Enlarge / Keychron K14 with no backlight (top) and an RGB backlight (bottom). Scharon Harding A common complaint about mechanical keyboards is that they’re too expensive. Options are limited further for budget-minded buyers if they want a wireless device, especially if they’re looking for a Mac-specific board. But the market has come a long way, …
Enlarge / Google’s Windows Android app store. Google As it announced in December, Google is bringing Android games to Windows. The project is simply called “Google Play Games,” and the Windows version is now open for beta sign-ups. The catch is that Google Play Games is getting a very limited distribution: you’ll need to be in Korea, Taiwan, …
Garmin Garmin has released two new high-end smartwatches, the Fenix 7 and Epix, less than two weeks after launching the Venus 2 Plus and Vivomove Sport at CES. The Fenix 7 is the latest iteration of the company’s robust, multi-sport flagship, while the Epix picks up the torch of a similarly high-end watch that hasn’t …
Variety reports that Google’s original video content group, YouTube Originals, is dead. The YouTube division was founded six years ago to make exclusive, original content for the pay-per-month YouTube Premium service. Now, the group is being shuttered, and YouTube’s global head of original content, Susanne Daniels, is leaving the company in March. Just after the …
Enlarge / A Roku streaming box. It seems these ads aren’t appearing on Roku’s own hardware like this device; instead, they’re appearing on TVs that license Roku’s software platform. Some Roku smart TV owners are seeing banner ads appear over live content, according to a thread on the r/cordcutters subreddit. A user named p3t3or posted …
Enlarge / The Exynos 2200. There’s an AMD GPU in there. Samsung The bizarre story of the Exynos 2200 continues. Samsung LSI’s flagship smartphone chip was supposed to be announced a week ago at a widely publicized event, but the day came and went with no announcement. Samsung made the unprecedented move of no-showing its …
Enlarge / The “Sword of Damocles” head-mounted display, the original augmented reality headset, circa 1968. Ivan Sutherland Apple may delay the launch of its first mixed reality headset, according to Bloomberg. Multiple sources had previously claimed that the device was likely to launch in 2022, and Apple seemed poised to introduce its new mixed reality …
Enlarge / The PinePhone Pro is “the fastest mainline Linux smartphone on the market. Pine64 is launching a major hardware upgrade in its quest to build a Linux smartphone. After the launch of the original PinePhone in 2019, the organization is now taking preorders for the PinePhone Pro, a new smartphone it’s calling “the fastest …
Enlarge / Logitech Signature M650 in the rose colorway. Scharon Harding Specs at a glance: Logitech Signature M650 Sensor Optical (model not disclosed) Connectivity options Bluetooth Low Energy or 2.4 GHz dongle Programmable buttons 3 Onboard profiles 0 Lighting None Size Standard: 4.22×2.43×1.49 inches(107.19×61.80×37.8 mm)Large: 4.65×2.58×1.63 inches(118.19×65.65×41.52 mm) Weight Medium: 3.57 ounces (101.2 g)Large: 3.92 …
A demonstration of the late 1990s dialup experience using nearly period-accurate hardware, connecting to modern websites using outdated browsers over a 31.2kbit/s dialup connection. Be forewarned: page loads are in real time. We all found our coping strategies for riding out the pandemic in 2020. Biomedical engineer Gough Liu likes to tinker with tech—particularly vintage tech—and …