The Oscars took place last night, and during the broadcast, Samsung ran an ad for its yet unannounced Galaxy Z Flip smartphone. Nowhere in the ad does Samsung mention the name of the smartphone, but it does note that the device will be unveiled at its Unpacked event on February 11, which is tomorrow. The Samsung commercial highlights the folding

You have to love it when a retailer jumps the gun on an unreleased product. Such is the case with Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Buds+ wireless earphones. A retailer in Europe sold and shipped a set to a customer who also happens to be a technology journalist, who promptly uploaded an 11-minute unboxing video.

It’s not clear which retailer in

Last week, AMD officially launched its Ryzen Threadripper 3990X processors, which rocks 64 cores and a staggering 128 threads. Needless to say, the Threadripper 3990X is a benchmark monster and is especially adept at handling multi-threaded workloads. We’ve even seen it break some world performance records when overclocked to 5.5GHz.

G.Skill

AMD is fleshing out its Navi family of GPUs with two new entries in the desktop and mobile workstation segments. According to the company, it is targeting Design & Manufacturing, and Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) professionals with this new lineup.

AMD is indicating that in the case of the Radeon Pro W5500, it offers a

An image has leaked that claims to be a promotional shot of the upcoming LG V60 ThinQ smartphone. The smartphone was expected to launch at MWC 2020, however,  LG opted to skip the show altogether this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. The image is said to have come from a promotional video that was to be shown during MWC 2020 when the

After winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi threw some comedic shade at Apple’s laptop keyboards, saying “they are impossible to write on” and makes him want to go back to using PCs. Incidentally, the film director, writer, and actor was not referring to the troubled history of Apple’s keyboards.

“Apple

It has been somewhat of a wild week for Steam. A week ago Sunday, Valve’s digital distribution platform broke a concurrent user record that had stood for over two years, with 18,801,944 users. The previous record was 18.5 million users. Then this past Sunday, Steam saw 19,107,803 people hop onto the service, setting the record for the second

Artistic depiction of a fast radio burst (FRB). Image from M. Kornmesser via the ESO

Dr. Ellie Arroway from the 1997 film Contact is not the only scientist carefully studying radio emissions from space. Scientists recently discovered the first repetitive fast radio bursts (FRBs). This discovery may help scientists to better understand the

The Surface Go is the entry-level tablet in Microsoft’s Surface family. First introduced in 2018, the Surface Go starts at $399 with an Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y processor, 4GB of RAM and a 64GB SSD. Stepping up to the high-end configuration doubles the amount of RAM and the size of the SSD to 8GB and 128GB respectively, while being priced

BioWare got a lot of gamers excited when it first announced Anthem. Unfortunately for both the developer and players, Anthem wasn’t what everyone hoped it would be. BioWare says it has been working hard to improve stability, performance, and the general quality of life in the game. It worked on all those improvements while it was aiming to