Nintendo’s second ‘Classic’ console is better, but not perfect If you’ve played Nintendo’s original throwback console, you know what to expect out of the SNES Classic Edition. It’s a tiny replica of the original Super Nintendo, and it catches all the right nostalgic hooks. The dimensions are perfect, the colors are spot on, and the power …
HP’s first Omen X gaming laptop is built for overclocking To start, the 17-inch system’s vapor chamber cooling and high-powered fans are good enough to allow both your own processor overclocking (it’s an unlocked Core i7, naturally), memory overclocking and factory-overclocked graphics chips up to the GeForce GTX 1080. Need to upgrade? There’s a single panel …
IRS warns that tax-related phishing scams are on the rise Most of the scams work by sending a fake email that looks like it’s coming from a company executive to someone in the organization that has access to W-2s — payroll, human resources or financial department employees, for example. The email typically asks for an employee …
‘Life is Strange: Before the Storm’ trailer showcases its story Unfortunately, it’s more of a cinematic trailer that doesn’t delve into gameplay. But it was previously revealed that the game features an ability called “Backtalk,” which lets Chloe provoke characters or talk her way out of sticky situations. [embedded content] The first of the title’s three …
CNN is the latest to make a daily news show for Snapchat CNN isn’t shy about why it’s making this move: it wants to tap into a “young audience” and start “speaking their language.” To put it another way, the outlet is concerned that it might miss out on a generation that depends on its phones …
Watch Google’s Android O event right here at 2:40PM ET Android O is expected to come with decreased load times, longer battery life and a slew of AI features. And it looks like the O does indeed stand for Oreo. We’ll be reporting from the event, but you can also follow along with the livestream below. …
One week with Google Assistant Considering all the Google services I subscribe to and use regularly, I had assumed moving to Assistant would be a smooth affair. But I wasn’t ready for all the groundwork I had to lay in preparation for life with a new partner. After our years together, Siri had gotten to know …
A live-action reboot of ‘The Jetsons’ is headed to ABC The original series aired from 1962-1963 and was revived in the mid-1980s. It’s also been given the feature film treatment twice with the 1990 Jetsons: The Movie and The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania!, which was released this year. Another animated Jetsons film is currently in the …
‘Final Fantasy XV’ coming to PC early next year Square Enix and NVIDIA didn’t say whether there’s any new material, but the game is bound too look good on Windows, thanks to Square Enix’s next-gen Luminous Engine and an alphabet soup of NVIDIA GeForce features. That includes NVIDIA Flow, Hairworks, ShadowWorks, Turf Effects and VXAO (voxel …
Engadget is testing all the major AI assistants Hardly a day goes by that we don’t cover virtual assistants. If it’s not news about Siri, there’s some new development with Alexa, or Cortana or Google Assistant. Perhaps a new player, like Samsung, is wading into the space. Even Android creator Andy Rubin is considering building an …