Gaming

Google Stadia Controller review

At Google I/O this week, the search giant finally let the Stadia hardware video game controller that will some day work with its streaming video game service. Google has created a sturdy controller fit for a mainstream console that should easily handle long gaming sessions.  The Stadia Controller is exactly what you’d get if you […]

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Facebook co-founder calls for breakup of the social network

Facebook’s co-founders has called for the social network to be broken up. Chris Hughes, who helped Mark Zuckerberg launch Facebook from his Harvard dorm 15 years ago, says that the Federal Trade Commission should reverse Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram in order to create more competition in the social media and messaging markets. “Mark’s […]

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Intel’s Project Athena aims for more efficient laptops

Intel will open a trio of labs which inside it will test next-generation laptops under the codename Project Athena. The labs will be located in China’s Shanghai, Taiwan’s Taipei, and California’s Folsom, and will all be used to test hardware makers components to ensure they meet the standards of Project Athena. Those standards involve performance and power optimisation […]

Phones

Google Pixel 3a XL review

It might not have the same kind of horsepower as the original Pixel 3, but the 3a XL offers just about everything else that made last year’s models compelling at a steep discount. Even beyond the basics, the 3a XL features a few touches that fans have been clamoring for, like a headphone jack and […]

Phones

Google Pixel 3A review

People aren’t buying smartphones like they used to, primarily because they’ve gotten so expensive that consumers are hanging on to them for three or four years. So, instead of building a phone with more bells and whistles, Google is stripping out a lot of the expensive stuff and building a phone called the Pixel 3a […]