AMD's newest Catalyst 11.3 drivers have been released. The main new features is: "The AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) OpenCL runtime is now enabled by default within AMD Catalyst.
A while ago there was a big hubbub over Google's announcement that they want to bring gigabit broadband everywhere. Well Google is finally doing something about that by bringing those speeds to Kansas City.
Mod Men Episode 5 was released today. In this episode they finally finish their custom PC (pictures are below). Honestly it looks pretty cool. Check out the show here and Mod Men's website here.
Paul Baran, one of the engineers involved with Arpanet (the precursor to the very Internet you're using to read this article), died on Saturday at the age of 84 due to complications with lung cancer.
Intel today announced it's new 320 SSD series. Oddly, Still using the SATA 3Gb/s interface, the 320 SSD series brings sequential writes to 220MB/s and sequential reads to 270MB/s.
Microsoft's Windows 8, the next in the long procession of Windows operating systems, is looking to have a "system reset" button that will restore the computer to default Windows settingss, and give you an option to delete or keep user files…
MSI announced today it's newest gaming laptop, namely the GX680. It's specs aren't anything super special, but if you're interested in gaming laptops it's worth a look. A component list taken from the press release will follow.
Samsung announced today that has started "the industry’s first production of four gigabit (Gb), low power double-data-rate 2 (LPDDR2) DRAM using 30 nanometer (nm) class* technology earlier this month." This new, higher density, faster DRAM…
The video I'm about to link is believed to be at least a year old. What it is is a leaked video about the future of PC gaming at Microsoft. It's pretty bad.. Watch at your own discretion here.
As most of us are power users, we know the full usefulness of flash drives. They are slowly becoming the new DVD. They can take the time it takes to install an OS down to only minutes.
Mod Men Episode 4 was released today. This time they do more with the watercooling part of it. They frabricate a waterblock for their CPU and show how that works. There's also a short part about brush painting. Check it out here.
Firefox 4 has finally been released. There isn't much to say about it. Most likely you've tried the beta and/or release candidate. A download counter (that I doubt is real) can be found here. Download page is here.
Most power users know about CPU-Z and GPU-Z. They're handy applications for seeing detailed technical information about your processor, motherboard, RAM, and GPU.
Western Digital has come out with a new MyBook with a 6TB capacity. It's two Green 3TB drives in RAID 0/1 (your choice). It has four connections: eSATA, Firewire 400, Firewire 800, and USB 2.0.
If you liked the previous video of a guy upgrading from Windows 1.1 to Windows 7, you'll most likely like this one. This time, the same guy shows the upgrade process from all Internet Explorers.
OCZ, who needs no introduction, has bought Indilinx, who may need one, for OCZ stock equivalent to $32 million. Indilinx is an SSD controller maker who makes controllers for embedded systems.
NVIDIA has recently been touting their new GTX 550 TI, which is a mid-range replacement for the 450 in the $150 range. NVIDIA specifies that the card will have a 900MHz clock, but Asus decided to ramp it up.
Firefox has been coming out with all sorts of betas, and finally released an RC the other day. Well, since no major problems have yet been found with the RC, Damon Sicore is hoping to release the RC and Firefox 4 on the 22nd of this month.
Typically, for most power users at least, Internet Explorer is the browser that you use to download another browser. Well, Internet Explorer 9 was released, and this one might just change that.
The guys over at Mod Men have come out with their latest episode, episode 3. It shows more of their project PC building, as well as some other interesting things for modders. You can watch the video here.
Intel, through their standalone Intel Mobile Communications business, has purchased Egypt-based SysDSoft, who "designs state-of-the-art IP solutions in the software stack and physical layer domain, and RF/analog circuits embedded in mobile…
A University of Illinois research team has discovered a way to make a certain type of memory more efficient, such that it uses 100 times less energy than current PCM (power phase-change materials) memory.
Google introduced today a new Google search feature that allows you to block domains in your search results. What this is useful for is if there are certain websites you don't like, or certain websites that are not the greatest.
Ubuntu 11.10 has been announced with the code name of "Oneiric Ocelot." Oneiric, for those of you not so hip on your vocabulary, means "of or relating to or suggestive of dreams." An Ocelot is, of course, a leopard-looking but house-cat-siz…
After months of waiting, Firefox 4 RC 1 has finally been released. It brings with it, as usual, a ton of bug fixes, but nothing totally new compared to the last beta.
A small indie games studio, a group of only nine people, have done an amazing thing in just nine months. We've been having some troubles posting videos, but hopefully it's fixed and the video will be below. If not, watch the video here.
Major motherboard-maker Asus has begun selling Sandy Bridge motherboards with the revised chipset, and Gigabyte will start shipping Sandy Bridge notebooks in March.
Google Chrome 10, which has been in beta for a few weeks, has finally been released. It brings a whole host of speedy improvements, as well as some better planned features.
Samsung has broken the previous limits in hard drives to bring 1 terabyte per platter disks to the market. What this means is that we can expect to see 4TB HD's on the market soon.
Gabe Newell, who is Valve's CEO, made his Steam username and password open to the public in an attempt to show how good Steam's new "Steam Guard" is. Steam Guard is Steam's new security feature that links an account to a specific computer.
Western Digital, one of the biggest names in the hard-drive business, announced today that it has bought Hitachi's Global Storage Technologies company for cash and stock together worth $4.3 billion.
I normally try to keep out of Apple news as this is a hardware website and Apple is well-known for trying to keep people out of their computers, but lately Apple has been doing some awesome things in the music industry and I think they dese…
Browsing the web the other day I came across this new show called Mod Men. I watched the show (about 15 minutes long) and thought it was awesome, so I e-mailed the show's producers to make sure everything was ok with me posting it here.
In an experiment to see if you could upgrade (without having to reformat a drive) from Windows 1.1 to Windows 7, with every major OS in between, a man has also found out what settings made in Windows 1.1 would stick through to Windows 7.
Major motherboard manufacturer Asus announced that they will start making their motherboard shipping boxes able to hold and support an entire computer.
Intel yesterday announced their newest line of SSDs, the 510 series. This will be the first SSD line that makes use of SATA 6GB/s. What this means is that the new drives will be even more ridiculously fast.
