Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

With only a few days left until the big reveal, Bethesda is turning up the hype for Fallout 4 with a new feature that is sure to grab the attention of many post-apocalyptic survivors- accessing your Pip-Boy in-game with your mobile phone or tablet. The iconic wrist-mounted peripheral of the retro dystopian…..

To further whet the appetites of an almost ravenous horde of Fallout ‘victims’, Bethesda shows off some of its artistic team’s latest screenshots of Fallout 4, utilizing NVIDIA’s graphics technology suite – GameWorks. With a rather appealing selection of screenshots to drool over, Bethesda made mention of a number of technologies it…..

Synology prepares for 2016 with refreshes of business and home NAS units, the release of its very first router, and a massive update to its OS, DiskStation Manager. DSM 6.0 introduces Docker and Virtualized environments, and something that’s sure to grab attention, support for Btrfs.

Starting today, Microsoft will be taking applications for its new development kits of the HoloLens augmented reality system. These units are expected to start shipping in the first quarter of next year, with a rather hefty price tag of $3000. HoloLens is a rather different product from many of the other AR…..

In conjunction with a number of product announcements out of HP today, AMD has unveiled its brand-new APU series for both desktops and notebooks bound for business-class machines. Called AMD PRO, these chips are designed to offer great performance and unparalleled stability. We’ll have to wait to learn about the entire lineup,…..

Synology has released an update to the venerable DS713+, called the DS715, and has made the bold move of replacing the Intel Atom CPU with a relatively unknown Alpine AL-314. Let’s take a hard look at this latest unit to see how the updates, overall feature set, and performance rank up.

With pretty much every PC component under its belt, Corsair finally gets around to making an entry into one of the last remaining components an OEM manufacturer can provide – graphics cards. Corsair isn’t actually making the cards itself; that falls to MSI. What Corsair is providing is an H55 Hydro cooler…..

Under fierce competition, AMD has decided to up its game when it comes to graphics by creating the Radeon Technologies Group; it’s focus, ‘immersive computing’. As part of the company’s restructuring, this is the first time since the acquisition of ATI back in 2006, that AMD has allowed independence in its graphics…..

Portable storage is always in demand, and WD’s My Passport range had a recent refresh to include up-to 3TBs in a 2.5-inch form factor. With USB 3.0 for native hard drive speed and a compelling software stack for automated backups, find out how WD’s latest update performs.

The curtain has finally lifted and it’s that magical time when we can finally divulge all of the interesting details on Intel’s latest and greatest CPU architecture, Skylake. From the top-end desktop parts that were released a couple of weeks back, down to the low-power and low price counterparts. There are even…..

Just when you thought big data privacy concerns would die down, Spotify introduced an update to its privacy policy, granting it permission to access your photos, sensor and location data, your contacts, and your social media ‘stuff’. P.S.: you have to tell everyone you know that Spotify is doing this, for legal…..

With IDF over, we get back to our usual programming, and this time, it’s all about the GPUs. NVIDIA’s latest release is the more budget-orientated GTX 950. This is another member of the GM206 Maxwell 2 family, and is effectively a cut-back GTX 960. Being cut from the same cloth is actually…..

In a Q&A session with Intel’s Chief Graphics Software Architect, David Blythe, The Tech Report obtained some interesting information regarding Intel’s stance on the whole variable refresh display debate. Intel is all for standards-based solutions and is likely to side with VESA’s Adaptive-Sync technology. This is the same tech behind AMD’s FreeSync.…..

At the Intel Developer Forum, a new storage technology was announced called 3D XPoint (crosspoint) which will find its way into Intel’s new Optane brand of SSDs. The technology is a hybrid of sorts that was originally announced last month, being 1000 times more durable than NAND Flash (and supposedly 1000 times…..

Intel’s latest generation of CPUs, Skylake, is put under test, starting with the gamer and overclock friendly i7-6700K. Find out how it compares to the also recently released desktop Broadwell 5775C and the now aging 4770K. With a higher clock speed and the switch to DDR4, does Skylake bring enough to the table to convince Ivy & Sandy Bridge users to upgrade?

Update: Newegg now has availability for the 6TB Black, along with Amazon. Soon to be at an etailer near you, WD has announced two new 6TB hard drive densities for the Black and Red families, covering high-density NAS and high performance desktop scenarios. 6TB drives have been available for a while, but…..

After a long hiatus in the public eye, Rambus will start to design and manufacture memory chipsets for the server market, providing access to huge memory pools for companies that need it. For those unfamiliar with computer history, Rambus is traditionally known as being a patent bully back in the day (not…..

Quick on the heels of Intel’s latest mobile Xeon launch, Lenovo has announced its own series of workstation laptops, bringing with it 64GB of DDR4 ECC memory, two(!) Thunderbolt 3 ports, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, and a 4K display. That’s a lot of premium tech in a small package. It wasn’t going to…..

In a company restructuring endeavor, Google is no longer top dog in the corporate hierarchy. Instead, it will now become a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet. Now I need to purge my mind of Sesame Street… In a move that appears to be completely out of the blue, the lovable and colorful garage-based…..

Have you ever wanted a full-blown workstation that you can carry around? Soon, you can, as Intel releases it’s first official Xeon CPUs for laptop and mobile markets, with its new Xeon E3-1500M v5. We say first official Xeon mobile CPU because there have been laptops with Xeon chips in the past,…..