Jon Fingas / Android Authority We’rebig laptop fans here at Android Authority, but sometimes you need a little more. You can’t always jam the best graphics or cooling into the compact body of a laptop. If you’re thirsting for a stuffed spec sheet, it might be time to consider a desktop. The world of desktop computers can be more than a little daunting, though, so here are our picks for the best desktop computers you can buy.

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Nikon lenses are in high demand, given that the company is one of the two photography giants. Whether you are a beginner looking to upgrade from your kit lens, or a seasoned photographer searching for the next optical upgrade, there’s a wide selection of Nikon lenses at your disposal. Sometimes it’s hard to find the best Nikon lens in a sea of options, so we are making the task easier by curating a list of the very best Nikon glass in the market.

Maker:0x4c,Date:2017-9-24,Ver:4,Lens:Kan03,Act:Lar01,E-ve The OnePlus 5T is one of the best values in mobile today. The phone is also gorgeous and, as such, you’re going to want to protect yours.  There is nothing sadder in life than a beautiful phone with a broken screen. There are a ton of options out there to protect your screen, so to make your selection easier, we have compiled a list of some of the best OnePlue 5T screen protectors available.

One of the strangely-missing features of every Casio smartwatch up until now has been a heart rate monitor. The Casio WSD-F21HR finally solves that problem by offering most of the features you expect with a Casio smartwatch with the addition of the HR sensor. However, Casio wasn’t able to bring down the significant price of the smartwatch too much. Considering the addition of the HR sensor, though, it’s refreshing that the price wasn’t raised much higher, either.

WhatsApp is now rolling out its new text formatting options including bold, italics, strikethrough and any combination of these. The basic text formatting was first tested in WhatsApp’s beta channel in mid-March, but is now rolling out via official Play Store updates. From what we can see it should be working on any version from v2.12.535 and above. WhatsApp next on the government's hit list in the great encryption debate News Much like other apps that support formatting text, you simply add a symbol to either side of the word or phrase you wish to format.

The Sennheiser Ambeo soundbar is fully compatible with Dolby Atmos as well. Sennheiser might be best known for its premium headphones, but that isn’t the only aspect of audio that the company is interested in these days. The company has been experimenting with consumer products that take advantage of spatial audio via its Ambeo 3D program. We were fairly impressed when we got a chance to check out their Ambeo headphones, which enable the wearer to record spatial 3D audio on the go, and now Sennheiser is announcing that its new Ambeo soundbar will be available for purchase in May of 2019.

2016 will surely be entered in the annuls of history as annus horribilis. But for the Android world at least, the tragic lows have been counterbalanced by equally euphoric highs. From the emergence of the outstandingly good Pixel phones at the expense of the Nexus program to the all-too-brief reign of the Galaxy Note 7, the year has been bittersweet. In what can only be described as one of the most tumultuous years for Android on record, here are ten defining moments of 2016.

When the first Chromeboxes launched in 2012, they were meant to do to desktops what Chromebooks did for laptops. The idea was to replace the typical Windows-based desktop with a small form factor device packing a lightweight operating system and a powerful processor, without the built-in screen, keyboard, and touchpad of the Chromebook. The platform took longer than Chromebooks to take off — Acer didn’t jump into the space until 2014, with its first CXI model, which packed an Intel Celeron processor.

With the release of technologies such asTensorFlow and CloudVision, it’s becoming easier to use machine learning (ML) in your mobile apps, but training machine learning models still requires a significant amount of time and effort. With Firebase ML Kit, Google are aiming to make machine learning more accessible, by providing a range of pre-trained models that you can use in your iOS and Android apps. In this article, I’ll show you how to use ML Kit to add powerful machine learning capabilities to your apps, even if you have zero machine learning knowledge, or simply don’t have the time and resources necessary to train, optimize and deploy your own ML models.

Unfortunately it’s these expensive models that grab all the attention, headlines, and bragging rights when showing off to your friends. Most of us probably look at these models first because we think we should, anything less is a cut down experience, but it doesn’t have to be that way. This handy guide is here to help you figure out what type of handset you should spend your cash on. Premium tier flagships Every company has its flagship products, but on an industry scale there are few handsets really worthy of this title.