Posted on February 4, 2015 1:45 PM by Greg King
What a nice mid-week surprise! FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler took to Wired to tell us about a new proposal that would make net neutrality a reality: Classifying it as a Title II utility. Make no mistake, this is the big one – the move that will help us preserve our open Internet.…..
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Posted on February 4, 2015 10:30 AM by Rob Williams
When securing portable data is essential, so too is using a drive that treats its stored bits as some of the most important on earth. We can use Kingston’s just-announced DataTraveler 4000 G2 as an example. Kingston has long offered encrypted flash drives, and each new release seems to be more secure…..
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Posted on February 4, 2015 9:00 AM by Greg King
Last month, the overriding theme of CES was the “Internet of Things.” The focus on this was so great that Samsung’s CEO, BK Yoon, crafted his entire keynote around the idea of the connected world. A good example of the idea of the connected world is home automation. As more and more…..
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Posted on February 3, 2015 3:30 PM by Rob Williams
EVGA’s Classified graphics cards are some of the most desirable out there, but when overclocking champion K|NGP|N puts his name on one, you can bet that it’s something special. It’s for that reason that this particular GeForce GTX 980 has been hyped over the past few months, and now that it’s here,…..
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Posted on February 3, 2015 2:30 PM by Rob Williams
If you’ve been holding out on picking up one of Razer’s sleek Blade notebooks because an update seemed imminent, well, your wait is over. Today, the company has announced that it’s pushed some substantial updates to its thin 14-inch gaming notebook, with a fifth-gen Intel Core processor making an introduction, as well…..
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Posted on February 3, 2015 1:00 PM by Rob Williams
When browsing the Web late last week, I crossed the path of a headline that made me laugh out loud. “Amazon Prime Membership Should Come With a Warning“. At that point, I felt like it’d be a good idea to take the ORLY owl out of retirement, because I think that suggestion…..
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Posted on February 3, 2015 10:00 AM by Greg King
Towards the end of last year, the XBMC team released their latest build, codenamed Helix. With v14, we got a new brand name and logo as well. One of the biggest draws for the application, outside of its supreme usability, is that is supports so many different hardware platforms. Have an old…..
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Posted on February 2, 2015 1:15 PM by Jamie Fletcher
After three years, the Raspberry Pi foundation has released the long-awaited version 2 of the venerable micro PC, and it’s quite the upgrade. The processor remains of a similar architecture to maintain compatibility with the very large software library that’s been built up over the years. Switching from a single-core 700MHz ARM6…..
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Posted on January 30, 2015 8:30 AM by Techgage Staff
All too often, design and style exist in conflict with each other. Form follows function, as the saying goes. But sometimes, we see products which are as beautifully-styled as they are well-designed. Corsair’s Graphite 780T full-tower becomes a perfect example of this – it’s great looking and functional. Let’s check it out.…..
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Posted on January 29, 2015 10:30 AM by Rob Williams
No matter the product, if CES is the launching pad, it’s going to endure an uphill battle to get noticed. That’s unless the product happens to be one of the rare few that’s a true standout. Such as Dell’s brand-new XPS 13 notebook. It’s the smallest 13-inch Ultrabook to date, and I’m…..
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Posted on January 29, 2015 9:00 AM by Rob Williams
It’s been quite the week for NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970, and for the company’s sake, it’s too bad it’s not for good reason. As I reported on Monday, a stink has been raised about the GTX 970’s architectural design that results in the final 500MB in the framebuffer being slower than the rest. I’d like…..
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Posted on January 28, 2015 2:30 PM by Robert Tanner
It was only roughly six months ago that a read performance bug affecting all Samsung TLC solid-state drives came to light. Old, or “stale” data that had not been re-written would begin to see increasing level of read performance degradation based on the age of the data, at times so severe that…..
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Posted on January 28, 2015 11:15 AM by Rob Williams
What happens when Jon von Tetzchner, co-founder and former CEO of Opera, hates the direction his beloved browser’s taken? He spearheads development of a brand-new browser, of course. Enter Vivaldi, a Chromium-based browser that makes it clear about who it targets: power-users. Vivaldi might be one of the friendliest browsers to have…..
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Posted on January 28, 2015 9:30 AM by Rob Williams
Hot on the heels of another severe Adobe Flash vulnerability (CVE-2015-0311) getting patched, YouTube has decided to flick the switch and turn its HTML5 player on by default. This follows a staggering five-year period from when the feature was first announced, and is an enormous change for a service that delivers videos…..
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Posted on January 28, 2015 7:00 AM by Techgage Staff
BitFenix has developed an enormous number of chassis models and other PC peripherals, but as far as audio goes, it’s produced just a single product. Called Flo, this headset caters to those who don’t want to break the bank, but demand an attractive design and satisfying sound quality. Sounds good – or…..
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Posted on January 27, 2015 2:20 PM by J.D. Kane
EVGA, known primarily for its GPU, motherboard, and PSU product lines, jumped into the deep end of the gaming peripheral market last year with its interesting Torq X10 mice, which Techgage comrade Tom Roeder reviewed last year. If any of us thought that that would have been the full extent of the…..
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Posted on January 27, 2015 9:30 AM by Rob Williams
There’s no company in the game industry right now that’s in greater need of a generous helping of good PR than Ubisoft. But despite that being the case, it seems as though that is the last thing the company cares about, something proven once again this past weekend. Last Friday, many Far…..
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Posted on January 26, 2015 11:00 AM by Rob Williams
Over the past month, Google’s Project Zero service has outed a handful of Windows bugs – some minor, some severe. This is a practice that has been debated a lot, with some believing that Google’s putting us all at risk when publishing vulnerabilities, and others believing that it’s doing us all a…..
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Posted on January 26, 2015 9:30 AM by Rob Williams
It’s been rumored for a little while that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 970 has a memory issue, but as I could never find substantial evidence of it, I passed it over. Well, this past weekend, it was impossible to ignore. A couple of weeks ago, a reddit user posted some findings about how his…..
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Posted on January 26, 2015 7:00 AM by Techgage Staff
Hot on the heels of its major Windows 10 event, Microsoft released a brand-new preview build to the public, versioned 9926. Given what we were told at the event, we knew that Cortana, a revamped Start menu, and updated Notifications pane would be featured. But is that all? As it happens, no.…..
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Posted on January 23, 2015 9:30 AM by Rob Williams
After months of anticipation, NVIDIA hauled the veil off of its GeForce GTX 960 yesterday. In case you didn’t happen to notice, we posted an in-depth look at ASUS’ Strix edition (seen first below). If you’ve already read through, it could be that you’re chomping at the bit for a card, but…..
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Posted on January 22, 2015 9:00 AM by Techgage Staff
NVIDIA’s much-anticipated mid-range 900 series card is here. It’s called the GeForce GTX 960 (no need to act surprised) and it brings a couple of surprises. As NVIDIA’s “sweet spot” GPU, the GTX 960 is designed to be an affordable option that lasts the long haul, so let’s see what the green…..
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Posted on January 21, 2015 10:30 AM by J.D. Kane
Let’s face a fundamental truth here: Gaming gear is often expensive. Whether it’s that outrageously styled chassis, or that all-singing-and-dancing mouse with all the bells, whistles, and air horns, being a hardcore gamer would probably make your wallet wail like a banshee. Thank goodness, though, that there is still gamers’ gear available…..
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Posted on January 21, 2015 9:00 AM by Rob Williams
Where social media is concerned, I have an almost innumerable number of pet peeves, but some do stand out more than the others. Such as people sharing misinformation that should raise red flags right away, as well as the sharing of hoaxes. Well, it seems that Facebook itself doesn’t care too much about…..
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Posted on January 20, 2015 7:00 AM by Techgage Staff
CHERRY is famous for providing the most popular mechanical keyboard switches around, but did you know the company also manufactures its own line of mice and keyboards? In our lab is the company’s MX-Board 3.0, equipped with MX Brown switches. Let’s find out how interesting – or uninteresting – this plank is.…..
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