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ReviewsToshiba Satellite Radius Review: An Amazing 4K Screen Attached to a Frustrating Machine
For many, a laptop is a deeply personal device, one that gets used and abused even more than a smartphone. So you really want to love using it—especially if you’re going to spend upwards of $1,600 on something like Toshiba’s new Satellite Radius 12. But the impressive hardware doesn’t make this laptop worth the price … Continued
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Sony Has Bought Toshiba’s Image Sensor Division for $155 Million
Following a series of negotiations, Sony has announced that it’s buying Toshiba’s image sensor business for 19 billion yen—which is about $155 million. The deal, rumored in October, will see Sony take over Toshiba’s fabrication plants, equipment and employee contracts in Oita, Japan. In fact, they’ll be operated by Sony’srecently announced independent image sensor business. … Continued
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Sony Plans to Take Over Toshiba’s Image Sensor Division
Sony has confirmed that it’s currently in negotiations to agree the terms with which it will take over Toshiba’s CMOS image sensor business. The move will see Sony boost its already impressive image sensor division. The takeover of Toshiba’s sensor business will see it acquire fabrication plants, equipment and employee contracts in Oita, Japan. Sony … Continued
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Toshiba’s New DynaPad Is a Surface Clone For People Who Scribble
Toshiba has just announced a new Windows 10 convertible called the DynaPad, that shares more than a passing resemblance to the Microsoft Surface — but it’s lighter, thinner and likely a good bet for anyone who needs to use a stylus. The new 2-in-1 features a 12-inch 1920 x 1280 IPS display, with anti-reflection and … Continued
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A 4K Screen On a Convertible Laptop Is Wonderful, Beautiful Overkill
Toshiba is not a company normally known for pushing the bounds of laptop innovation and design. But change is afoot — first, with a surprisingly good full HD Chromebook, then a cheap-and-quite-cheerful Windows convertible, and now a fantastically bonkers 12.5-inch convertible laptop with a 4K Ultra HD display. The Satellite Radius 12 is being announced … Continued
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Toshiba’s CEO Has Quit Over a $1.2 Billion Profit Scandal
Toshiba has announced that its CEO, Hisao Tanaka, is resigning because the company exaggerated its operating profits by a staggering $1.2 billion over the past six years. A team of financial investigators has discovered an environment of intimidation which led to the massive accounting lapses. The BBC reports that the investigators wrote: “Within Toshiba, there … Continued
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New ‘Scorpion’ Robot Will Inspect Fukushima Reactor This Summer
When the 2011 earthquake in Japan damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant, teams scrambled to find a robot that could go where humans couldn’t. In many ways those robots failed, and ever since, there has been a focus on creating robots that can get the job done. Enter Toshiba’s “Scorpion” robot, which will make its … Continued
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This Tiny Key-Code Flash Drive PIN Protects Your Files—for a Price
Tiny capacious flash drives not only make it easy to carry gigs and gigs of data wherever you go, they also makes it easy to lose gigs and gigs of data. So if you’ve had more flash drives go MIA than you prefer to remember, Toshiba will now let you password protect those lost files … Continued
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Toshiba Radius 11: A Neat Convertible With Bags of Storage on the Cheap
This is Toshiba’s new Satellite Radius 11, a convertible PC-cum-tablet. Yes, it looks a lot like a Lenovo Yoga—but if you’re on a budget and need a (quite literally) flexible computer, it might be for you. The previous incarnation of the Radius had a 15.6-inch screen—hardly a practical option for carrying around as a tablet … Continued
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Tech NewsToshiba’s Eerie Sign Language Robot Will Silently Stare Into Your Soul
Proving its engineers are just as capable as anyone at developing a creepy human-like robot that embraces the Uncanny Valley, Toshiba has developed an android that specializes in sign language thanks to a pair of highly articulated hands. One day the company hopes it could serve as an artificial receptionist, but it’s probably going to … Continued
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Your Lettuce Could Come From an Old Semiconductor Factory
In a factory that once made floppy disks, herbs are growing. Inside an old semiconductor factory, there’s lettuce taking root. Oddly enough, electronics factories make great farms. And Toshiba, Sony, Panasonic, are swapping industrial infrastructure for a business that’s as old as civilization itself. Today, Toshiba announced that inside a huge building in Yokosuka, there’s … Continued
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Toshiba Is Getting Out of the Consumer PC Racket in Some Regions (Updated)
Earlier this year, Sony walked away from laptops when it sold off its Vaio business. Now Toshiba is following suit. Nothing’s getting sold this time around, but the Japanese company has said it’s shying away from consumer PCs in certain low-profit regions in favor of beefing up business offerings. Toshiba explains its retreat from the … Continued
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This Is the First of a Slew of Cheap Windows Tablets
Prefer swiping through Windows tiles rather than Android’s app icons? If you’re on a budget, you rarely have any other option other than Android when it comes to tablets—but Toshiba’s new Encore Mini is the first of what could be a long line to buck that trend. Running full Windows 8.1 and offering a year’s … Continued
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Toshiba’s Chromebook Gets a Redesign, Full HD Model
Last January, Toshiba introduced its first Chromebook, a 13.3-inch device that attempted to deliver Google’s promise of productive computing on the cheap. But over the past nine months, ChromeOS has grown in popularity and as a platform in general, and Toshiba wants to grow with it. At IFA 2014 in Berlin, Toshiba has just introduced … Continued
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Toshiba’s New Robovac Uses Three Times the Sensors for Less Collisions
With countless new models released every year, the robovac arms race seems happy to ignore features like battery life, storage capacity, and even price. What’s most important these days is how intelligently an autonomous vacuum can navigate its surroundings, so Toshiba’s crammed some 27 sensors into its new Torneo Robo, so it always knows what … Continued
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Tech NewsAntiques Roadshow Appraised My 2008 Toshiba TV
In June, Antiques Roadshow visited Birmingham, Alabama, my home for the last three years. I don’t own a Tiffany lamp or a 19th century Chesterfield sofa. I do, though, have a flatscreen television that’s ancient by consumer electronics standards. So that’s what I brought to be appraised. Full disclosure: I’d arranged to have my 2008 … Continued
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What’s the Generic Word For Skype? Videophone? Video Chat?
As technologies evolve, so does the language we use to describe them. Radio used to be called wireless telephone. Some people used to call the internet the catenet. But what do we call it when you’re talking with a person via video link? Is it videophone? Video chat? Skype? Skype is, of course, a trademarked … Continued
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This Is the World’s Fastest MicroSD Card (For Now)
It’s easy enough to find ultra-fast SD cards—if you’ve got the cash—but super speedy microSD cards are harder to come by. No longer: Toshiba has just launched the world’s fastest, and it should breathe life into your compact mirrorless camera. The new microSD cards are the first to ever meet the UHS-II spec, which means … Continued
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Toshiba Crammed 5 Computers in Its Shape-Shifting Concept 5-in-1 PC
It’s a concept but it’s a super fun one. Toshiba’s shape-shifting concept 5-in-1 PC somehow manages to be a laptop, a tablet, a convertible tablet, a canvas, and a presentation TV-type device. A few of those five might be redundant (and/or useless), but it’s pretty freaking sweet to see one computer try to be everything … Continued
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Toshiba Has a Lytro-Style Camera Ready to Pop Into Your Phone
Toshiba has just announced a new camera module that allows users to refocus smartphone photos after they’re taken, like Lytro’s light field technology. Unlike Nokia’s attempts to use software to refocus after the event, Toshiba’s solution uses new hardware to enable the manipulations. Known as TCM9518MD—ain’t that catchy?—the module uses two five-megapixel sensors and a … Continued