Faraday Future, the would-be Tesla rival facing well-documented challenges in terms of capitalization and efforts to bring its first production vehicle to market, has scrapped plans to construct an assembly facility and “experience center” (read: showroom) in Vallejo, California on Mare Island. The car maker had already secured a negotiating agreement with…

By Nick Pino When Sony unveiled its ultra-powerful new console, the PS4 Pro, we were ecstatic. It promised to bring 4K gaming and HDR video content to the best-selling HD console on the market. Only, it had a single snafu: all that content couldn’t come from a 4K Blu-ray disc because the PS4 Pro doesn’t…

By Romain Dillet It’s patch day at Apple. The company just released four new versions of its four operating systems for all its devices — iOS 10.3, macOS 10.12.4, watchOS 3.2 and tvOS 10.2. Some of those updates are more important than others. Let’s start with iOS 10.3. The new version adds Find my AirPods…

T-Mobile has updated its JUMP! upgrade program and device protection services to include complimentary AppleCare+ perks. Here’s the deal. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington The PlayStation 4 Pro just got an update that makes it an even better companion for a 4K TV set. An update to the native PlayStation Media Player app will enable 4K video playback, for files in mp4 format saved on either a USB drive or kept in a home server the…

By Emma Boyle It feels like the PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro have only just been released, but in a manner similar to the pregnancy rumors that inevitably seem to stick to celebrity power couples, we’re already hearing that Sony could be planning to release a PS4 Pro Slim. WCCFtech has unearthed a recent report…

By Joe Osborne Hard drives are getting a much deserved kick in the pants with Intel’s new Optane Memory. The processor maker claims its newest technology will give old-school spinning drives solid-state drive-like (SSD) speeds today and eventually transform computer storage forever. Intel Optane Memory might sound like RAM, but it’s actually a specialized storage…