Gadgets

E3 2021 was full of highs and lows, but if there’s one thing that we can agree on it’s that there were tons of spectacular trailers. While the gameplay and the games themselves are always the focus, there’s no denying that a select few of this year’s trailers were a cut above the rest. These…

ApplyBoard, a startup that helps international students find opportunities to study abroad, announced today that it has nearly doubled its valuation in a little over a year. The Ontario-based company is now worth around $3.2 billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. ApplyBoard makes money…

OnePlus urges us to “never settle,” and the manufacturer certainly never settles when it comes to affordable phones. It’s just released the OnePlus Nord CE 5G, a budget device that promises some tasty specs. It largely delivers on such promises, offering a generous 4,500mAh battery, 6.43-inch AMOLED display, 5G support, and some admirably smooth software….

Sega unleashed a big surprise today during Nintendo’s Direct presentation in the form of a new Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. This new addition to the franchise is a remake of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, which is a mix of the first two titles in the series with some added content. The Super Monkey Ball series…

Scale co-founder and CEO Alex Wang joined us at ProWellTech Sessions: Mobility 2021 this week to discuss his company’s role in the autonomous driving industry and how it’s changed in the five years since its founding. Scale helps large and small AV players establish reliable “ground truth” through data annotation and management, and along the…

As if landing a new graphics card wasn’t hard already, now we have another problem to deal with. After chip shortages that have plagued the semiconductor industry forcing gamers to pay sky-high markups for valuable and limited inventory of graphics cards, we’re now learning that fake GPUs could be hitting the market soon. These counterfeit…

The Groundhog Day concept feels like it’s been done to death at this point. If you’re not sure what I’m referring to, it’s the oft-used plot device where a character relives the same day over and over again. It’s become fairly prevalent in movies, but like any other storytelling feature that becomes popular, it’s been done…

Location-based services may have had their day as a salient category for hot apps or innovative tech leveraging the arrival of smartphones, but that’s largely because they are now part of the unspoken fabric of how we interact with digital services every day: we rely on location specific information when we are on search engines,…

There’s no denying that laptops are perfect for our fast-paced mobile world, but when it’s time to settle in for hours of work or a long PC gaming session, nothing beats an old-school desktop computer. The best desktop PCs simply outclass laptops when it comes to price versus performance, and that’s before you consider the…