It took a while, but Battlefield 3 has been banned in Iran. "Why?" you might ask? Because in the game you launch an attack on the country's capital, Tehran.
NVIDIA today announced a new, limited edition graphics card: the GeForce GTX 560 Ti With 448 Cores. Yes, for some reason that's the official name. The card, performance-wise, is very closely comparable to a GTX 570, and price is close too.
Seagate recently launched their newest addition to the Momentus family, namely the Momentus XT. While no actual numbers were given in the press release, Seagate claims performance is up nearly 70% compared to the last generation.
Less than a week ago AMD released Calayst 11.11a, and two days after that they released Catalyst 11.11b, which brings support for Crossfire in recently released games for the Radeon 6000 and 5000 series as well as some other issues.
Flash memory sales director at Kingston APAC recently said, "Average pricing for 1GB of NAND flash memory will likely fall to US$1 - a threshold that will trigger a meaningful replacement of hard disk drives (HDDs) by SSDs - sometime in the…
In our world today, just about every computer uses electricity to process its information. The transistor inside of a CPU is either on or off, depending on the flow of electrons.
You've got to give AMD some credit for staying on top of support for their video cards. But holy cow are they releasing a lot of drivers. It seems like every week there is a new update.
For a while now, hackers have been using the Xbox 360 Kinect's SDK to use their Kinect with their computers. Coming soon, though, everyone will be able to use Kinects with their computers.
Stephen Luczo, who is the CEO of Seagate Technology, recently revealed his outlook for the problems caused by flooding in Thailand. He said, "This is going to take a lot longer than people are assuming, until the end of 2012 at least.
Ever wonder what the Newegg distribution center looks like inside? Well, Matthew Murray over at ExtremeTech recently had the opportunity the tour the east coast distribution center.
Over 200 record labels, under the holding company STHoldings, have pulled out of online music streaming services such as Spotify, Napster, Simfy, and Rdio.
A Windows 8 blog post outlined a new feature called "secure boot" which would make it (supposedly) extremely hard for rootkits to infect the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the hard drive and thus gain un-restrained access to the entire drive.
Time to update your drivers, yet again. There aren't many new things, but it does fix a few problems in Windows 7 that you may have been experiencing. Releases notes can be read here and you can downloadhe suite here.
At Techonomy earlier this week, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that Intel and DreamWorks are working together to produce technology that can render animations in real-time.
Fun fact: 40 years ago today, Intel launched what it claimed to be "the first commercially available microprocessor - the Intel 4004..." Since then Intel has made quite an advancement.
If you're like most Windows users, you're probably often frustrated by Windows Update when it keeps bugging you to restart your computer after it installs some updates.
Back in July, rumors started floating around about Intel's Sandy Bridge-E platform. Well, they were almost right. Today Intel released two new processors, instead of the rumored three.
Interestingly enough, PETA Germany has recently lashed out against Battlefield 3 because, in the game, you can kill animals in the game in a "sadistic manner." The group claims that killing animals in this way can have a "brutalizing effect…
The IDC (International Data Corporation) has recently come out with a press release detailing just how badly the terrible flooding over in Thailand is hurting and will hurt the HDD market.
NVIDIA has recently released a new set of beta drivers that beef up 3D and SLI support as well as single-card performance for quite a few new games, including Skyrim and Battlefield 3.
If you've been paying attention to PC gaming for a while, you probably know that game developers have been getting crazier and crazier with their DRM policies.
As you may or may not have heard/seen on your radio and/or television, today was the first federal test of the national emergency alert system. If you did see it, good news! It works for your area.
Yesterday was Microsoft's infamous "Patch Tuesday," and Microsoft patched four security holes raging from "Moderate" importance to "critical" importance.
Back it August it was announced that the massively multiplayer online RPG World of Warcraft had lost 300,000 subscribers, bringing the total number of subscribers down to 11.3 million.
So yesterday Mozilla's Firefox 8.0 browser was released to those willing to go through FTP channels, but now it's officially released. You can download it here if you haven't gotten it already.
Seagate has recently announced that they will "streamline" the Barracuda series of hard drives, in hopes to reduce confusion in the markets as well as reduce overhead for companies dealing with all different types.
AOL used to be big, back in the day, because of its dial-up internet service. Back in 2002, they had over 26 million subscribers. Since then it has been in decline, but it's still surprisingly popular.
Have you been refreshing and refreshing the Firefox download page, anxiously awaiting the release of Firefox 8? Well, in order to download it there you will most likely have to wait until tomorrow.
OCZ has recently announced at the Needham 5th Annual HDD & Memory Conference that they will release a series of TLC (triple-layer cell) SSDs, much to the relief of a hurting storage market.
Grand Theft Auto fans should be happy, because Rockstar Games has released the GTA:V trailer. The new game is set to take place in LA where the character apparently wants to start a family.
AMD has released their Catalyst 11.10 Driver Suite, bring the usual heap of bug fixes and features. It's almost always best to have the latest drivers, so make sure to update if you're on an AMD card by downloading the suite here.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando will be host to the official announcement that Ubuntu will, if everything goes as planned, become a tablet and smartphone OS to compete with iOS and Android.
