Hands on with Lenovo’s Phab2 Pro Tango augmented reality phone

Lenovo brings Google's Tango to consumers with Phab2 Pro smartphone, enabling a whole new class of augmented reality applications. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Sony confirms upgraded PlayStation 4, but won’t show new console at E3

Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 is coming, but the console won't be on display at E3 this year. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Names for four new superheavy elements formally proposed

Spoiler: we are not calling any of them "Elementy McElementface." | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Hands on with Lenovo’s new ‘snap-together’ Moto Z flagship phone

Lenovo is helping to jumpstart its Moto brand with an impressive new accessory connection technology it refers to as Moto Mods. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Google is starting to design its own version of Asimov’s Laws of Robotics

Google is working on keeping robots from learning the wrong things, filtering their perceptions in a way we're going to have to do more and more over time. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Google wants to use wireless to bring gigabit Wi-Fi to more fiber customers

Google claims it wants to start building wireless gigabit connections to its fiber customers to cut costs, but whether it can deliver what it promises through the 60GHz spectrum is open to debate. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Why Blizzard can’t build classic Warcraft servers (yet)

Blizzard met with the Nostalrius team this week, as promised. While there's no near-term plan to develop custom servers, the company is open to the idea. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New Shield Android TV update turns it into a full Plex media server

The Shield TV box is now the cheapest all-in-one Plex media server you can get. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Nvidia drops most support for three and four-way SLI

Nvidia has announced that they'll no longer support three-and-four-way SLI configurations, save in specific circumstances. This isn't likely to mean much in practice, however, as scaling above two GPUs has never been truly useful aside from bragging rights and benchmark scores. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

This supermassive black hole feeds on frigid gas

Radio interferometers high in the Atacama desert just provided us with some of the first direct evidence of how black holes feed -- and it means we have to change our assumptions. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

ET deals: Save $20 on a 12 month Xbox Live Gold membership

Amazon is currently selling an entire year of Xbox Live Gold at a 33% discount. Whether you have an Xbox One, an Xbox 360, or both, a Gold membership makes your console experience significantly better. And with today's $20 discount in play, it's hard to pass up. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New fossil find backs up existence of ancient hobbit-humans

A second group of small hominid fossils has been found on the island of Flores in Indonesia. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Mozilla will finally add multi-process support to Firefox 48

After six years in off-and-on development, Mozilla's Electrolysis project is finally coming to users with Firefox 48. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Shades of Superfish: Lenovo begs users to uninstall its own software due to massive security flaws

Fifteen months after Superfish, Lenovo still hasn't learned its lesson. The company's latest hardware is still shipping with critical security flaws, and the company is still trying to protect itself by claiming it only affects its consumer product lines, not business or enterpri … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Tarantula venom points scientists to a whole new mechanical pain receptor

This could lead to treatments for migraines with aura and even IBS. Spiders. Why did it have to be spiders? | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Another Tesla low-speed crash, another set of theories

Déjà vu all over again: another Tesla crash, and another claim that something mysterious happened in a car with self-driving features. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Gravitational wave science gets go-ahead to revolutionize astronomy

LISA Pathfinder has produces astonishingly accurate results, paving the way for LISA to reveal the secrets of the universe with all new insight into gravity. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Will Microsoft use Windows 10 to turn the PC into an Xbox?

With E3 2016 just a week away, there are rumors that Microsoft will unveil a major new push to bring PC and Xbox gamers together. If that's going to work, the company needs to make some significant changes. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

HTC surges past Oculus, promises to ship all Vive orders within 72 hours

HTC announced today that it will ship all Vive headsets within three days while Oculus own ship-dates are still stuck in the August timeframe. That's a significant coup for HTC, even if its hardware is more expensive. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Report claims Intel, AMD will both delay next-gen processors to early 2017

AMD and Intel are both planning a refresh cycle for 2016, but new rumors suggest that the two companies could delay in 2017. It's not impossible -- but it doesn't make much sense, either. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New algorithm developed at MIT for imaging black holes

How do you capture an image of a black hole? Use the entire planet as one huge telescope. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

BMW 7 Series vs. Audi A8 vs. Mercedes-Benz S-Class: Which is the world’s best $100,000 car?

Premium luxury sedans are all fabulous; who's on top when they all have great engineers? Often, it's whose car is newest. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Could modern, nanoscale vacuum tubes replace transistors?

Could nanoscale vacuum tubes replace transistors in future devices? Caltech thinks they could, and it's building proof-of-concept devices without the leakage that plagues modern hardware. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New drone system relays real-time target data to Apache helicopters

The Apache AH-64E has been upgraded to coordinate reconnaissance and air strikes with drones that fly ahead of the chopper and send back real-time video data of the environment and any human activity within the target area. By combining drones with attack helicopters, the militar … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Intel launches Broadwell-based Xeons with up to 24 cores, 60MB L3 cache, 3D XPoint

Intel's new Broadwell-EX CPUs feature up to 24 cores, new RAS features, support for stacked 3D DRAM, and they're drop-in replacements for motherboards that support the Xeon E7 v3 family. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Astronauts enter new BEAM inflatable module on ISS for first time

Humans entered BEAM for the first time, but they didn't stay long. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Bethesda’s stealth fix drastically improves the performance of Fallout 4’s DLC on PS4

The $25 Far Harbor DLC takes the player to a new location off the coast of Maine, and adds a thick layer of radioactive fog that causes the frame rate on the PS4 to drop in a big way. Thankfully, Bethesda has already released a new version of the DLC that significantly improves p … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Apple discounts current MacBook Pro; OLED, USB Type-C upgrade rumors swirl

Apple could be planning a major refresh for the MacBook Pro with an OLED panel replacing the function keys, a MacBook-style keyboard with butterfly switches, and a thinner chassis. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Bose unveils its first wireless noise-canceling headphones, the QuietComfort 35

After more than a decade of QuietComfort headphones, Bose has unveiled the flagship QuietComfort 35, the successor to the wired QC25 and the first version that's wireless and contains active noise-canceling circuitry. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New PC motherboard teases Intel Skylake chipset, integrated GTX 1070

There might be a new kid in town in the GPU/motherboard integration game: How does a 1070 attached to Skylake sound? | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

GOG offers DRM-free versions of select Steam games at no cost

When you buy games on Steam, you're locking yourself into that platform, and you have to abide by Valve's restrictions. Thankfully, the folks at GOG.com have put together a clever solution that allows developers to offer DRM-free versions of their games for free to existing Steam … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Samsung suggests you don’t update to Windows 10 until it gets around to making drivers

Eighteen months is apparently not long enough for Samsung to develop Windows 10 drivers. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Asus reveals revamped water-cooled gaming laptop with dual Nvidia GPUs

The GX800 is a water-cooled gaming laptop that takes "desktop replacement" literally. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

ARM announces new Cortex-A73 CPU, Mali G71 GPU

ARM unveiled new plans for its CPU and GPU line-ups today, with parts expected to launch in 2017. The Mali-G71 and Cortex-A73 should both be upgrades and improvements on existing parts. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Developer claims PS4K upgrade ‘absolutely’ necessary for VR, slams PS4’s performance

Sony is rumored to have made backwards compatibility mandatory on the PS4, but comments from an anonymous developer may indicate otherwise. If the PS4K is necessary for good VR performance, it's going to double the cost of buying into Sony's VR technology. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Can more, better tech vault 2016 Mazda CX-9 ahead of Toyota Highlander and Honda Pilot?

Mazda crossovers have always been fun to drive. The new CX-9 begs to compete with Pilot and Highlander with new levels of technology and better NVH. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

On technology-assisted longevity, or: The singularity will not be televised

Modern medicine is formidable in many areas -- but can it take on aging or bring on the singularity? | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Ancient alien life may be harder to detect than we thought thanks to radiation

We may have to dig deep to detect the remains of ancient alien life in our solar system. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Bee-inspired robot uses static electricity to land anywhere

This tiny robot can fly and land like a real bee. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Moog Music reintroduces the classic Minimoog Model D synthesizer

Moog Music announced it's reintroducing the classic Minimoog Model D synthesizer with a pilot production run at Moogfest 2016. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Science may be close to understanding where heavy elements come from

Astronomers have spied a star that looks like it's in the wrong galaxy -- but no, it's just a sign that nuclear physics could be about to change. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New in-ear device could be the beginning of a world without language barriers

It's not quite a Babelfish, but it's close enough to prove that a real universal translator is just around the corner. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

ET deals: Alienware 15 R2 quad-core 15.6-inch gaming laptop for $973

Need an affordable portable gaming rig? Take a look at this 15.6-inch Alienware 15 R2 from Dell. It can handle 1080p gaming while you're away from home, and when you get back, you can get the full experience on the big screen. And thanks to today's 10% discount, you can grab this … | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

New evidence suggests 400-foot tsunamis may have battered the surface of Mars

New research suggests Mars didn't just have a liquid ocean -- it may have suffered devastating tsunamis up to 400 feet high. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

IBM Watson amps up Moogfest 2016 with AI-infused programming

IBM Watson came to Moogfest, but there were no Jeopardy questions this time -- it's moved far beyond that. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

Move over Keytar: The versatile Artiphon rocks Moogfest 2016

If you're looking for a killer MIDI controller that feels like not just one "real" instrument, but many of them, Artiphon could be your salvation. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

The synthetic human genome could be around the corner

Will the next Human Genome Project be the Human Genome Synthesis Project? It's possible this could be a bridge too far. | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago

What it means to find a “weak spot” in HIV

New research into HIV vaccines could have found a good target for antibodies -- but what does that mean, exactly, and why might this be different than the cures that have come (and gone) in the past? | Continue reading


@extremetech.com | 8 years ago