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Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and GeForce 2080 Founder's Edition review

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

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 Could Charge Android Partners in Europe up to $40 per Device

Google will reportedly charge hardware firms up to $40 per device to use its apps under a new licensing system that the company announced earlier this week, in order to comply with the European Union's competition laws. >>>

Samsung Display Develops Under Panel Sensor, Fingerprint On Display AMOLEDs

Samsung Display is developing new technologies for AMOLED screens that will find their way to upcoming smartphones: Fingerprint on Display, Under Panel Sensor, Haptic on Display and Sound on Display >>>

The 9th Generation Intel Core i9-9900K is Actually the World's Best Gaming Processor

With the 9th generation Core i9-990K CPU, Intel has managed to create once again what you could easily claim the title of being the fastest mainstream CPU and the fastest gaming CPU. >>>

Samsung, LG Launch Trade-in Promotions to Help Sales Of Latest Flagship Smartphones

Both Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have started to buy back used smartphones and implement other promotion programs in South Korea, as they try to boost the sluggish sales of their latest flagship devices. >>>

Optical Storage

•	Sony Releases the World's First 4-layer 128GB BD-R XL Disc Sony will release next month in Japan the world's first BD-R XL discs with a capacity of 128GB, just in time for the first 4K satellite broadcasts in the country. >>>

•	Multimedia-focused Nero 2019 Released

•	Roxio Toast 17 Adds MultiCam Editing

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

•	DVDs Still Find an Audience

Graphics Cards

•	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Cards Released Nvidia's 'value' oriented enthusiast offering, the Geforce RTX 2070 graphics cards, has launched today, offering about 75% the performance of the high-end 2080 Ti at a fraction of cost. >>>

•	Windows 10 October 2018 Update Includes DirectX Raytracing

•	3DMark Adds Ray tracing Benchmark

•	Nvidia Said to Chose TSMC Over Samsung For GPU Production

•	A Look at Nvidia's Turing Architecture and The New RTX 2080 Series

General Computing

•	European Commission Approves Acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft The European Commission (EC) has approved the proposed $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft. >>>

•	Fujitsu's Cooling Control Technology Reduces Datacenter Energy Consumption

•	Tesla Unveils new $45,000 Model 3

•	YouTube to Sell Concert Tickets Through Music Videos

•	SoundCloud to Offer Access to Music Directly Through the DJ Software

PC Parts

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Micron Wants to Buy Remaining Interest in IM Flash Technologies to Advance the 3D XPoint Technology
Micron Technology wants to acquire Intel's interest in the parties' joint venture, IM Flash Technologies, LLC (IM Flash) for $1.5 billion in cash, as the company plans to further advance the 3D XPoint technology. >>>

•	Apple Expected to Unveil New iPad and MacBook on October 30

•	Samsung Debuts the Galaxy Book2, an always on, always connected 2-in-1 PC With Snapdragon 850

•	New Pioneer "DRESSING" USB Dongle Promises to Improve The Sound Of Your PC

•	Samsung Debuts 7nm LPP EUV, SmartSSD and 256GB 3DS RDIMM at Samsung Tech Day

Mobiles

•	Apple Granted New Patent For a Folding iPhone The U.S. Patent and Trademark published Apple's second granted patent for Apple's folding iPhone. >>>

•	NTT Docomo's Card Keitai KY-01L Mobile Phone has The Size of a Business Card

•	How Google's Titan M Security Chip Works

•	iPhone XR Available for pre-order on Friday

•	Huawei Introduces Mate 20 Series of Smartphones, Plus the Watch GT

Consumer Electronics

•	Pioneer's New In-Ear Headphones Combine Styling With Sound Quality Pioneer & Onkyo today introduced three new headphone offerings that are designed to keep your hands free while promising superior performance. >>>

•	Sirius XM Coming to Amazon Echo devices

•	Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses Coming Next Month

•	U.S. Broadcasters to Launch ATSC 3.0 TV In 2020

•	New Kindle Paperwhite is Thinner, Lighter, and Waterproof

Games

•	Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Delivers Biggest Launch Day One Digital Sales in Activision History Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, released on Friday, has set a new launch day record as the biggest day one digital release in Activision history. >>>

•	Xbox Update Rolling Out Today, Brings Avatars and Dolby Vision Video Streaming

•	Creative Launches BlasterX H6 50mm USB Gaming Headset for PC, PS4 and Nintendo Switch

•	Microsoft is Testing the xCloud Game-streaming Service

•	HyperX Launches New Cloud MIX Gaming Headset

Digital Cameras

•	New Cyber-shot HX99 Is Possibly the World's Smallest Travel High Zoom Camera Sony has today announced the Cyber-shot HX99 (model DSC-HX99) camera, a new travel zoom that packs an extreme zoom range of 24-720mmi into a very small camera body. >>>