Verizon’s plans to connect rural US in a 5G era Spoiler: it’s not with 5G…yet When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. TheVerizon 5Gnetwork is based around high-speed but small-area millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies, and its expansion throughout 2019 was restricted to cities - leaving it unclear if, or when, rural US will get the next-gen network. The answer: not any time soon, sadly, for the most remote users....

Why 2020 is the year you should finally buy true wireless earbuds True wireless earbuds are coming into their own When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Since the firsttrue wireless earbudswere unveiled in 2015 by Japanese electronics company Onkyo, the fledgling form factor has improved in both audio quality and performance – andCES 2020showed that true wireless technology might finally be ready for the bigtime....

5G weekly efficiency updates are expected in the beginning, says Verizon Faster updates, better tech When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. By the end of 2019,Verizon 5Ghad launched service in 31 cities across the US. As the network expands in 2020, more customers will experience the promised 1Gbps speeds - but there are other benefits to 5G. In a meeting room deep in the Sands Convention Center atCES 2020, Verizon consumer wireless group CEO Ronan Dunne explained to TechRadar how the network’s properties will allow the carrier to upgrade it far more often than its 4G network....

AMD confirms ‘Nvidia killer’ graphics card will be out in 2020 Big Navi could show up sooner rather than later this year When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD’s chief executive has confirmed that a high-endNavi graphics cardwill be released this year. In a video interview entitled ‘The Bring Up’ posted onYouTubeby AMD (see below), Lisa Su noted that people were wondering about Big Navi – said high-end GPU, which has previously been referred to as the ‘Nvidia killer’ in terms of how it will take on the top-end RTX cards....

AMD’s RX 5600 XT gets a speed boost to answer Nvidia’s big RTX 2060 price cut Revised firmware lets GPU manufacturers ramp up clock speeds, reports claim When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. We’ve previously observed that the GPU wars seem to be heating up at the start of 2020, andAMDis reportedly boosting the clocks of the RX 5600 XT ahead of its imminent release, as a counter-attack againstNvidia’s recent price drop of the RTX 2060, which would seem to indicate that the battle lines are being well and truly drawn....

Asus reveals 5600 XT TUF X3 Gaming & ROG Strix graphics cards More options for the 5600 XT thirsty When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. It seems that every time some releases a new graphics cards, small battles are waged betweenNvidiaandAMD. With AMD’s Radeon RX 5600 XT gearing up for its imminent release on January 21 and coming for Nvidia’sGeForce GTX 1660 Ti, Nvidia naturally went on the defensive by droppingthe price of its popular RTX 2060....

Could 2020 be the year laptops change for good? CES shows us the foldable future When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The humble laptophas been around for 40 years, but in that time not much has changed. The basic form factor of a clamshell device that opens up to show a display on the top half, and a keyboard on the bottom, can be seen as far back as 1981 with the Osborne 1, which many people consider to be the first laptop....