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Western Digital Releases 1TB VelociRaptor; 25% Faster than Last-Gen
By now, the benefits that an SSD can bring to a computer are hardly unknown, but we still haven’t reached a point where everyone is ready to equip their PC with one. When talking to potential buyers, the most common complaint I hear relates to the lack of storage space – a real concern for those who love having lots of games installed.
EVGA Releases Precision X for Android
For some, overclocking is more than just fun… it’s an art. And to excel at this art, unconventional tricks must be used in order to obtain the best benchmarking scores possible and leave the competition in the dust. One such trick is to adjust GPU clocks on-the-fly, depending on the particular test being run. But for benchmarks like 3DMark…
Man Finds Long-Lost Mother with Help of Google Earth
If you consider Google Earth to be a useful tool, then imagine how the man who found his long-lost mother via the service feels about it. Saroo Brierley, at age five, got separated from his brother when he fell asleep at a train station in India. After hopping on a train in hopes of finding him, he fell asleep only to wake up fourteenhours later…
Kingston Releases HyperX 3K SSDs
When we previously reviewed Kingston’s HyperX SSD, we found it to be a premium model, offering not only the best performance we had seen from a SF-2281 powered SSD but also one of the best track records in regards to stability. Even several months later we consider the HyperX to be one of the finest SandForce…
1366×768 Surpasses 1024×768 As Most-Used Resolution on Web
For tech enthusiasts, a 1024×768 resolution is something of history – one that most of us likely used 10 years ago. But believe it or not, until recently that resolution was still the most used on the Internet, only now finally being surpassed by 1366×768. In checking our own stats, 1024×768 places #5. Tablets no doubt helped boost…
CM Storm QuickFire Pro First Impressions
After reading through Jamie’s review of Corsair’s Vengeance K60 mechanical keyboard, I knew that I had to finally upgrade from a standard model to one that made the clickity-clack noise. Soon after, Cooler Master shot us over a sample of its QuickFire Pro and upcoming Trigger keyboards, so I decided to tackle them and set aside…
EVGA Revamps its Lifetime Warranty Policy
Gamers from yonder years may still recall quite a few companies that offered lifetime warranties on graphics cards (in some cases, double-lifetime), but everyone knows such agreements have become harder and harder to find as companies either exited the business or changed their warranty terms to stay competitive. With the defection…
Want to Create Your Own Linux Distro? There’s a Game for That
Where operating systems are concerned, it could be argued that Linux offers more “choice” than any other. There exist so many different distributions, that the challenge is finding the one perfectly suited for you. I will go out on a limb, though, and say that if there’s anything more complicated than finding the right distro, it’s…
Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1 Billion
Own a social networking service that has a lot of users but generates no revenue? Some might think that there’dbe little hope in a sale, but Facebook’s most recent purchase proves that the unlikely can happen. The company just paid a cool $1 billion for photo sharing / editing service Instagram, a deal that has many scratching their…
OCZ Unveils Indilinx Everest 2 Powered Vertex 4 SSD
It has been a few years but Indilinx is back! Since their splash into the consumer markets in 2008, SSDs have characteristically been doubling in performance with each successive launch of some controller on a roughly annual basis. Yet more recently, SandForce has managed to recapture and hold onto the performance crown.
NZXT’s FZ LED Fans Deliver Both Performance and Color
For serious PC builders, LED fans are sometimes a non-option. It’s not because LED lights are tacky, but because usually there’s a trade-off in performance being made. Companies that tend to create LED fans don’t always focus on performance or endurance to the level that enthusiasts would like. The folks at NZXT are trying to remedy…
NVIDIA Casts Doubt on Intel’s ‘Knights Corner’ Processors
With Intel’s first ‘Knights Corner’ products expected to hit the channel in late 2012, NVIDIA’s CTO Steve Scott has taken the opportunity to call Intel out on some of its claims. The biggest one being targeted is that code won’t have to be “ported” to operate on Knights Corner, based on the fact that it has an x86 design. Claims like these…
Next-Gen Xbox Rumored to Include Blu-ray and Dual AMD GPUs
As hard as it might be to believe, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 launched a staggering 6.5 years ago, and its follow-up isn’t expected to release until late 2013. Given the huge amount of time in between these releases, one would expect that the “Xbox 720″ would be far more powerful and capable than its predecessor, and so far, that’s…
Consumer Reports Updates Tablet Charts; Places New iPad at the Top
We posted a story last week that questioned whether or not the iPad 2 was better than the third-generation iPad, with heat and battery concerns topping the reasons. Consumer Reports was one publication to jump on the latestiPad for heat issues, and it found that on average, certain areas of the device could run as much…
Has the Web Killed April Fools’?
That question might be needless, because I’d like to think the universal answer would be, “without a doubt”. Growing up, April Fools’ was all about pulling fun pranks on family members or friends. Making the entire experience a lot better, few people would actually clue in quick enough to what day it was. Good luck…
UK Man Jailed for ‘Inciting Racial Hatred’ on Twitter
By now, it should be a secret to no one that whenever you post something online, it’s there to stay. Never has this fact been clearer than with the advent of social networking sites, such as Facebook. There have been many stories over the years where people have lost their jobs because of things they’ve said or done online, and others…
Is the iPad 2 Better than the New iPad?
Where mobile devices are concerned, I am sure there are few people that believe “bigger is better”. But there do exist occasions where newer is not always better. According to tech analyst Rob Enderle, Apple’s latest iPad is a perfect example of this. On the surface, the third-generation iPad looks to be a huge upgrade from the…
Rovio Entertainment Acquires Futuremark Games Studio
Well, here’s some news that’s come out of left field. Rovio Entertainment, creators of the ultra-popular Angry Birdsseries, has acquired Futuremark Game Studios, the gaming side-arm of the popular benchmark tool creatorFuturemark (not that self-explanatory, I know). In an e-mail sent to us, Futuremark stated…
Gamer Builds Functioning Scientific Calculator in Minecraft
When I discovered Minecraft in its earlier stages of development, I was blown away by some of the things that people were building in the game. I hopped on and just messed around, but others were building some seriously complex buildings, landmarks, video game characters and so forth. And to think, that was just thebeginning.
Should Cheap Android Phones be Avoided?
As a big Android fan, an article posted earlier at TechCrunch called “Please Do Not Buy Cheap Android Phones” drew me in like few other articles could. I felt like I understood what was being discussed before I even looked at it; a bit of the “you get what you pay for” medicine. And as it turns out, that’s just about what the article is. But…
XBMC 11.0 ‘Eden’ Released
Popular media center software XBMC has just seen the release of a major new version, 11.0 “Eden”. There are a ton of added features and updates here, so I’m going to steal a paragraph from the official release which sums it up nice: “XBMC 11.0 Milestones include Addon Rollbacks, vast improvements in Confluence (the default…
GOG Begins Rolling-Out ‘Fresher’ Games; Indie Included
This past fall, the folks at GOG.com announced its future plans to help take things to the next level. At the forefront was a decision to introduce newer titles to the service, effectively ending the “Good Old Games” moniker the site first became known for. Today, we’ve effectively reached that point. The company rolled-out a site…
Lamptron Announces ‘Steampunk’ FC10 Fan Controller
Lamptron has long been producing some of the most powerful and best-looking fan controllers on the market, and with its FC10 series, the company aims to take things just a bit further. For steampunk fans, Lamptron has implemented “nixie tube” displays that use bright orange cathodes. The result is a cool vintage look…
James Cameron Completes Dive to Bottom of Mariana Trench
This past weekend, film director James Cameron became the third person ever to dive to the deepest accessible point on earth, the Mariana Trench. Located in the western portion of the Pacific Ocean (east ofPhilippines), the deepest recorded point of the Mariana Trench is 10,990 meters (6.83 miles) below the surface.
A Look Inside Visa’s ‘Operation Center East’
Have you ever wondered what a Visa payment processing center looks like? If not, it’s likely because you wouldn’t expect it to be one of the highest-security, well-protected buildings on the planet. With its “Operations Center East”, it’s being said that breaking into a prison would be easier. Oh, did I mention that it has a moat?