Here's How You Can Watch Sony's Press Conference Like A VIP and other top stories.

• Here's How You Can Watch Sony's Press Conference Like A VIP

  

  Sony is bringing back the PlayStation E3 Experience for the third year in a row. After starting the event in 2014 where they allowed the general public to watch the Sony press conference at local theaters, they've announced that they're bringing back the VIP experience for gamers. IGN is reporting that over 85 different movie theaters across the United Staes, Canada and Latin America will feature the Sony E3 press conference, live. Gamers will be able to pile into a theater, gain some fre..

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• Qualcomm launches new Snapdragon Wear chips for targeted wearable devices

  

  Qualcomm is launching a new set of Snapdragon Wear chips for targeted wearable devices. The company made the announcement at the Computex trade show in Taiwan today. The new Snapdragon Wear 1100 chips are an expansion of the company’s previously announced wearable chips that have many different functions. The new chips will be part of devices that are targeted at certain audiences, such as kids’ watches or watches for the elderly, fitness trackers, smart headsets, and wearable accessories. “Sna..

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• This Is What Pong Would Look Like In Real-Life

  

  Ever wonder what a physical version of Pong would look like? Well wonder no longer, because some guy has decided to take it upon himself to build the world's first real-life Pong machine. Now before you start saying something like, “Pong in the real world would just be table tennis,” I'm talking about a one-to-one physical representation of the video game boasting nothing more than a couple of flat white paddles and a square “ball” bouncing back and forth between them. Recreating that e..

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• Asus ROG Avalon wants to be the future of DIY PCs

  

  Aloysius Low/CNET Computex is usually a great place to showcase new stuff. Apart from the Asus Zenbo robot enslaving the human race with cuteness, Asus has announced a new hybrid motherboard-chassis combo called Avalon, and it promises to change how you assemble your DIY PC.The idea behind the Avalon is simple. Instead of having to worry about how to squeeze your massive Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics card into the l..

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• Asus takes on the Apple Macbook with its new ZenBook 3

  

  Aloysius Low/CNET Asus isn't shying away from a laptop battle with Apple, on Monday introducing its new ultra portable ZenBook 3. At the launch event at Computex here in Taipei, the company talked about how its new laptop was thinner, lighter and more powerful than Apple's MacBook and MacBook Air ranges.The aluminium bodied laptop sports a 12.-5 inch screen and will start at $999 (which converts to £685, AU$1,3..

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• The President of Taiwan tries a quick chat with ASUS' home robot

  

  I've said before that Computex is ASUS' show -- and what better demonstration than having the recently-elected President of Taiwan "talk" to your newly announced home robot? Crowd noise necessitated several repeated commands to ASUS' Zenbo play some music, but if it was apparently a live demonstration (ASUS' PR affirmed to our Engadget Chinese colleagues that it was), then it's pretty impressive. (With my connectivity, I can barely upload to Instagram in the thick of the show.) Un..

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• Intel's Broadwell-E gaming CPU is a stunner, offering 10 cores for a whopping $1723

  

  On paper, Intel’s massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz. But buying one is like purchasing a lottery ticket to free overclocking—without voiding your warranty. The flagship feature of the new Broadwell-E line is something Intel calls Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, a technology that tests each individual core on the chip and figures out which one can be safely pushed beyond its normal limits.That’s on top of a 20- to 25-percent improvement over its previous gami..

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• Caltech sues Apple for Wi-Fi patent infringement

  

  Oscar Gutiérrez/CNET Apple, Caltech alleges, has been using Wi-Fi technology it oughtn't. In a suit filed with the US District Court for the Central District of California, the university claims that Apple has infringed four of its patents for improved data transmission rates and performance over Wi-Fi. These patents were awarded between 2006 and 2012, and cover technology implemented in the most recent 802.11n ..

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