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BY BRAD CHACOS It looks like the fearsome GPU inside Nvidia’s Titan V will never make it to gamers after all. Poor Volta. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed at Siggraph 2018 in mid-August the Quadro RTX 8000, 6000, and 5000 graphics processors, powered

BY RYAN WHITWAM Some of the most popular phones on the market run heavy custom UIs with more features than any sane person needs (we’re looking at you Samsung and LG). The OnePlus 6 doesn’t overload you with things you’ll never use, but there are sti

Samsung passed up a golden opportunity with the Galaxy Note 9. Just days before the Note 9 shipped, Google officially launched Android 9 Pie, bringing a brand-new way to navigate, smarter notifications, and indoor mapping with Wi-Fi RTT. The world’s

BY MICHAEL SIMON The Note 9 doesn’t come in black. That was the second biggest surprise Samsung had for me during my Note 9 briefing in early August. The first was the price: $1,000 for the 128GB base model and an eye-popping $1,250 for the 512GB ver

BY BRAD CHACOS The wait is over, friends. After a week of rampant rumors and outright teasing by Nvidia itself, CEO Jensen Huang proudly revealed the long-awaited GeForce RTX 2080 and GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, powered by the company’s radical next-gen Tur

BY BEN PATTERSON Acer’s Nitro 5 gaming laptop says you can have a modest budget of $800 or less and get a decent amount of horsepower for playing AAA games. While most of the Nitro 5’s parts are midrange at best, it takes things up a notch with its n

BY GORDON MAH UNG Stop, AMD. You had us at 32-core, 64-thread Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX consumer CPU. You didn’t have to make it better by saying this weapon of thread destruction could be ours for $1,799 (available on Newegg or Amazon) —just $76 mor

BY MARK HACHMAN Microsoft’s 10-inch, $399 Surface Go tablet is a departure from the company’s Surface tradition, which put forth expensive, ambitious designs to break trail for the rest of the PC industry. Now, the Surface Go’s decidedly mainstream p

BY MARK HACHMAN While motherboard companies continue to outdo themselves releasing data on Intel’s upcoming 9000-series processors, HP has accidentally disclosed details regarding another of Intel’s upcoming chips: its “Whiskey Lake” notebook process

BY SéAMUS BELLAMY When you own an Amazon Kindle, the cost of supporting a voracious reading habit can get very steep, very quickly. A quick glance at Amazon’s list of the Best Books of the Month shows that a decent read can set you back between $13 a

BY IAN PAUL Power users love to talk about how powerful and awesome Excel is, what with its Pivot Tables, nested formulas, and Boolean logic. But many of us barely know how to find the Autosum feature, let alone use Excel’s functions to create powerf

BY MICHAEL ANSALDO As Adobe Acrobat alternatives go, Nitro Pro sits near the top of the heap. It’s used by tens of millions of consumers and over 650,000 businesses—including more than half of the Fortune 500—according to the company’s chief product

BY JON L. JACOBI NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is no longer a nice-to-have storage technology. If you’re shopping for a new PC, it’s a feature you should actively seek out. Moreover, if your PC is of fairly recent vintage, you should upgrade to

The bad news: Two of the most-hyped games this fall aren’t coming to PC. Not yet anyway, and maybe not ever: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Insomniac’s Spider-Man. But now for the good news: A staggering number of excellent games are coming to PC this hol

BY BRAD CHACOS Epic Games’ Fortnite is eating the world, and now the battle royale game (and occasional golf simulator) is finally coming to Android. Samsung Galaxy devices held exclusive access to the Fortnite beta for now, but Epic has started roll