The US and China have been engaged in a trade war for months now, but the two nations have thus far managed to avoid a new round of mutual escalation. While the United States has threatened to raise tariffs on a range of Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent, the Trump Administration hasn’t actually done it yet. According to Sony’s Senior General Manager of Finance Department and Corporate Planning, Naomi Matsuoka, the company may have no choice but to raise console prices in the United States if the tariffs go through. In the quote below, the reference to “Level four” tariffs refers to the fact that this would be the fourth set of tariffs imposed by the United States in the ongoing trade dispute.
Starting now, you can pre-order Nintendo’s Switch Lite game console, which is sure to make a big impact on the gaming market with its $199 price tag. There are also some excellent deals on laptops and TVs. Sony designed this TV with one of its X1 processors that works to improve the quality of upscaled content and improve the color on non-HDR media. The TV also has an impressive set of smart features including an Android TV OS that supports Alexa voice commands. Right now Walmart is selling these TVs marked down from $1,098.00 to $598.00.
Many people keep their most important files on a mobile device without ever thinking about backing them up to a computer. That makes their phones a prime target for ransomware, and there’s a new attack spreading to Android phones right now. The new Android Filecoder.C malware uses weird “sex simulator” landing pages to trick people into downloading it, but you’ll pay for that click . The Filecoder.C malware first appeared on Reddit and XDA Forums as spammy messages directing people to the aforementioned sex simulator. Yes, people clicked on the links, and at least some of them downloaded the app.
The next time you’ve got a few minutes to kill, you might be able to spend it playing the original Diable. No, you don’t have to haul around a computer to play the . All you need is a web browser and a decent internet connection. You don’t even need to own a copy of the game to have some fun, but it’ll be even more fun if you do. Blizzard released Diablo in 1996, and it was a massive hit among those with computers powerful enough to play it. Players needed a Pentium III 1.2GHz or Athlon XP+ 1500, a 128GB video card with DirectX 8 support, and 32MB of system RAM.
When we attended E3 in June for AMD’s Ryzen launch event, company CEO Lisa Su made a curious reference to the long-rumored 16-core CPU. According to her, AMD hadn’t held off on announcing the chip due to competitive reasons, or to see what Intel had in its own pocket, but simply because they wanted to provide a little extra oomph to the E3 launch event. The 16-core CPU, we were told, wouldn’t launch until September — several months after the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 7 3800X. Several weeks after AMD launched its new , we have some indication of why the company took this step.
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More people depart the ‘burbs and move to cities every year. As a result, they need smaller cars. Add the renewed Fiat 500X to the mix: The 2019 edition gets a light design makeover, a new engine geared toward performance departing stoplights, standard all-wheel-drive, and a nine-speed automatic transmission. (Sorry, no stick shift.) The 500X is an enjoyable car in a competitive market – think Honda HR-V, Hyundai Kona, Mazda CX-3. The 14-foot length of the 500X allows for a decent cargo bay but not a spacious rear seat. Fiat offers useful driver assists, but adaptive cruise control is not stop-and-go.
Nintendo’s cheaper switch has been rumored for months, and the gaming powerhouse . The Switch Lite trims $100 off the Switch’s price tag and loses a few features. Still, the Switch Lite is expected to sell like hotcakes, and you can secure a unit right now. Amazon has pre-orders live for all Switch Lite variants, including the limited edition Pokémon version. The Switch Lite has most of the features that made the Switch a massive success. It runs all the same games as the original Switch. The biggest difference is the lack of removable Joy-Cons. Instead, the Switch Lite is a single piece of hardware with controllers built into the body.
AMD’s third-generation Ryzen processors have been a massive hit for the company by all reports, with excellent performance relative to Intel’s Core CPUs. There have, however, been a few questions around yield, overclocking, and boost frequencies. CPU overclocks on Ryzen are notably low, and some enthusiasts have noticed a limited number of cores on their CPUs hit the targeted boost frequencies. Tom’s Hardware has done a into this issue and came away with a number of key findings. In the past, AMD CPUs were capable of hitting their top-rated boost frequencies on any CPU cores. Intel chips are designed similarly.
