Bluetooth SIG Announces the 'Next Generation of Bluetooth Audio'

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This could be a good year for wireless audio. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced yesterday at CES 2020 that the "next generation of Bluetooth audio," which it's calling LE Audio, is set to make its debut in the coming months.

LE Audio will operate on the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) radio; the retronymed Classic Audio will operate on the Bluetooth Classic radio. But there will be some overlap as well. "LE Audio will


Endless OS, a Kid-Friendly Linux, Is Coming to Raspberry Pi

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Though Raspbian is the official operating system for Raspberry Pi , the platform has a number of OSes available for it, including Windows 10 IoT Core, Ubuntu Core and OpenElec. Very soon, we'll be able to add a new name to this list: Endless OS. Here at CES 2020, Endless Inc. showed its operating system running on a Raspberry Pi 4 B with 4GB of RAM,

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Intel Pull Wraps Off NUC 9 'Ghost Canyon' Extreme Kit and Compute Element

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Intel has finally revealed its NUC 9 Extreme Kit, a tiny gaming desktop, and its Compute Element for modular builds here at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The official announcements come after a series of revealing leaks over the past months.

Code named "Ghost Canyon," the new kits and the Compute Elements powering them are based on Intel’s 9th Gen Coffee Lake-H CPUs: the Core i3-9500H, i

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Razer Tomahawk Gaming Desktop Puts Intel Compute Element in 10-Liter Case

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Razer’s new desktop is awfully tiny. The 10-liter chassis packs its punch with help from Intel’s Compute Element made for modular systems, Razer unveiled here at CES 2020 today. It will launch in the first half of 2020, but no pricing has been announced.

The Tomahawk will be centered around Intel’s Compute Element. The one we saw had a 9th Generation Intel Core i9 CPU. The Compute

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Razer Teases Blade Laptops with 300 Hz Displays

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Razer is being coy about its Blade gaming laptop lineup here at CES 2020. The company teased a bit of information but is also holding a bit back.

Here’s the one big thing we know. Both the Razer Blade 15 and Blade 17 will have options for 300 Hz displays (the ones we saw were also 1920 x 1080 panels). Additionally, they’ll use the latest 10


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Cyberpower’s Compact Nox Mini Combines Intel Compute Element, 2080 Super in Compact Cooler Master Chassis

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Intel seems to be getting plenty of traction with its Compute Element card , which combines a 45-Watt H Series CPU, M.2 storage and other components on a PCIe add-in card. The company has its own lunchbox-shaped Ghost Canyon model . Razer is working on a longer, sleeker Tomahawk desktop that the company says will support up to an RTX 2080. And Cyperpower’s Nox Mini is a similarly long and low form factor

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Cooler Master Launching AIO Cooler With an LED Screen on the Pump

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You can never have enough screens in your tech life, because each one tells you something different. On top of your desk, you may have multiple monitors , a keyboard with a tiny screen in it and a mouse with a small LED readout. And for your PC itself, the case could have a small screen and your motherboard may have some kind of screen on it. But what about your other components? Don't they deserve screens of their own?

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Cooler Master’s Bringing Back the Spawn Gaming Mouse With an Upgraded Design

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Cooler Master’s beloved Spawn gaming mouse is coming back with a vengeance. That vengeance will come in the form of a lighter design with improved sensor positioning and a special space for an oft overlooked finger.

The Spawn still lives on Cooler Master’s website , but you’ll be hard-pressed to find it. Even Reddit’s been searching .

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Hands-On With HyperX's First Qi-Enabled Headset, the Cloud Flight S

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HyperX today launched its first Qi wireless charging gaming headset, the HyperX Cloud Flight S, for the CES show in Las Vegas this week. It joins the earlier released HyperX Pulsefire Dart Wireless mouse in the brand’s Qi certified line-up. To power its new wireless charging peripherals, HyperX also launched the ChargePlay charging base.

The HyperX Cloud Flight S is largely an iterative update of the older Cloud Flight. The major addition is of course Qi wireless charging at up

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Intel CES 2020 Press Conference: Tiger Lake, Ghost Canyon and Xe Graphics

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We're here in Las Vegas for Intel's CES 2020 press conference. This is live coverage, so refresh your browser frequently for the latest updates.

Intel teased us with news of a few new announcements yesterday , including the pending arrival of the Comet Lake-H processors for laptops, which will reach over 5.0 GHz and feature up to eight cores and 16 threads, a few vague details of the Tiger Lake processors' AI performance

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