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Toshiba Exceria M303 64GB and M501 Exceria Pro 64GB MicroSDXC review

Shuttle SZ270R8 review

Testing Toshiba's Storage devices: FlashAir W-04, TransMemory U363 and U364 flash drives

Crucial MX500 500GB SSD review

RikoMagic V5 Android Media Player review

Crucial BX300 480GB SSD review

Intel Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400 benchmarks

Intel Core i9-7980XE and Core i9-7960X benchmarks

Review: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1080Ti

RikoMagic MK22 Android Media Player review

Latest Updates

Software

•	Exact Audio Copy: v1.1

•	Exact Audio Copy: v1.0 beta 4

•	Alcohol 120%: v2.0.3.6839

•	AnyDVD HD: v7.4.8.0

•	AnyDVD HD: v7.4.7.0

•	AnyDVD HD: v7.4.4.0

•	AnyDVD HD: v7.4.3.0

•	VSO ConvertXtoDVD: v5.1.0.14

Firmware

•	Pioneer BDR-S09XLB/XLT, v1.50

•	Pioneer BDR-209DBK, v1.50

•	Pioneer BDR-209EBK/UBK, v1.50

•	Pioneer BDR-211EBK/UBK, v1.50

•	Pioneer BDR-S09XLB/XLT, v1.34

•	Pioneer BDR-209DBK, v1.34

•	Pioneer BDR-209EBK/UBK, v1.34

•	Pioneer BDR-XD05S / XD05B / XD05TB / XD05TS / XD05CB, v3.01

Top News

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter Partner on New Data Project

Facebook is participating in the Data Transfer Project, a collaboration of organizations, including Google, Microsoft and Twitter, committed to building a common way for people to transfer data into and out of online services. >>>

Foxconn Breaks Ground in In Wisconsin Plant, Looks at AI and Beyond Apple

The chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, Terry Gou, seems to have managed to "protect" his company and the assembler of iPhones from the tariff war between China and the U.S., by strengthening ties with the west and a $10 billion liquid crystal display factory complex in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. >>>

Western Digital and Toshiba Begin Sampling 96-layer QLC NAND

Western Digital Corp. and Toshiba have developed their second-generation, four-bits-per-cell architecture for 3D NAND. >>>

Cloud Services Keep Boosting Microsoft's Revenue

Microsoft on Thursday posted high quarterly profit and revenue as more businesses signed up for its Azure cloud computing services and Office 365 productivity suite. >>>

Optical Storage

•	Roxio Toast 17 Adds MultiCam Editing Roxio is introducing Roxio Toast 17 Titanium and Toast 17 Pro, the latest versions of the company's digital media and burning software for Mac. >>>

•	Pioneer to Release New Blu-ray Disc Burners For Long-term Archiving

•	Micron and Intel to End Their 3D XPoint Joint Development Partnership

•	DVDs Still Find an Audience

•	Redbox Launches 4K Ultra HD Rentals in Six Markets

Graphics Cards

•	Blackmagic Design and Apple Announce Blackmagic eGPU Blackmagic Design today announced the Blackmagic eGPU, a high performance graphics processor for pro creative software such as DaVinci Resolve, 3D games and VR. >>>

•	Nvidia's GeForce GT 1030 With DDR4 Instead of GDDR5 Could Disappoint You

•	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1180 Powered by New GT104 GPU Appears Online

•	NVIDIA CEO Springs Special Titan V GPUs on Elite AI Researchers

•	Intel to Release its First Dedicated GPU In 2020, Next Playstation to Have AMD SoC Inside, and New Xbox and Hololens Stories

General Computing

•	Comcast Won't Pursuit Fox assets, Focuses on Sky Offer Comcast Corp. said it dropped its pursuit of a group of media assets owned by Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. on Thursday and will focus on its offer for European pay-TV group Sky Plc. >>>

•	TSMC Cuts Sales, Spending Outlook

•	Alphabet to Deploy Balloon Internet in Kenya

•	IBM Backs Stronghold Digital Stable Coin

•	Amazon.com Faced Problems During Prime Day

PC Parts

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PC Shipments Grew For the First Time in Six Years During the 2Q of 2018
Worldwide PC shipments were increased in the second quarter of 2018,, according to preliminary results released by Gartner, Inc. and IDC . This is the first quarter of year-over-year global PC shipment growth since the first quarter of 2012. >>>

•	New Intel Xeon E-2100 Processor Targets Entry-level Workstations

•	Apple Updates MacBook Pro With Up to 6-Core Processors and 32GB of Memory

•	Shuttle Releases First XPC Cube for the 8th Generation Intel Processors

•	IBM Introduces New FlashSystem 9100 NVMe-accelerated Flash Array

Mobiles

•	EU to Probe Qualcomm Over Pricing Case EU antitrust regulators on Thursday charged Qualcomm with a new violation in a case where the U.S. chipmaker has been accused of selling chipsets below cost to drive out Nvidia and British phone software maker Icera. >>>

•	Google's Project Fuchsia Could Be The Successor of Android Successor to Android

•	New Xiaomi Mi Max 3 has a 6.9-inch Screen But Only 1080p

•	Corning Gorilla Glass 6 Promises Improved Durability for Mobile Devices

•	Samsung's Foldable Phone Coming Next Year, WSJ Claims

Consumer Electronics

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Sony Releases New SXRD Full HD Reflective LCD and Signal Processing Drive LSI for Portable Projectors
Sony today announced the upcoming release of the SXRD (Silicon X-Tal (crystal) Reflective Display) SXRD241A, which is said to be the world's smallest reflective display device in full HD resolution designed for portable projectors. >>>

•	Samsung Adds Deezer's HiFi Lossless Audio to Select Soundbar Models

•	Roku Debuts Roku TV Wireless Speakers

•	Sonos Files for IPO

•	Samsung The Frame TVs Start from $2,000

Games

•	Microsoft Could Release New Xbox Hardware Next Month Microsoft today hinted it could be showing off some fun new hardware at this year's Gamescom, to be held in Germany in late August. >>>

•	U.S Video Market to Continue to Grow

•	July Xbox Update is Rolling Out

•	PlayStation Vue Price Increases by $5

•	Xbox Won't Support VR

Digital Cameras

•	New Nikon's P1000 has a 125x Zoom Lens The Nikon Coolpix P1000, the company's latest compact camera, has a lens with the world's highest zoom ratio: at 24-3000mm equivalence, it's capable of 125x optical zoom. >>>