Vizio announces its first OLED TV at CES

Something to look forward to: Something we can always guarantee to see plenty of at CES is a slew of new TVs. At this year’s event, Vizio has its refreshed lineup of 4K televisions on show, which includes the company’s first OLED TV.

Vizio’s new OLED sets will be available in 55 and 65-inch sizes and come with its IQ Ultra processor for “unparalleled color, contrast, and clarity.” Being an OLED panel—believed to be provided by LG

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Anatomy of a Motherboard: Dissecting the Tech Behind PC Components


How well do you know the components that make up your PC? Take the humble motherboard, it sits there, quietly keeping everything running, and rarely gets the same attention as the CPU or graphics card. Motherboards are remarkably important though, so let's go all Grey's Anatomy, and dissect the motherboard...

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The Asus ROG Swift 360Hz is the world's fastest monitor

Don't blink: If you do, you’ll miss about 60 frames from Asus’ new 360Hz monitor, which refreshes every 2.8 ms.

Asus and Nvidia have partnered to develop the ROG Swift 360Hz, which is now officially the best way to view esports titles. It’s G-Sync compatible, so there’s no tearing or ghosting despite the unprecedented refresh rate. Elsewhere are typical high refresh rate stats, coming in with a 1080

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Intel is prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but needs AMD CPUs to test them

Facepalm: An errant tweet has revealed that Intel’s second generation Optane 3D XPoint SSDs are being sampled to developers, with a new flagship feature: PCIe 4.0 support. The only problem? Intel doesn’t have any CPUs that support PCIe 4.0. Maybe AMD can lend them some.

Oh, the irony.

AMD became the first to support PCIe 4.0 with third-generation Ryzen. While at launch the upgrade over Intel’s PCIe 3.0 was mostly academic, a


Samsung's next Galaxy flagship will be announced on February 11

Something to look forward to: In San Francisco, on February 11, Samsung will kick off its Unpacked event and reveal 2020’s first flagship smartphones – whatever they may be. For once, we know very little.

After a promotional video revealing the date was leaked, Samsung decided to step up and confirm the event and start sending out invitations. They’re light on detail though, and while we're expecting replacements for the Galaxy S10 series, we’re not sure


New California law threatens to put state's freelancers out of work

In context: Being an independent contractor offers many benefits that traditional 9-to-5 jobs do not, including flexible hours, the ability to work from home, and not having to deal with office politics. The trade off is that workers have to be responsible for their own benefits . Things like insurance and retirement planning rest on the shoulders of the individual rather than the companies that contract them.

The gig economy has solidified itself as a part of the US gross domestic product. As more and more workers look to


AMD is set to become TSMC's biggest 7nm customer in 2020

In the second half of 2020, AMD will double their 7nm orders making them TSMC’s largest customer of 7nm chips according to some forecasts. Going into 2020, TSMC's factories (above) have the capacity to produce 110,000 WPM (wafers per month) of 7nm chips and by the end of the year, they’ll be making 140,000 WPM. AMD will be buying about 20% of

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT models from Asrock, MSI, and XFX completely leaked

Highly anticipated: Squeezing in between the RX 5700 and RX 5500 XT is the new Radeon RX 5600 XT, a graphics card set to compete at the $300-ish price point. With leaks pinning it as having the same core count as the RX 5700 and clocks only 15% lower, it should be just as

Tesla successfully delivered 367,500 vehicles in 2019

Why it matters: Tesla has never had an easy time staying afloat, but despite numerous roadblocks, employee management controversies, and increased competition, the company still managed to come out ahead this past year. After getting its production woes under control, Tesla was able to successfully meet its vehicle delivery goals for the year of 2019.

According to a Q4 2019 financial report published by the electric carmaker today, it delivered a whopping 367,500 vehicles throughout the year.

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The Zens Liberty is a slick looking AirPower alternative

In brief: The untimely cancellation of AirPower remains a rare tarnish on Apple's otherwise impressive record with hardware releases. However, it seems the appetite for the concept of a wireless charging mat similar to the one Apple envisioned is still strong, and wireless charging company Zens is now attempting to sate that appetite with its new Zens Liberty wireless charging mats.

In late 2017 Apple announced it

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