- Qualcomm Launches Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Mobile Platform
- AMD Launches Ryzen PRO 7000 Series Mobile & Desktop Platform
- Intel Launches Sleek Single-Slot Arc Pro A60 Workstation Graphics Card
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- Maxon Redshift With AMD Radeon GPU Rendering Support Now Available
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GTA, Alice on Sale at Steam; Classic Ubisoft Games at GOG
If you’re looking to get your game on this weekend but don’t have any idea on what to play, you might want to consider some of the deals going on through the weekend at both Steam and GOG.com. These deals seem to be becoming a weekly affair, so whenever anything interesting is being offered, we’ll try to post about it so that…
OCZ Launches Indilinx “Everest”-Powered Octane SSDs
OCZ’s acquisition of the SSD controller company Indilinx is finally beginning to pay off. The company has unveiled its own long-awaited Indilinx-powered successor to the venerable “Barefoot” controller design seen in drives such as the original Vertex, which at the time was the first SSD to go toe-to-toe with Intel’s own SSDs.
Razer Announces Long-Overdue Peripheral Settings Cloud Service
In 2006, Razer released the world’s first gaming peripherals with built-in memory for storing profiles, and today, you would almost have to go out of your way to purchase a high-end gaming mouse without the same feature. Razer called its original implementation “Synapse”, and today, the company has announced its cloud-based…
Corsair Explains LN2 Overclocking from Start to Finish
Overclocking a processor today could almost be considered “simple”, with motherboard manufacturers requiring minimal effort on the user’s part to achieve rather commendable clock frequencies. But to truly impress, great knowledge and sometimes the right tools are required. In the case of the extreme, we’re talking liquid…
Sonic Generations Coming to the PC
As a big Sonic the Hedgehog fan, I hate to admit that it’s been ages since I last bought a new release. Nowadays, it takes a special kind of ambition to get me to turn on a console, as I’d rather just load up a game on the PC. It’s for that reason that Sonic Generations has my interest. When it launches in a couple of weeks, it’ll be…
Some Small Changes to Our Forums
We made a couple of minor changes to our forums earlier, and would like to discuss them here. In the never-ending quest to make sure our forums are as easy to navigate as possible, we’ve been known to remove various forums in the past, or merge more than one together. Today, we did the opposite, adding two that we believe…
Manipulating Floating Objects with ‘Quantum Levitation’
The idea of floating objects that can be manipulated in mid-air has long been something left to science fiction, but the researchers at Tel-Aviv University have just shown off an amazing example of this called “Quantum Levitation”. We’re not only dealing with a floating object that can be moved to some small degree, but rather have one…
NVIDIA Shows Off PhysX in Batman: Arkham City
After its release in 2009, Batman: Arkham Asylum gained the reputation of being one of the best superhero games ever created (but to be fair, it shouldn’t have been hard to pull off given most superhero games are not worth the packaging wrapped around them). The game not only had solid graphics and audio, but its gameplay matched…
Canon Introduces New Flagship Professional DSLR, EOS-1D X
Looking for the ‘ultimate’ DSLR camera? It pains me to say this as a Nikonian, but it’s Canon that has the right to that title, with its just-released EOS-1D X. Replacing both the 1Ds Mark III and 1D Mark IV, the EOS-1D X is designed to suit all sorts of professional shooters. It’s faster, even more capable and brings a…
SandForce Pins Down Firmware Bug Behind BSoD Issues
Well, that didn’t take long. SandForce SSD users will be happy to learn that the company has reportedly been able to duplicate and resolve the longstanding, if uncommon BSOD issues that have plagued select users of the SF-2281 controller. Although the root cause is a firmware issue, the BSOD problem…
Managing Your Files on Android with ES File Explorer
Our mobile phones might just be simple computers, but that doesn’t mean that a little file management won’t be needed every now and then. Be it that you need to move a file or folder from one place to another or you need to search for one, a file manager is going to make things a lot easier. Fortunately, there exist many free…
Corsair Releases Entry-Level H40 & Fanless H70 CORE CPU Coolers
We’re a bit late reporting on this launch, but it’s interesting enough to still do so. A couple of weeks ago, Corsair released the entry-level Hydro H40 CPU cooler, along with the H70 CORE – a model that doesn’t include the dual fans of the original H70. Both coolers target a different sort of customer, as their price-points prove.
Ubuntu 11.10 Brings Unity Improvements, Revamped Software Centre
One of the most popular desktop Linux distributions, Ubuntu, received its second major update of the year last week, putting the latest version at 11.10. This marks the second release where the Canonical-developed Unity desktop environment is made default, but unlike the previous release, there is no pre-installed GNOME 2…
Microsoft Discusses Overhauled Task Manager in Windows 8
Either by necessity or interest, many Windows users find themselves staring the Task Manager in the face on a regular occasion. It could be that a program has stalled or that you simply want to know where your network resources are being hogged. The Task Manager has always proven to be a good one-stop shop…
Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C & Unix, Has Passed Away
While much of the tech world was mourning the loss of Steve Jobs last weekend, another pivotal figure in computing also passed away, Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie might not be a household name like Jobs, but his contributions to computing have proven to be some of the most important in history. In addition to being the…
SteelSeries Teams Up with GUNNAR to Release ‘Desmo’ Eyewear
SteelSeries has today announced a rather interesting and unusual product: a pair of eyeglasses. These are not usual glasses, however. Rather, the “Desmo” was created in conjunction with the folks at GUNNAR Optiks who have long promised that their glasses will improve your focus while at the same time reduce glare and eye…
The Wait is Over: AMD Launches its First ‘FX’ Bulldozer Processors
After what has felt like an eternal wait, AMD has finally launched its first Bulldozer desktop processors. This launch marks the first time since the original K7 that AMD has about started from scratch, designing a CPU with a fresh mindset and with the ultimate goal of catching up to its biggest competitor. Has it happened?
ASUS Announces ‘Zenbook’ Ultrabook Series; Takes MacBook Air Head-on
ASUS has long been manufacturing some of my favorite notebooks, and with the company’s new Zenbook line-up, I think my love has just been refreshed. Based on “Ultrabook” designs, the Zenbook models are set to compete head-to-head with Apple’s MacBook Air in terms of dimensions, weight and battery-life.
Cooler Master Launches Xornet Gaming Mouse
Gamers beware – the latest release from Cooler Master’s CM Storm gaming brand is a nasty little bugger. TheXornet has been officially launched as the latest gaming mouse in a line up that has already won over tons of gamers. Under the hood, the mouse features a 2000 DPI optical sensor with anti-drift control, Omron…
Giving Photos Instant Flair with Autodesk’s Pixlr-o-matic
A couple of weeks ago, I featured the “Paper Camera” app, available for both Android and Apple devices, which allows you to add some artistic value to your snapshots on-the-fly, rather than after-the-fact. Mere days after making that post, I discovered a similar app produced by Autodesk based on its Pixlr Web photo editing tool.
OCZ Technology Acquires UK Design Team & IP from UK PLX Technology
OCZ Technology has made a new name for itself with solid-state drives, and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down any time soon. The company has just announced that it has signed an agreement to pick up a design team and select IP assets from the UK division of PLX Technology, a SoC design company.
Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Entertainment Content with 40 New Providers
In continuing to make the Xbox 360 more of an entertainment device than only a gaming one, Microsoft has announced a slew of new partnerships that will deliver a lot more content to owners of the console all around the world. Unfortunately, not everyone will have access to all of the content unveiled, because not surprisingly…
The Loss of a Visionary: Steve Jobs Passes
A few moments ago, Apple’s front page was changed to reflect the passing of a visionary; Steve Jobs. This is a very sad day, with our heartfelt sympathy going out to his friends and his family. No details as of yet have been released, but the Board of Directors at Apple have released the following statement:
De-RAGE Yourself With These Graphics Tweaks
It seems that id’s RAGE couldn’t have been more aptly named, as for PC gamers, it’s been an emotion felt as getting the game to just look good and run well has been tough. Unfortunately, the game is very un-id Software like in that it clearly wasn’t developed for PC gamers. The issues gamers are experiencing are many, but…
Microsoft Discusses Reasons for Dropping Start Menu in Windows 8
Since Windows 95’s release, the Start menu has become an integral part of many computing lives. Over time, it’s experienced continual improvement, with the introduction of pinned items, a search bar, quicker access to key folders and so forth. But with Windows 8, Microsoft will be shelving the Start menu as we know it, instead…