A while ago, HP issued a voluntary recall of many laptops' batteries. There was a big overheating problem with the batteries. HP planned to recall 162,000 batteries, according to DigiTimes, in both HP and Compaq laptops.
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act, or the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act.
As promised, Skype has released an update for its OS X (Mac) client to fix the problems some people were having logging in. Download the update for OS X here. Below is the blog post from Skype Heartbeat.
A lot more game specific fixes and improvements have been added in this second Catalyst 11.5 hotfix. If you plan to play Dirt 3, Witcher 2, or Brink on an AMD card you will want to grab the new driver right away.
In a complete turnabout from the other day's post about Apple's tech support, Apple (apparently two days ago, or that's the last modify-date) released a guide to removing Mac Defender and how to avoid it if you don't have it already.
Every browser now has a 'Private Browsing' feature. What does it do? Private browsing will stop any data from being stored on your computer by websites that you visit.
Some Skype users experienced some problems with the VOIP program earlier today in that they could not log in. Not nearly all Skype users had the problem, however, as I'm using it right now and have been all day.
For a while now, most Dell laptops have been not the most attractive things on the planet. Generally they're a standard laptop, undeserving of any style points or anything of the sort.
Cisco, a very famous manufacturer of basically everything in the communication world, is now involved in a lawsuit for allegedly helping the Chinese government censor the internet and monitor those who would oppose the Communist government.…
As part of Mozilla's new rapid-release plan for Firefox, they've released the Firefox 5 beta 2. As always, there's what's new (which will be copied below) and a complete changelog are available.
A little over a week ago, Google showed off their new Cloud Music Storage beta, and had a sign-up page to sign up for an invite. Well, since then Google hasn't been really sending out invites.
The United States' Center for Disease Control recently released a short blog on what to do to be prepared for the zombie apocalypse. "There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for.
Recently Steam, the digital-download service of Valve, launched a new daily-deals program. If you don't feel like looking at Steam's front page every day, and you use Facebook or Twitter, you can follow Steam on both here and here.
Last week we posted a sneak peek of the non-TI Geforce GTX 560, and now they're released. They can be had for around $200, which seems pretty reasonable for what this card looks to be.
In the recently announced line of new HP desktops, HP chose to not support Thunderbolt while supporting USB 3.0. HP's marketing manager Xavier Lauwaert said, "We did look at [Thunderbolt]. We're still looking into it.
NVIDIA has given us a sneak peek at their new card, the GeForce 560. Note the lack of TI. They have the card running three upcoming games: Duke Nukem Forever, Alice: Madness Returns, and Dungeon Siege III.
VIA, who makes all sorts of USB 3.0 peripherals, recently announced that they've received the first USB-IF (universal serial bus implementers forum) certification for a low-powered USB 3.0 SATA bridge controller.
Recently there was a bunch of hubbub over Google's Chromebooks, whether they will have a subscription or not, their cost, etc. Well, a recent Engadget article clarifies everything from Google's I/O conference.
If you're one of the type of people who like to make game maps, then you'll enjoy this. Valve released the Portal 2 authoring tools, which are the same tools they used to make Portal 2.
Ever wish you had a place to store all of your music and be able to access it from anywhere you had internet? Well, it looks like you will soon be in luck. Google released a beta yesterday of just that: a cloud music service.
It seems like just last week AMD released their Catalyst 11.4 Drivers, and now 11.5 is already out. Aside from the addition HyrdaVision, a helpful tool for multiple Eyefinity displays, it's mostly just bug fixes.
Just a few weeks ago news came out that Diablo III was in the home-stretch of development, so it's no surprise that there's news now of a beta that is to be released in Q3 2011.
Last week there were rumors that Facebook was considering buying Skype, but now there are confirmed reports that Microsoft will purchase Skype for $8.5 billion, the biggest purchase in Microsoft history.
It didn't take long for the Counter-Strike: Source community to make a map modelling Osama Bin Laden's compound. Plans are to make this into a bomb or hostage map, but for right now it's a general-purpose map.
AMD, at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley 2011, announced their release of their latest embedded GPU: the Radeon E6760. It's the first embedded GPU to support OpenCL as well as up to 6 independent displays.
Wanting a new iMac, but also wanting to play games? Don't fret, the embedded GPUs actually aren't too bad. An article by the guys over at Tested shows a chart of the specs for each card and what those specs mean for gameplay.
David Brabe, a UK man whose game studio brought us (among other titles) the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, has developed a computer that takes up the same amount of space as a USB stick.
Thinking about getting a triple-monitor setup for gaming, but don't know whether to buy the Radeon 6990 or the GTX 590 to power all of the monitors? Well, the guys over at Techspot ran some benchmarks to help you out.
Everything seems to be going 3D these days, even transistors! Intel announced today that their new Ivy Bridge processors will include technology Intel has been looking into for quite a few years: three-dimensional transistors.
Back in 2008, NVIDIA got involved in a class-action lawsuit over their GPUs and MCPs laptops. NVIDIA took out millions in reserve to repair the chips in Apple, Dell, and HP laptops.
Seagate, one of the most famous manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD), announced today that their newest HDDs break the current areal density record.
You read the title correctly: AT&T today starts throttling customer's bandwidth. Regular DSL users get a 150GB/month cap, while UVerse users get a 250GB/month cap.
For those of you on the more tech-y end of the internet, OpenBSD4.9 was released. There's a whole host of new features, all of which can be read in the changelog.
